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Re:The Pirate Bay is now accepting Litecoin donations by Flimm on Saturday April 27, 2013 @08:09AM (#5617543)
Based on the Wikipedia article, it seems to me that Litecoin is only an iterative improvement on Bitcoin. Why are people choosing to use it?
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Re:The Pirate Bay is now accepting Litecoin donations by haakon on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:05PM (#5618315)
True or not, the word is that Litecoin was created so that people who were bitter about not having been amongst the earliest of the early Bitcoin adopters can have a new chance at a steep value increase. It's not even clear to me that Litecoin is an improvement at all, it just contains certain tweaks.
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Re:The Pirate Bay is now accepting Litecoin donations by a3voices on Saturday April 27, 2013 @08:14AM (#5617553)
Well one possible reason is that speculators enjoy the drama of new currencies that compete with Bitcoin, and the trendiness of investing in them.
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