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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by kemonocode on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:11AM (#15318254)
Development moves faster and with far less bureaucratic hurdles than with Bitcoin. No contentious forks (thus far), they had SegWit first and chances are they will have working, beyond proof-of-concept Lightning first.
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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by RustyRussell on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:58AM (#15323388)
Err... Development is actually just rebasing from bitcoin. I've not seen anything go the other way.

In particular, as coauthor of the lightning spec, I assure you that we're all working on bitcoin. Litecoin happened because it was trivial; interestingly, we've deferred Bitcoin mainnet because it's likely to attract real users, who'll risk real money.

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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by johnvonneumann on Saturday September 23, 2017 @04:18AM (#15318771)
Just to affirm what this guy said, these reasons are pretty much why LTC should be on your radar. The heretic in me actually things that LTC could potentially have more value than BTC these days just because they seem to have their shit together development-wise.
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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by tpallarino on Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:15AM (#15319070)
The only reason they haven't had contentious forks and there is less bureaucracy is precisely because nobody cares.
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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by johnvonneumann on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:26AM (#15319438)
Nobody cares about what? Litecoin or the bullshit?
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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by apapli on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:41AM (#15318346)
They just successfully completed an atomic swap with bitcoin so yes LTC is defitely innovating too.
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Re:Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you by teknico on Saturday September 23, 2017 @04:50AM (#15318863)
Another valuable coin missing from that list is Decred (DCR, https://decred.org/ ).

The on-chain atomic swap (no Lightning Network involved yet) was executed using Decred technology ( https://github.com/decred/atomicswap ) and was preceded by a DCR-LTC swap ( https://blog.decred.org/2017/09/20/On-Chain-Atomic-Swaps/ ).

(De)credit where credit is due. ;-)

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