Open Letter to the Newly Minted Dogecoin Millionaires (Bright Year: Day 13)

OPEN LETTER TO THE NEWLY MINTED DOGECOIN MILLIONAIRECongratulations, you doges. Dogecoin just crested 30 cents and you are on your way to buy your first Lamborghini. Not an NFT Lamborghini in Decentraland, mind you - a real one. The rest of us will watch as you drive your joke into the sunset.

It wasn’t wisdom exactly, what you did. You knew that Dogecoin was a gag cryptocurrency meant to toy with all the other cryptos. You knew that it didn’t have any advanced features or development plans. You knew that there were 100 billion DOGE floating out there, with 5 billion more Doge being pumped into the system each year, no cap. Yet you still thought it wise to forego the Tesla stock and invest in the muttcoin at .2 cents.

For what shall we praise you? You knew better than to think that a joke is a joke. You waited for the supply-demand curve to go rabid, and it did. Wish my boxes of 1987 Topps baseball cards had done the same. Kudos to you. You picked the right joke.

Much wow.

All I can say beyond this is that Dogecoin’s ascent was poetic as far the Church season goes. We Christians are in Easter, learning about what life is like after the resurrection. The risen Jesus shows up in the flesh and plays a great miracle-joke on His disciples, telling them to try fishing on the other side of the boat - and they pull in 153 large fish. There those disciples are, stunned amidst the abundance, wondering how all the rules were broken in the economy of grace. And there was Jesus on the shore, probably giving them a look much like the one from that Shiba inu.

Yours truly,

Dr. Hitchcock

[This post is part of a series called Bright Year. For the whole series, see www.sevensided.org/bright-year]