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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? by jancsika on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:51PM (#25960160)
Reinterpretation of Godwin's law:

As a parody cryptocurrency's blockchain grows longer, the probability of it remaining a parody approaches 0.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? by m463 on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:12PM (#25960405)
I can think of lots of things that started that way.

Like Science Fiction writers sitting around joking about starting a religion, then Hubbard goes off...

And cow clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

I'm sure there are other great examples...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? by jancsika on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:48PM (#25960814)
Ooh, I didn't know about Cow Clicker. Thanks, that looks like a great example of this.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? by jancsika on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:40PM (#25960728)
Is there evidence Hubbard meant it as a joke at the beginning?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Dogecoin? by m463 on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:03PM (#25961682)
We might never know. Stuff happened long before most of us were born.

https://youtu.be/O9AGVARpqdk

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