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There are reports that the dogecoin blockchain is forked.  Probably best to avoid any transfers until resolved.  

Hurry up and die Dogecoin.

waiting for panicsell  8)

There was a fork in January too, so a number of people know that although serious it is hardly life threatening.  I don't think Dogecoin is any more vulnerable to this than any coin that uses a blockchain.  

I never saw Litecoin or any other coin fork itself

You can correct me, but bitcoin forked last year and I think digitalcoin has too.  There are probably others. 

Doge will suffer from forks because people will try to fork it to double spend. It will be easier and easier with the block reward halving and hashrate halving every 2 months. One big try there was approx. 3 weeks ago, when doge hashrate doubled twice for few minutes.

That's a 51% attack though right.  Smaller coins are more susceptible to this than large coins. 

Yup but smaller coins are not valuable enough and spread up enough to lure haters, ddosers, and another vermin.

Thanks for the heads up. I wondered what was causing the price to crash.

Glad I was mining Vertcoin today :)

On Cryptsy, there was a dip that caused the rate to go from 226 satoshi to now about 217 satoshi. That is not by anyone's definition a "crash".

it hit 199 actually

I'm looking at the graphs right now, and I don't see where it hit 199. The lowest ask was 202, and the lowest close 205. We're not sitting back at 223.

ah yea you are right 205min
i was bit to slow and bought @ 213 and sold 221

Is this why my wallet was taking forever to sync?

I got 200k DOGE at 220-205 price .. and ofc .. something had to go wrong .. just  ;D

stick a fork in it! lol

I'm selling all mine today when  I get a chance haha

Did you miss the bitcoin fork?

Semantics. It went from approx 225 to approx 200. That's a greater than 10% drop and would meet most peoples definition of a crash. Having said that, cryptos are highly volatile so a 10% drop is far from unusual. I saw a big red bar on coinedup and just wondered what was up.

*disclaimer*i read the reddit post on this, otherwise i know nothing*

the problem is many pools are still using version 1.4.x and below that uses BerkeleyDB, the wallet has been upgraded to Version 1.5.x which uses LevelDB
the problem will continue, occasionally, until most/all pools figure out how to switch to 1.5.x

if miners favor the pools that switched to 1.5.x, it might incentivize  the 1.4.x pools to get it figured out and upgrade

cheap dogecoins at 205 hope the smart money bought in

I understand that there are performance issues with the 1.5 version, but if it is mandatory shouldn't there be a way to block earlier versions?  

I was really pleased that dogecoiners seem to have reacted remarkably calmly to this and although I loathe technical analysis and I am going to have to wash my mouth out after saying this, it does appear that 200 satoshis is a very strong line of technical resistance.  God - I feel so dirty.

EDIT - apparently it wasn't strictly mandatory.  I suspect there will be a more performant version of 1.5 coming out sooner rather than later.