Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus recently joined Benzinga’s “Moon or Bust” to share his story of creating Dogecoin, how he’s involved today and what he thinks of Elon Musk. Early Days Markus got into cryptocurrency due to Bitcoin but quickly pivoted to other easier-to-mine coins like Litecoin and Litecoin clones. He said it took a long time to mine a small amount of Bitcoin in a week (0.04) and made his room really hot. Markus gave himself a weekend project to create his own coin, which became Bell’s. He was obsessed with Nintendo Co. game “Animal Crossing” at the time. Markus stumbled upon a site called dogecoin.com where Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer made a joke coin but hadn’t created a physical coin yet. The site said if you want to make the coin to contact him. Markus contacted Palmer and before even hearing back went to work on creating the meme coin we know today. The project …