The alt-coin mini-bubble of November '13 started a flood of precisely this activity. It existed before, but it really took off then. I'm reasonably sure dogeco

The alt-coin mini-bubble of November '13 started a flood of precisely this activity. It existed before, but it really took off then. I'm reasonably sure dogecoin started out that way, but somehow took on a life of its own. I'm also pretty sure the November bubble was just a taste of an altcoin bubble explosion to come.