Wow, such bobsleigh.
January 21, 2014 3:10 AM Subscribe
The dogecoin subreddit have donated $30,000 to help the Jamaican bobsleigh team get to the Winter Olympics.
wow
such money
no ASICs ezmine
not such Libertarians
many tipbots
v. distributionary
technological solutionism
v. high velocity of money
decentralized
such economy anarchy works if no Anarchists
so charitable
wait till see distributed autonomous corporation
shitbrixposted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 3:27 AM on January 21, 2014 [42 favorites]
and thus, almost exactly 10 years after 4chan really became a thing*, the snake has eaten its tail and reddit has become 4chan.
*(i'm aware it started in late 03 sort of, but it was only really being used in early 04)
posted by emptythought at 3:30 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
*(i'm aware it started in late 03 sort of, but it was only really being used in early 04)
posted by emptythought at 3:30 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
But how will they cash out the DOGE and get ActualMoney?
posted by dobi at 3:32 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by dobi at 3:32 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
Well, what the hell else are you going to do with dogecoin?
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:01 AM on January 21, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 4:01 AM on January 21, 2014 [7 favorites]
Just out of curiosity has anyone come across a longer-term DGC/USD chart? The only one I can find goes back 24 hours.
posted by Pre-Taped Call In Show at 4:16 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by Pre-Taped Call In Show at 4:16 AM on January 21, 2014
They converted Doge to Bitcoin, and from there to USD.
posted by defcom1 at 4:19 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by defcom1 at 4:19 AM on January 21, 2014
Apparently they already converted that 15 million DOGE into 35 BTC, and then extract $30k USD. There are presumably people who made millions in both USD and BTC but feel BTC overvalued at present, so enjoy investing in DOGE. In the long term, there are several reasons why DOGE might prove more legitimate than BTC, such as DOGE potentially being more evenly distributed, DOGE not being so artificially capped, etc.
posted by jeffburdges at 4:20 AM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by jeffburdges at 4:20 AM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
Neal Stephenson: "I'm out."
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:39 AM on January 21, 2014 [20 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 4:39 AM on January 21, 2014 [20 favorites]
...for everything else, there's Doge.
wow™
posted by Wolfdog at 4:48 AM on January 21, 2014 [34 favorites]
wow™
posted by Wolfdog at 4:48 AM on January 21, 2014 [34 favorites]
As a result, he turned to donations, launching a PayPal account to pay for the estimated $40,000.
I have a wintry feeling about this.
posted by hat_eater at 5:07 AM on January 21, 2014 [6 favorites]
I have a wintry feeling about this.
posted by hat_eater at 5:07 AM on January 21, 2014 [6 favorites]
Please please please put a little begoggled doge on the front of your sled, Jamaica.
Such speed
Moar pushing plz
Wow fast
Gud line
&c
posted by Rock Steady at 5:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [16 favorites]
Such speed
Moar pushing plz
Wow fast
Gud line
&c
posted by Rock Steady at 5:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [16 favorites]
Yesterday, I sent the Jamaican bobsledders a donation the old fashioned way, by PayPal :)
posted by Peach at 5:38 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Peach at 5:38 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
After I heard about this in the podcast (the dogecoin heist) and the idea behind it I came across this article and felt somewhat informed. Without the podcast I would have thought I'd landed on the Onion.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:03 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by cjorgensen at 6:03 AM on January 21, 2014
Meanwhile Lolo Jones made the American bobsled team.
posted by bukvich at 6:08 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by bukvich at 6:08 AM on January 21, 2014
Seriously. Would a currency named after cats ever achive this? I DIDN'T THINK SO.
posted by davemee at 6:37 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by davemee at 6:37 AM on January 21, 2014
For quite a while now I've had this weird feeling that's hard to describe. I see all the current technology, the electric cars, the computer phones, the fact that we're about to have a space robot put a comet on a leash and take it on a walk around the solar system, the slow encroachment of a government observation society with overtones of corporate feudalism, and I think to myself, "All this, and it doesn't really feel like the future. Weird."
The bizarre thing is that for reasons I can't begin to understand, the fact that now we have people spending 'real' money to buy meme-based internet money to donate to a guy who converts it to slightly more legitimate internet money and then cashes it in for 'real' money and uses it to send the Jamaican bobsleigh team to the Winter Olympics, has just for a brief moment caused my brain to choose right now to look around and realize "Yep. Appropriate balance of weirdness, impractical processes, and high technology achieved. You are now in 'the future'."
posted by chambers at 6:39 AM on January 21, 2014 [54 favorites]
The bizarre thing is that for reasons I can't begin to understand, the fact that now we have people spending 'real' money to buy meme-based internet money to donate to a guy who converts it to slightly more legitimate internet money and then cashes it in for 'real' money and uses it to send the Jamaican bobsleigh team to the Winter Olympics, has just for a brief moment caused my brain to choose right now to look around and realize "Yep. Appropriate balance of weirdness, impractical processes, and high technology achieved. You are now in 'the future'."
posted by chambers at 6:39 AM on January 21, 2014 [54 favorites]
Well we could have had domed houses on Mars but instead we have this
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 6:41 AM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 6:41 AM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
You're the man now, doge.
posted by phong3d at 6:55 AM on January 21, 2014 [22 favorites]
posted by phong3d at 6:55 AM on January 21, 2014 [22 favorites]
wow
such corner
many speed
holy f....
posted by 0 answers at 6:58 AM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
such corner
many speed
holy f....
posted by 0 answers at 6:58 AM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
Ray Walston, Luck Dragon: Well we could have had domed houses on Mars but instead we have this
Well, we kinda fucked up that attempt to make an enclosed "domed house" on Earth, so forgive me if I'm skeptical about our abilities to build functioning systems on Mars. Anyway, some folks want to give it a try, and I'm sure we'll all be watching, in delayed real-time.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:04 AM on January 21, 2014
Well, we kinda fucked up that attempt to make an enclosed "domed house" on Earth, so forgive me if I'm skeptical about our abilities to build functioning systems on Mars. Anyway, some folks want to give it a try, and I'm sure we'll all be watching, in delayed real-time.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:04 AM on January 21, 2014
Well we could have had domed houses on Mars but instead we have this
Every once in a while we get something right.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
Every once in a while we get something right.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
I kinda can't believe that this is a real thing. Nerds invented a currency and then named it after an internet meme. We're inching ever closer to "It's What Plants Crave™."
posted by mattbucher at 7:19 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by mattbucher at 7:19 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
We're inching ever closer to "It's What Plants Crave™."
Closer than you think: 'members of media strategy group OMB (who developed the game) describe Bolt! as "an entertaining and competitive way to reinforce to teens that consuming Gatorade would help them perform better [...] and that water was the enemy of performance."'
posted by dirigibleman at 7:23 AM on January 21, 2014 [5 favorites]
Closer than you think: 'members of media strategy group OMB (who developed the game) describe Bolt! as "an entertaining and competitive way to reinforce to teens that consuming Gatorade would help them perform better [...] and that water was the enemy of performance."'
posted by dirigibleman at 7:23 AM on January 21, 2014 [5 favorites]
The future is considerably sillier than I expected.
posted by brand-gnu at 7:28 AM on January 21, 2014 [15 favorites]
posted by brand-gnu at 7:28 AM on January 21, 2014 [15 favorites]
Much like how magical realism was a response to tinpot dictatorships where no advancement was possible, the modern world's unique combination of paranoia, desperation and grasping lunges calls for a response as surreal, disorienting and nonsensical as itself.
Wow.
posted by The Whelk at 7:37 AM on January 21, 2014 [18 favorites]
Wow.
posted by The Whelk at 7:37 AM on January 21, 2014 [18 favorites]
This, uh, trailer has convinced me once and forever of Dogecoins' superiority over Bitcoins in all the ways that interest me (i.e. funny videos). Besides, if this is even half-accurate Dogecoins come from the MOON you guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3oiThw2RxE
posted by ocular shenanigans at 7:43 AM on January 21, 2014 [8 favorites]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3oiThw2RxE
posted by ocular shenanigans at 7:43 AM on January 21, 2014 [8 favorites]
Nobody takes dogecoin seriously, and they're willing to spend it on ridiculous things, which stupidly might actually make it work as a currency (as opposed to being hoarded by speculators).
posted by vogon_poet at 8:04 AM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by vogon_poet at 8:04 AM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
I so want to see the Doge face on the front of a bobsled. Zooming down the track. huehuehuehue
posted by Windopaene at 9:21 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 9:21 AM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
So, this is the first FPP that I. do. not. understand.
Does this mean I'm officially old?
posted by Riton at 9:27 AM on January 21, 2014
Does this mean I'm officially old?
posted by Riton at 9:27 AM on January 21, 2014
Much like how magical realism was a response to tinpot dictatorships where no advancement was possible, the modern world's unique combination of paranoia, desperation and grasping lunges calls for a response as surreal, disorienting and nonsensical as itself.
Indeed. We have found ourselves in a world where The President's Analyst is in many ways more prescient than 2001.
posted by chambers at 9:30 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
Indeed. We have found ourselves in a world where The President's Analyst is in many ways more prescient than 2001.
posted by chambers at 9:30 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
Also, my favorite description of this whole thing so far comes from this article. "It's like Bitcoin for dogs!". I love living in the future, William Gibson didn't anticipate how stupid we all are.
posted by vogon_poet at 10:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by vogon_poet at 10:10 AM on January 21, 2014 [5 favorites]
Is reddit the repository of all things cryptocurrency? Also this month, possibly the first Bitcoin transaction to originate in the DPRK.
posted by bluefly at 10:15 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by bluefly at 10:15 AM on January 21, 2014
When I heard about this story, I was tempted to donate some (real) money to the cause.
Then I went to his website, and was assaulted by autoplay music. So much for that.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 11:00 AM on January 21, 2014
Then I went to his website, and was assaulted by autoplay music. So much for that.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 11:00 AM on January 21, 2014
From doge to the underdogs.
posted by WalkingAround at 11:00 AM on January 21, 2014
posted by WalkingAround at 11:00 AM on January 21, 2014
It's not just that we're in the future, it's that we're plainly not in the futures envisioned by writers such as Clark, Asimov and Heinlein, populated by manly men and moon colonies. Instead we seem to have enacted a future based on authors like Phillip K.Dick, Fredrick Pohl, and Stanislav Lem. Welcome to our New Wave psychedelic SF future.
posted by happyroach at 11:02 AM on January 21, 2014 [9 favorites]
posted by happyroach at 11:02 AM on January 21, 2014 [9 favorites]
How much dogecoin would it take to get NBC to broadcast more than 5 minutes of Bobsleigh coverage?
Seriously, how much goddamn figure skating to we need to watch?
posted by usonian at 11:25 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
Seriously, how much goddamn figure skating to we need to watch?
posted by usonian at 11:25 AM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
What the heck is a "bobsleigh?"
20M DOGE, same as on reddit.
(It is actually the official Olympic -- and international federation -- spelling.)
posted by dhartung at 1:26 PM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
20M DOGE, same as on reddit.
(It is actually the official Olympic -- and international federation -- spelling.)
posted by dhartung at 1:26 PM on January 21, 2014 [2 favorites]
The whole cryptocurrency thing, I've decided, is an unending beautiful fountain of stupidity that, despite all rationality, despite everyone's (including my own) cries that "this will end soon, Bitcoin will crash, suckers don't know what they're doing, LOL Dogecoin yeah I get it such stupid", it somehow keeps on going and delivering more hilarious ridiculousness.
So I'm getting on board. Just downloaded the Dogecoin miner. I fully expect a value of $2,000 per Doge this time next year. Why? Because that's fucking stupid. Completely ridiculous. Therefore it will now happen!
posted by Jimbob at 2:13 PM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
So I'm getting on board. Just downloaded the Dogecoin miner. I fully expect a value of $2,000 per Doge this time next year. Why? Because that's fucking stupid. Completely ridiculous. Therefore it will now happen!
posted by Jimbob at 2:13 PM on January 21, 2014 [4 favorites]
I have seen our distopian cyberpunk future and it's hilarious!
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 2:14 PM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 2:14 PM on January 21, 2014 [3 favorites]
All I need to know to show that Dogecoin is the currency for me is that the slogan is "To the moon!," and there are metric craploads of hilarious dog pictures for me to view. So better than "In God We Trust." Much laughter. Wow.
posted by sldownard at 5:28 PM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by sldownard at 5:28 PM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
The annoying limiting factor for all these currencies is the initial blockchain update.
Such bandwidth.
So progress bar.
Very download.
posted by Jimbob at 5:33 PM on January 21, 2014
Such bandwidth.
So progress bar.
Very download.
posted by Jimbob at 5:33 PM on January 21, 2014
Not if you switch to the new currency fast enough! Out with the old! In with the new! ;)
posted by jeffburdges at 6:04 PM on January 21, 2014
posted by jeffburdges at 6:04 PM on January 21, 2014
Whelkcoin
It can only be used to buy fine silk ties
posted by The Whelk at 6:27 PM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
It can only be used to buy fine silk ties
posted by The Whelk at 6:27 PM on January 21, 2014 [1 favorite]
an unending beautiful fountain of stupidity that, despite all rationality, despite everyone's (including my own) cries ... it somehow keeps on going and delivering more hilarious ridiculousness.
See, exactly like real money!
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 10:08 PM on January 22, 2014 [1 favorite]
See, exactly like real money!
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 10:08 PM on January 22, 2014 [1 favorite]
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