this has been my core driver to make a nostr based litecoin / dogecoin utility for us to integrate into the platform.
Not to take away from Bitcoin, Lightning Network or Zaps. but to get the "most senior" of the proof of work ppl into our world as a bridge to a decentralized world
Related - I have a dev bounty going for nostr tipping bot setup tooling nostr:note1c5at6rpdajpkdhmjw8yqs5jthywpp4wywp3aff9askmr73afq62s8s4vl7
Nah fam, delete this shit, lol. 🙅♂️
If you wanna shitcoin, go over to X with the rest of the degenerate gamblers.
... i wouldnt exactly call Litecoin a shitcoin. But ... i get your perspective.
In the end ... all these utilities are functions that can be brought in as features, or filtered out at the relay level. And for those looking to own their data, and manage their social relationships without gatekeepers ...
Nostr *IS* the platform. It's perfect. Its what I imagined open messaging would be that p2p never quite got to.
Litecoin IS, in fact, a shitcoin. 💁♂️
It would behoove you to memorize this one simple chart. 🤙
sure ... i also would suggest... it was the stablecoin before stablecoins existed.
It was always MUCH easier to transfer between exchanges Litecoin to take advantage of arbitrage trades on the BTC price than anything else back in the day.
AND ... even now ... its a lot easier to move LTC betwen exchanges than trying to triple authenticate to move even the smallest amount of BTC.
Every coin has its value / use ... and of the "crypto" out there ... LTC has always been a useful transporter of value ... much preferred to using a stablecoin or anything else.
but ... you do you ...
Yeah I remember using LTC for transfers because bitcoin transactions were taking a long time to confirm.
That's largely a problem of the past. With the Bech32 addresses used by Native Segwit and Taproot, transaction times are shorter than ever, and cheaper, too.
In my opinion, you have to get involved with the competition to truly understand the qualitative differences between Bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies.
I had my fair share of LTC transactions from time to time before becoming a Bitcoiner, and it served me well.
