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The election of the doge (ruler) in the Republic of Venice used a mixture of voting and sortition, ostensibly to make it harder to collude.

Ah, the origin of dogecoin

Was "doge" the Japanese dog meme really related to the Italian title, though? I thought it was just an intentional misspelling of dog

Pretty sure it was and it’s a coincidence. There was an entire pseudo dialect around that meme

I always assumed it was supposed to be sounded out like dog-e-coin not doge-coin, but people did it the other way as a joke and it stuck.

It's not.

I should have /s it