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Story: Dogecoin (DOGE) Completely Depends on Litecoin (LTC) for Security

By Dan Saada

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Jared Tate stated,only possible by speeding up block times & increasing block size w/ real time diff & other tweaks.

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This Jared stated in response to Elon Musk stating, Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. Potentially promising.

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These changes would require a massive DOGE hard fork. Stuff we carried out over 5 hard/ soft forks over 7 years for DGB.

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Majority of people don't understand that technical stuff. Certainly most people still not in crypto don't understand. People only care about speed, reliability, and price.

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Elon Musk literally doesn’t care for anything other than doge. He is making a joke out of crypto market. No point spamming your own bags.

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The Whitepaper states:  Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, although it does not use SHA256 as its proof of work (POW).

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Dogecoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license.

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Regarding the mining information:  Dogecoin uses a simplified variant of the scrypt key derivation function as its proof of work with a target time of one minute per block…

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Originally, a different payout scheme was envisioned with block rewards being determined by taking the maximum reward as per the block schedule and applying the result of a…

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This was changed starting with block 145,000, to prevent large pools from gaming the system and mining only high reward blocks.

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When it comes to choosing your wallet:  You have to sync with the blockchain to use Dogecoin. MultiDoge is a "light" wallet.

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