Doge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only l

Doge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only left the project in early 2015, which would mean that he was involved through the whole of 2014 when Dogecoin was a genius-level marketing phenomenon: that was the period of the original NASCAR sponsorship, for instance. The guy is of course entitled to change his mind, but he has absolutely changed his mind.