Ask HN: Why does my University block Dogecoin.com?

3 points by cubo 12y ago ↗ HN

I go to a pretty well known University in Texas that uses Websense web filtering. Dogecoin.com is blocked under the category of "malware". Does anybody know why this is?

I saw a story here on the homepage and was trying to learn a little more on dogecoin, and was surprised at the site being marked as "malware".

Thank y'all!!

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rms 12y ago ↗

There's a quite decent chance that www.dogecoin.com was briefly hacked and hosting malware, and either still is, or Websense hasn't updated since dogecoin.com stopped hosting malware.

Dogecoin is a joke ecurrency, and not even the funniest joke ecurrency. If you want to buy an altcoin, I think PPC is far more likely to make it through 2014 than most.