Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M...
by gbersac on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:26PM
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Because it is far less used. The techno behind it is the same as bitcoin (with different configuration).
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Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M...
by bduerst on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:21PM
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No, dogecoin theoretically caps out at ~30 transactions a second. Bitcoin caps out at ~7 tx/s. This bottleneck increases demand for tx completion and raises tx fees for bitcoin.
The Dogecoin network can handle 4.5x more traffic than the Bitcoin network, meaning the satire cryptocurrency is a better technology at being a currency than bitcoin is.
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M...
by makomk on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:19PM
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Of course, since the Dogecoin client software hasn't been updated in the past two years it lacks the rather substantial performance optimisations that Bitcoin has developed over that time period, so it's not clear how well it would actually cope if it ever had to handle a transaction rate anywhere near its theoretical limit. (Or, for that matter, if miners are actually willing to process that many transactions.)