Add Litecoin support #91
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…6 hash of a block. Add scrypt PoW bits validation for Litecoin blocks. Fix to be able to start node with "-n litecoin"
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Very nice, thanks! It's downloading the blockchain, but feels a little slow, taking ~0.6 seconds per block for the very first (empty) blocks already.. Is that to be expected because of the scrypt hashing? |
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Hm, nevermind... The performance issue seems to be specific to this one machine. The webbtc server is eating up the chain at around 0.01s/block :) |
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lian told me that his Scrypt implementation is not very optimized. So yeah, block downloading will be slow until it is optimized. The good thing is that Scrypt is only used for block PoW, so it only affects blocks. And it's most noticeable during initial block downloads. I'm surprised to hear that your webbtc server is that fast doing scrypt hashing. Does this mean, webbtc.com will show the Litecoin blockchain soon? |
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Will now use scrypt gem if available. It's much faster. |
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