Announcement:


A book solely based on the first year history of Dogecoin will be released on the 8th of December 2015:

$0.00126 per block? We need to motivate the miners to care enough to bother both with storing the blockchain and actually applying updates (this is a particular point right now as we've just released the BIP 66 security fixes which introduce an updated block version). That would work out at... ~$662 per year split between all of the miners.

For comparison, Bitcoin currently pays $8,000 per block (or thereabouts), even adjusting for the block time, that's $800/minute. We currently pay out $1.26/minute. If the two coins had comparable market caps, we'd still be paying out about half what Bitcoin does right now.

Announcement

Coin price ticker

Added support for exchanges Cryptsy and Poloniex for coin Litecoin.

Coin price ticker supports three exchanges(Bittrex, Cryptsy, and Poloniex) for Litecoin.

Also new
The navigation menu is coin based in stead of exchange based.

Go to play store to download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wiskunde.nl.coinpriceticker&hl=nl

Sincerely,

Wiskunde

Hello!
We would like to invite Dogecoin traders at our exchange livecoin.net: DOGE/BTC & DOGE/USD
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask 



Instant cryptocurrency exchange. We were the first service to offer no-registration instant cryptocurrency exchange (yes, before Shapeshift). Now you can exchange BTC, LTC, NXT, BTCD, DOGE, DASH, PPC coins instantly, also you can exchange them to and from e-currencies (PerfectMoney, OKcoin).

Cryptocurrency withdrawal to any Visa/Master/UnionPay card issued by any bank worldwide. You can withdraw your crypto within 2 business days to your existing Visa/Master/Union pay card issued by your bank. If there are not very many local exchangers in your area or you want to withdraw altcoins they do not support this might be an  option, you just have it sent to your bank card. More details here.

Custom debit card to withdraw your crypto. You can order a custom debit card to withdraw your crypto to, inlcuding BTC, LTC, NXT, BTCD, DOGE, DASH, PPC coins. Card loading is almost instant, and the card can be delivered all over the world.

Buying and selling your crypto with bank transfer. You can buy and sell your coins, including BTC, LTC, NXT, BTCD, DOGE, DASH, PPC, using your bank account. SEPA transfer in europe takes usually one business day.

I generated this tx with my code, but it was an earlier version and might have had some problems. I was not awareof a fee penalty, it is as follows:

I used the latest QT Litecoin Core version v0.10.2.2 (64-bit)

I guess my question is how did this tx get accepted locally (and in other nodes) if it has insufficient fees to be confirmed? And why isnt 0.001 enough of a fee? Are you saying that if the output was bigger, the fee would have been enough?

James

halves in 12 days.
price should go up!

As we're closing on a beta release for Dogecoin Core 1.10, I wanted to talk about where 1.9 went to, why we haven't had a major release in 11 months, and what we're doing differently in future. This is a long post, but I swear it's worth reading in full.

First of all, important security announcement: If you're using brain wallets (this won't be many of you, but want to ensure we catch anyone who is), stop, and move your funds right now. There was a security talk at DEF CON which basically explained how much their security is broken, more detail at https://rya.nc/cracking_cryptocurrency_brainwallets.pdf . For anyone who's unsure, brain wallets are where you pick a set of words and use them to generate a wallet, such as bip32.org (I'm not linking that) lets you do. If you have been given words by a random process (i.e. Multibit HD, Electrum, Trezor, Ledger), these are AFAIK fine, it's just manually chosen words that are a disaster waiting to happen.

Next, there's a Bitcoin village, at Chaos Communication Camp next weekend, and while the core developers can't attend (we're doing dull day job things instead), Dogerain's developer will be there, and they're organising a video hangout with the Dogecoin core devs. Not sure if others can attend remotely, but if you're at the camp we'd love to get to talk to you!

Right, back to 1.9; Dogecoin Core 1.9 was going to be 1.8 with the Bitcoin Core 0.10 changes merged in. The same process was used to make Dogecoin Core 1.8 from 1.7 with Bitcoin Core 0.9, so we knew what we were doing. With almost 1,300 commits to review and apply it would take a while, but in theory was straight forward enough. A spreadsheet was created to track progress amongst the developers, and in January we set out to start merging.
At this point we discovered several things:

* Some patches from 0.10 had been merged in early and out of sequence, so we had to avoid merging them twice.
* A lot of the changes were less readily compatible with Dogecoin Core than we expected.
* 1,300 is really a lot of changes

As time dragged on, we gained further assistance (Sporklin, this means you) in preparing merged commits, and I made several attempts at automating much of the process. Around March we started struggling with keeping development motivation up, and pace faltered, with Sporklin taking on much of the charge to keep work continuing. In June, we were about half way, and Bitcoin Core 0.11 hit release candidate, and at that point we realised this wasn't going to work.

So, Dogecoin Core 1.10 is a rebuild. We've started with Bitcoin Core 0.11 as a base and then manually re-applied the Dogecoin changes. This makes a lot of sense, in as much as they're a smaller set of changes (and less invasive by design), but does mean that we risk losing subtle tweaks to the code (which is what the beta period is intended to help catch). Most of the changes have been totally rewritten to make them simpler to apply, and better fit in with the hugely revised code base. We also see a significant number of changes in the strings with Dogecoin, so previous improvements to translations cannot necessarily be used as-is, and when we hit beta we'll be looking for help with updating translations.

The loss of motivation is something we need to be more aware of as a risk; while the Dogecoin developers are not doing this to try getting rich, that doesn't mean that there's no motivation required. We enjoy the challenge and opportunity to work with interesting technology, and based on that it's important that we ensure the work does have its interesting parts in amongst just getting stuff shipped.

Looking ahead to future work:
* We'll do a full rebuild once per year, potentially twice, to keep us close to the Bitcoin Core code and ensure compatibility.
* In between these rebuilds, we'll merge in changes where feasible.
* To avoid Dogecoin and Bitcoin diverging, we'll push new features and fixes into the relevant upstream project where practical. We avoid divergence because it makes it harder to update, and requires custom code to adopt Dogecoin compared to Bitcoin.
* Dogecoin Core will be promoted as the reference base for other Scrypt-based altcoins. This happens already, and we get fixes from downstream (i.e. Fractalcoin caught that the fork detection code is too sensitive) as a result.

I know there are those who wish to see Dogecoin split further from Bitcoin, but there's just far too much effort being poured into Bitcoin, and too much available expertise from working with them, to ignore.

On a related note, bitcoinj 0.14 now has all of the changes to make it work with the libdohj wrapper library. Patrick's been testing libdohj, and so far mostly it seems to work well (there's an issue with the advertised network protocol version that I need to fix, but apart from that so far so good). There's a similar model for python-bitcoinlib and python-altcoinlib, although I need to dust off python-altcoinlib somewhat.

There's tons more I could write about HD wallets, user defined consensus or Ledger wallet support, but I think that's quite enough for today. There will be an interim update for Dogecoin Core 1.10 work around next weekend, hopefully a beta around the same sort of time, and the next full update post should be on the 23rd or thereabouts.