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1 year agoLitecoin was a fork of codebase not a fork of a chain.
Litecoin was a fork of codebase not a fork of a chain.
And the other in a penny stock category due to low market cap. Thus it is more suitable for market pump and dump schemes.
Bitcoin maxies hate everything. Especially the most prominent competitors. They only embrace enemies of their enemies sometimes promoting even pure scams.
People sometimes need no a reason but a pretext to create a coin fork. After the BTC/BCH split the general concept of chain hard forking was discovered and many pointless forks was created.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Ah, yes. The ETH/ETC split was earlier.