Funding the Jamaican bobsled team, and tapping into Cool Runnings millenial nostalgia was a great PR move by the Doge community.

The recent price correction is probably due to mining pools jumping in when profitability soared before difficulty adjusted.

The Doge community has a saying "To the moon!". Moon being defined by many as $1 per coin.

Edit:

Watch the video at http://howtodoge.com to get a feel for the community effort to go "to the moon!"

And the latest PR move is to get dogecoin quite literally to the moon by figuring out how to fund PSU's Lunar Lion moon probe

I might donate a Doge or a few.

Yet another inspiration provided by Bitcoin.

The Obama salute is the best part.

https://www.multipool.us/

(Guess it goes to show there are no new ideas left in the world...)

http://dustcoin.com/mining

All the fiat currency values are calculated by taking the weighted averages in DOGE, and multiplying by the price of 1 BTC from BitcoinAverage.

If you don't see what you're looking for here, let me know: http://dogecoinaverage.com/USD.json

Logos from http://dogecoinlogo.com/

I ended up using a background image I originally designed to promote cryptos and litecoin, but tweaked it to appeal to 15 yr olds and dogecoin. http://imgur.com/gallery/XpwIWM0

http://dogecoin.com/

Maybe HN doesn't like the fact that OP is posting so much in the comments?

Did you hack out a custom address? How is that possible since a private key has to exist. I thought one was based on the other.

I forget where the generator lives, but it runs locally and eats CPU for hours.

http://doge.yottabyte.nu

http://dogemonitor.com (seems overcapacity these days)

There are also a few technical arguments in favor of multiple currencies. At the moment we don't know how to scale a single blockchain to major-currency levels, unless we do mostly off-chain transactions. And with appropriate software, accepting lots of currencies doesn't have to be harder for a merchant than accepting one. There's also some work on cross-chain currency trading without a trusted intermediary.

(Except Coined Up; I've requested API access to their price lists, it may be a little while.)

If you are feeling generous, my referral link from Cryptsy (largest exchange by volume): https://www.cryptsy.com/users/register?refid=25234

I'm trying to make a support request, but any idea what goes into the "requester" field on the support request?

Can we officially declare that crypto-currencies have jumped the shark?

There's speculation that a similar functionality for Facebook would be like strapping SRB's to the side of the Doge moonrocket, and give it Much Velocity.

And yeah, I spent my quarter-BTC on Humble Bundles. Oops.

It's not a straight copy, as it's got random block rewards and different parameters.

But it's very close, yes. Still scrypt based.

It's so true! When people post really basic or dumb questions they could have googled in twos seconds, or show that absolutely no idea what is going on, people in the doge threads or on the reddit don't act like jerks. They just help the person and then joke with them. It really does feel like something different than other crypto currency communities!

Something so intangible can be so important.

Take all the numbers listed there with a grain of salt, though.

And dozens more.

http://coinmarketcap.com/

I think you've come to the wrong conclusion. Doge might be a funny name, but the crypto is real and so is its trade value against bitcoin. What we're seeing here is that Satoshi's idea is so valuable that it empowers a community to arbitrarily construct a functioning decentralized financial platform, even as a joke.

We're just touching the surface of what cryptocoins are going to mean in the future.

Stop with the pointless comments.

I suppose Bitcoiners had a similiar disrespect for HN when they came flooding in ~3 years ago, too.

Perhaps, but I'm not convinced. I imagine the fact that Dogecoin is based around a meme has a lot to do with it.

Want to spam Doge-related comments? I can only imagine that that is what /r/Dogecoin is for. Why bring it here?

        wow

    much disagreement


            many opinions


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Second: The sentence "I am." technically has correct grammar, but doesn't serve the benefit of anybody reading HN. As does this recently similar comment with many downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104994

You should have just hit the downvote or flag button if you thought that OPs comment was truly cynical.

How exactly was deleted_account being cynical anyways by asking the question "Can we officially declare that crypto-currencies have jumped the shark?"?

I do not think you understand the meaning of the word "cynicism" or what it is "to be cynical".

Personally, as long as it's restricted to articles about dogecoin I don't find it annoying, though I wouldn't want it to spread. Clearly your mileage varies.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinye

Dogecoin on the other hand... wow.

I for one am looking forward to the 2050s, when china installs the doge as the world reserve currency, and all our paper money is written in rainbow-coloured comic sans.