It was copying, but he didn't try to pass it off as his own work, and in the years since,
the litecoin codebase has significantly deviated from bitcoin.
The Electrum developer also touched on the similarities between the Bitcoin and
Litecoin codebases.
Near the end of the interview, Voegtlin pointed out that the Bitcoin and
Litecoin codebases are very similar.
Not exact matches
Much the identical as different tasks «forking» to create a brand new cryptocurrency,
litecoin money's builders declare they merely need to use an current
codebase to create a more moderen and higher type of on - line alternate.
When asked about this point directly, Barhydt told Crypto Insider that the similar
codebases indeed had something to do with the decision to integrate
Litecoin.
For instance,
Litecoin was a fork of Bitcoin, created from changing the
codebase of Bitcoin.
The most obvious answer here would be that the
Litecoin and Bitcoin
codebases are extremely similar, which made it easy for Abra to port their technology over to the alternative blockchain.
Petar Zivkovski, COO of leveraged trading platform Whaleclub, argued that, since
litecoin and bitcoin have similar
codebases,
litecoin could gain some of the bitcoin's market share should scalability remain an issue for the latter.
Much the same as other projects «forking» to create a new cryptocurrency,
litecoin cash's developers claim they simply want to use an existing
codebase to create a newer and better form of online exchange.
Litecoin facilitated the emerge of several other cryptocurrencies which used its
codebase but made it, even more, lighter and the examples are Feathercoin and Dogecoin.
And as an open protocol, it's relatively easy to deploy lightning network support for other cryptocurrencies that are forked from Bitcoin's
codebase — like
Litecoin.