One story of the origin of Dogecoin, that the creators of dogecoin just changed the Bitcoin font to comic sans and then slapped a dog on it, makes it a hilarious story… but as you'll hear today, it's a little bit more complicated than that… maybe alot.

Interview with Ross Nicoll who joined the Core Development team of Dogecoin within months of it's launch.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrossnicoll/ @JRossNicoll

we cover: The version release pipeline, a possible ethereum doge sidechain, -testing environments - Main Net, Test Net -if you were starting from scratch what would you use to make a new crypto coin today? -How many alt coins out there are derived from - could you look at other repos of other crypto currencies and understand what they are doing. -Is dogecoin creating it's own independent chain? - When you cap a coin at a certain number of total coins, how do you incentivize the miners? -which version will be released -an apology for delays in release… -use technology from 1. merge mining tech from namecoin 2. script mining from litecoin -dogecoin ethereum side chain -inflation being positive -advice at the end, don't lose your crypo, get off exchanges.