We AddoCrypto happy to announce our first Segwit Signalling Litecoin Pool SparkPool Sparkpool is a PPLNS mining pool. The pool is one of the FIRST to signal support for segregated witness for Litecoin. The fee is 1% to cover our hosting costs, plus relay nodes to reduce orphan risk, as we have set up relay … Read more
It has happened. The first release of the Lightning Network in alpha stages has been released. This comes at a time when Litecoin has released their latest version which includes the soft fork for SegWit (Segregated Witness) with signalling starting on January 28. F2Pool, which carries around half the Litecoin hashing power is supporting segregated … Read more
F2Pool, which at the time of writing holds just over 40.6% hashrate, a 10% drop in their 50.6%. This is a positive move from F2Pool, which seems committed to the support of Litecoin and Bitcoin to scale, and is intending to support SegWit on Both coins, they have stated about their full support for the … Read more
Charlie Lee, the Litecoin Developer speaks out about Segregated Witness on Litecoin. He has advocated Segwit on both Litecoin and Bitcoin, it fixes problems such as transaction malleability and increases capacity and enables networks such as the Lightning network to be built on top of whatever Bitcoin related currency that implements it. Charlie describes that … Read more
Segregated Witness, or SegWit is an update to the Bitcoin protocol which is designed to fix the transaction malleability issue, ensures transactions take less space per block, and to enable Bi Directional payment channels such as the Lightning network to run on top of Bitcoin. It seems that the Bitcoin mining community is struggling to … Read more