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Dogecoin keeps outpacing everyone’s expectations. Nothing would surprise me at this point. The momentum is so strong. One thing people discount about crypto is

Dogecoin keeps outpacing everyone’s expectations. Nothing would surprise me at this point. The momentum is so strong. One thing people discount about crypto is the marketability of coins. Most try to market through a whitepaper and jargon. Dogecoin being a “joke” makes it friendly and approachable in a way just about every other crypto is not.

xCheapshotx 6y ago
No, Dogecoin has a lot of people thinking one day it will be worth 50k like bitcoin and they're getting in "early". This is flawed thinking due to not understanding outstanding circulation, market cap, and daily new supply. I went to a conference with about 20 co-workers and I literally spent 30 mins breaking down these fundamentals to them. Lets just say they were all disappointed.
- tartoran 6y ago
  I really doubt anyone thinks dogecoin will ever be 50k though I’ve seen some wishful thinking that it will reach a few k. However, $1 is almost certain in the near future.
  - NotACop182 6y ago
    A few K would mean doggie would be worth more than the world economy.
    - tartoran 6y ago
      Yes, that figure is ridiculous.
- rvz 6y ago
  Exactly. Little do the late comers know that they are jumping at the tail-end of the train very late only because it is now easier to buy DOGE. All thanks to Robinhood listing it and Elon Musk hyping and pumping it on Twitter. In one of the other posts, why are the very very early people now 'cashing out' their 11k+ DOGE. Perhaps they know that as soon as it reaches above $1 it won't reach those prices for years again, until the next run. The fundamentals tell a different story against the current hype of DOGE. The pump is here and the dump will be catastrophic for the late comers. > daily new supply Yup, the DOGE printer keeps on printing new DOGE. They will be disappointed to know that they missed the pump and fell for the dump.
  - tromp 6y ago
    A tail emission is a healthy thing. It allows the network to remain secure in the absence of a backlog of high-fee paying transactions, which is what Bitcoin relies on for security once the block subsidy becomes insignificant. The single reason why Dogecoin can't reach $50k is that it would imply a $6500 trillion marketcap. Already at $7.7 it would reach a $1 trillion marketcap, so there's just not much room for price to grow.
- etempleton 6y ago
  I don’t think anyone thinks this. The discussion all seems to be around reaching $1 USD or now, $10 USD. The latter would make it bigger than Bitcoin is now, but hey, who knows what will happen. It could go to $10 in a few years or 10 cents. I don’t think anyone can really say. All I know is it is part of the zeitgeist now in a way only Bitcoin is currently. That is powerful.
tartoran 6y ago
When it comes to marketablity it can go over the top too. Safemoon for example seems to imply that it will go to the moon safely and to me it is a huge turn off. Another one was Cumrocket that is surprisingly not doing too badly but which I’d be super hesitant with for possibly soiling my portfolio
hakfoo 6y ago
There was definitely a point where it was fun and accessible. I played with it a few years ago, back when you could mine with a single GTX 660 and earn a dollar or two worth of coins a day. Then someone made a scheme where you could buy Doge via Reddit PM, or give it as tips on posts. This is much less intimidating than the contemporary Bitcoin story of "the cost of admission is hundreds of dollars and you have to go find someone sketchy local or a weirdly explained ATM thing to get coins". Yeah, there was some discussion of "when it gets to USD1", but it was mostly memes and "how do I get (favoured merchant) to take Doge?" I recall there was a fair degree of talk that it was a good 'instructional' platform-- learn the tools and concepts of cryptocurrency, but you're playing with trivial amounts of money.

xCheapshotx 6y ago

No, Dogecoin has a lot of people thinking one day it will be worth 50k like bitcoin and they're getting in "early". This is flawed thinking due to not understanding outstanding circulation, market cap, and daily new supply. I went to a conference with about 20 co-workers and I literally spent 30 mins breaking down these fundamentals to them. Lets just say they were all disappointed.

tartoran 6y ago
I really doubt anyone thinks dogecoin will ever be 50k though I’ve seen some wishful thinking that it will reach a few k. However, $1 is almost certain in the near future.
- NotACop182 6y ago
  A few K would mean doggie would be worth more than the world economy.
  - tartoran 6y ago
    Yes, that figure is ridiculous.
rvz 6y ago
Exactly. Little do the late comers know that they are jumping at the tail-end of the train very late only because it is now easier to buy DOGE. All thanks to Robinhood listing it and Elon Musk hyping and pumping it on Twitter. In one of the other posts, why are the very very early people now 'cashing out' their 11k+ DOGE. Perhaps they know that as soon as it reaches above $1 it won't reach those prices for years again, until the next run. The fundamentals tell a different story against the current hype of DOGE. The pump is here and the dump will be catastrophic for the late comers. > daily new supply Yup, the DOGE printer keeps on printing new DOGE. They will be disappointed to know that they missed the pump and fell for the dump.
- tromp 6y ago
  A tail emission is a healthy thing. It allows the network to remain secure in the absence of a backlog of high-fee paying transactions, which is what Bitcoin relies on for security once the block subsidy becomes insignificant. The single reason why Dogecoin can't reach $50k is that it would imply a $6500 trillion marketcap. Already at $7.7 it would reach a $1 trillion marketcap, so there's just not much room for price to grow.
etempleton 6y ago
I don’t think anyone thinks this. The discussion all seems to be around reaching $1 USD or now, $10 USD. The latter would make it bigger than Bitcoin is now, but hey, who knows what will happen. It could go to $10 in a few years or 10 cents. I don’t think anyone can really say. All I know is it is part of the zeitgeist now in a way only Bitcoin is currently. That is powerful.

tartoran 6y ago

When it comes to marketablity it can go over the top too. Safemoon for example seems to imply that it will go to the moon safely and to me it is a huge turn off. Another one was Cumrocket that is surprisingly not doing too badly but which I’d be super hesitant with for possibly soiling my portfolio

hakfoo 6y ago

There was definitely a point where it was fun and accessible. I played with it a few years ago, back when you could mine with a single GTX 660 and earn a dollar or two worth of coins a day. Then someone made a scheme where you could buy Doge via Reddit PM, or give it as tips on posts. This is much less intimidating than the contemporary Bitcoin story of "the cost of admission is hundreds of dollars and you have to go find someone sketchy local or a weirdly explained ATM thing to get coins". Yeah, there was some discussion of "when it gets to USD1", but it was mostly memes and "how do I get (favoured merchant) to take Doge?" I recall there was a fair degree of talk that it was a good 'instructional' platform-- learn the tools and concepts of cryptocurrency, but you're playing with trivial amounts of money.