On 05/01/2015 04:22 AM, mlmikael wrote:
> Dear Eric,
>
> Thanks - aha.
>
> What kind of difficulty is it probably to implement litecoin support?
> (As in a --protocol=litecoin compiletime option.)

I can't say with any certainty as I haven't worked on it at all.

> I guess the differences between the Bitcoin and Litecoin protocols are
> extremely small, though I haven't diff:ed bitcoind's and litecoind's
> sources so am no authority; I got the impression it more or less amounts
> to the hashing algorithm, average block generation time, and max coins,
> that would sound like 100 to 500 lines?

I wouldn't assume that the implementation would be a smattering of
#ifdef's throughout the stack.

The difficulty is in factoring the libraries so that they build against
a consensus interface which defines the unique aspects of any coin.

e

> On 2015-04-29 22:22, Eric Voskuil wrote:
>> Hi Mlmikael,
>>
>> I would not hold out for Litecoin in libbitcoin this year. There is
>> nobody specifically working on it. There are changes coming in version3
>> that will further generalize Testnet support, which is a step in the
>> altcoin direction, but that is all.
>>
>> e
>>
>> On 04/29/2015 04:21 AM, mlmikael wrote:
>>> Can anything be hoped about Litecoin support this year?
>>>
>>> Amir talked about it last year as upcoming and people showed interest
>>> but perhaps nothing really material has come out of it?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Mlmikael
>>>
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