• Dogecoin (DOGE) is an open-source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency reported to be . As a fork of the source-code of Litecoin (LTC), its first block was mined in December 2013.

  • To prevent competition with Litecoin's mining pools (also using the Scrypt hashing function), Dogecoin (DOGE) transitioned to Auxiliary Proof of Work (AuxPoW) and has been merged-mined with Litecoin since August 2014.