What has made Dogecoin a standout to other Alt Coins has been a strong based community with excellent marketing built up in a very short space of time.
Rather ironic considering remembering the search engine wars and what differentiated Google to the others during it's infancy.
While Yahoo, MSN and a host of others were chasing the almighty $$ for advertising, Google was building up a community of faithful folllowers
who wanted simplicity as a search engine and not all the bells and whistles that the others provided.  Instead, Google built up a massive following as it developed its clean look search engine whereby you were guaranteed that if you put in the search term "Dog on a lead", you were not going to get everything else.

Dogecoins offers so much as a complimentary Alt Coin to Bitcoin.  However, its the mindset of many of the long term or should I say earlybirds of Bitcoin that have built up this false wall to degenerate anything outside of Bitcoin.  I call that putting your head in the sand.

That really needs to change.

Facts are, that most of the Alt Coins will fall over.
The ones with the strongest community of ideas will go from strength to strength as others topple over.

Cheers markco2

You think so do you?
It maybe a cloned coin to Litecoin.

A few glaring differences.

It's the most marketable Altcoin of them all.

Who do not like dogs?
Perhaps some people who prefer cats to dogs.
I would say there would be even fewer that like neither.

Something else to think about that makes it very marketable is in "Tipping".
Even if each Dogecoin is only a fraction of a cent, to have within the Doge community,
raising funds for worthwhile causes is pretty special.  Its not about hoarding it as a long term investment.
It's based on consumption as with normal fiat currency.  Doesn't matter how it is used up.  Nore does it matter
if the price remains stagnant. Shouldn't that be a function of money?
It should be seen as a compliment to Bitcoin.  Not a competitor.

If you asked a person in the street who had heard of Bitcoins and Alt currencies, yet were still very green in how it works.
Which sounds and looks better as a giveaway or a prize?  (A) .01 of a Bitcoin  or (B) 3,700 Dogecoins.
You may think it is a foregone conclusion.  Yet, remember seeing Mark Dice on Youtube on several occassions tried to swap his 1oz Gold Eagle
for a $20 Us Note and he was even across the road from a coin dealer.  Hilarious, how he had no takers.  Had it been someone informed they would have jumped at it.  Considering the US Fed has been shuffling the Fiat for 100 years as part of everyday use and Gold has been used as an exchange mechanism
and a store of wealth for thousands of years, everyday people are too caught up in themselves to even recognize or understand value.

That means Bitcoin will continue to evolve behind the scenes as it's still in it's infancy.  Dogecoin will continue to be seen as a Tipping Platform as it markets it's lovable Shibe.  Both are complimentary to one another as the real world of consumers couldn't care too hoots about the complexities of the development side as long as it's secure and they can use it to purchase all products and services whenever they want to without the volatility.

In my mind Bitcoin needs friends.  Dogecoin can be that friend.

Cheers markco2

I am very new.

I was looking for some where to read up on wallets.
Did a search, but couldn't find anything.

Would appreciate a link or point me in the right direction.

Cheers

Hi all,

I am very much a noob.
Hopefully I can get upto speed.

Haven't even got a wallet yet.