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It's not. It's identical with a slightly modified POW and some of the values tweaked. The incompetent developer has already accidentally broken the currency onc
by nwh 13y ago
It's not. It's identical with a slightly modified POW and some of the values tweaked. The incompetent developer has already accidentally broken the currency once, so it doesn't really bode well for it in the future.
- verroq 13y agoLet's not spread FUD here. The fork is due to old clients not updating.
- nwh 13y agoEh? The chain broke because the author made a hard forking change with 10 days notice. You can't do that. Bitcoin staged theirs over months and still managed to leave some people behind. It's not FUD if it's true.
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- James_Duval 13y agoIt is different from BTC - it's a fork of Litecoin, meaning it uses scrypt rather than SHA-256 and cannot be effectively mined using BTC-oriented ASICs. There is already at least one scrypt-focussed ASIC, however. https://alpha-t.net/product/scrypt-asic-miner/ https://alpha-t.net/product/scrypt-asic-miner/