Think about why people hoard $$BTC like gold bars but actually spend and tip $$DOGE:
>5 billion new coins per year means the inflation rate drops mathematically every single year (already below 3.4% and falling toward 1.5%)
>Meanwhile miners always have a predictable block subsidy so transaction fees stay under a penny
Currency is meant to circulate peer-to-peer without middlemen or eToro CFD spreads.
>leave $$DOGE on eToro or a centralized exchange: you hold an IOU entry in their SQL database while they lend your coins to short sellers
>withdraw 5,000 $$DOGE to your own Dogecoin Core or hardware wallet: real cryptographic UTXO on the blockchain that nobody can rehypothecate
Transaction fee for moving the entire stack? Less than 0.02 $$DOGE. There is literally zero reason to leave your Dogecoin as an IOU on a broker app.
Ever wonder why Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, and Fidelity process outbound DRS transfers to Computershare every single day, while eToro flatly refuses?
Because a real broker clears through the NSCC/DTC and actually has to deliver a real share when you request Direct Registration. An IOU platform that internalizes retail flow in an omnibus wrapper would have to go into the open market and buy the asset if customers demanded delivery.
Don't hold IOUs. Demand real delivery.
If you hold $$DOGE in self-custody, running a full node helps strengthen the network and lets you broadcast your own transactions with zero third-party RPCs:
1. Grab the latest dogecoin-1.14.x binary and verify the PGP signatures.
2. Configure dogecoin.conf with maxconnections=64 and dbcache=1024.
3. Open TCP port 22556 on your router.
Uses barely 1.2 GB of RAM and 0.5% CPU once synced. Be your own bank.