Dogecoin’s Big Update: What Core 1.14.8 Means for the Network
The Dogecoin price has gained by 5% in the past 24 hours, rising to $0.105 after developers released core update 1.14.8.
The update delivers important bug fixes, improving the Dogecoin protocol’s handling of transactions and making it more efficient overall.
Its arrival has helped to lift the DOGE price today, although the meme token remains down by 10% in a week and by 19% in a fortnight.
But with the new update highlighting how Dogecoin continues to improve its stability and performance, the coin’s price should correct these weekly and fortnightly losses soon enough.
As detailed in its GitHub page, Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 is a new minor version release that brings several notable updates.
These include improvements to transactions request tracking and to handling of orphan transactions, as well as reductions to data that can slow down throughput.
New #Dogecoin update!
Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 has been released
This is a new minor version release including important bugfixes to networking code.All core users, on all platforms, are strongly recommended to upgrade.
Special thanks to all the Devs who helped with the update.
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The changes are modest, but they nonetheless show how Dogecoin continues to evolve steadily.
Indeed, they show how the coin’s developers are serious about making DOGE a viable option for online payments.
And with reports suggesting that X could be close to launching payments on its social network, it works only to Dogecoin’s favor that it has made itself a little bit more efficient and reliable.
The market seems to agree with this assessment, given that DOGE has jumped by 5% today.
As its chart reveals, it has rediscovered some momentum in the past few days, with its relative strength index
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