How Do I Get Dogecoin?
After a solid day of overspending on the Rockydennispresents advertising budget, and getting mixed results at best, I figured today would be a good day to put in some sweat equity. Little things from scanning receipts for Fetch, to transferring B roll from my minicam to my phone to my computer, to going back to the store for the tenth time for a HDMI-mini cable and just buying energy drinks and lotto tickets instead…..and so on. While filming the pilot for Rockydennispresents’ “Taking A Dump”, I saw an article link that said, “Where can I buy Doge?”. That question was NOT answered.
Whew, thank God! I almost had to do real work. Now I can just post a link to where you can buy Doge….
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, GO TO DOGECOIN.COM GET THE WALLET. Under the image of the Doge at the top of the page there’s Windows/OS X/Linux/Android/Source , click the one that applies to you.
So which wallet should you get? The popup gives you all the information you need to make a decision, except for one problem - You don’t know anything about Dogecoin, Cryptocurrency, or Wallets. Here’s some links with information. (You can come back to this after we get your wallet set up).
Cryptocurrency TLDR An everyday normal guy introduction to cryptocurrencies.
Betfury This most likely will answers many of your initial questions, as well as showing you an immediate practical application for your cryptocurrencies.
TLDR Fury Pictures and short review of faucets.
I am unsure how long it takes the Lite Wallet to sync the first time you open it, as I got the Dogecore wallet. If you intend to mine Doge, you need this. It took me about a week to sync the Core wallet. There was some other reason initially that made me go with the Core, I think maybe because Lite Wallet isn’t cold storage? Can’t remember, don’t care, and it won’t affect you either way. Even if there’s some network-wide Dogecoin heist…you can just mine more on your regular old PC (Not too old).
So now that the wallet process has begun, you’re probably wondering how to fill that wallet. Also you may be wondering how Dogecoin has a “price” (really an exchange equivalency) of $0.055 if anyone can just mine it so easily. Well, there is the electricity required, even if we don’t really count it as an expense since we’re already maxing out our PCs to begin with (that fps tho). But yeah, it’s artificial. This whole transitional era of cryptocurrency being a quasi-commodity won’t last forever, just enjoy it while it lasts.
“But Rocky!”, you say, “Shut up and take my money!”. If that’s what you want, pretty much every page on this site outside of Rockydennis Presents Blog articles (and some of them have affiliate links, too) gives you ways to spend money that I get a cut of. But really you don’t buy Doge.
You can’t buy Doge directly, but you can exchange other currencies for it. So you open an account on an exchange, buy your Bitcoin, exchange it for Doge or maybe for Tron and then into Doge…I’m not sure, I don’t really mess with exchanges much. I do know that I haven’t found any that sell Dogecoin, and have only found a couple that (as of November 2020) were trading Dogecoin.
If that sounds like a huge pain in the ass, just head to TLDR Fury and look for Pipeflare and Larvelfaucet. There are other faucets, of course. What you’ll find is that most of them are fake or otherwise BS. Set yourself some standards before you go venturing out into the wild. Hint - If you see it in PTC ads, it’s probably fake news.
I’m not going to explain the information on the Dogecoin site. I appreciate the laziness of not wanting to tab over, but you’ll appreciate my laziness of not wanting to type something that you can just tab over to read. Plus, then I’d have to tab over at least twice. Come on, man!
So what do you spend Dogecoins on? That’s a good question. I guess it’s up to you. If you can Donate Doge to Rockydennispresents.com at rockydennispresents.com/donate-doge . This can also server as a good way to test both the functionality of your wallet, as well as your comprehension and understanding of what’s going on. The Doge wallet does provide transaction details and confirmation, but if it’s all French to you then that isn’t very helpful. You can transfer some Doge and e-mail or text me and I can confirm the transfer. I’m keeping the Doge, though. Unless you accidentally send like, 1000 (how’d you get 1000 dogecoin so fast?), then I’d be more reasonable, obviously.
“But Rocky!”, you say, “Can’t I just buy dogecoin on Robinhood, Webull, or eToro?”. (I don’t have an eToro account. I do however have Cryptotab. It’s basically Chrome but with less spying and more paying you).
NO
You can certainly trade paper contracts directly valued based on the exchange rate of USD to BTC on trading platforms. I’m not sure how the exchanges work, I assume similar to FOREX, which I also don’t understand. Regardless, you aren’t buying and selling crypto on your phone. You’re never go to be able to withdraw your Bitcoin from Robinhood and then go buy a vehicle from a Carvana vending machine.
Also, all the supposed risk the establishment tries to fearmonger you with regarding crypto values falling out, is actually sort of true. Those paper contracts, if the fiat backing them drops out, will be worthless. (The same can happen with gold and silver, but the details are somehow different…end result remains the same). In other words, say the African Liber usurps USD as the only currency that matters. The Dogecoin in your paper wallet that you printed with your GameBoy Printer is still worth the same. 1 Dogecoin is worth 1 Dogecoin. Whereas your friend Kyle who put his entire trust fund into Dogecoin on Robinhood is no longer worth much, if anything at all. 1 Dogecoin paper contract = Dust.
