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DogeCoin To the Moon Via a Google Lunar X PRIZE Team
anzha (138288) writes "After sponsoring a NASCAR racer, DogeCoin's community has wondered, 'What next?' The answer is literally 'To The Moon!' RevUp Render is sponsoring a DogeCoin promoting micro rover challenge, the Lunar Iditarod. The micro rovers, called DogeSleds, are the size of an smart phone and will be first qualified and then raced here on Earth. The top three competitors will be placed on a Google Lunar X PRIZE team's lunar lander to conduct a short, nine meter race on the moon itself. Registration opens on May 21st and closes July 31st for the first race. The first quarterly race will take place September 5th through September 7th. The event will be public and in the San Francisco Bay Area. All teams, international and American, are welcome, but be forewarned, all fees are in...dogecoin!"
"an smart phone"
And let's not forget that massive run on sentence at the end.
..... here.
Dogecoiners know their Internet Fux Bux are dumb but they revel in that and have fun with them. And frankly that attitude of fun and looking for weird shit to do with them means the community isnt abunch of unbearable idiots either - right here is how you build a community and also a future. I can actually see Dogecoin becomming much bigger just simply because of the attitudes of the users. Hey lets fuck around with our Fun Bux goes a long way in making their crypocurrency acceptible. It's not a misguided political statement, they completely realize how absurd Bitcoin actually but they dont care - and even use pointing out how absurd it is as a strong point.
Good on them.
insight much, none mod points.
As ridiculous as the meme is, I feel Dogecoin has done more for cryprocurrency acceptance and awareness in the last 5 months than Bitcoin has done in the last 5 years.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
yeah its fun washing, dirty goes in, clean comes out, makes everyone look respectable
So space
Many excite
What the prize?
Such moon
Concern
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Good post.
I don't know the math behind cryptocurrencies but don't find the premise any more "absurd" than regular gov't issued "fiat fun bux".
One big difference is the massive value fluctuations without a central bank stablizing, which makes these "currencies" seem to behave more like commodities.
Anyway, if people happen to agree these fixed amount of fun bux are worth something, then why not encourage an alternate way to exchange goods and services?
Pros: Low tranaction costs, fast tranfers, and reduced direct gov't tinkering by potentially poor monetary policy.
Cons: Instable relative values and massive speculation.
But such a shitty website. Many clicks to read. Plus the "Registration" section fails to tell you how to actually registration, how much the entry fee is.
I hope it is real and not a scam, and I hope they get a UI designer in in stead of someone show the latest and newest design styles and told to play.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Just wait and see that change.
Buttcoins weren't that difference at this stage either. Then they got actual worth.
Funny, in my personal experience the difference between dogecoin and bitocoin is actually about 430 USD.
But hey, give me your bitcoins and I'll give you my dogecoins - seems like a fair trade given your valuable insight.
Look at the entry fees. They're pretty large - at current exchange rates, stage 1 is roughly $1000 USD and they go up from there. The last stage with an entry fee is $7300. I want to believe... but the cynical part of me says this is just another effort to pump some life into the dogecoin market.
But then I also really want to enter just on the off chance that it IS real. Having your own moon rover would be *awesome*.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
In 20 years, there will be thousands of rovers and other vehicles on cinder-blocks on the moon.
It will look like Buttfuck, Idaho.
There are plenty of exchanges that do this already. I don't see how you are being smart or clever with this comment.
The micro rovers, called DogeSleds, are the size of an [sic] smart phone and will be first qualified and then raced here on Earth.
These guys know that the gravity and surface conditions differ from Earth, right? So how does qualifying on Earth get a winning design to the Moon? There will be designs that will fail miserably on Earth but could blow past the competition on the Moon. Fun, maybe, but definitely not something I would participate in unless I actually had money to burn. Seems pointless to me.
... if they intend to keep them Doges rollin'
Meanwhile, The Register reports that DogeVault has been compromised. Might be the micro rovers get a bus ticket to the seaside rather than a flight to the moon instead.
Too bad I didn't bought into this dogcrap before though if they are going to get this serious and raise public awareness.
Man do I have the perfect currency name (that's all it's about right? :D)
Since 280 million Dogecoins has a current value of just under $130,000 US, it's neither the crime of the century nor likely the end of times for the vault.
One of the coin's present strengths is it's relative low worth.
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American idiots...
I just looked trough the site and I could not find a single reference to the team they are using to hitch a ride on.
If im going to make a walking smartphone then i would love to know after the fees what actual Xprize team is offereing the ride.
since i did not find anything about the team that i would be hitching a ride on i can only assume its either one of the teams that has no chance of actually going there.
Or its just an elaborate way of promoting your cloud computing business
WOW WAIT A MINUTE AM I READING THIS CORRECTLY!
seems the team that the ride is hiched on is a team called Team Phoenicia after typing their name into google this link showed up.
http://www.googlelunarxprize.o...
AND THEIR STATUS IS WITHDRAWN THEY ARE NOT EVEN PART OF THE COMPETITION ANYMORE
to end with a line dogecoiners would say
Wow, Such Scam
much leap
very dogekind
280 million Dogecoins out of 400m.
So 160m taken in total, or 40% of the money they had.
40 bloody percent.
Cryptsy is about to start trading Bitcoin, Litecoin, Feathercoin and Dogecoin for USD.
Get free satoshi (Bitcoin) and Dogecoins
Woosh....
I'm going to tip your 20% of the missing doge for giving us these statistics.
Did anyone else read that as "Lunar Idiotrod?"
Pros: Low tranaction costs, fast tranfers,
If by "low" you mean "staggeringly high". The energy cost per cryptocurrency transaction performed is huge thanks to mining, and guaranteed to become larger the more valuable a cryptocurrency becomes.
And if by "fast" you mean "not actually fast in any way at all". Attempts to use bitcoin for payment processing in the real world have run into numerous problems with network performance. Want to buy a sandwich at a cafe which accepts bitcoin? Be prepared to possibly sit for an hour or more while the transaction is confirmed. The absolute minimum time to process a bitcoin payment is about 10 minutes, and if the seller wants to be guaranteed that they're not getting scammed it's more like 30 minutes plus.
and reduced direct gov't tinkering by potentially poor monetary policy.
So the answer to potentially poor government monetary policy is to substitute guaranteed-abysmal monetary policy. Got it.
(The monetary policy assumptions at the core of all cryptocurrencies are idiotic Randroid libertarian fantasies completely disconnected from how the real world works. They actually believe that deflationary currency is objectively a good idea. This is ludicrous nonsense, as proven by many examples from real-world history in which deflation tanked economies, caused people to starve in the streets, and so on.)
Cons: Instable relative values and massive speculation.
There's nothing real there except massive speculation. Cryptocurrencies are a scam, through and through. Have you never noticed that their proponents are, above all else, fucking desperate to get you to buy in too, rather than being focused on doing real currency-like things with their "coins"? It's the pump and dump mentality, even if a lot of the pumpers aren't ready to admit to themselves that this is what they are doing.