TL;DR: Crypto Dev Digest (CDD) is a regular column, documenting cryptocurrency development. We highlight the projects and persons working under the hood to bring peer-to-peer, electronic cash to the world. This installment we ask: is Litecoin all marketing hype? Alleged Litecoin Foundation chats reveal the project is basically breast implants and tanning oil; Bitcoin Cash community calls for a developer congress, and results of a successful preliminary test to bring Schnorr signatures to OP_CHECKMULTISIG was conducted recently.

Litecoin All Marketing Hype?

To read a Redditor tell it, The Litecoin Foundation is covering up the coin’s lack of development and transparency. Evidence was forwarded from an allegedly rather candid Telegram chat, where key members, including founder Charlie Lee himself, are frank about their deemphasis on development progress.

Apparently what is keeping Litecoin alive is a very active marketing campaign along with a strategic alliance with the BTC maximalist community: both seem less inclined toward moving forward with a decentralized, permissionless, peer-to-peer digital cash, and are more concerned with presenting Litecoin as a head fake to distract from scaling criticism levied at BTC. Who cares if BTC is digital gold, slow and with high fees. Use Litecoin. Those have been mantras for a while now, and it’s becoming clearer they aren’t accidents.

Assuming the Telegram chat forwards are legitimate and in-context, it does indeed appear there is a Litecoin Foundation public facade masking real concern behind closed doors. Lee, “Franklyn,” a Founding Director, and Community Manager Ilir Gashi are especially interesting reading.

“I was extremely disappointed to discover that no progress had been made on [Confedential Transactions] since the announcement [by Lee], especially when I stand on stage telling everyone it’s happening and we are actively working on it,” Franklyn disclosed.

Lee confessed, “The honest truth is that no one is interested in working on Litecoin protocol development work. At least no one technically competent. You can’t just throw money at this problem. This is true for Litecoin since the beginning. It has only been me, Warren, and Thrasher,” at least one of whom has moved to BTC dev company, Blockstream.

Bitcoin ABC 0.19.11 Released

Bitcoin ABC 0.19.11 has been released. This release includes the new loadwallet RPC command as well as minor bug fixes. Download it here.

Promoting SLP Tokens in Toronto

Calling all #SLP tokens! I’ll be attending the Toronto #FinTech week, promoting the amazing things happening on #BitcoinCash & sharing @SimpleLedger tokens to as many people as possible. Please send SLP to make it rain! simpleledger:qp2y5sesh3eeymczgsr8et7d26flunjnlyyc47jlac pic.twitter.com/RuOmTNwxzu — CryptoKid (@thecryptokidd) July 30, 2019

Bitcoin Cash Developer Congress in Australia

This is an open call for developers of products and services that support #BitcoinCash to attend the first Bitcoin Cash Developer Congress, taking place in Australia from September 3rd to September 5th. The Developer Congress is in coordination with @BitcoinCashCity Conference. pic.twitter.com/1BGu8mQzaD — Ⓥin Ⓐrmani (@vinarmani) August 8, 2019

Fast CashAccount Lookups Using BITBOX and Electrum

@dagur shows how to connect to an electrum server with nodejs. Then use it to find payment information for a cashaccount and parse it using #BITBOX.

Reusable_specs

Collection of BCH reusable addresses specs and drafts, here.

Removing 25 Unconfirmed Tx Limit

A request from Satoshi Dice to the Bitcoin Cash community & a 1,000 BCH offer "If we can remove the 25 unconfirmed tx limit before the end of this year, we will donate the next 1,000 BCH we earn up to €1,000,000 value to the Bitcoin Cash developer fund"https://t.co/VzDpVOfIQJ — Gabriel Cardona (@cgcardona) August 4, 2019

CashTippr Plugin Updates

Pulse #3 Out Now

CashAddr Adoption

Spreadsheet available here.

Successful Preliminary Test of Schnorr Signatures

Today, we did a successful preliminary test of bringing Schnorr signatures to OP_CHECKMULTISIG, per this spec: https://t.co/ZUZBwIAkkD — Mark 🅱️ Lundeberg🌶🍌 (@MarkLundeberg) August 9, 2019

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