Dogecoin's Co-founder speaks out Against Abuse

[Imran232]

In brief

• This week’s Dogecoin frenzy has had a toll on its co-founder, Billy Markus, who has been the target of harassment.
• Markus did not comment on the nature of the harassment or who was involved.
• Markus goes by the alias ‘Shibetoshi Nakamoto’. It’s a wordplay on the dog meme (Shiba Inu) along with Bitcoin’s mysterious founder Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Markus goes by the alias ‘Shibetoshi Nakamoto’. It’s a wordplay on the dog meme (Shiba Inu) along with Bitcoin’s mysterious founder Satoshi Nakamoto.
This week’s Dogecoin frenzy has had a toll on one unlikely person: its co-founder, Billy Markus, aka Shibetoshi Nakamoto.

Although Dogecoin began as a joke—a so-called “meme coin” that takes the form of a cute Shiba Inu, designed to mock Bitcoin knockoffs—this week’s price increase was anything but: Dogecoin’s price shot from around $0.01 to over $0.04 overnight on January 28. But it later fell back on itself; Dogecoin's current price is $0.027.

Markus tweeted earlier today that he terminated his affiliation with the project seven years ago due to harassment from Dogecoin investors; he has no current involvement in the project. But he took to Twitter today to say that he was once again the target of abuse this week.

Markus did not comment on the nature of the harassment or who was involved. He only wants people to know “what it feels like to have a mob demand you to do something for them on a project that you have no current involvement in, that you've seen others make many millions off of.”

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https://decrypt.co/56134/dogecoins-co-founder-speaks-out-against-abuse

Whats your opinion about this topic?

[JeffBrad12]

It seems like that market was being forced by the doge investors to did something to the project that he already retired from there a few years ago.
I may think this story could be true considering the last sentences from your post. The doge coin was getting hyped and the investors didn't wanna let this coin be dumped again. that's why he was harassing markus to do something with dogecoin.
This will be another drama for sure.

[electronicash]

it will be dumped if there is nothing sort of things that will happen within the project that's the truth to coins. whoever is in charge of doge right now, its him that the investors should be exclaiming. this is now the effect and the only that may calm them is to make some promises. anything do to like partnership with some project of maybe joining the defi, or just make something out of the blue may give some hope to the new investors who bought at a price of $0.07.