Apple approves Dogecoin iOS app

Post by scott_karana » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 10:51 PM UTC

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Well, if you literally mean cash in hand, you're going to have to do a bit of work. Much like with other crypto coins, you can sometimes find a local person who will do an in-person exchange[1]. Otherwise, you can use something like the dogemarket subreddit[2] to do an exchange using Paypal, Google Wallet, etc. Another option is to link a bank account to a service like Vault of Satoshi[3] and make a USD/Doge trade th…

And this comment here explains why Apple didnt remove bitcoin wallet apps because it will compete with their rumored future payments platform. Cryptocurrency is not in a state ready for mainstream adoption.

Post by Marazan » Sun, Feb 09, 2014, 8:01 PM UTC

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You can't send really small amount of Bitcoin, there is a cutoff to stop you "spamming" the network unless you also send a fee. Also the mission statement of Bitcoin and Dogecoin are different. Bitcoin is looking to replace world currency transactions by a secure peer-to-peer distributed network resistant to external attack through utilization of blah blah blah snooze. Dogecoin is going to the moon.

>You can't send really small amount of Bitcoin, there is a cutoff to stop you "spamming" the network unless you also send a fee. Right, and Dogecoin is very quickly going to run up against the problems associated with a many-gigabyte blockchain.