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!"

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The difference between Bitcoin and Dogecoin right.

[Anonymous Coward]

..... 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.

Re:The difference between Bitcoin and Dogecoin rig

[gbjbaanb]

insight much, none mod points.

Wow

[jez9999]

So space
Many excite
What the prize?
Such moon
Concern

Currency pumping exercise

[fractoid]

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*.

Meanwhile, DogeVault has been compromised (El Reg)

[fantomas]

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.