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He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes, at a time when people thought “launching a blockchain” was complicated. Well 8 years later people still think that, but
by vmception 5y ago
He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes, at a time when people thought “launching a blockchain” was complicated.
Well 8 years later people still think that, but that’s not the point.
A belief system wasn’t necessary back then, only cognition.
People should stop exalting him just like he asks.
- rvz 5y ago> He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes It is literally a fork of Bitcoin with extra tweaks and a famous internet meme. Any Joe, Jane and, Jimbob can do just that in 15 minutes, hence the reason why the cryptocurrency market is still in its infantile stage and very unregulated. 8 years later its gotten easier for the retail investors signing up at major exchanges to buy it right now. The whales who accumulated however...
- Tenoke 5y ago>He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes, at a time when people thought “launching a blockchain” was complicated. It wasn't at that point though. Litecoin was already created by tweaking btc and I was seeing people on irc do the same for fun with ease. Launching a btc-copy with different params wasn't the big achievment he had, attaching it to the right meme and getting people into it was.
- neilv 5y agoIIRC, Litecoin seemed like significant work, but after that, you could create a Scrypt altcoin by copying a source tree and doing not much more than changing the name (and pre-mining, because that's probably the point).
- doomroot 5y agoIf I recall a bitcoin core dev back in the day made a website where you could just change a few variables: name, block time, block size, block reward, etc. And it would spit out your customized fork of bitcoin core. This is basically how easy it is to make an erc20 token these days.