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Topic: Question about NBitcoin project (possibility of handling litecoin) (Read 397 times)

legendary
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Nbitcoin doesnt do any mining or node relaying. and so there is not much difference between bitcoin and liteccoin in regards to making a transaction.

nbitcoin uses blockexplerer services to grab data, so it shouldnt be hard to change from bitcoins use of blockr.io to a litecoin explorer.
the rpc call commands are literally identical to call on a specific txid or address..

all that really needs to change is the first bits. so that public addresses begin with an L instead of a 1
newbie
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I have a question to someone knowing well that project (the .NET bitcoin implementation created by Nicolas Dorier)

Assuming all the similarities between bitcoin and litcoin, I'm just wondering - would it be feasible / doable to adapt NBitcoin to also handle litecoin?

I mean not necessary in one codebase, but maybe as a child / side project?
Besides the "scrypt" algo (because that's the most obvious part), how much work eventually could that be?

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