2024

When things that shouldn't be, are
09-28, 15:00–15:30 (Europe/Berlin), Community Ampitheatre

In 2013, during peak forked coin hype and as a means to make fun of all the nonsense on bitcointalk's "alts" forum, a coin was proposed that was so dumb that it could never succeed. It would be a short lived joke and then fail after 14 months. Except, it failed to fail.

This is a journey about Dogecoin. The coin that wasn't supposed to be here.

Patrick is a maintainer of Dogecoin Core, the software that powers the most ironic cryptocurrency ever thought up.