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There is nothing on this discussion page about this article at the moment. Use it. Reasonable informed edits will be allowed through until a consensus is reached and the page unlocked. That is comments that are neither pro or anti litecoin, but are ''neutral'' and objective. [[User:Genjix|Genjix]] 10:01, 28 November 2011 (GMT)
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So, we have Namecoin and Devcoin, but not Litecoin? [[User:Newar|Newar]] ([[User talk:Newar|talk]]) 18:33, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 
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: Altcoins are off-topic, see the policy. Shouldn't have the others either --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] ([[User talk:Luke-jr|talk]]) 08:29, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
== Objectivity please, missing citation ==
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:: I've redirected Litecoin to Scrypt. While Litecoin itself admittedly doesn't belong on the Bitcoin Wiki, Scrypt PoW ''is'' a technology that was significant to the mining industry as a whole. I'm still not sure if it belongs - it'd be a little documentary about TBX and LTC's rise and fall - I'm wondering if we should just get rid of it entirely. [[User:Taras|Taras]] ([[User talk:Taras|talk]]) 05:10, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
There are two criticisms in the article, that I believe are not objective:
 
 
 
* Mining Monopoly - while I heard claims that Litecoin is volnurable to botnets, I never heard anything about a single monopoloy, or anyone possibly building a "single piece of specialized/custom hardware to overtake all the commodity mining systems combined". Can we have a citation for this, or remove it if no citation is found?
 
* Pyramid Scheme - The article states, as if it is a fact, that "Litecoin effectively functions as a pyramid scheme". This is hardly objective. Litecoin could possibly become say 1% of the total Bitcoin market, and could indeed function as "silver". The same arguments in [[FAQ#Is Bitcoin a Ponzi_scheme]] apply here.
 
 
 
Can we fix this?
 
 
 
[[User:Ripper234|Ripper234]] 13:43, 13 January 2012 (GMT)
 

Latest revision as of 05:10, 10 January 2015

So, we have Namecoin and Devcoin, but not Litecoin? Newar (talk) 18:33, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Altcoins are off-topic, see the policy. Shouldn't have the others either --Luke-jr (talk) 08:29, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
I've redirected Litecoin to Scrypt. While Litecoin itself admittedly doesn't belong on the Bitcoin Wiki, Scrypt PoW is a technology that was significant to the mining industry as a whole. I'm still not sure if it belongs - it'd be a little documentary about TBX and LTC's rise and fall - I'm wondering if we should just get rid of it entirely. Taras (talk) 05:10, 10 January 2015 (UTC)