Dogecoin will be huge!
Just look at this growing community with lots of new ideas.
Now its not good time for all cryptos, but some day Doge will explode.
Dogecoin cannot survive without a strong network. And if Doge does not either move to a merge-mined model, or adopt a new algorithm, the network will get attacked into non-existence with upcoming scrypt ASIC equipment.
Litecoin holds the crown for scrypt - that's obvious by both market cap and network hashrate. Unless the dogecoin community honestly thinks it can surpass Litecoin's hashrate and marketcap this year, or doge moves to being merge-mined, it will die.
I have a feeling the Dogecoin dev's are going to learn a lesson with the upcoming block halving. If we don't see a merge-mined doge soon, it will be a huge waste to watch the dogecoin network and community die this year.
Doge wont become mainstream, forget bout dat. Theres no reason to be.
Doge has attracted some "mainstream" people who knew nothing about Bitcoin.
"Mainstream people" doesn't make sense - how can a person be a common thought of a majority? That makes absolutely no sense.
And, who cares? Some small-time low market-cap adoption isn't going to help anything.
merged mining is the way to go in order to stay relevant and more powerful against network attacks, especially since Litecoin has about 2 or 3 times the hashing power dogecoin does.
1 vote for merge mining here. It was good for namecoin, so shall it be for dogecoin