I'm a bit into the Doge meme and when DogeCoin was announced I had to check it out. Here's the main thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0I don't know whether DogeCoin will become a real AltCoin. I think it's possible. It might be used as a currency for buying digital meme items at first.
I signed up for a pool and set up a worker on EC2 with a GPU instance and I seem to have earned some DOGE that hasn't been paid out yet. I'm curious when it will be paid out. Here's the thread on the pool:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362153.0I'm a web developer with a computer science degree. I haven't fully researched BitCoin but if I spent a substantial time learning about it, I might be able to understand it well enough to write a wallet.