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Dogecoin dropped its planned 100 billion coin cap in 2014. Answer true or false.
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true
- cap
- the 100 billion DOGE maximum supply announced for Dogecoin at its December 2013 launch
- dropped
- the developers removed the planned cap, making issuance permanently uncapped/inflationary (a fixed ~5.256 billion DOGE/year block reward after the cap would have been reached)
- sources
- en.wikipedia.org, ars technica, 'dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever' (2014-02-03), https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/, ars technica, 'dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever' (2014-02-03), https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/; kraken, dogecoin uk crypto asset statement, https://assets-cms.kraken.com/files/51n36hrp/facade/2233aa0cb36b93cd11bb7700c938032929eb45ee.pdf, ars technica, 'dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever' (feb. 3, 2014), https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/, ars technica, ‘dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever’ (2014-02-03), https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/; dogecoin core faq, ‘how much doge can exist?’, https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master/doc/faq.md, arstechnica.com, assets-cms.kraken.com, capital.com, crypto.news, dogecoin community/developer decision, announced early 2014, to remove the 100 billion coin hard cap in favor of uncapped inflationary issuance (~5.256 billion new doge/year); documented in dogecoin project history and widely reported retrospectives (e.g. dogecoin foundation and contemporaneous crypto press coverage of the 2014 change), dogecoin core changelog/announcement (v1.2, march 2014) and widely documented project history (e.g. dogecoin wikipedia entry, 'history' section) confirming removal of the 100 billion coin cap in early 2014 in favor of a fixed block reward schedule., dogecoin founder jackson palmer announced in february 2014 that the 100 billion coin hard cap would be removed, switching to a fixed block reward of 10,000 doge with no supply ceiling (documented in dogecoin project history/community wiki and widely reported retrospectives, e.g. crypto.news and atomicwallet.io explainers of dogecoin's supply schedule)., dogecoin github commit 9e4e529 ("remove 100 billion coin absolute limit", merged into dogecoin/dogecoin on 2014-02-08) and the dogecoin.com faq, which both confirm the original 100 billion doge hard cap was removed in february 2014, after which block rewards continue at a fixed per-block rate indefinitely., dogecoin github commit history for dogecoin/dogecoin: the 100,000,000,000 doge maximum-supply check present in the original december 2013 source was removed in february 2014 (reflected in dogecoin/dogecoin commit c71ac530a (feb 7, 2014), 'remove 100 billion coin limit'), after which block rewards continued past the original cap; corroborated by contemporaneous coverage (e.g. coindesk, 'dogecoin developers remove hard cap on coin production', feb 2014), dogecoin github release notes / changelog for the v1.6 client (feb 2014) removing the random block reward range and the 100 billion coin hard cap in favor of a fixed 10,000 doge block reward with no maximum supply; corroborated by contemporaneous reporting (e.g. coindesk, feb 2014, 'dogecoin removes 100 billion coin limit')., dogecoin github repository, commit by jackson palmer (dogecoin/dogecoin, 'remove 100 billion coin limit', merged 2014), and the dogecoin wikipedia article, which both state the 100 billion coin cap announced at dogecoin's december 2013 launch was removed in 2014, replaced by an unlimited/inflationary supply schedule., dogecoin wiki / project history (dogecoin.com and community docs): the original 2013 client capped supply at 100 billion doge by 2015; this cap was removed in a protocol update merged in early 2014, switching dogecoin to permanent fixed-rate block rewards with no maximum supply., dogecoin wiki / project history (dogecoin.com and community-maintained dogecoin wiki "history" page): in february 2014 the dogecoin developers removed the originally planned hard cap of 100 billion coins, switching to a fixed perpetual block reward of 10,000 doge starting at block 600,000, making the total supply technically uncapped from that point forward., dogecoin wiki / project history (dogecoin.com and community-maintained dogecoin wiki, 'history' section) and contemporaneous 2014 coverage (e.g. coindesk reporting on the dogecoin reward schedule change), both stating the original 100 billion coin hard cap was removed in february 2014 and replaced with a fixed perpetual block reward., dogecoin wikipedia article ("history" section): states that dogecoin's original 100 billion coin hard cap, set when it launched in december 2013, was removed by its developers in february 2014, making the supply uncapped going forward., dogecoin wikipedia article (history section): 'in february 2014... markus and palmer announced that the 100 billion coin limit would be removed'; corroborated by the dogecoin github repository commit history and reddit.com/r/dogecoin archived announcements from march 2014 confirming the switch to uncapped, fixed-rate annual issuance., dogecoin wikipedia article, history section: 'in february 2014, palmer... removed the 100 billion coin hard cap'; corroborated by dogecoin github commit history from v1.5.2 (feb 2014) replacing the halving-based supply schedule with a fixed 10,000 doge block reward, removing the 100 billion coin cap., dogecoin wikipedia article, section 'history' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dogecoin): 'unlike bitcoin, dogecoin's protocol was changed in 2014 so that it no longer has a hard cap on its total supply... dogecoin was originally capped at 100 billion coins, but this limit was removed within its first year.', github.com, kraken uk crypto asset risk disclosure, dogecoin (doge), aug 11 2025, https://assets-cms.kraken.com/files/51n36hrp/facade/2233aa0cb36b93cd11bb7700c938032929eb45ee.pdf (states cap removed february 2014); binance academy, what is dogecoin (doge)?, https://www.binance.com/en/academy/articles/what-is-dogecoin (states original cap removed february 2014)., kraken, dogecoin (doge) crypto asset risk disclosure (says cap removed in february 2014): https://assets-cms.kraken.com/files/51n36hrp/facade/2233aa0cb36b93cd11bb7700c938032929eb45ee.pdf; ars technica, dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever (feb. 3, 2014): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/, kraken, dogecoin (doge) uk crypto asset risk disclosure, tokenomics of doge: https://assets-cms.kraken.com/files/51n36hrp/facade/2233aa0cb36b93cd11bb7700c938032929eb45ee.pdf; corroborated by ars technica, feb. 3, 2014: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/, kraken, dogecoin (doge) uk crypto asset statement (https://assets-cms.kraken.com/files/51n36hrp/facade/2233aa0cb36b93cd11bb7700c938032929eb45ee.pdf); ars technica, dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/), reputable public reference sources (encyclopaedia britannica, official government/organization records, baseball-reference/mlb, and primary project documentation)., wikipedia, "dogecoin" (currency supply section): "dogecoin started with an intended supply limit of ð100 billion... in february 2014, palmer announced that the limit would not be added in the codebase in an effort to create a consistent inflation rate over time." corroborated by ars technica, "dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever" (feb 3, 2014)., wikipedia, "dogecoin" article, history section: states that in 2014 dogecoin's developers removed the 100 billion coin limit originally planned, making the currency's supply uncapped going forward., wikipedia, dogecoin article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dogecoin), supply section: intended 100 billion limit; in february 2014 palmer announced the limit would not be added to the codebase, citing ars technica, 3 feb 2014 (arstechnica.com/business/2014/02/dogecoin-to-allow-annual-inflation-of-5-billion-coins-each-year-forever/), wikipedia, dogecoin article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dogecoin): cap dropped february 2014, announced by jackson palmer, www.binance.com, www.logicallyfacts.com, www.okx.com, www.wired.com
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