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Mtgox, the most popular Bitcoin exchange site, plans on supporting Litecoin soon[1]. Also interesting is that Litecoin now has a Wikipedia article[2] dedicated
by a3voices 14y ago
Mtgox, the most popular Bitcoin exchange site, plans on supporting Litecoin soon[1]. Also interesting is that Litecoin now has a Wikipedia article[2] dedicated to it.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/potent-ddos-attacks-on-mt-gox-delays-rollout-of-new-virtual-currency/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/potent-ddos-attacks-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin
edit: removed comment about Litecoin being the only other cryptocurrency with a Wikipedia article
- Flimm 14y agoBased on the Wikipedia article, it seems to me that Litecoin is only an iterative improvement on Bitcoin. Why are people choosing to use it?
- a3voices 14y agoWell one possible reason is that speculators enjoy the drama of new currencies that compete with Bitcoin, and the trendiness of investing in them.
- haakon 14y agoTrue 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.
- gus_massa 14y agoPPCoin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCoin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCoin
- a3voices 14y agoMy bad, didn't know this did as well!
- GigabyteCoin 14y agoI am fairly certain they're adding "all" of the crypto currencies. Litecoin, Namecoin, PPCoin, Terrracoin, etc...