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![0xWorkhorse Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1361375003007139840.png) ian.btc | workhorse 🧙‍♂️ [@0xWorkhorse](/creator/twitter/0xWorkhorse) on x 4810 followers
Created: 2025-07-14 13:57:56 UTC

Litecoin ($LTC) has been casually labeled as a "fork" of Bitcoin since seemingly forever -- and until last week I even thought it was.

It's a label that has stuck around for more than a decade, but the reality is that @Litecoin actually isn't a fork of Bitcoin -- in the blockchain sense. It may have been born from shared DNA, but it has charted its own course since 2011.

To learn more about this, I interviewed David Schwartz (@DaddyCool1991) and Jay Milla from the Litecoin Foundation (@LTCFoundation) to gain their insights on the topic and it was illuminating. 

Here's what I learned 👇


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