That's the windows virus program. Could be a false positive which would require you setting up an exception. Some people run this stuff in a sandbox type setup so if they have viruses, they can catch it and just rebuild the system again. However, did anyone think to run it thru VirusTotal? Last time I ran litecoin core through it, it was one of the few coins that was completely clean. A lot will have stuff like "bitcoin miner" stuff flagged.

This coin was announced Feb 3rd. They had all that time to "sync" a block explorer based on the LTC blockchain prior to the fork and then all they would have had to have done is let it catch up with maybe the last days worth or something.

There's no reason they couldn't have released the wallet immediately after the fork. After all, they need a wallet to be mining it themselves. But hey, they get all this time to solo mine it and then we all get to watch "you're a scammer cause you mined it when no one else could" posts. So that will be entertaining. Usually, coins like this get pump and dumped and then fade off into nothing with just the bag holders trying to keep it alive. Followed by the community take over and continued limping. Only thing that would keep it from dying off quickly is that it's POW and not POS.

- Wait for fork to occur.
- Get your wallet key.
- Send all your LTC to a brand new wallet with a brand new address.
- Use your old wallet key with their software and the LCC coins will be there.

There are several posts already that outline this in much greater detail. I'd suggest you find and read them.

But yes, they "could" access your old address if they're scammers and their software sends them your info and/or does some other nefarious stuff. That's why you move stuff to a brand new wallet and address before using their software to get access to the LCC.

If you read the first post in this thread, your questions will be answered.

You could never have a demerit system where the masses could use it. We see it all the time where some group of people take it upon themselves to destroy someone else for "reasons". The only way it could possibly work is if only a select group could hand out demerits. But given how there are some who feel that those currently using the trust system to perform that action are abusing it, I can't see that working either. Without there being crystal clear guidelines as to what sorts of posts warranted demerits and those handing it out were capable of taking their personal feelings/opinions etc out of the equation, it wouldn't work either. Thing is, everyone would get demerits. Everyone does posts from time to time that would be the sort that would be defined as warranting demerit.

I will preface this by first saying I'm not implying anything since people on this forum readily jump to conclusions and, despite me clearly saying this, I'm sure some people who are predisposed to that sort of thing will automatically assume it anyway.

There are short and long "cons" (I'm simply using the term con as that's part of the phrase). We've all seen both sorts of things play out even though there were probably red flags at some point. In other words, time will tell but I've come to trust my instincts that there's more going on than meets the eye.

PS. And now for something completely different... I appreciate the effort you put into the GAW thing. That was certainly interesting to watch play out.

Why wouldn't it? During "drama", people naturally support/defend those that do the same for them. They form a little "tribe". When someone gives them something to show appreciation of the support (in this case merit), in the back of their mind they feel obligated to return the favor so to speak.  Besides which, a thread like isn't going to attract just Lauda. It will attract all the same people that have been in the other Lauda threads. If I wanted to attract attention to myself, farm some merit and do what you next mention, it's certainly the sort of thing I'd do.

Yes, one could certainly say that's what's happening. To what end though? Given how you've pointed out how not one person on the planet knows who you are and how you've taken steps to ensure you can never get tracked, one has to wonder why. Whenever I see that sort of thing, it sets off all sorts of red flags for me.

Anyway, you're entertaining and I'm sure there will much more interesting/entertaining things to come from you. Carry on man!

Not true as satire can be used as a means to troll albeit in "style". In order to really know what his intent/motives are, we'd have to be in his head which, since none of us are, we can just make assumptions.

Wasn't aware you held any importance in my life that would warrant me considering your advice or that I should place any value on anything you might have to say on the topic.

I commended him on his trolling skills with no mention at all of any his other posts. You clearly have a predisposed mindset, one of those that sees what they want to see. Given that, have a nice day.

He wants to charge you 0.5 LTC? Jeez.

https://litecointalk.io/t/importing-private-keys/9594/3

If you want to send me some LTC for the 10 seconds worth of googling, address is in my sig LOL.

Why am I not doing it? I have more important things to do in my life than take part in those sorts of things. Sometimes I'll get involved in technical discussions but finding worthwhile stuff on here has gotten harder and harder. The last one was last year with segwit/big block discussions.

Did I say all his posts are "trolling"? I think not. His most "noteable" one, was him insulting someone and getting 50 points for it. He certainly does it in style though.

People should really pay attention to nullius as he's showing everyone how to seriously farm merit points. Lots of sarcastic humor etc along with sucking up to all the right people. The mutual masturbatory merit giving is truly awesome to behold. I bow to your forum trolling skills nullius.

I used to frequent a business forum that was very liberal in what it allowed, just like this toxic place. Then one day the people running it decided they'd had enough of the chaos and to get things under control and they implemented a 3 strikes and you're out rule/rating along with more stringent rules like, making accusations without proof would result in a permanent ban (might have been a strike, can't remember now but the thread was purged as well). Cleaned that place up pretty quick. Course in this place, a whole lot of people including those currently in position of trust would get banned. But sometimes you need to seriously clean house.

You've read things the way you want to in order to say it's based on a false premise. No where in the article do they say it's "only" used as a currency.

Regardless, it's just another group of people throwing their hat in the ring to try and make sense out of the experiment known as bitcoin. No one is capable of doing that as it's a completely different beast.

What do you think is normal? The pump to 20k? crypto is volatile and typically cyclic. This IS normal.

Don't worry. I'm sure you'll get your chance soon enough.

No. It's generally understood that a coin is co-opting the name for other reasons such as to mislead people and try and gain a level of "respectability" they have not earned. Last time there was a lot of this sort of thing if was "Dark" stuff. i.e. BitcoinDark, LitecoinDark, DogeDark, DarkDoge and so on and so forth. So those that have been around awhile, do not view any coin using another's name in a favorable light.

What do you (or most people) mean when you say "invest"? You want to buy some and hold onto it for 10 years and become rich? Probably not. Do you want to day trade? Sure. Do you want to buy some and sell or 2x profit in a few months and then repeat every year? Sure. Right now though it's too high. Once it gets under 40 it will start to become time to buy for the next "pump'.

It will be interesting to see what happens when it gets slammed with hash at the start. Got to be one of the stupidest things I've seen.