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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by Helloworldboy on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:55PM (#15908887)
because it's strictly better than BTC. Faster and cheaper transactions.
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by junk_f00d on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:28PM (#15909666)
The tech is identical, it's simply used less than BTC so doesn't face the same stress of scaling.
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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by dewyatt on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @07:15AM (#15913730)
The tech is not identical. Litecoin uses Scrypt and has shorter block times. There may be other differences too.
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