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It's 100% attitude. Doge is fun and playful while bitcoin seems to be the domain of crazy libertarians and people who just want to be the new bank.

• rmc 13y ago
  As a techie who's been following bitcoin and disapproves of their libertarian ideology, I like the Dogecoin attitude. It's all a joke. It's like it's not serious. It's like people know that you're not going to replace all the money.
  • bitops 13y ago
    Funny enough, that attitude may make it more successful in the long term. History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along.
    • VanillaCafe 13y ago
      > History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along. Examples, please.
      • frandroid 13y ago
        G.W. Bush.
      • bitops 13y ago
        Well...there's that one operating system out there that got pretty popular after some guy in Finland posted it online. Name escapes me at the moment, though.
        • dmoney 13y ago
          Finux.
        • rmc 13y ago
          Freax wasn't it?
    • VladRussian2 13y ago
      we can have serious hearing in Senate on BTC with outcome rules [almost] killing or seriously affecting it. Having a hearing and SEC/FBI enforcement on Doge? With Doge as a witness. Put you paw on the Bible and repeat after me ...
    • mwsherman 13y ago
      Lots of truth to this from a brand perspective, but the underlying technology of Dogecoin is pretty serious, it just happened to be deployed in a playful way. Not unlike the way that gaming technology or 4chan’s infrastructure is serious.
      • TeMPOraL 13y ago
        4chan's infrastructure is serious, but it started out as a joke. Much of gaming technology was as well created for fun first. Anyway, I like it. Having to choose one business over another, ceteris paribus, I'd always go for the one with the sense of humour.
  • VMG 13y ago
    As a techie libertarian, I love Dogecoin. It's Bitcoin for people who hate Bitcoin. The libertarian, crypto-anarchist ideology is inherent to all cryptocurrency, not inherent to Bitcoin.
    • Nursie 13y ago
      Crypto-currency is not decentralised by nature. Bitcoin, dogecoin etc. are just one model. There are other models for crypto currency that involve issuing banks and have other advantages - offline transactions and no crazy waste-of-electricity hashing races.
    • krisgee 13y ago
      One question then, what motive is there to support the blockchain once mining has ended?
      • rmc 13y ago
        For BitCoin, it'll be transaction fees. In order for your transaction to be proceeded (which requires a form of mining), you'll have to pay a small fee.
        • krisgee 13y ago
          So in order to process you non-bank transactions you need to use a centralized processor that charges you a fee for transferring your money?
• brokenparser 13y ago
  crazy libertarians? How so?
  • woah 13y ago
    It's like he doesn't realize that libertarianism is the one true choice that any rational being would make.
    • phaed 13y ago
      ...says the crazy libertarian.
      • brokenparser 13y ago
        ...says the crazy communist. Certamen ad hominem in infinitum, ac vicit nemo (or some such). According to the dictionary ( http://thesaurus.com/browse/libertarian http://thesaurus.com/browse/libertarian ) we could go on for a while, it's just utterly pointless. Rather than pointing fingers (babies can do that much), I'm merely asking a simple question why said libertarians would be crazy. FMR