I think it's time for me to make amends with this community. Let me preface this by saying that pre-launch I had every intention of supporting Dopecoin. I got pretty irate on launch day when it all went wrong. I'm not bringing this up to dwell on the past but to put things into perspective. I think a lot of people wrote Dopecoin off when it became unclear whether or not the dev could be trusted. Until the ninja launch I had every intention of splitting my miners evenly between POT and DOPE. Out of caution, I decided to stick with POT and just watch what unfolded here... until I came in here around page 128 of this thread and said some pretty nasty stuff but I had my reasons:
No worries. We all make mistakes
and welcome back!
1. The childish spamming and trolling on the Potcoin thread invited a response. No doubt members of both coins are guilty but really its nonsense and it needs to stop. There's absolutely no reason both coins can't exist in a symbiotic way. As far as I'm concerned they don't directly compete with one another. They appeal to different markets. They overlap slightly on the edges with headshops and online stores selling glassware and paraphernalia but that's about it. I don't expect medical and recreational dispensaries to accept Dopecoin and I don't see dark markets like Silk Road choosing Potcoin over Dopecoin.
I agree that both coins can exists its just to bad PotCoin refused to joint efforts together. We have constantly reached out to them and were told to fuck off. But, we've moved on. I disagree, I think one of these darkmarkets will pick up DopeCoin and run with it.
2. It was a no brainer that both POT and DOPE were going to get pumped to the moon for 4/20. I was sitting the bid on Mintpal soaking up cheap DOPE like a sponge while the coin was languishing in all time lows. My rant may have helped shake the tree. Now, before you get all righteous.... Fuck off
Trading is a zero sum game. We're all playing poker here. Anyone who doesn't get that will learn the hard way. That doesn't mean that all of us sitting here right now can't win. We can all win by increasing the value of the coin but somewhere down the road someone is going to pay too much. Stocks work the same way. If it happens over a period of years its considered normal. If it happens over a week everyone screams pump and dump scam. So, anticipating the opportunity to make some epic trades I needed to know one more thing....
WE have to start somewhere lol ..
3. Would DOPE be worth buying, mining, and holding after the dust settled? It was unclear what kind of dev team was actually in place here and how capable they were. So, I issued the challenge to Dopey to fix the timewarp bug. The flawless implementation of the hard fork to digishield and closing the heartbleed vulnerability helped restored confidence. I've been mining DOPE ever since. A well played 4/20 pump and the crash that followed gave me the opportunity to buy up a pretty decent position here.
Dopey is one of the hardest working dev's out there and he listens to his community. As you saw there!
Now that I've gotten that out of the way... I see a lot posts here discussing what it's going to take to bring interest, hash, and value to the coin. The reality is the success of this coin hinges on Dopey making good on the coin mixing feature. Anonymity is the key here. In the mean time, it may help if Dopey would tell us a little more about who is developing the coin now and what the time frame on the coin mixing technology is. Without the mixer, DOPE will fade into obscurity because it will never be able to serve its intended purpose.
It will be out soon I hope the coinmixing feature. I agree that its important to be transparent on the development on things. Either way welcome back to the community!
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, in fact YOU MUST LOSE IT, but i'm sure when you will win the tournament that you will give it away to your good miners, isn't it?
i'm starting to think it's because of my fault :-s 
