Re: Litecoiners: Idea to make Litecoin importance skyrocket in Bitcoin ecosystem
nobody is trying to give litecoin a sense of purpose. litecoin already has a purpose. many purposes actually.
1) slightly faster transactions (to accommodate the needs of...
... )2) an ex-CPU friendly - now GPU friendly - POW (to accommodate all the GPU miners who are about to be pushed out of business)
3) A general sense of hope for those who failed to get on the bitcoin train in time (to accommodate all those who failed to get on the bitcoin train in time)
4)
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Well, I admit, technically, that makes 3, hence, "many"
and the reason why litecoin is "required" is simple: litecoin is still small/early enough to be adopting these kinds of things. It's much easier to make it happen in litecoin than to make it happen in bitcoin.
Which "these" "things" ?
being bitcoin's big and, as far as I can tell, not really necessary, backup tape ? That's some ambition, there
