Litecoin Creator Praises Dogecoin, Can The Token Get Its Bark Back?
In the midst of fast-paced vacillations between Polkadot (DOT), Terra (LUNA), and DOGE, Dogecoin (DOGE), a cryptocurrency project that began as a joke but has now taken on a far more powerful persona, continues to compete for a place in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Last year, Dogecoin went through two bullish stages. While the first leg was sparked by Robinhood’s adoption of the meme coin, the second was spearheaded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who earned the moniker “Dogefather” for his unwavering support for Dogecoin. Many observers believe that the....
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Ross Nicoll, a Dogecoin core developer, has announced his intention to back away from the meme-based cryptocurrency. His justifications? The coin-making process was too stressful for him, and he has no desire to be associated with a potential conflict of interest in the job. Dogecoin fell nearly 4% to $0.14 shortly after the news. For the uninformed, the Dogecoin Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the growth of the meme coin. The foundation was re-formed in August after being created in 2014 but became inactive over time. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, is a....
After months of battling a looming low hashrate on the horizon, Dogecoin developers have decided it is in the currency's best interest to merge-mine with Litecoin using Auxillary Proof-of-Work (AuxPoW). Technically all Scrypt coins with a higher difficulty than Dogecoin will be merge-mined, but only Litecoin holds that criteria making the verbiage on merge-mining clear. Although many in the Dogecoin community wish to break themselves away from the "merge-mining" verb usage, what's true is true. If Litecoin were to disappear tomorrow, AuxPoW would still be in effect for Dogecoin. Until....
The surprising success of dogecoin has changed the way that miners view the scrypt algorithm. And that's not good for litecoin or doge, according to Charlie Lee. On the dogecoin subreddit, the litecoin creator has proposed merged mining of the coins in order to ensure better security: "Litecoin's security is a lot less than it could be. So merging mining with dogecoin would make both litecoin/dogecoin almost impossible to 51%." What does '51%' mean? When Lee refers to this 51%, he's talking about a '51% attack', an exploit that could be made possible if a miner or a pool could take control....
Litecoin is the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Litecoin's advantages over Bitcoin include its faster block confirmation times and scrypt hashing algorithm (to prevent ASIC mining). But will Litecoin ever see the massive success Bitcoin has seen and maybe even surpass it? Here's what Litecoin creator Charles Lee has to say on the matter.
Charlie Lee believes that merging the mining of LTC and DOGE may save each of them from Scrypt-ASIC exploitation. Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, yesterday publicly disclosed communication from him to Jackson Palmer, the co-creator of Dogecoin. In the message, Lee makes the case for merged mining of Litecoin and Dogecoin. "Its unfortunate the dogecoin kept the same mining algorithm as litecoin," Lee states, " as we are now competing for miners." Lee goes on, "What do you think? I would love to see a world where litecoin and dogecoin both thrive and work together instead of competing for....