[HuggableSquare]

Originally it was pretty much just a fork of Litecoin, but since then Dogecoin has considered the economic viability of it as a real currency. It's one of the few inflationary cryptocurrencies, it has a block every minute which is good for confirmation times, the transaction fees are very low, AuxPoW has given it a huge network of miners keeping the network alive, and the core devs have kept the stability of the network above all else which includes not adding every new feature that all the other altcoins love.

[meesterdude]

> which includes not adding every new feature that all the other altcoins love.

Or indeed making any changes at all! The github repo hasn't been touched in over 2 years

[HuggableSquare]

Here's a reply I posted elsewhere in the thread about this:

Although there hasn't been a release in two years they're currently working on releasing 1.14 this year. In case you're interested the core devs have been doing a pretty good job on keeping people informed on the status of the release on the subreddit. Latest post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7oxi53/developer_...

Also, there has been lots of updates to the github repo, just look at the 1.14-dev branch instead of master.