>He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes, at a time when people thought “launching a blockchain” was complicated.
It wasn't at that point though. Litecoin was already created by tweaking btc and I was seeing people on irc do the same for fun with ease. Launching a btc-copy with different params wasn't the big achievment he had, attaching it to the right meme and getting people into it was.
IIRC, Litecoin seemed like significant work, but after that, you could create a Scrypt altcoin by copying a source tree and doing not much more than changing the name (and pre-mining, because that's probably the point).
If I recall a bitcoin core dev back in the day made a website where you could just change a few variables: name, block time, block size, block reward, etc. And it would spit out your customized fork of bitcoin core. This is basically how easy it is to make an erc20 token these days.
It wasn't at that point though. Litecoin was already created by tweaking btc and I was seeing people on irc do the same for fun with ease. Launching a btc-copy with different params wasn't the big achievment he had, attaching it to the right meme and getting people into it was.