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Story: Litecoin (LTC) Past the 15 minutes of Fame towards 10 Years and MimbleJingle

By Steven Anderson

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Litecoin (LTC) MingleJingle

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Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin expressed, Congratulations Shibes! Glad to see Dogecoin doing well. Dogecoin and Litecoin have a symbiotic relationship due to merged mining.

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Litecoin will be marking its tenth anniversary this year.  And, Charlie Lee explained why LTC had spent nearly 10 years as a top-ranking cryptocurrency.

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When talking to Decrypt Charlie Lee pointed to that, "There's a lot of coins that have had their 15 minutes of fame but receded," said Lee.

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During the interview Lee pointed to several things about LTC like Litecoin being supported by PayPal, Privacy features coming to Litecoin, 2% of LTC as having gotten locked in…

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Gene Simmons stated, I’m not recommending any of this to anyone. But yes, I bought and/or will own Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and others.

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Year 2021 will probably be the year which will take Litecoin to the next level.

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While reporting the January Progress, David Burkett stated:  Improved how we handle stealth addresses thanks to the "MingleJingle" proposal UI and other wallet improvements.

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This isjust proof of that Litecoin is getting very closer to adding the privacy features from MimbleWimble.

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Of note,MingleJingle is a redesign of the original MimbleWimble protocol and it provides non-interactive transactions, and the code is not ready for the testnet and will be…

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To deal with the privacy issues, developers have proposed allowing users to access opt-in privacy by conducting MimbleWimble transactions on an Extension Blocks-style side-chain,…

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For clarity, Litecoin’s MimbleWimble implementation project has been under development for more than 12 months now.

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