- It's become customary in recent months that when a blockchain is hardforked, the new coin takes the name of the old as a prefix.

We're not saying it's a great convention, but it's instantly understood by people as "oh it's a Litecoin hard fork".

None of the Bitcoin forks are connected to the Bitcoin dev team, and we're not connected to the Litecoin dev team.

In other news, this weekend we're testing our full launch procedure to make sure that we can bring you the wallet as soon as humanly possible after the fork block