Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), the joke cryptocurrency popular by Tesla Ing (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk received an upgrade.
What happened: The release of the Dogecoin Core 1.14.3 was announced on Sunday on the r / dogecoin discussion board on Reddit.
The update contains ‘important performance improvements’ and is a highly recommended update for everyone [running a DOGE node]. ”
Why it matters: Significant improvements in the speed at which a node can upload blocks will occur by removing expensive integrity checks previously performed each time a block is sent to another node after the update has been applied.
The standard time that transactions are stored in the meme pool – a mechanism for storing information about unconfirmed transactions – will be reduced from 336 hours to 24 hours.
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The default setting can be changed by entering a value in hours that makes the most sense for the use cases that the node serves.
Technical development in DOGE was reflected Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), according to CoinDesk.
“Since March 2014,”[Dogecoin Core] was always based on Bitcoin, ”said DOGE developer Maximilian Keller according to CoinDesk.
The price increase in the meme cryptocurrency has accelerated the improvements in the Shiba-Inu-themed cryptocurrency.
DOGE has risen 812.56% since the beginning of the year. In the same period, BTC returned 58.12%.
Price action: DOGE trades 0.82% higher at $ 0.049 at time of printing, while BTC trades 0.54% higher at $ 46,637.15.
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