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Those of you who bought Litecoin ($LTC) in the dip. You might be able to make some attractive returns on that buy. One could think crypto is a kitchen business with all that forks and knives to catch. Now, the time has come for a sleeping giant. LTC. There is LitecoinCash to come, which brands themselves as Litecoin Hard Fork. But this is just a marketing ploy due to Charlie Lee. However, this means free coins - and the project sounds pretty promising. Truth to be told, everyone is crying SCAM right now. We think it is just clumsy marketing in combination with an unfortunate distribution of the free coins. Add the help of the developed LCC wallet as well. Which will need your private key. Good news for miners! You can search for your old Bitcoin SHA256 mining hardware in the cellar. So get ready for SHA256 Litecoin with fast transactions and minimal fees. LitecoinCash seems to offer many advantages over other coins. Such as a target block time of 2.5 minutes and 90% cheaper transaction fees than Litecoin. Fast transactions & low fees? This is very lit of you; LitecoinCash is even better if we can get our first coins for free. As firm believers & holders of Litecoin. To which we see as a "slow-and-steady-grow-coin" to hold. Hence, we are excited that we will receive LiteCash at a 1:10 ratio. This means that for every LTC we hold on the blockchain/hard fork, we will receive 10 LCCs for free. Basic Information about LitecoinCash: LitecoinCash can be mined with SHA256 mining hardware Block Time of 2.5 minutes 90% cheaper than Litecoin Replay attack protection for the hard fork The hard fork comes with an address prefix to prevent confusion and inter-chain issues. Segwit & Lightning ready The mining difficulty will be recalculated every block (as known from DASH) Smooth and fair launch for miners The maximum supply is 840 million No real white paper yet The Ticker Symbol will be LCC Official website Litcoincash When will the Litecoin/LitecoinCash Hard Fork happen? The fork will happen at block 1371111. The fork is expected on Monday, February 19, 2018. The current Litecoin Block can be seen here: https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/ How to claim the free LitecoinCash coins? Once the desktop wallets have been released, it will be quite easy to claim your free LCC. Though it comes with a risk as the private key is needed. We would never encourage anyone to use your private key. Therefore you will find a second alternate solution below, which is more safe. Export your private key from your Litecoin Wallet if you use the Exodus desktop wallet. Well, you will have to hit CTRL + SHIFT + D to activate the dev menu at the top. You will find it then under Exodus -> Developer -> Assets -> Litecoin -> Export Private Keys. Download and install the LitecoinCash wallet for your system. Import the private key under File -> Import Private Key Enjoy free LCCs If you had your LTC on an exchange. Well, you would have to mess around with their support in order to get your LitecoinCash credited. How to minimize the risk when claiming LCC? We would never recommend you to share your private keys anywhere. At this point in time, the LitecoinCash Team offers only this way of claiming on their website. We could imagine that other options might come later. Despite the scam yelling everywhere, we chose to stay with the facts and don't think it is a scam. If you look at the code of the wallet will be open. If you want to go the extra safe way, please follow these steps: Open a second Litecoin wallet. Transfer your LTC there and hold it until the hard fork block has passed. Transfer your LTC back to your original wallet so the wallet from Step 1 is empty again. Import the private key of the empty, temporary wallet into your LCC wallet. Comment by Tanner, lead LCC dev on Reddit: Hi. I'm Tanner, lead LCC dev. While I don't expect you to attach any weight to this post. I wanted to say that I hope when we open our code, you'll be able to see that there's nothing amiss. We will stress at every point! That you should absolutely move your coins into a fresh wallet before claiming any for the hard fork. Also never paste private keys that are currently holding currency into ANYTHING. To be slightly more candid than elsewhere: It's true that the whole idea originated as a joke; an sha256 fork of Litecoin is patently ridiculous to anyone familiar with the history of LTC. However the more we thought about it, the more it made sense. We're big fans and supporters of LTC and Charlie Lee. Other alts have addressed LTC's main issue, which to my mind is difficulty adjustment. However they haven't combined that fix with fair distribution -- ie, distributing to existing LTC holders. Combined with the fact that there's a lot of SHA256-specific hardware out there. And that isn't up to modern BTC difficulty targets. But rather doesn't have many worthwhile alternative options (beyond BCH) - suddenly the joke made sense. I don't claim that we're doing anything new yet. What we're trying to do is to present the best of everything that's gone before. Distribute it fairly, and create a great currency for trading and day-to-day use. Update: It is confirmed that this is not an official Litecoin Hard Fork. We don't think it is an actual scam, though. It is unfortunate that LitecoinCash needs the private key to claim (until now). Of course, Charlie Lee is not happy about the unauthorized use of his brand name. Especially for a hard fork, his coin has nothing to do with. Despite his tweet, we don't see the usual red flags for a scam. But of course, it is always better to play safe. We honor the awareness of Charlie Lee to warn for such a case even if this could have a negative influence on the price of LTC. PSA: The Litecoin team and I are not forking Litecoin. Any forks that you hear about is a scam trying to confuse you to think it's related to Litecoin. Don't fall for it and definitely don't enter your private keys or seed into their website or client. Be careful out there! https://t.co/qXbiIxp5Al — Charlie Lee (@SatoshiLite) 4. Februar 2018 The post by Charlie Lee might be a hit for the LCC team. As they often stated to be fans of him. So, is Litecoin Cash a scam? Right now, everyone is screaming SCAM - and frankly, this is understandable. If you want to see real scams, check out JP Morgan and what they do all the time! However, let's get the facts straight and see what we have here: The private key is needed (until now) to claim the coins. As the LCC Team seems to consist of Litecoin fans, they used the brand name of this coin. Combined with all the hate Bitcoin Cash faces, the naming has been a bad marketing decision. So it is basically these two things, which leads many people to yell "SCAM!" across the boards. We don't have any advantages to protect them. We are not affiliated with LitecoinCash, though we think this is a bit thin. In conclusion... Miners and technically more versed confirmed that the concept itself makes sense without knowing the truth behind all of this. Our take is that the LCC team is a bunch of funny nerds. To which just had a good idea developed out of an actual joke. Sometimes, the flow works like this. So you joke around, think a bit more about it in a serious way, and then you say, "Hey, let's try that!" Let's observe what the future brings and how this all develops.

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