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Litecoin was a scam from the start:
"The first 10000 blocks of Litecoin were mined in a bit over 23 hours. 576 should've been mined in one day according to officially communicated blocktime of 2.5 minutes.
Nikamoto
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It's not a "scam" just a way for the dev to earn money for their work
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Every time you confirm again and again BSV=BTC.
Nikamoto
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Fine. But be sure to read other SVguys than me
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This emission is almost 18 times faster than scheduled and didn't change despite 4 difficulty adjustments (assuming the 2016 blocks figure is correct)."
"AFAIK, Charlie Lee did not say
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the launch would be delayed a few days, then launch in the middle of the night.
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IIRC many alt-coins had fast-mines on initial launch. During the GPU era, the default difficulty of Bitcoin was way too low. Most people producing alts did not bother to bump it."
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But wasn’t this information readily available? It’s a public ledger, no?
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So you equate "readily available" with "common knowledge"?
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Just trying to understand how big a scam it was.