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Re:Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge by Two9A on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @01:29PM (#7104422)
The community, and particularly the generosity of tipping, seems to have been a driving factor. There are already multiple "tipping bots" on Twitter, which will give out Doge on command.

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.

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Re:Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge by michaelbuckbee on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @01:45PM (#7104512)
You mention the generosity (which I agree with), but also the act of online tipping is a use case that crypto-currencies handle substantially better than me putting a dollar bill in a paper envelope and mailing it or paying a 25 cent transaction fee to tip 10 cents.
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Re:Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge by Pxtl on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:28PM (#7104769)
Yup. Reddit had bitcoin tipping functionality back when bitcoins were a buck or two. Getting tipped a quarter convinced me to figure out this cryptocurrency thing. Taking that mechanism outside of the Reddit sandbox is a big help.

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

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Re:Show HN: Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge by rthomas6 on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @03:34PM (#7105195)
We'll see how long this lasts if Dogecoins become worth a lot more. BTC used to be like this, too, with many "Bitcoin faucets" dispensing coins at will just for entering an address.
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