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[Hypnotic]

These beers have no flavour, just grabbed the IPA and it's just not nice.

 

I think I am just not in a mood for a drink.

[RX25SE]

Adam, does your dog think its a scorpion?

 

Hahahahaha

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just finished a Pure Blonde.

 

One was enough.

[Adam]

Hahaha scorpion!!!

[peteRS]

@Adam, The Dobe that we had when I was growing up (awaits sarcasm) wasn't a huge fan of the water either...she would splash her front paws over and over in the shallows and bark/eat the splashes she made

Cola didn't have a tail some kent cut it off.

[Brett]

These beers have no flavour, just grabbed the IPA and it's just not nice.

 

I think I am just not in a mood for a drink.

yep, pack it in for the night then Ash.   Hophog not having flavour is a pretty good sign that beer is not your friend tonight.

[Zac]

Ha, Death Note on SBS stars Takeshi Kaga, he was the crazy host of Iron Chef.

 

It's odd seeming him not so eccentric.

Death note the movie or the anime?

 

I loved the anime... was awesome... Shinigami was cool...

 

Hahahahaha

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just finished a Pure Blonde.

 

One was enough.

I do love me blondes...

[Brett]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just finished a Pure Blonde.

 

 

hard task.  You sir, have earnt yourself a proper beer.

[simon]

@Anyone who knows:
REVS says that the WRX I'm looking at, has had 8 registered operators.
Does that mean I'd be the 9th owner? Is that a bad thing?

Haha dude my car is 21 years old & has had 25 owners.

[Hypnotic]

yep, pack it in for the night then Ash.   Hophog not having flavour is a pretty good sign that beer is not your friend tonight.

 

Yeah, i'm going to finish this off and that will be all.

 

Death note the movie or the anime?

 

I loved the anime... was awesome... Shinigami was cool...

 

The movie

 

 

Cola 

 

Awesome name for a pup

[Zac]

Blah,... anime was awesome...

 

Anyway, bed time... night all...

[simon]

@simon http://bit.ly/194a3cE

Totes buying that!!!!

Mate rang me today, he is tracking a bike at eastern creek tomorrow. Gunna tag along watch the big boys ride some bikes. Should be a good day.

[Adam]

Yeah aparantly it's their breed, Pete!

Zeus acted a lot like Roisin when I met up with dan. Was funny!

[Samwise]

Haha dude my car is 21 years old & has had 25 owners.

Lol okay. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason cars change hands often, like it's a lemon or something.. because it does check out really well, that was just a concern.

[skillionaire]

My car is 9 years old and I am the second owner.

 

[skillionaire]

This is going to be me as soon as I get home on Christmas day.

 

[Adam]

I'm the third owner of mine

[skillionaire]

I just did a poo!

 

What are you doing today Adamopolous?!

[skillionaire]

******.

[skillionaire]

HOLY SHIT!

 

SHAZ STARTED HIS OWN CURRENCY!

 

 

 

 

This is the most 2013 thing of the year.

An Australian brand and marketing specialist and a programmer in Portland, Ore. who have never actually met have successfully combined the year's two greatest phenomena: Bitcoin, and doge. The result: Dogecoin. And people are actually using it.

If you're not familiar with the doge meme, it's hard to explain — you sort of have to just see it yourself. Basically, someone on the Internet began posting images of Comic Sans thought bubbles in the imagined syntax of a devastatingly cute Shiba Inu dog. Variations on the meme look like this:

doge
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There's no point to it; it's just one of those Internet things. But people love it — you can see some "good ones" here. 

About three weeks ago, Jackson Palmer, who by day works in Adobe's Sydney marketing department, and who'd been following developments in the cryptocurrency world, absentmindedly Tweeted, "Investing in Dogecoin, pretty sure it's the next big thing."

He got some replies encouraging him to pursue the idea, and a week later bought the domain Dogecoin.com. Inevitably, it got picked up on reddit, a hotbed of doge activity. 

Meanwhile in Portland, Billy Markus had been trying to program his own digital currency that would appeal to a broader demographic than the profiteers who've flooded into Bitcoin. But the project had gone nowhere. Then he stumbled across Dogecoin.com within a day or two of the site going live.

"The first thing I said was, This is so funny. Then I said, I should just make this coin."

He Tweeted at Palmer saying he wanted to go in on it, and before Palmer even responded, started reconfiguring Bitcoin's sourcecode, which is publicly available, to turn its user-facing elements into the doge meme.

Eventually Palmer wrote back, and the partnership was formed. A little more than a week after Palmer's jokey Tweet, Dogecoin was launched.

Again it got picked up on reddit, and instantly exploded. It is already the 13th 7th-largest cryptocurrency, according to Coinmarketcap, with a market value (i.e. number of extant Dogecoins X price of $0.00086) of $8 million. It now enjoys its own full blown ecosystem: in addition to the website, it has a dedicated blog and forum, and of course a subreddit.

How has it done this?

Largely through something called "tipping."

If you're a geek who "performs" a "good deed" on the Internet, it's become common practice for peopleto "tip" you in your digital currency of choice. For instance: that kid who held up up his Bitcoin wallet's QR-code during ESPN's College Gameday got tipped thousands of dollars by the Bitcoin community for such a brilliant stroke of guerrilla marketing. 

But it's become somewhat expensive to tip in Bitcoin, so people have turned to Dogecoin. Only about a week after launching, Dogecoin became the second-most-tipped currency, the pair say. They're hoping Facebook will accept a widget they've been working on that would allow friends to "tip" each other with dogecoin.

Still, what's so great about Dogecoin?

Technically speaking, it's more of a variation on Litecoin, which runs on a cryptographic program called Scrypt. Like Litecoin, the time it takes to process a Dogecoin transaction takes is much shorter than for Bitcoin. There are also many more Dogecoins that will come into existence — 100 billion versus 21 million.

But it's the culture that's sprung up around it that's really driving it forward. Palmer says it comes down to having a lower barrier of entry for people who might be interested in cryptocurrencies but are turned off by either the price of or so-far dubious culture that surrounds Bitcoin. 

"It's not taking itself as seriously, it's not being used by people worrying about whether they'll become rich," Palmer said. "It's something to share for thanks or kudos."

Markus says his wife, who at first was turned off by his interest in Bitcoin, has started mining Dogecoin herself — something you can do with your basic computer, unlike mining Bitcoin, which now requires industrial-strength processors. 

The pair say they have no intention of competing with Bitcoin, and both are still fervent believers in its potential to change online banking. 

"It's a revolutionary technology, absolutely revolutionary," Markus says. "And it works as a store of value because it's deflationary, there will be a cap [on Bitcoins created]. It's just highly speculative, which makes it hard to use, to spend and spread it."

How can you tell the Dogecoin phenomenon is not a joke? This morning, Bitcoin and most other altcoins are up about 20%.

Dogecoin? Up 250% and counting.

Wow.

[skillionaire]