What If DOGE Actually Becomes Real Money?

Описание: In this episode of the DCo Podcast, Saurabh Deshpande speaks with Timothy Stebbing, CTO of House of Doge and a long-time contributor to the Dogecoin ecosystem, about what actually makes money work.

Rather than focusing on price, speculation, or technical roadmaps, the conversation explores a deeper question: is belief more important than technology when it comes to currency? Timothy argues that Dogecoin’s strength lies not in advanced tech or financial engineering, but in social consensus, memetics, and its original goal of functioning as a true medium of exchange — not a store of value.

They discuss why Dogecoin was “accidentally” discovered as a monetary system, how memes bootstrap belief at internet scale, and why institutional adoption is unavoidable if decentralized money is meant to work globally. The conversation also touches on inflation as a design feature, the limits of Bitcoin’s store-of-value narrative, and the tension between decentralization and working with institutions without losing credibility or purpose.

This episode is a philosophical and systems-level look at money, culture, and power — and what it would actually take for a memecoin to function as real currency.

Topics covered in this conversation:

■ Why belief and social consensus matter more than code in monetary systems
■ How Dogecoin challenges the idea of crypto as a store of value
■ Memes as a mechanism for coordinating belief at scale
■ Why Dogecoin was designed to be spent, not hoarded
■ Institutional adoption and the risks of losing decentralization
■ Crypto as a tool of resistance and financial escape
■ What “real money” would require in a decentralized world

Guest

Timothy Stebbing
CTO, House of Doge
X: https://x.com/tjstebbing

Dogecoin: https://dogecoin.org/

House of Doge: https://www.houseofdoge.com/

Host

Saurabh Deshpande
Director of Research, Decentralised
X: https://x.com/saurabh21

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