Announcement of doged, an ultra fast Dogecoin node We made Dogecoin fast. By a lot. Almost an order of magnitude! @elonmusk We’ve been working on a high-performance and modern Dogecoin node. In our benchmark, doged is 7.23x faster to sync the $DOGE blockchain compared to the currently most popular node. Our RPCs are up to 5.36x faster. Lolwut?? How is this possible?? We’re developers who also work on “Bitcoin ABC”, the software powering the @eCashOfficial blockchain, which is a fork of Bitcoin. @Bitcoin_ABC has been made an incredibly efficient and feature-rich suite of blockchain software over the years. It turns out that with a bit of work, we were able to make it fully compatible with the @dogecoin blockchain. @cb_doge @dogeofficialceo This means not only does Dogecoin get a node that’s almost an order of magnitude faster than the current alternative, but you also get a bunch of other powerful goodies: - A world-class indexer, Chronik, to access the blockchain at lightning speed - A slick and super fast explorer - ecash-lib, allowing you to make Dogecoin transactions with WebAssembly - Iguana, a dogecoin transaction debugger - A modern RPC suite. Just because Dogecoin forked the Bitcoin codebase long ago doesn’t mean it has to stay in the past. - A rich test suite, covering many additional test cases and keeping the system secure You can download a release at our download page or on GitHub (link in replies). Make sure to leave us a star there! We have many plans to make Dogecoin more efficient on other metrics (transaction speed, fees, block capacity), some would require support from the community. Make sure to follow us if you want to see our proposals! NOTE: If you saw one of our early releases, we used the name “Dogecash”, but for various reasons rebranded to “doged”. You can support our work on this donation address: DQ9ZPwcMiKZumTC2EXvPGZ4v2L3Fmno1wE