Bitcoin Forum

For those of you who don't know, Dogecoin's market cap recently passed Peercoin's, making it the third highest among mineable coins. It hasn't fully solidified itself in that position yet but is poised to do so, having seen huge gains in what is a bear market for most cryptocurrencies.  You can say what you want about Dogecoin (and I think it's a worthless scamcoin myself) but you can't deny that the amount of fun that its community members seem to have contributes to its success. With Charlie Shrem's arrest, the decline in price, the Mt. Gox fiasco, the ban in Russia, and other events in a seemingly endless string of bad news, Bitcoin fans aren't having any fun. The exuberance of the 2013 bubble is entirely gone. There might be another bubble soon but it'd be nice if we could have things to keep people engaged even when the price isn't soaring. So what can the Bitcoin community do to entertain the general public as much as Dogecoin is?

Do we need an animal mascot? Should we have a Bit-chan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism)? It seems like one already exists (http://www.bitcoin-chan.com) but I think the design is ugly and there was seemingly no community involvement. Stuff like bringing a Bitcoin banner to the Superbowl or putting a flag in space is great but we need stuff that anybody can be involved in. The great thing about the doge meme is that it doesn't require much of anything to participate.

People seem to think that Bitcoin has lost its soul. How can we prove them wrong? Dogecoin's rise proves that, at least in the short term, technology is not all that matters for a cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is becoming associated entirely with a very sterile, corporate image that I don't think really reflects the whole community. How do we fix this?

I feel you pain (or panic) about the glowing sentiment for bitcoin having faded a lot in the last month or so, but you have to realize that this is all a necessary part of the life cycle of bitcoin. If rises to the next order or magnitude and people get excited for it "OMG it just went over $1/10/100/1000!!!!" and then it all settles down for a bit before we hit the next big boom.

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What do you define as fun? If not much happens for a week or two, people start to panic when they see the price remaining stable or falls. People who are in Bitcoin for the long haul rather than a quick return on their investment shouldn't be affected. Sure, this year has gotten off to a slow and arguably bad start, but I'm sure they'll be plenty of excitement and price increases sometime this year when more merchants start accepting it and Bitcoin ATMs start popping up everywhere and who knows what else. Bitcoin is still pretty new and it's going to be a bumpy ride with a lot of struggles along the way, especially with the media slandering it everytime something minor happens and it gets blown out of proportion. If people want fun, they can stick with their Dogecoin, but I'm sure there will be a time when people get bored of that too, especially when they release they're not going to become rich off it.

By allowing fun. That's really all you need to do. The Reddit-ban on memes was one of the worst decisions ever made by the mods over there. And the downvoting of funny comments by the community doesn't exactly help either.

+1

I'm having fun with Bitcoin. Don't sweat the small stuff, Bitcoin will triumph through adversity.

some grow price

i was thinking make some kind of video game where people can win DogeCoin prizes

More whales? That might make things "fun."

Personally, I don't think Bitcoin needs any type of "fun" injected into the system. Sure gimmicks would be nice, and the added attention would be great to have, but it always acts like a double-edged sword. Bitcoin is finally stepping out of the stages of "infancy" and starting to show signs of maturing into its own market. I think more than fun, Bitcoin needs more and more infrastructure.

Sure there is a lot of hype surrounding DOGE because of how "fun" it is, but in the long-term, it takes much more than that.

another huge price run up would be fun

I've been into Bitcoin for four years. The community is still as entertaining and interesting as it's ever been.

As for the string of bad news I'm pretty sure Russia also banned Dogecoin too and the Gox fiasco also applies to Alts because malleable transactions affect them as well. I think you've mistaken the exuberance Alts are feeling for sticking their head in the sand

I think the opposite. A huge price drop would be fun to watch.

Those who base their involvement in anything purely on 'having fun' usually does not last very long. And how much fun you have, is up to yourself. Bitcoin will die or survive on its own merits.

good point, I would like to see that so I can scoop up some cheap coins

Not fun? Fluctuations, massive run ups, regulation, arrests, exchanges freezing, massive drops.

Its good, popcorn eating fun, if you ask me.

Exactly! I find all this really exciting and interesting to watch. And I get to play with cryptostocks, alt coins etc. That's fun for me and I don't even need to make big investments like I'd have to with traditional money.

Since when is/was money fun?

You can have lots of fun. Depends what you do with it.

http://blog.twowholecakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/scrooge-mcduck.jpg

I think we both know the answer to that.

with free fun and games/..  maybe Sonata or Ambien?

Oh whenever I see a Duck Tales image, it's ruined by Family Guy.

Hey, I guess this is still tons of fun after all! Just don't get too bloodied up swimming in a bunch of metal/stone objects...

Maybe a bitcoin lottery that supports good causes. It would generate some good publicity.

People choose their numbers, buy as many tickets as you like, then 30% of the money would go to support some good causes and the rest would go on the jackpot and some smaller payouts. If someone wins 1000btc that would be good publicity.  

Maybe the 30% could be distributed to African schoolchildren I dunno. I think the fundamental problem is that not enough people own BTC. And since the price rise that's only going to get worse. Big btc holders need to spend bitcoins and pay people in bitcoins especially pay people who don't own bitcoins yet.

The bitcoin animal mascot:
http://i43.tinypic.com/8xrozq.jpg


Isn't there a subreddit for bitcoin memes?

And we have good old Alpaca

https://blog.hep-cat.de/pics/bitcoin-alpaca-socks.png

 ;D

This, because I lost all my coins recently. :P

It became boring when the whales, thinking that they know what's best for bitcoin, decided that there was too much volatility in the price bc people were complaining that a currency can't be volatile - that was the period when the price was right around 800 whenever you looked it up.  They didn't see this mtgox problem coming or the subsequent ddos attack.  So we had a downturn.  What makes bitcoin exciting is that it is an alternative currency, limited in number, to government fiat which gets printed at will.  I felt that, but for the whales, the price would have increased substantially when the major currency issues arose with the Argentine peso and the Turkish Lira.  Bitcoin needs to be the go-to place to store wealth when governments play their currency games - or do things like Cyprus did back in April. 

NO ONE REALLY CARES ABOUT BITCOIN BC IT'S A WAY TO TRANSFER MONEY EFFECTIVELY AND CHEAPLY.  THAT IS A GREAT AND POSITIVE FEATURE TO IT, BUT FOR PURPOSES OF MASSIVE ADOPTION, IT'S NOTHING MORE THAT A COLLATERAL FEATURE.  How many people would buy bitcoin if you told them that the price would be guaranteed not to budge from $700 for the next 20 years?  Answer: ALMOST NO ONE. 

WE NEED VOLATILITY TO HAVE MASSIVE INCREASES IN PRICE, LIQUIDITY, AND ADOPTION ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

Give me all your unwanted "old" unfun bitcoins. I'll take them off your hands.

I'll have lots of fun.

as a newbie, i was attending to join this amazing BTC world, and you said it is not fun and exciting anymore? that is depressing.

Different people find different things exciting. I'm sure you joined here because you find BTC somewhat exciting :) There are lots of things you can do with BTC!

that is a lot of money........ maybe we'll have that kind of money if btc goes over 100000000000k$  one day... i hope/width the day comes soon

 ;D call me "master" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlWYDzINGU

Simple answer.

Escape the idea that Bitcoin is a speculative currency for a few IT freaks,  and open channels where you can exchange bit coins for merchandise.

The more practical alternatives to apply bitcoins to mainstream society, the better the chance that bit coins remains a part of the future and not a page in some finance history book!

Lets be frank, any 'brand' that has survived the test or time has had to had some appeal to the masses.  It's the product life cycle, once you step on the tread mill, you need to keep moving forward.

Get out to a meetup and join forces with other bitcoin enthusiasts.  Our group in AZ has grown from 6 people to 120 people in just a few months.  The energy and entrepreneurial spirit at our events is undeniable.  Grow a local community and build local economies....it's incredibly fun and rewarding.

Bitcoin is exciting every week :)

I find it boring during "no bad news" :D

This dude is making a pretty solid effort.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x4895/i_just_had_the_best_idea_about_bitcoin/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xs0q6/just_had_another_idea/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xyxph/who_wants_to_get_their_bobo_cocoed/

http://www.reddit.com/user/BoboWoCro#page=1