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What is happening?

Please, can anybody explain to me what is happening in the world of cryptocurrency? I've had about 25.000 DOGE coins since almost the beginning (I mined them myself in 2014), but they never really were worth anything. Mostly the price hovered around $2 for 25.000 DOGE. Sometimes, just out of curiosity I looked up the price, but as you can see from this chart, nothing really happened in the last 2+ years: Until a few months ago. I read somewhere about Bitcoin soaring above the $2000 mark and decided to look up my cryptocurrency again. And to my surprise the 25.000 DOGE were suddenly worth about $40. What the F? 2 days later I checked again. Now they were worth $75. Double the price almost over night! A day later $80. But it was not only DOGE. All kinds of cryptocurrency - most of which I've never heard about - increased in their value. Double, triple, some even ten fold. All in the last 2 or 3 months. Currently we seem to be over the hill, the prices a

Heavy Rain

I know, I'm very late to the party - about 6 years, but I don't care. I just finished this masterpiece on the weekend and I'm still blown away. Usually I don't play interactive dramas. I'm more like an FPS guy. I play games where the story mostly goes like: "You are a (space) marine, here are some aliens/other enemies, kill them all and save the universe/planet/etc. (to get the babe)." But I've played the demo of Heavy Rain when I got a PS3 back in 2013. And it got me interested. Sometime later I bought the game, but somehow never got around to play it. It was sitting on my shelf, mocking me all these years - like about 300 other games in my collection, I still want to play. (If you don't believe me, go check it out: https://vgcollect.com/drunkenm666 ) About a week ago I was looking for a game to play and Heavy Rain seemed like a good choice. And man, it was a good choice . (Don't worry, I won't post any spoilers, so if yo