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Charles Hoskinson of IOHK Shares His Opinion About Litecoin, IOTA

In his recent video, Mr. Hoskinson explained the differences between the IOTA and Litecoin communities, teasing meaningful interoperability releases

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Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOGa development company tasked with Cardano (ADA) blockchain solutions progresshas published a vlog on Periscope to cover the prospects of building cross-chain interoperability bridges. He began with veteran products Litecoin and IOTA.

Why Litecoin (LTC) bridges are crucial

Mr. Hoskinson revealed that he discussed opportunities for cross-chain integration between Cardano (ADA) and Litecoin (LTC) blockchains. His team even prepared the presentation for Litecoin Foundation founder Charlie Lee and David Burkett, a coordinator of MimbleWimble protocol implementation in Litecoin.

Charles Hoskinson on IOTA and Litecoin
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He mentioned this collaboration as a productive one and admitted that he had received interesting feedback. However, the development progress of Litecoin (LTC) looks conservative, so it should take time to implement such a meaningful novelty.

Meanwhile, this characteristic is a "feature, not bug" for the Digital Silver. And every Litecoin-focused release is very important due to its unique architecture.

What is built for Litecoin can easily be implemented into Dash (DASH), ZCash (ZEC) and many other Bitcoin-like currencies, Mr. Hoskinson added.

Community attitude matters

However, Mr. Hoskinson is generally optimistic about the prospect of interoperability bridges with Litecoin. He would also be happy to work with IOTA and views IoT as an interesting technology field.

At the same time, these ideas were met with hate speech by a large and passionate IOTA communityand no one "challenged" the knockers, Mr. Hoskinson admits.

Without the support of the community, building such a bridge would not be worth it. David Sonstebo, founder of IOTA, agreed with his colleague.

Finally, Mr. Hoskinson teased some meaningful scalability announcements for the Cardano (ADA) ecosystem in Q1-Q2, 2020.

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Vladislav Sopov

Blockchain Analyst & Writer with scientific background. 5+ years in IT-analytics, 2+ years in blockchain.

Worked in independent analysis as well as in start-ups (Swap.online, Monoreto, Attic Lab etc.)