Dogecoin Community Celebrates as Merge Mining with Litecoin Begins
Dogecoin has officially switched to auxiliary proof-of-work (AuxPoW) mining. The update now enables litecoin miners to process transactions, while providing an additional layer of security to the decentralized network. The altcoin's switch to auxiliary proof-of-work, also known as merge mining, has been in the works for some time. The move was announced this August after months of serious and, at times, passionate debate within the dogecoin community. The merge mining concept was suggested in April by litecoin creator Charlie Lee. Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer told CoinDesk that AuxPoW....
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After months of battling a looming low hashrate on the horizon, Dogecoin developers have decided it is in the currency's best interest to merge-mine with Litecoin using Auxillary Proof-of-Work (AuxPoW). Technically all Scrypt coins with a higher difficulty than Dogecoin will be merge-mined, but only Litecoin holds that criteria making the verbiage on merge-mining clear. Although many in the Dogecoin community wish to break themselves away from the "merge-mining" verb usage, what's true is true. If Litecoin were to disappear tomorrow, AuxPoW would still be in effect for Dogecoin. Until....
The dogecoin development team has announced that it will soon enable auxiliary proof-of-work (AuxPoW), allowing merge-mining with litecoin that will address concerns over the altcoin's future. AuxPoW enables the dogecoin block chain to receive work from other scrypt-based networks. Dogecoin miners will still be able to generate blocks and receive DOGE, but now, litecoin miners will contribute hashing power to the dogecoin network. The move, announced on the dogecoin subreddit, follows a months-long period of community debate focusing on the question of long-term viability in the dogecoin....
During Charlie Lee's speech at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, the topic of Dogecoin was brought up a few times. His speech was all about the steps coins need to take to be successful, when someone from the audience sparked up the mergedmining topic. Lee is the creator of Litecoin, and a few months ago he offered Dogecoin a merged mining deal with Litecoin. But if the Dogecoin developers continue to not take action, he believes that Dogecoin will not survive. CCN. Lee's speech was all about how digital currencies need to diversify their mining platforms, rather than copy....
The surprising success of dogecoin has changed the way that miners view the scrypt algorithm. And that's not good for litecoin or doge, according to Charlie Lee. On the dogecoin subreddit, the litecoin creator has proposed merged mining of the coins in order to ensure better security: "Litecoin's security is a lot less than it could be. So merging mining with dogecoin would make both litecoin/dogecoin almost impossible to 51%." What does '51%' mean? When Lee refers to this 51%, he's talking about a '51% attack', an exploit that could be made possible if a miner or a pool could take control....
The Ethereum Merge was completed in the early hours of Thursday following a multi-year wait. It had taken place at the Terminal Total Difficulty of 58750000000000000000000, finally moving the network from a proof of work to a proof of stake mechanism. The community has naturally been elated about the recent upgrade, with Ethereum founder Vitalik […]