Quote from: matt608 on December 27, 2013, 08:40:09 PM

I haven't a clue what will happen with Doge (I don't own any).

The good
The number of subscribers to reddit.com/r/dogegoin is very impressive (over 18k right at this time). I've always used that as a metric for measuring 'real' bitcoin growth, so I take that number quite seriously.

It is also intriguing to watch what happens when you put viral marketing memes with crypto, that's a nifty mix, and who knows, there could be another round of virality to come. Bigger media outlets could report about the doge madness, seeing as it's a pretty wacky story, I could imagine wired, io9, techcrunch, boing boing etc writing about it if they haven't already, and maybe more mainstream outlets (I saw tech crunch already wrote about the doge wallet hacking). Also on the plus it has brought in a lot of new people into crypto.

The bad
I do find it an annoying meme though, in that to me it's not funny at all, although I find it amusing how a meme-coin can take the piss out of money, the actual 'doge' meme is stupid and doesn't exactly help anyone use proper communicative English. Stupid memes like this lowers the quality of the internet, plus I mean, "doge" should be spelt "doggy". And there's no innovation on bitcoin at all.

All in all I don't particularly like it due to the stupidity of the meme, but it is weird and wonderful in it's own sort of way. I've been considering buying a few today but it would be a total gamble so I've decided not to (for now).

good post. I see it as "everything but the coin." They got the marketing right, the community right but they didn't do anything new programmatically. It was intended as a joke(or to say cryptos are a joke), a comment on cryptos in general but a huge amount of people took it seriously.

You can tell by the way they are scrambling to fix stuff that they never intended it to get this far. It's funny that it has and it's funny that it's actually worth enough money for them to keep it going.

Can't see it lasting as the only real thing it has going for it is it's last years top meme.

I was amazed reading reddit that so many seem to see it's purpose as taking down bitcoin. For a coin created by an employee of adobe and an employee of ibm using open source code (someone else's idea) and the top meme of 2013 (someone else's idea) that's very telling.

corporate shill coin is corporate