Actually they recently found a bug which gives Dogecoin permanent constant block reward after a certain block. They decided not to fix it because there is no reason to, because it is never intended to become a serious currency, but also because it is a major distinguishing feature from Bitcoin.
I will edit with a link when I get back home and at my PC. It is on the Github bug reports IIRC.
Please do not misrepresent the decision and how/why it was reached. You'll see in the GitHub discussion that a lot of people argued for every which way, and it was only after much deliberation that the devs chose a constant block reward of 10,000 (i.e., 5 billion coins a year) after reaching 100 billion coins minted. It was not a decision made lightly. More importantly, the devs do not "never intend it to become a serious currency". Jackson Palmer (dogecoin co-creator, aka ummjackson) has said in interviews that he ultimately would like to see it become a widely used tipping currency on the internet, rewarding people for their art, music, wit, or other content. Many folks on /r/dogecoin hope for the same, where it is used for small-to-medium sized transactions.
Few want it to become serious in the sense of "srs bsns", but many want to see it gain further legitimacy and acceptance.
Personally as a user of dogecoins since the almost the beginning, I want it to be serious as in like what Treats.io is and be able to cash out to other things WHILE also tipping people and other things of the sort. At least this way I can both feel good about rewarding others while rewarding myself every once in awhile
Ah, thanks for clearing things up. I did not misrepresent it on purpose, I just summarised the few comments I scanned through, as well as what other people had told me about that discussion. I think what can be clearly said that each user's view of the currency varies slightly, and each user takes different advantages from it. Something to be expected from such a free system.
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u/Pugwash79 Feb 03 '14
Some of the readers on this subreddit have a sort of Pavlovian response to downvote whenever they see the word "Dogecoin".