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Curious facts about Litecoin💵

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MimbleWimble: The name of the privacy technology comes directly from the spell to "tie the tongue" in Harry Potter. In the context of blockchain, it helps to hide transaction details.

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Pioneer in Bitcoin technologies: Litecoin has been used as a testing ground for new technologies that are later implemented in Bitcoin, such as SegWit and Lightning Network.

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"The silver of cryptos": Charlie Lee always wanted Litecoin to be the complement to Bitcoin, not its competitor. He used the parallel of gold and silver in traditional currencies.

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Four times more coins than Bitcoin: Litecoin has a limit of 84 million coins, exactly four times more than Bitcoin.

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Easy to mine with GPU at first: Thanks to the use of the Scrypt algorithm, it was initially more accessible for the average person to mine Litecoin from their personal computer.