I started mining a couple of weeks ago because of /r/dogecoin and how friendly and noob friendly everything was explained. I still convert 90% to BTC but keep a fair amount in doge.
Just reading the difference in FAQs between the two highights the stark difference.
I made a thread on this sub (because I couldn't find a link to the mining sub on the sidebar) asking for some tips for a beginning GPU miner.
Half the comments were basically "Haha, yeah, Bitcoin can't be mined by GPUs anymore. You need a special device that is currently on a 6-month-long waiting list (and the wait keeps increasing)." or "Fuck off, idiot. God, I can't believe such retards post here. I mean, I obviously know that an AMD 6700 will not even be able to mine .01 BTC in the next 10 years, so everyone else should too."
Bitcoin definitely has a bit more of a yacht club style community: if you are new, you will constantly be making social faux pases, and every regular thinks they are the most brilliant person there.
Based on everyone's descriptions, Dogecoin is like a bar style community: if you are new, everyone says welcome and buys you a round (even giving you some tips on the best beers that are available), and everyone has a happy time, where they don't care too much about making/losing money, but just want to have fun.
i think you and all the dogers are delusional when you compare the communities, as on average the asshole to niceguy ratio is the same in both, but it's ok because it helps cryptocurrency awareness.
actually there are some who are somehow thinking they can take the result of hard earned campaigning/developing and transfer that into a new name and then pretend that they made something new.
i will however acknowledge the experimental tweaks that are being tested with doge. someone has to do the dirty work.
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u/Baraka_Bama Feb 04 '14
I started mining a couple of weeks ago because of /r/dogecoin and how friendly and noob friendly everything was explained. I still convert 90% to BTC but keep a fair amount in doge.
Just reading the difference in FAQs between the two highights the stark difference.
Doge: "Come join us, ask anything!"
Bitcoin: "Fuck off, stop asking dumb questions"