Litecoin is a fork of Bitcoin’s codebase with four occasions sooner block instances and a 4 instances larger provide. The mission considers itself complementary to Bitcoin as a silver to Bitcoin’s gold. It is often used as a pseduo-testnet for Bitcoin, adopting new protocol changes earlier than they're deployed on Bitcoin.
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Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss have been among the first Bitcoin billionaires. The duo had first gained popularity when they sued the Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing the thought of making Fb from them. They had been contacted by Zuckerberg to develop the ConnectU site, which was to become Facebook later on.