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A small monetary bounty and an aptitude for coding were all it took to fork the Ordinals protocol to the world\u2019s second-ever cryptocurrency network, Litecoin (LTC<\/a>), earlier this week, its creator told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n On Feb. 18, an Australian software engineer by the name of\u00a0Anthony Guerrera posted a repository<\/a> to GitHub that forked the Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) Ordinals protocol to<\/a> Litecoin. This allowed for\u00a0nonfungible token (NFT)-like assets on the Litecoin network in much the same way it had made it to Bitcoin earlier in the year.<\/p>\n In an interview with Cointelegraph, Guerrera said he was spurred to make a Litecoin Ordinal fork due to a 5 LTC bounty posted by the pseudonymous Twitter user Indigo Nakamoto on Feb. 11 that rose to 22 LTC, or about $2,000, to anyone who was first to successfully create a fork.<\/p>\n 22 $LTC<\/a> to port Ordinals to #Litecoin<\/a> from: \u2014 Indigo | Nakamotoist (@indigo_nakamoto) February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cI knew it was possible because Litecoin has Taproot as well as SegWit,\u201d Guerrera said, adding:<\/p>\n \u201cI was in a bit of a mad rush to try and get it done as fast as I could.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Taproot<\/a> and SegWit<\/a> are the names given to the Bitcoin protocol updates that aimed to improve the privacy and efficiency of the network but also allowed for NFT-like structures called \u201cinscriptions\u201d to be attached to satoshis<\/a>.<\/p>\n The cost to inscribe an image onto the Bitcoin blockchain can cost tens of dollars<\/a> depending on its size but Guerrera said the cost to inscribe a litoshi \u2014 the LTC equivalent to a satoshi \u2014 is \u201cabout two cents.\u201d<\/p>\n A point of contention among Bitcoiners is the block space that Ordinals take up<\/a> on the network because their data size is far greater than transactions. Guerrera doesn\u2019t think this issue will be as prominent on Litecoin due to its larger block size but could it still possibly eventuate.<\/p>\n \u201cPandora\u2019s Box has already been opened and someone was going to do it, so it may as well be me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Guerrera said his LTC fork took around one week to create as \u201cthe changes were quite simple.\u201d He explained he updated the Ordinals code to work with inputs from the Litecoin network instead of the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n Parameters that differed between the blockchains such as the total possible number of coins and block time creation differences also had to be accounted for in the fork.<\/p>\n In a Feb. 19 tweet, Guerrera said he\u2019d inscribed the first ever Litecoin Ordinal, putting the MimbleWimble whitepaper<\/a> onto the blockchain in the so-named \u201cinscription 0.\u201d<\/p>\n The first #Litecoin<\/a> #Ordinal<\/a> has been inscribed on the Litecoin blockchain.<\/p>\n The mimblewimble whitepaper will live within Litecoin forever Ⓜ️ #MWEB<\/a>!$LTC<\/a> $BTC<\/a> #NFT<\/a> @SatoshiLite<\/a> @finitemaz<\/a> @ryanwrights<\/a> @MASTERBTCLTC<\/a> @ChiefLitecoin<\/a> @indigo_nakamoto<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ICLkTMjwRW<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Crypto Anthony (@anthonyonchain) February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The inscription of the whitepaper is in the wake of the May 2022 Mimblewimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) upgrade<\/a> that allows Litecoin users to opt-in to confidential transactions and other blockchain improvements such as helping reduce excess and unnecessary transaction data.<\/p>\n\n
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+ 5 $LTC<\/a> @ryanwrights<\/a>
+ 5 $LTC<\/a> @MASTERBTCLTC<\/a>
+ 2 $LTC<\/a> @ChiefLitecoin<\/a>
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