I'm actually just making fun of the response he got from Redditors
when he tried to sell it on /r/Dogecoin. That's why I said "Fuck Reddit" - Reddit is filled to the brim with hypocritical, anti-capitalistic sheep. What do you think happens when the content you see is based upon what everyone else likes? Everyone starts thinking the exact same way.
There are only two websites on the Internet I really have a problem with: Reddit and Wikipedia. Reddit because of its hypocritical group-think and poor advertising model and Wikipedia because it hogs the top of every search result, requests donations instead of just serving ads like every other website (and hence wasting its contributors' money), and hurts small businesses/websites tremendously. Wikipedia killed all the small websites about specific topics from
real enthusiasts which were so popular back in the day. If they're going to hurt the small guy, at least make money off of it, rather than pretending to be some sort of philanthropic non-profit.
haha I got your humor
Fuck Reddit!
95% trollin & 5% sales pitch! I really do think it is a killer domain and I had the idea far before the DOGE foundation today. I even offered to them, but for whatever reason they didn't want it!
The Dogecoin community in December and the Dogecoin community now is just....different. It has bore no resemblance to the original community ever since the Wolong pump. December people (who didn't cash out immediately when it hit Cryptsy....for whatever reason, like in my case, their stinkin' deposit lag) either cashed out during Wolong pump (or waited a couple months afterwards for it to drift down to like 75 before dumping it...that would be me) or cashed out before the pump when it was slumping, causing a personal aversion to the coin when the price shot up higher than ever before.
Everyone was effectively filtered out.
Then, the whole Josh Wise
fiasco.
Some weird new site which wasn't really around back when Dogecoin started essentially funds a race for him, gets the entire subreddit to be their best friends, and proceeds to make Dogecoin = Josh Wise and Josh Wise = Dogecoin. (And Moolah = god, of course.) The price becomes tied to Josh Wise and it's all people care about anymore.
Then, all the "shipes" on /r/Dogecoin work their ass off for a month to win some stupid award, burning themselves out. When that All Star race happened Dogecoin was at 100. A little while later, it started plummeting (which was when I sold) because there was nothing left. Josh Wise wasn't going to be in representing Dogecoin in races anymore thanks to immature shipes who were trying to seem mature by saying stuff like, "we need to work on improving Dogecoin and its use, rather than spending all of our time on Nascar." Unfortunately, they didn't realize that it was too late (and that use has
never been an issue with Dogecoin - it had more transaction number volume than bitcoin and litecoin put together back in
December) - by that time, most of the Dogecoin community didn't know a Dogecoin without Josh Wise. He was the face of the brand and it devastated the community when everything died down. It's kind of like how
by 2036, the majority of Americans will be too young to remember 9/11 - the Dogecoin community at that point was too young to remember a time back when Dogecoin wasn't about Josh Wise.
Who ruined Dogecoin? The very people that shipes consider their heroes. The devs and everyone involved in Doge 4 Nascar.
How is that relevant to DogecoinFoundation.com? Well, I tried to register it back then, but some asshole had already taken it. I'm pretty sure DogecoinFoundation.org was available, though...
I miss the 3-week period of time when doges.org was a cool site and the go-to place. When miners were mining a few million per day with a couple $200 video cards. When people with 15 posts who joined 2 1/2 days ago were considered long-time members and less likely to scam than the people who joined a half-hour prior to posting a trade request for $2K. When I got flat out scammed on my second transaction with some miner for 6 million DOGE, but still made money on our trades together overall. When some guy spent 15 minutes creating a tipbot for a 10 million DOGE bounty. (Subsequently becoming an important figure in the community that people looked up to for some reason, despite never doing anything other than being like an hour faster than the next guy in building a a simple tipbot.) When the price was 30% more on the forum and 300% more on eBay than CoinedUp. When CoinedUp went all the way up to 89 satoshis and right back down to 30, even before it ever hit Cryptsy. When it hit Crypsty and it took 2 days for my deposit to confirm, thanks to a Cryptsy issue. When that subsequently cost me so much money due to provable and documented chain reactions that no one would ever believe me - that has a negative nostalgic factor of course, though.
I know the feelings I have regarding Dogecoin are the same feelings that Bitcoin people from the early days have regarding Bitcoin. They must feel so out of place talking with people who have only been in cryptocurrencies for the past year or two, let alone a few months. I felt out of place in the Dogecoin community in March, and especially now in September. I have never had anything in common with anyone in the community, but now I can barely even relate.
This is why it particularly bugs me when a bunch of shipes from Reddit got on BAC's case for trying to sell DogecoinFoundation.com. He has more right to that domain name than the Dogecoin Foundation ever will. He was there when it started, he was there on doges.org, he was here on this thread 8 months ago arguing the same damn point about the ridiculous never-ending coinflation (which didn't even exist when the coin was created, by the way).....it's his fucking domain name.
You can add dogecoinfoundation.org and bitcoinfoundation.org to the list of websites I really hate.
