2019-12-30 17:44 |
The author of MimbleWimble?s protocol, which is being built as a Litecoin blockchain add-on, published a progress report that the core protocol design is ready! origin »
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Developer activity on the main Github repo has been nearly non-existent over the past year, although a Litecoin Improvement Protocol for Extension Blocks and MimbleWimble was recently released. Together, these changes would allow for a soft fork enabling private transactions and increased coin fungibility.
2019-12-13 14:01 | |
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Charlie Lee's Litecoin has been making news lately following the constant FUD around the yet-to-be implemented MimbleWimble protocol, which is said to cater to private transactions. In more recent updThe post Litecoin Foundation seeks funds to sponsor Grin++ developer appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-3 18:00 | |
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David Burkett, developer of MimbleWimble protocol, shares the Litecoin implementation progress. It looks like the release is around the corner!
2019-12-2 17:20 | |
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The claim that hired computing power could “break” the Mimblewimble privacy tool for Litecoin (LTC) is inaccurate, according to a response from the Grin development team. Weakness Did Not Reveal Final Senders or Receivers The Grin team admitted that the protocol held a known weakness, but directing hired computing power from AWS did not constitute an ‘attack’.
2019-11-20 20:47 | |
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MimbleWimble, the Harry Potter inspired protocol that Litecoin is integrating to become a privacy coin, is in the spotlight but for all the wrong reasons. Ivan Bogatyy, a venture capitalist with Dragonfly Capital, has published a report drawing attention to a security flaw in MimbleWimble’s privacy model.
2019-11-19 23:46 | |
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Litecoin?s Charlie Lee plans to use the MimbleWimble system and extra blocks on the Litecoin (LTC) network to make LTC more fungible
2019-10-30 14:17 | |
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Litecoin has published its long-awaited draft proposal for MimbleWimble implementation through Extension Blocks [EB] under the Litecoin Improvement Protocol [LIP] titled, LIP 2 & LIP 3. This development was first revealed on Litecoin.
2019-10-23 10:57 | |
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Bitcoin SegWit or Segregated Witness protocol recorded an all-time high, in terms of adoption, on 6 October when it hit 56. 82%. While Litecoin SegWit noted its all-time high on 19 September 2019, when its usage hit 75%.
2019-10-13 16:00 | |
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Leaked conversations between Charlie Lee and other principle actors involved with Litecoin show evidence of no significant work being done on the cryptocurrency code since the start of 2019. Charlie Lee Dropped the Ball According to a Reddit post submitted less than a week ago, the Litecoin code development arena is a ghost town.
2019-8-16 18:00 | |
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Over the past couple of years, concerns regarding Bitcoin’s scalability have become more and more pronounced — especially since other altcoins are making it easier for people to process monetary transactions in a faster/cheaper manner.
2019-8-12 20:05 | |
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“The honest truth is that no one is interested in working on Litecoin protocol development work,” Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s founder, told Franklyn Richards, a director at the Litecoin Foundation.
2019-8-12 16:15 | |
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SegWit or ‘segregated witness’, is a protocol that reduces the size of transactions and allows for improved malleability of Bitcoin. Adoption of this protocol has surged on Litecoin ahead of Bitcoin, and Charlie Lee believes its success of Litecoin has been a key driver for adoption of SegWit on Bitcoin.
2019-8-9 17:00 | |
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Litecoin’s halving is just three days away – an event hard-coded into the Litecoin protocol, aimed at reducing the block reward miners receive, which therefore reduces the supply of LTC and can have the effect of throwing off the delicate balance with demand.
2019-8-2 04:00 | |
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Using the malware, hijackers can steal one’s crypto assets using a niche’ clipboard copy protocol. Some of the assets that can be illegally procured using this new malware include Ether (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Dash (DASH), Litecoin (LTC), XRP, and Qtum.
2019-6-6 17:16 | |
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In laymen’s terms, the Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol built on top of the Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero blockchains; these protocols are called “layer two protocols” because they run on top of an existing network.
2019-5-20 19:00 | |
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Tether (USDT), the largest USD-backed stable coin, has launched on TRON (TRX), a smart contract platform focused on monetizing digital content. According to a press release from the TRON Foundation, the new tokens will be issued through the new TRC20 protocol.
2019-4-18 22:49 | |
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According to Litecoin.com and the data published by BitInfoCharts, the hash rate of Litecoin (LTC) achieved a new all-time high on April 8 at 359 terahash. The rapid increase in the hash rate of the Litecoin blockchain network, which represents computing power that protects and secures the protocol, comes amidst the demonstration of a strong […] The post Litecoin (LTC) hash rate hits record high: is it a crucial sign of confidence? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-4-15 00:40 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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Ethereum is strongly leading in the total number of active developers working on both its core protocol and in total development; Bitcoin boasts a strong developer ecosystem 10 years after launch, while Litecoin and Dogecoin are “being abandoned,” according to an analysis by one crypto venture capital firm.
2019-3-18 08:50 | |
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Litecoin’s privacy features are gradually getting closer to becoming a reality. Beam, a brand new altcoin, has announced that it is now engaged in “possible cooperation” with the Litecoin development team.
2019-2-12 21:21 | |
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CoinSpeaker Litecoin Breaks Into Top Five Crypto Ranks Jumping 30% in Single Day LTC price surges as the Litecoin Foundation and Beam enter cooperation to implement the Mimblewimble privacy protocol on the Litecoin network through Extension Blocks.
2019-2-9 12:33 | |
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The Litecoin Foundation has partnered with software development firm Beam to explore the implementation of a new protocol that would improve privacy and scalability.
2019-2-8 22:25 | |
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MimbleWimble might be a ridiculous name for a Blockchain protocol, but it’s the curse Litecoin desperately needs
2019-3-27 17:36 | |
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Mimblewimble, a new privacy coin protocol, has generated plenty of hype over the past few weeks. Two coins based on the protocol, Grin and Beam, went live for the first time this month and have garnered plenty of attention.
2019-1-21 18:07 | |
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Latest Litecoin News For a long time now, talk has been on proof of work consensus algorithms and their modus operandi. On one hand, the transaction confirmation protocol has been around since early 1990s only getting traction from early 2000s after Bitcoin roll out.
2019-1-11 16:00 | |
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On Wednesday Dec. 12, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint announced the launch of a crypto-to-fiat trading platform in Panama. The regulatory-compliant exchange will offer USD pairs with top cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash, ethereum, bitcoin core, litecoin, and ripple.
2018-12-13 06:45 | |
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Evident Proof; a decentralized, unhackable, and immutable blockchain protocol developed by former Microsoft employees has announced that it will start to accept Dash and XRP as their adoption in the crypto sphere continues to grow.
2018-11-12 16:59 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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The Litecoin project is set to update the Litecoin Protocol to version 0.17, the team announced via Twitter. The… The post LTC News: With Upcoming Litecoin Core Update, Team Says Transactions Will Only Cost Half a Cent appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-10-21 21:29 | |
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Making good on a promise it made back in March of this year, Coinbase has just added its first ERC-20 token. ZRX, the token of the 0x (pronounced “zero x”) protocol began trading on Coinbase Pro (formerly GDAX), the exchange’s professional trading platform, on October 11, 2018.
2018-10-13 23:50 | |
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In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
2018-9-27 21:21 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Litecoin’s Charlie Lee recently tweeted an appreciation post in response to a Bitcoin Developer, Matt Corallo’s launch of an alternative mining protocol. The purpose of the launch was to make mining distributed and decentralized.
2018-7-5 07:21 | |
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It’s been a turbulent time for the cryptocurrency markets, so now is a good time to reflect on how and why we got here in the first place. First, an op ed makes the ideological case for Bitcoin.
2018-6-16 04:35 | |
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Jeff Garzik first tuned the world into his latest venture in the fall of 2017. The Bloq co-founder unveiled Metronome (MET), a cryptocurrency he founded alongside Matthew Roszak, at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 conference in late October, and the project caught the attention of Bloomberg and Fortune at the time.
2018-6-16 23:51 | |
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Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund.
2018-6-14 01:32 | |
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