Coming soon - Get a detailed view of why an account is flagged as spam!
view details

This post has been de-listed

It is no longer included in search results and normal feeds (front page, hot posts, subreddit posts, etc). It remains visible only via the author's post history.

65
[Dev] Why a lack of updates isn't inherently bad
Author Summary
langer_hans is in Dev
Post Body

Hey shibes,

So I've seen a lot of messages recently asking about updates, or even if we abandoned Doge. To get that out of the way, no, we did not abandon anything.

Thing is, the core dev team has always been a very small one. A group of (mainly) three people who all have a life outside of Dogecoin. But I'm not here for excuses anyway. Just asking you to keep that in mind.

Let's look at the issue from a different perspective though. Almost daily I see people asking for updates. They seem to be concerned that the lack of updates to the Core client and/or other services shows a lack of care for the coin. They also seem to look for innovative things built on top of Dogecoin. But I ask you to think about why you want updates. A lot of the people who are asking about things like this hope to have a gain from it. More updates, more innovations means more attention, press, coverage, hype aaaaand value. Most of them would not admit that. But I get it. Look at the crypto scene and how "innovation drives value".

So in regards to Dogecoin Core, I am actually really proud of what we achieved. Many many times I told you shibes that our highest priority is to give you a stable platform. Now look at how long our network has worked without hiccups. Did we not succeed here? Did we abandon the coin? Did we not drive value? Right, the latter we didn't and that is fine. It was never our target to do so. I wrote this piece long ago yet it is still very valid.

Again, I'm not trying to find excuses. But that's mostly cause I think we have nothing to be sorry about. The coin has a stable platform to work on. Value is not created by a pull request on GitHub ;)

But yes, we're still working on 1.14. Every upstream release of Bitcoin brings new challenges. Pulling in commits that applied cleanly on one version might require days and nights of work to re-apply in the next version. It'll happen eventually.

Until then, shibe on!

Author
Account Strength
100%
Account Age
11 years
Verified Email
Yes
Verified Flair
No
Total Karma
13,405
Link Karma
2,829
Comment Karma
3,803
Profile updated: 3 days ago
Posts updated: 8 months ago
Core / Android / MultiDoge dev

Subreddit

Post Details

Location
We try to extract some basic information from the post title. This is not always successful or accurate, please use your best judgement and compare these values to the post title and body for confirmation.
Posted
7 years ago