As of December 13th, just a week just after its initial conception, the Dogecoin network was getting mined at 1.56 GHash/sec, creating it the 4th biggest currency of its type in existence.. Although Dogecoin consists of a lot of of the same capabilities as Bitcoin, like a shared public ledger and the ability to transfer coins anonymously, the fundamental algorithm has been slightly tweaked in order to make "mining" far more accessible to the average user.
Typically mining Bitcoins consists of buying high priced ASIC mining cards that have been largely accessible to the average user.
Dogecoin was designed on December 8th, 2013 by an anonymous poster on the Bitcointalk Forums, and speedily saw a meteoric rise in popularity due to its ease of use and tongue-in-cheek humor referencing the well-liked "Doge" meme in https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison which a Shiba Inu dog speaks in poor grammar using Comic Sans.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency that operates beneath a equivalent principle to Bitcoin
