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Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin by enraged_camel on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:08PM (#6131687)
How does it feel to be so embarrassingly ignorant all the time?
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Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin by yapcguy on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:30AM (#6132193)
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.
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Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin by eru on Friday August 02, 2013 @12:47AM (#6145374)
Sure. The problem will, of course, be to get anyone to assign any value to your fork.
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Re:Coinbase hires Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin by Simucal on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:54AM (#6132117)
What are some other differences?
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