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Josh Wise voted into NASCAR race by Dogecoin community [video]

• milesf 12y ago
  Say what you will about Dogecoin the technology, the Dogecoin community is really something to behold.
  • reitzensteinm 12y ago
    And with crypto currencies, the community is far more important than the technology (past a minimum bar that Bitcoin has set). Dogecoins are intrinsically valuable so long as people enjoy sending/trading with them, and there's a real possibility of it becoming a widely used internet tipping currency. I made a prediction here on Jan 14, 2014 that Dogecoin's market cap would grow faster than that of Bitcoin this year (or shrink slower). I wasn't comfortable saying it in public at the time, but it's actually going pretty well (much to my surprise): Dogecoin - $7.9m -> $35m for ~4.4x growth Bitcoin - $10.4b -> $5.7b for ~0.54 growth Relatively, Dogecoin has outperformed Bitcoin (in terms of market cap) by ~8.08x. Of course, since Dogecoin inflates more quickly, this isn't representative of the result of purchasing coins and waiting (IMO a good thing). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050037
• bendoernberg 12y ago
  People have been livestreaming marathon voting sessions on http://votedogecar.com http://votedogecar.com, apparently one kid voted 84,000 times.
  • fyrabanks 12y ago
    People have also been (assumedly) using Shodan and default admin passwords to put "Vote for Josh" on exposed HP printers. http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-LaserJet-Experts-Online/Vote-for-Josh-device-status/td-p/6438954 http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-LaserJet-Experts-Onlin...
• timrpeterson 12y ago
  Really remarkable feat considering the popularity of incumbent drivers like Danica Patrick et al. Well done Dogecoin community!