BIG jump in Dogecoin difficulty over the last few days. What are the effects?

[bozo333]

All of a sudden Dogecoin difficulty is as high as 14,000 from an average 1,000 for the longest time.
Is this a precursor to an upcoming increase in value (in BTC or USD) or just a ton of new hash power coming online or something
completely different?

[sandpaper]

aPOW or merged mining. People are mining ltc and other coins and that hash is used for the dogecoin network too.

[bozo333]

Just noticed the big spike in Doge/Btc price.

Hold on to your Doge. Something tells me Doge will get big. Just a gut feeling but I believe Doge will surpass Litecoin in a year or two.

[Zombier0]

Seems DOGE will not fail