Year of the Doge
The Breakdown
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Doge Coin and Meam Coins - An Antidote to Cynicism
Longreed: I think we will look back at the whole dog coin phenomenon as one of the weird parts of 20 21. But i also think they're an antidote to cynicism, in that the claiming of a different type of power through these vast, very loosely linked internet networks around shared affinity is an antidote to some type of cynicism. To wit, if the power structure has screwed you, or that's your belief, screw the power structure back. And what better way to do that with a coin based on nothing, built on a decade's old meam, that's worth more than almost anything else, because we said so. Or at least it makes more sense in the broader society context
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