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It's 100% attitude. Doge is fun and playful while bitcoin seems to be the domain of crazy libertarians and people who just want to be the new bank.

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As a techie who's been following bitcoin and disapproves of their libertarian ideology, I like the Dogecoin attitude. It's all a joke. It's like it's not serious. It's like people know that you're not going to replace all the money.

Funny enough, that attitude may make it more successful in the long term. History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along.

> History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along.

Examples, please.

G.W. Bush.

Well...there's that one operating system out there that got pretty popular after some guy in Finland posted it online. Name escapes me at the moment, though.

Finux.

Freax wasn't it?

we can have serious hearing in Senate on BTC with outcome rules [almost] killing or seriously affecting it. Having a hearing and SEC/FBI enforcement on Doge? With Doge as a witness. Put you paw on the Bible and repeat after me ...

Lots of truth to this from a brand perspective, but the underlying technology of Dogecoin is pretty serious, it just happened to be deployed in a playful way. Not unlike the way that gaming technology or 4chan’s infrastructure is serious.

4chan's infrastructure is serious, but it started out as a joke. Much of gaming technology was as well created for fun first.

Anyway, I like it. Having to choose one business over another, ceteris paribus, I'd always go for the one with the sense of humour.

As a techie libertarian, I love Dogecoin. It's Bitcoin for people who hate Bitcoin.

The libertarian, crypto-anarchist ideology is inherent to all cryptocurrency, not inherent to Bitcoin.

Crypto-currency is not decentralised by nature. Bitcoin, dogecoin etc. are just one model. There are other models for crypto currency that involve issuing banks and have other advantages - offline transactions and no crazy waste-of-electricity hashing races.

One question then, what motive is there to support the blockchain once mining has ended?

For BitCoin, it'll be transaction fees. In order for your transaction to be proceeded (which requires a form of mining), you'll have to pay a small fee.

So in order to process you non-bank transactions you need to use a centralized processor that charges you a fee for transferring your money?

crazy libertarians? How so?

It's like he doesn't realize that libertarianism is the one true choice that any rational being would make.

...says the crazy libertarian.

...says the crazy communist. Certamen ad hominem in infinitum, ac vicit nemo (or some such). According to the dictionary ( http://thesaurus.com/browse/libertarian ) we could go on for a while, it's just utterly pointless. Rather than pointing fingers (babies can do that much), I'm merely asking a simple question why said libertarians would be crazy. FMR

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