Hey guys just a heads up... Doge coin is changing their code to combat this multicoin pools that are terrorizing the difficulty rates. I know this is affecting feathercoin and I mentioned it a few weeks back. Might be something we want to look at / use to our advantage since they are doing a HARD FORK soon on their block chain.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/207hfb/ann_dogecoin16_its_ready_all_you_need_to_know/

Now, onto the juicy part; what did we change?

Firstly, for those of you not already aware - Dogecoin has been gamed by Multipools. Multipools were cherry-picking large blocks (which were found to be provably pre-calculable), and hammering our networks hashrate - making mining for the solo doges incredibly difficult, while dampening their payouts massively. The end result was Multipool's having twice as much doge as the average consumer; allowing them to dump our prices down with ease.

This ends with v1.6.

Changes implemented;

1) No longer a random block reward - we now only have static blocks. The current reward will be 250,000 Doge per block, with the halvening dropping us to 125,000 Doge per block, etc etc. This will prevent block cherry-picking; as we're seeing at the moment, with our community pools only seeing 100-200k blocks, while the multi's gaming the system are enjoying 300-500k blocks. From the 1.6 update, all blocks will be completely even.

2) The DigiShield difficulty algorithm: again, developed and contributed by the very clever folks at /r/DigiByte , this allows for rapid block retarget times, and rapid recovery from multipools suddenly hitting the network; meaning that our miners will no longer suffer from extremely long block times if a Multipool does decide to jump on board. This new algorithm will retarget our block times MUCH faster - ensuring the hard-mining shibe is not left holding the bag after the multipool ransack.

tl,dr: Multipools cannot selectively pick nice blocks anymore - nor can they do long lasting damage to our hashrates.

Now, importantly - what does this mean for your wallets?

We have implemented this code so that the new block rewards, and difficulty algorithms kick in at block 145K. Up until then, it'll be standard, same-old business; beyond this, the new and improved dogecoin will kick in to action. This is in around 5 days - and we'll be posting the new wallet link on here as soon as possible. You MUST update your wallet, to remain on the correct fork!