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Dogecoin Gets New Wings With Developer Upgrades: What You Need To Know

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), the joke cryptocurrency popularized by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, has received an under-the-hood upgrade.

What Happened: The release of the Dogecoin Core 1.14.3 was announced on the r/dogecoin discussion board on Reddit on Sunday.

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The update includes “important performance improvements," and is a “strongly recommended update for everyone [running a DOGE node].”

Why It Matters: Significant improvements to the speed at which a node can upload blocks will be made by removing expensive integrity checks which were previously carried out each time a block was sent to another node after the update is applied.

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The default time that transactions are cached in the mempool — a mechanism for storing information on unconfirmed transactions — will be reduced from 336 hours to 24 hours.

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The default setting can be modified by inputting a value in hours that makes the most sense for the use cases the node serves.