Dogecoin.org - P2P Cryptocurrency for doges

Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned with interior monologues in Comic Sans font.

jstalin2• 13 years ago

LOL, wow, I generally keep up with the memes but this one is new to me.

Millennium• 13 years ago

Historically, a doge is the ruler of one of a number of Italian city-states. More recently, it has become an Internet meme centering around the Shiba Inu dog breed.

MrPleb• 13 years ago

It's the world's shittiest, laziest meme for assholes.

tudborg• 13 years ago

Need some cheese to go with that whine?

LolaYoung• 13 years ago

the lucky miners pool is already cranking out 98918.00 KH/s!

bede2• 13 years ago

It's funny that they went to the trouble of releasing a Mac client when even most of the interesting altcoin currencies neglect to do so.

Rebelgecko• 13 years ago

It looks like a fork of bitcoin-qt, with some of the text changed to comic sans

bede2• 13 years ago

Doubtless, but my point stands given that most cryptocurrencies use bitcoin-qt forks with only fairly minor modifications.

bengotow• 13 years ago

I literally laughed out loud reading this line. Bravo dogecoin, bravo.

greyfade• 13 years ago

It's actually a fork of luckycoin-qt, which is a fork of litecoin-qt.

ronreiter• 13 years ago

so awesome. i wanted to do something like that myself in the form of "lamecoin" or "l33tcoin"

d0nk• 13 years ago

I was planning to do a "REGRET COIN" or "PUMP(n'dump)COIN" as a parody... this beat me and is much more enjoyable.

It was also fun to actually be able to solve blocks solo when it first released. I got into bitcoin too late to do anything outside of pool mining, so I missed out there.

lukifer• 13 years ago

It's funny how much new crypto-currencies depend on naming and branding (See also: Offerings to Cthulhu [1]).

[1] http://altcoins.com/off-offerings-to-cthulhu.html

omni_• 13 years ago

Why is this being upvoted on HN? New crapcoins are introduced daily that offer nothing new and instead follow this formula:

1) Fork Bitcoin or Litecoin repo

2) Come up with cleaver name. In this case, an exhausted meme that some will be amused by

3) Do mass renames in fork

4) Make a logo and website

5) Post to internet and make eBay auctions for coin, call it "THE NEXT BITCOIN!!!"

Joeboy• 13 years ago

I think perhaps this one differs in that it is a deliberate reductio ad absurdum version of the others.

FatalLogic• 13 years ago

Indeed. It's a commentary on the "me to" nature of the cryptocurrency scene. Anybody can clone bitcoin-qt and change the strings to "MyCoin" or "GiveMeBucksPls". BBQCoin is in the same vein.

What's absurd is that these meta-joke coins can still speedily acquire value. The price of Dogecoin has doubled or tripled in the last 2 days on this exchange (volume is tiny) https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=DOGE&base=BTC

Is it still a joke then? Yes, but some people clearly don't think so. If you extrapolated the final market capitalization from the current price, it would already have reached over $10m

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          such lol

Maebbie• 13 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK1pmxM3qg wow, so spreading

davidcollantes• 13 years ago

Comic sans.

Dogecoin.org - P2P Cryptocurrency for doges

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