The project was created as an upgrade of Bitcoin. There are not many differences, but some of them are very significant. Several technologies have been applied that have eliminated some of the disadvantages of Bitcoin: the "Proof of Work" protocol, which uses the Scrypt hash function, and not SHA-256, like BTC. The average speed of block creation is 2.5 minutes (for comparison, BTC takes four times longer).

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Audit of the MimbleWimble Integration Inside Litecoin

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The Litecoin Foundation mandated Quarkslab to audit the implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol in the Litecoin blockchain. This protocol acts as a sidechain in which privacy of the transactions is improved compared to the privacy on the classical chain.

https://blog.quarkslab.com/audit-of-the-mimblewimble-integration-inside-litecoin.html

The Litecoin Foundation mandated Quarkslab to audit the implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol in the Litecoin blockchain.

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