Alex Valaitis, W3T founder and an ex-Ethereum researcher, discusses important Dogecoin details. Valaitis explains Dogecoin’s foundations and scalability in a series tweets. DOGE uses a proof of work consensus algorithm on its Layer 1 blockchain. DOGE was inspired by Luckycoin and Litecoin. DOGE uses Scrypt technology which means that SHA256 is used by DOGE.