Litecoin VS Scuttlebot

The price of Litecoin just barely went over its 2017 peak, which to many sounds bad, although 80-90% of all cryptocurrencies failed during the 2018 bear run, so litecoin has still beat the majority of the market. Source: 11 months ago

But, it's quite easy to go, download Litecoin Core and play with it. (https://litecoin.org/). Source: about 1 year ago

A crypto coin is simply a digital coin, created for making payments. Coins are created to act like money: in other words, they represent a unit of account, store of value, and medium of transfer. Crypto coins tend to take the form of their native blockchain, like with Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR). Source: about 1 year ago

Yes. And harder to mine. The reward for miners becomes 6 coins instead of the twelve you receive when proofing (finding) a block. The value does happen right away.. It takes years of people collecting and holding. The amount of coins will remain the same. Not like the US government who can print money at will. 😂 Litecoin.org. Source: over 1 year ago

According to a Litecoin tweeter post, The Litecoin Network completed over 39 million transactions in 2022. Source: over 1 year ago

Yes, you've got it. Not many people were around back then, but once upon a time there was a working version of Scuttlebot (by Dominic Tarr) that was documented at https://scuttlebot.io/ with a client called Patchwork (by Paul Frazee). The idea behind the project was that you would gossip between scuttlebot 'pub' servers and then replicate messages from the people you follow and the people that those people follow.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

You are talking to strangers on the internet right now and seem to find it worthwhile. Do you mean Secure Scuttlebutt? "Scuttlebot" seems to be the old name for the primary Secure Scuttlebutt server implementation (https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/glossary), though its website is still https://scuttlebot.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago