So, the other day, I was at the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup, which had over 250 people attending. Great, right? Yes, absolutely. However, that's not what stood out - what stood out was the tremendous support there was for Dogecoin.

I've always been a fan of Dogecoin, because I think there exists a great community for it. It's already widely being used online - so much in fact that there are more daily Dogecoin transactions than transactions of Bitcoin and Litecoin put together. Sure, in total USD value it isn't super high, but it's actually being used for micropayments - people are actually using it to tip, buy/sell/trade, etc.

Anyway, at this meetup, there were several speakers. One of the speakers we brought in ran Kraken, a mostly European cryptocurrency exchange which seems to be very promising. There was a question asked regarding adding support for altcoins-

He responded, saying that they were considering it and they have received a decent number of requests to add coins like Peercoin, Namecoin, etc. He then mentioned that they were receiving hundreds of requests per day to add Dogecoin - and I wouldn't quite believe it if I didn't see it, but there were literally two whole sections of people who cheered after he said that. Like 20-30 people in a crowd of bitcoin enthusiasts, all with some uncanny attachment and support for a coin that didn't even exist a month and a half ago.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share these two things that I found quite amazing- that a little monthly bitcoin meetup offering nothing but a place to have a beer and talk could attract 250 people and the fact that out of the 100 people who were actually paying attention to the presenters, literally a third of them were cheering for Dogecoin.