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Dogecoin community just raised $50,000 to fund NASCAR driver Josh Wise and Dogecar #98.

Our car: https://i.imgur.com/IcikK5l.jpg

Such Doge, So NASCAR, Wow: Dogecoin and reddit’s NASCAR community raise $50,000 in Dogecoin to sponsor a Doge car at Talladega in May
March 25, 2014 -- NEW YORK-- The hopes and dreams of a digital currency will be riding with NASCAR driver Josh Wise as he pilots the #98 Moonrocket to certain victory at Talladega Superspeedway this spring. The Dogecoin community teamed up with the NASCAR subreddit to raise over 67 million Dogecoin ($50,000) to cover the car with the iconic image of the Doge. 1,200 donations averaging $41 added up to Much Wow!

The fundraiser began when members of reddit’s NASCAR community identified Josh Wise as an up-and-coming underdog driver in need of a sponsor. 8 days later, he now has the most wow sponsor in the history of NASCAR. "I can't thank the Dogecoin and reddit community enough for the support," said Wise, who drives for Phil Parsons Racing. "To the moon!"

For this campaign the Dogecoin community joined forces with the NASCAR subreddit and reddit.com. The car will be primarily Dogecoin themed, and will also feature the reddit alien logo. A potential design for the car can be found at http://bit.ly/DogeNASCAR[1] . Previous Dogecoin campaigns have helped send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Olympics, raised $20,000 to train service dogs for children with disabilities, and collected $30,000 to build clean water wells in Kenya.

The Moonrocket will make its debut at the Aarons 499 Sprint Series Cup race on May 4th. Updates on the Doge4NASCAR campaign will be posted at Doge4NASCAR.org.

About Dogecoin
Dogecoin is an online currency created as a friendly, light-hearted version of Bitcoin in December of 2013 by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus. Dogecoin is now the second most popular online currency; only Bitcoin sees more transactions each day. Dogecoin is primarily used to buy and sell digital goods and to tip people on social media for the content they create. Tipping services on Twitter, Reddit and other sites allow social media users to easily send digital cash to each other without fees or hassle.

Find out more at www.dogecoin.com.

Dogecoin community is not giving up even if the price will go down -50% they will still believe in Doge! :)

Such a great community! :)

Much love for Doge! and for Nascar Doge!

This is nice and you have to admire the spirit of the doge community but really, is this going to build long term value for the coin?  It seems to need infrastructure and places to use it.

Welll it is perhaps goind to happen as many sites accept Dogecoins already.

I think that there are lots of places and infrastructure. Take it in mind that Đogecoin is 100+ days old. And it is still growing. Just check for yourself. ;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/wiki/index#wiki_dogecoin_related_sub-reddits
http://www.dogedoor.net/

wow this is pretty cool.  I was losing a bit of hope in DOGE but stories like this separate DOGE from the other alt coins which have pretty much zero potential.

first rule about dogecoin

never lose hope in dogecoin.... this community is still number 1 in getting things done.

One person donated 20M doge... just awesome.

Doge's gone down in price before and bounced back higher. It can again.

Yep.  ;D

Not only one but two persons donated 20M each. Alex from Moolah and dogefreedom.  ;)


What is DogeCoin, and what does it have to do with NASCAR?

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140325/nascar01/140329908


BTW.  Design contest for the car.
Everyone can submit work.

http://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/20rpy7/josh_wise_paintjob_contest/

amazing really :) wow donations from other communities you have to beg for 1 or 2 coins even if it will benefit the community hugely.

cool stuff.

id watch a couple minutes of nascar to actually see this car.

Another link about wise from foxsports.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/shake-and-bake/online-community-rallying-to-help-fund-sprint-cup-dirver-josh-wise-and-the-sponsorless-no-98-car-031914

I think how huge this is is highly undervalued right now.

Especially with the chance of keeping the sponsorship going.. they could replace Dodge in a hilarious way.

This is great for Doge and may even increase the value of the coin. Imagine Doge on national tv in the US to promote awareness. Cool!

Well perhaps it can do some ++for Doge.

But Doge need something more! :)

Save them hood!
twitter.com/savethemhood

congratulations Dogecoin team & community. if you keep this up, doge could have a very bright future.

Indeed... but for now mining Doge is much undervalued ... and after halvening price went down a lot..
But future --- is there :)

Some miners were talking about coming back to doge recently because they could not make anything else pay.

Wow is this real? I love that move from DOGE  ;D

Well I hope Doge will rise again.

For now we must support and wait:)

Well it will be also great marketing move indeed.

Thats really amazing! Good job Doge.

Doge to the moon! xD

there's also the small matter of qualifying.  50 grand doesn't even pay for tires in a full season. 

Dang i feel proud to be in this awesome community! :D good job guys ;)