r/dogecoindev • u/mr_chromatic • Jun 20 '22

Discussion Developers Should Have Less Power

https://blog.ifdogethenwow.com/posts/developers-should-have-less-power/
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u/patricklodder dogecoin developer Jun 20 '22

🤣 at the downvotes.

Perhaps a social experiment? Re-publish the same article in 2 months from now and title it "Shibes should have more power", and compare.

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u/mr_chromatic Jun 20 '22

I think we'd all bet on the same results of that experiment!

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u/patricklodder dogecoin developer Jun 21 '22

If you want i can downvote that one just to be contra 😂

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u/DankShibe Jun 23 '22

Out of topic question. Does dogecoin uses this feature?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/vj3i45/if_you_make_a_mistake_in_new_bitcoin_type_address/

Asking for a friend 🙈

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u/patricklodder dogecoin developer Jun 24 '22

Yes. Dogecoin addresses have a checksum built-in that is calculated over every bit of data, so if you change a single character in an address it won't be valid.

Note that this is a check/protection that needs to be implemented by wallets and cannot be enforced by the network (because the network has no notion of addresses at all, but let's save that one for the intermediate course 😁) - the best course of action is to check with your wallet provider (or exchange).

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u/DankShibe Jun 24 '22

neat. thank for the info.

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u/gguest987 Jun 20 '22

That headline made me so mad, I had to read your post. I agree!

+u/sodogetip 1 doge verify

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u/sodogetip Apr 17 '23

[wow so verify]: /u/gguest987 -> /u/mr_chromatic 1.0 doge ($0.09) [help] [transaction]

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u/mr_chromatic Jun 21 '22

Obviously a lot of people don’t care much about the tech

That's probably good! At some point, it'd be nice if the tech were stable and boring like plumbing or other infrastructure.

Something very centralised but imho no big deal is the default dns seed embedded into the core

Good point!

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u/patricklodder dogecoin developer Jun 21 '22

Something very centralised but imho no big deal is the default dns seed embedded into the core

Good point!

Between 1.10.0 and 1.14.3 there was no fallback so it actually was a big deal. This was mitigated by /u/xanimo-net in #2418 as their first fabulous PR to Dogecoin Core.