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A chaintip, also known as a blockchain fork, in Dogecoin's network refers to a situation where the blockchain splits into two or more branches, resulting in multiple valid versions of the blockchain.
This can happen when miners produce different valid blocks at the same time, or when nodes receive conflicting blocks.
When this occurs, the network may temporarily have multiple versions of the blockchain, and nodes may have different views of the valid transaction history.
Chaintips can be resolved through a consensus mechanism, where nodes on the network agree on a single valid version of the blockchain by choosing the longest chain with the most cumulative proof-of-work.
This mechanism ensures that the network operates on a single, agreed-upon version of the blockchain, which prevents double-spending and maintains the integrity of the network.
Read all different types of blockchain forks here.
Response of my nodes getchaintips:
[
{
"height":4618593,
"hash":"06c7cf6b40a932459872737475e1dfff97929eeff14ae7dbbd374e6cf37e0620",
"branchlen":0,
"status":"active"
Hey community!
If you run a Dogecoin Full Node (Dogecoin Core Wallet) you maybe want to add a comment to your user agent like this:
To add this, all you need to do is adding this information to your dogecoin.conf (create it if it doesn't exist):
uacomment=_nformant
...and restart your Dogecoin Core Wallet.
You can find your dogecoin.conf here (if you use the default directory)
Windows | C:\Users\nformant\AppData\Roaming\Dogecoin |
---|---|
Linux | ~/.dogecoin/ |
macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/Dogecoin/ |
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