The position of the opposition is unwavering: an honest business should develop its own media resources from scratch, rather than take over the ready-made channels of a decentralized community.
Who owns the “people’s cryptocurrency”
The situation escalated against the backdrop of a recent major corporate merger. Earlier, the MyDoge wallet, the DogeOS platform, and the Such App payment service merged within the Dogecoin Labs structure with the support of the Dogecoin Foundation and the American public company House of Doge (HODO).
The leadership of Dogecoin Labs, headed by Jordan Jefferson, justifies its actions pragmatically: without a unified commercial infrastructure and mass adoption of payment tools, Dogecoin is doomed to remain a speculative asset dependent on random tweets.
At the same time, the Dogecoin Foundation is trying to maintain neutrality, stating that the development of the Dogecoin Core blockchain itself will remain open, while Labs takes on exclusively market expansion.
As a compromise, independent market participants propose depriving Labs of its monopoly on information and introducing decentralized management of shared accounts with voting on content and regular rotation of moderators.
Nevertheless, the conflict remains open and clearly illustrates the main challenge for DOGE: how to scale the project to the volumes of a global payment system while preserving the status of an independent “people’s” startup.
