I think that LCC is the brainchild of bitmain like Bitcoin cash and guess who dominates SHa256 algo obviously it's bitmain and that's why they have changed the algorithm from scrypt to sha256 because usually the forks are of the same algorithm apart from some exception like Bitcoin Gold but that too have a reasoning behind it that is to avoid ASICS. And I think that the new model V9 antminer of 4 Ths launched by bitmain is also somehow linked to this coin launch.
This is a really good point although i wouldnt go so far as to speculate that bitmain is behind the project, but it does say something to me that they changed it to sha256...
there could be some serious interest there and this coin could do well with just that small mining niche..
Devs I dont fully understand replay protection, can you explain a little bit about it and if it will be used in this fork?