Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin
by nullc on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:20AM
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He didn't even write the scrypt integration, IIRC Artforz (author of the first GPU mining code) did.
But hey, there sure were a bunch of lines of code changed to change the name! :P
Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin
by bdcs on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:50AM
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Charlie Lee is well aware of this. He created Litecoin to stop endless requests to change bitcoin to a faster confirmation time, even though the benefits are scarce.
Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin
by yapcguy on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:37PM
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Coinbase touting their new hire as a "Creator" is a bit much. Nothing wrong with what Charlie has done, good luck to him.
Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin
by enraged_camel on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:08PM
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How does it feel to be so embarrassingly ignorant all the time?
Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin
by yapcguy on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:30AM
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So if I fork Bitcoin by changing the hashing algorithm and tweaking a parameter, am I suddenly a
"creator" too? Get real. This is an insult to Satoshi Nakamoto.
Litecoin is a trivial fork of Bitcoin. Litecoin uses scrypt instead of SHA256 for proof-of-work and the total number of coins is 84 million instead of 21 million. That's it!