Litecoin founder Charlie Lee proposed mining pool donations as a new funding method for cryptocurrency development.
With 1% donated on a consistent basis, Lee's suggested solution would provide enough funding for Litecoin permanently going forward, Lee confirmed to Cointelegraph.
"At current LTC price, 1% of block rewards is about 7x Litecoin Foundation's yearly expenses. Even if a small percent of miners are generous enough to donate, the foundation would be able to put it to good use by funding developers to work on Litecoin Core, Mimble Wimble, LiteWallet, LN wallet, hosting the yearly Litecoin Summit, and pushing for adoption of Litecoin by merchants and users."
Rumors circulated in late 2019 regarding the Litecoin Foundation's potential bankruptcy, which Lee denied in an Oct. 13 tweet.
Lee's 1% voluntary donation proposal comes after Bitcoin Cash proponents Roger Ver and Jihan Wu suggested an "Infrastructure funding plan," requiring miners to pay 12.5% of block rewards to an operation in Hong Kong, Cointelegraph reported on Jan. 24.New concepts.
In response to 51% attack concerns, Dogecoin merged its mining with Litecoin in 2014, enabling simultaneous mining of the two assets.
"Currently with merged mining of Dogecoin and other Scrypt coins, miners make 105%+ of block rewards," Lee noted in a second tweet.
Finally, Lee also toyed with the idea of miners choosing which Litecoin project their funds will go toward, asking the community for their opinions on his ideas as a whole.
"It's important that miners can choose to support other Litecoin organizations as well," he told Cointelegraph.
"Miners should donate to the organizations that want to help out."
Litecoin Creator Proposes Miners Voluntarily Donate 1% for Development
Published on Jan 25, 2020
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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