156 · 4 notes · 2026-09-11

How to take a joke seriously without killing it

Comic Sans was the point. The archive is the afterlife.

Dogecoin was typeset as a prank. Palmer’s first page scattered Comic Sans on a coin. Markus has said it was made without much real thought. The 2021 boom and the inscriptions of 2023 risk a second crime: turning a wink into a prospectus.

The third path is the story. Record the prank as a prank. Record the protocol as a protocol. Do not ask the Shiba to be Ethereum. Do not ask the JSON to be a central bank. Then, when you actually want to hold something, leave the hallway and open Doge Soft.

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Desk · 2026-09-11

Dogecoin started as a splash page. Heritage is whatever you refuse to throw away after it becomes inconveniently valuable.