Simple.

Free advertising.

Can make a bit of money.

Makes me shut up for a while

Considered shady -- by China.

New regulations could limit it's use.

OK imma be bad-grammary with you for a second, why the heck would it matter if it got heavily regulated in the future?? EMC could just stop accepting it. In the present there isn't really much to suggest the gov't will do anything about it for the next while, FinCEN already is regulating it, and they have

bigger problems right now

.Again, if they convert it into USD, there's no harm in doing something that will get regulated more later, they can just stop doing the thing if it becomes too hard.

It is NOT illegal, and the US does recognize the fact they exist.

As you can use services (again, completely legal) that transfer the currency automatically into USD, you would not have to worry about tax evasion or exchange rates.

There is no actual evidence that I have seen so far that Dogecoin is "Shady", if you disagree, please cite with an actual link.

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