Wow. Much crypto. Very charity.

Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency (just like bitcoin) introduced on December 8, 2013. In the beginning, it was intended to be a joke, a silly currency with the Doge meme theme contrasting bitcoin's serious business approach.

Just like almost every other cryptocurrency, Dogecoins are entirely digital, a string of numbers attached to an address stored and watched by several computers around the world (or so I understand, I'm not well versed in CS and related disciplines). 

But Dogecoin shows, perhaps better than any other cryptocurrency, that anything has ("monetary"?) value as long as enough people agree on it, even something meant to be a joke: a portion of the Dogecoin community donated 30,000 USD so that the Jamaican bobsled team could actually attend the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Other unorthodox uses include selling a house and porn1. Similar initiatives exist at the Dogecoin Foundation2.

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