Dogecoin (CRYPT: DOGE), the cryptocurrency joke popularized by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk received an internal update.
What happened: The release of Dogecoin Core 1.14.3 was announced in the r / dogecoin discussion forum on Reddit on Sunday.
The update includes “major performance improvements” and is a “highly recommended update for everyone [running a DOGE node]. “
Why does it matter: Significant improvements in the speed at which a node can load blocks will be made by removing expensive health checks that were previously performed each time a block was sent to another node after the update was applied.
The standard time that transactions are cached in mempool – a mechanism for storing information about uncommitted transactions – will be reduced from 336 hours to 24 hours.
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The default configuration can be modified by entering a value in hours that makes the most sense for the use cases that the node serves.
Technical development at DOGE mirrored Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), according to CoinDesk.
“Since March 2014,“[Dogecoin Core] it has always been based on Bitcoin, ”said DOGE developer Maximilian Keller, according to CoinDesk.
The rise in the price of the meme cryptocurrency has accelerated improvements in the Shiba-Inu-themed cryptocurrency.
DOGE has grown 812.56% since the beginning of the year. In the same period, BTC returned 58.12%.
Price action: DOGE has traded 0.82% higher at $ 0.049 so far, while BTC has traded 0.54% higher at $ 46,637.15.
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