Okay shibes, as most of you are aware I'm not that chatty. I leave that mostly to /u/rnicoll ;) But from time to time, for some reason, I feel like there is the need to speak about certain things. Dogecoin has recently gained some traction again, price-wise, community-wise and publicity-wise. Cool stuff. People get more curious about Dogecoin again. Great. People get confused too, so let's focus on that and clear some things up:

• Dogecoin is dead, cause there is no development.
  

False. Doge is alive and kicking. I know on first sight, when you look at GitHub you won't see any releases in so long. I get that. In a space like crypto we seemingly have gone centuries in the real world without an update. But then again, our network ran h*ckin stable for the same centuries. I'm still proud of that. We are also working on 1.14, the next major update to the codebase. Progress on that was covered well already. GitHub will always show the latest stable release as default branch. Imagine an exchange accidentally building a dev branch, deploy it, losing customers funds. I have seen less likely stuff happen in my time...

• Jackson's role in Dogecoin (1)
  

We are already drifting into semantics here. Jackson, back in 2013, sent a tweet that started it all. Jackson was, to my knowledge, not the one writing the initial code. You can see that on GitHub very well. Commit history all the way back to 1.0 exists. People seem to forget about Billy a lot recently. I can't blame them as he has completely vanished a while ago. But get your history straight. Please now define "creator" and tell me who that is for Dogecoin. Jackson did later lead efforts for one version of the client that was a rebase on a more current Litecoin codebase (1.5). After that (and 1.6, but we don't talk about that), he handed over development. While he was still part of the team (and retained access to the GitHub org for a while) it was up to the (mostly still standing!) dev team to work on the code.

• Jackson's role in Dogecoin (2)
  

Some confusion seems to have recently risen about Jackson current role in the project. I'll keep this short and link to his own explanation: https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/952391368067858432
(To be slightly more specific, he retains ownership of the dogecoin.com domain. We also semi-regularly chat about this and that)

• The DevFund
  

Okay, this is a tough one. First, we really appreciate all your contributions! Second, people seem concerned that we never use it. In its current state the dev fund is held by the three core devs in a 2of3 multisig wallet. Withdrawing from it is not really a problem. But given we all live in places with very specific regulation about trading, buying, selling and profit-making of/with assets, actually using those funds creates a whole bunch of issues mainly in regards to tax handling. We are thinking about it. Mainly cause we have servers, hosting, licenses, certificates and whatnot to pay for.

• Your role
  

I know I'll sound like a broken record, but don't stop being awesome, shibes. We as the devs can merely provide you a stable basis on which you can build on. As fun as it is working on this project (not gonna lie, sometimes it isn't ;) ), we all have day jobs and have to balance that, Dogecoin and the rest of our lives in some way. Dogecoin has always been a community driven coin. We can't provide you with all the stuff. I love that we are seeing new efforts sprouting up for new services, improving existing stuff and generally making the crypto space a better place.

• All the stuff I forgot

As usual, I had so much to say when I started, but now I ran out of things. I'm sure you have questions so feel free ;)

Shibe on!
- Max

Obligatory edit: Thanks for the gold! Also the tips and nice word of course :)