So, which chacteristics make LitecoinZ better than BitcoinZ? What I see is they are almost the same. Same algorithm, same halving time, same difficulty retarget time, etc.
Well, what you listed are only common parameters between all equihash coins.
You must look at the characteristics that are different:
- Total Supply: 84 million Vs. 21 billion
- Block Reward: 50 coins Vs. 12,500
- Native GUI: LTZ has a native gui; all other z-coin based don't have it
- Database obfuscation: LTZ has the database obfuscation feature; all other z-coin based don't have it
- Windows Full Node: LTZ has an updated full node version for Windows; all other z-coin based don't have it; btcz has one but it's not update
- MacOS Full Node: LTZ has an updated full node version for MacOS; all other z-coin based don't have it
If you look at source code then you can see more difference with btcz:
- More commit backported from bitcoin; btcz doesn't have it
- Unique P2P and RPC socket port; btcz use the same of zcash
- Unique Alert Keys; btcz use the same of zcash
- Unique Genesis Coinbase Key; btcz use the same of zcash
- Unique Key Prefixes; btcz use the same of zcash
- Equihash solutions inlcluded Genesis Blocks; btcz does not have this and skip 1 block in all checks
- Unique exe names; btcz use the same of zcash