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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 seriou
by 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 agoFunny 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.
- VladRussian2 13y agowe 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 agoLots 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 ago4chan'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 agoAs 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 agoCrypto-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 agoOne question then, what motive is there to support the blockchain once mining has ended?
- rmc 13y agoFor 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 agoSo in order to process you non-bank transactions you need to use a centralized processor that charges you a fee for transferring your money?