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Why no threads on Doge? I have liked the coin from the beginning. Any news?

No need for paid marketing when your coin has 6th largest market cap

its finished..creator jumped the scam..basically a ltc copy with a dog picture slapped on top

We're posting news in the announcement thread as there's major stuff to announce. 1.10 beta 1 (based on Bitcoin Core 0.11, so includes block pruning etc.) is out a few weeks back, beta 2 is waiting on tracking down an issue with minimum fees. I've been working with bitcoinj's (the library Multibit HD and the Android wallet are based on) developers to add extension hooks for altcoin support, so dogecoinj (the previous forked library) can be replaced with a lightweight wrapper library (libdohj), which in turn means we can produce Android and Multidoge HD wallets much faster (and keep them up to date more easily).

Also generally getting dug into BIP 32/BIP 39 support in Bitcoin Core (I know, altcoin dev contributes to parent coin, shock horror!), so as HD wallets become widely available for Doge we'll also have good recovery tools. HD wallets are a huge improvement in usability because if you have the original wallet (which most software/hardware presents as a sequences of words, so you can write them down easily), the whole wallet can be restored from that seed rather than requiring constant backups.

Woof. :)

dogecoin = dead! fun to trade

Many people have dumped Dogecoin for bitcoin and other alts. Nobody is hyping Dogecoin unless Dogecoin can reduce its supply.

as others have said the doge community spread out into the newer coin pumps and are now promoting/pushing random "better" and "anonymous" coins.  their efforts are not on doge as even they realize that ship has sunk.

Dogecoin is probably the best cryptocurrency out there, from a currency perspective.

1. Fast block times (~1 minute) = fast transactions (near instantaneous confirmation)
2. Worth less than 1 cent = no need for annoying decimal places
3. Already accepted by several vendors, sites & marketplaces
4. Creative, voluntary community willing to make things happen (Jamaican bobsled team, NASCAR car)

Its not dead, failed or a scam. Its just not very new anymore, hence its hard to get this board excited about it.

The pump and dumpers dropped the fat yellow dog for Monero!

Monero to the moooonnnn!

Moon is spelt Moon.  Guess what else has two o's o's in it?  Monero.

The community has moved away from this board as it has nothing to gain here anymore.. Reddit is their hub, check that out :)

Excellent points.  The confirmation times with btc can be atrocious and I do like not having to deal with the decimal poop as well.

Dogecoin devs did not do doge bagholders any favours when they decided not to cap the number of doge produced causing the price to crash and pissing off the community.

It's been downhill ever since.

We also tend to be trying to pull in a different market; we're not out to convert the converted, we're after the 99.9+% of people who aren't in cryptocurrency yet. We're genuinely a lot more interested in making a functioning currency and payment network, rather than a get rich scheme.

I do in moments of frustration consider launching a "for money" coin, but bottom line if we believed in that model, we'd have been Bitcoin devs instead.

Funny thing is, our inflation rate's lowest of any of the big coins at the moment.

And I don't see how that decision pissed off the miners...

Dogecoin is one of best crypto coins in the market. There are a lot of sites using it, and also people like it  ;D

No Doge hate here.  Just pointing out one of the reasons for its decline in price and popularity.  Last I heard any hype on Doge was the race car thing. Been quiet since. Devs and community cooled off I guess.

Besides, I appreciate the lack of doge-shilling so its all good. 

It really has been peaceful haven't seen a TO THE MOON
OR a doge picture in a while there
(Still a fan of the underdog though)

We can spam you guys more if you miss us, but general impression was it was getting a bit much :)

You can track developer activity via Github:

* https://github.com/rnicoll?tab=activity
* https://github.com/langerhans?tab=activity
* https://github.com/patricklodder?tab=activity

(and yes, I'm committing stuff to Bitcoin projects where it makes sense)

One thing that I always liked of Dogecoin is that is has faster confirmation times than Bitcoin. Another thing is that DOGE is extremely cheap which makes it a good coin for tipping.  ::)