Luckycoin (LKY) is a cryptocurrency that launched in May 2013, by an anonymous developer called LuckyC.
In August 2024 a backup of the Luckycoin blockchain from 2013 was discovered and the chain was revived from block 81,743, thus enshrining as much of the history of Luckycoin as possible in the current actively mined chain.
Luckycoin was one of the earliest cryptocurrencies ever launched and after its revival in 2024 is now one of the oldest actively mined cryptocurrencies in existence.
Luckycoin could be considered the oldest active 'memecoin' in existence at the time of writing. Although the concept of memecoin hadn't taken hold back in May of 2013 it's clear that Luckycoin offers no utility and instead was described by LuckyC as 'Fast, Fun & Fair' with a playful introduction on the Bitcoin Talk forums.
What's the Dogecoin (Doge) connection?
Luckycoin is the coin that Billy Markus used as the basis for creating Dogecoin.
Markus spent just 2 hours (mostly changing the font to Comic Sans) creating $Doge from Luckycoin.
Luckycoin Circulation
Max supply - 20M
Circulation supply - 12.07M
