I can see how the mining pools make sense for the investors and early adopters to artificially prop up the price and demand of the coin. But don't they negate the supposed environmentally friendly claims of the coin that come with using PoS instead of PoW?

The devs are still encouraging mining and a bunch of excessive electricity use on this project through the mining pools.

LOL
Who came up with the logo?
It's not even yellow.
Should've called it "orange coin", or is that coming next week?

What's there to invest in?

Besides mining pools artificially propping up the value of the coin, what makes it worth supporting?

What problem does it solve?

Am I missing something? How does the $100,000 actually get invested?

Stashing a wad of cash in an account while simultaneously creating 1000 shares of thin air doesn't magically make those shares have any intrinsic value.

How about if a coin looks crappy you don't mine it?

Problem solved

Well, what's the real value of holding black coins.

It's not like you can walk into the supermarket and buy a case of beer with them.

Basically any coin that needs PoW mining to keep going is not going to work long term and become a viable alternative to fiat money in the real world.

Doge is at least kind of funny though.

Some of these other coins take themselves way too seriously.

Right, I mean last fall you could sell these electronic blips and bleeps for like $1000 each.

Now tell me that's not a scam too.