https://www.cnet.com/news/dogecoin-a-cryptocurrency-joke-that-somehow-turned-real/

This is part of "Blockchain Decoded," a series looking at the impact of blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrency on our lives.

June 22, 2014. Jackson Palmer, a self-identified "average geek," is high in the stands at a Nascar race at Sonoma Raceway, California. He is an Australian man in his 20s. He has zero interest in racing. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine it would come to this.