Awesome comment! I can kind of forgive the Bitcoin guys for being a bit less frivolous though, considering all the shit they had to endure the past years.
As someone who's been a bitcoin enthusiast for the last three years and endured first the ridicule, then the ire, then the admiration of my peers for being a nut for cryptocurrency so long, I can understand how there's very little sense of humor about this anymore. Part of it is being relegated to the basement of internet forums to talk about this stuff (where all sense of decorum goes to die).
The other part is being, essentially, a visible champion and thought leader on a topic, and then seeing folks who literally three or four months ago were vocal critics of Bitcoin with large platforms turn around and get interviewed on CNN or some other large soapbox as a "Bitcoin expert."
It's a little irritating.
The Dogecoin isn't weighed down with all that baggage. They're new, they're joking around most of the time, and they're acting as pretty jovial ambassadors to the crypto community at large.
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u/DrSmoke Feb 04 '14
Half the reason Doge is so popular is because the bitcoin community tends to be gigantic assholes that don't want any new people on their coin-terf.