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?

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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.