> It was basically just a copy and paste of Bitcoin with only minor alterations made to the source code (like changing the PoW for Script which never really def

> It was basically just a copy and paste of Bitcoin with only minor alterations made to the source code (like changing the PoW for Script which never really defeated ASICs and a few other small changes.) The original announcement of Litecoin [1] shows that it is closer to being a Tenebrix clone. It was Tenebrix, a coin which has long since faded into obscurity, that introduced Hashcash with scrypt as an alternative PoW. Also, with others already having reduced the block interval time, there appears to be little if anything innovative about Litecoin. [1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0