Dogecoin not notable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dogecoin

by poolpool • 13 years ago

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SwellJoe3• 13 years ago

Dogecoin should probably be on Encyplopedia Dramatica, or Know Your Meme, or Urban Dictionary. Probably doesn't need more than a footnote on WikiPedia.

adamnemecek• 13 years ago

At the same time though, isn't it kind of notable that a 'meme becomes a currency'?

wmf• 13 years ago

A "currency" with no adoption.

SwellJoe3• 13 years ago

I think it's still merely a meme. There are literally hundreds of "altcoins". This one is only marginally more notable than any of those, and those aren't notable except in aggregate, mostly as an attempt by the founders of the coins to cash in. (There are a few exceptions. Litecoin maybe, Namecoin probably, Peercoin possibly.)

Making a new Bitcoin derivative takes a few minutes. The Dogecoin developers didn't even bother to do a search/replace on the word Bitcoin in the source and documentation in the source. It is a very, very, half-assed fork of the Bitcoin code base (I looked, for a laugh).

hayksaakian• 13 years ago

I knew about it before coming to HN today, so i'd say it's at least minimally notable.

patrickg_zill• 13 years ago

Even so, there are a lot of people using the mining pools. One pool I looked at has 43 Megahashes/s and doge.cryptopool.it has 232 Mh/s going.

dwild2• 13 years ago

This minning pool has 2408 MH/s. http://doge.netcodepool.org/

The current network hash rate is 6100 MH/s. It's impressive for a 1 week old altcoin.

djent• 13 years ago

I would live to contribute to save it on the Deletion page, but unfortunately I don't have a Wikipedia account.

Dogecoin not notable

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