One of my favorite tweet/relies with co-creator Billy Markus:

> @TerrysFishyTips: Billy when you made #doge coin did you try to consider energy usage or was that not something you thought about? How can the dev community make doge more efficient?

> @BillyM2K: i made doge in like 2 hours i didn't consider anything

[edit] So with this in mind, no, I don't find their position hypocritical. I quite enjoy following Billy's twitter. It's one of the most friendly/positive in the space, he's clearly trying to uh, do only good everyday if you will.

[1] https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1392952014854778883?s=20

Doge was created as a joke, but it seems that Markus and Palmer quickly got a lot more serious about it, probably because its market cap exploded. Palmer only left the project in early 2015, which would mean that he was involved through the whole of 2014 when Dogecoin was a genius-level marketing phenomenon: that was the period of the original NASCAR sponsorship, for instance. The guy is of course entitled to change his mind, but he has absolutely changed his mind.

It's admirable how dedicated he is as a satirist.

People are still doing it as satire just with billions of $ and people making a profit.

Elon Musk could have picked anything, he picked Dogecoin because... satire.

I think people still don't get in an inter-connected world for 7 billion people and losing established religions and other old mind memes jokes are worth billions, people will lose and gain lives over them, they will spend parts of their lives centred around jokes. They won't go to church, community markets or medieval fairs, they'll go to Dogecoin stores, why not?

Dogecoin was just a cookie cutter crypto with marketing and I would think mostly others took his idea and meme'ed it to the moon.

He can change his mind, but it still is what is was day one.

To be fair most religions are pretty cookie cutter as well. The Abrahamic ones even share text and repurpose holidays from other local cultures. Buddhism is the only popular one that is pretty uniquely cool, Sidhartha was pretty original.