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Winklevoss’ Gemini to List Litecoin (LTC), Delays Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Support

Published 10/12/2018, 02:27 PM
Updated 10/15/2018, 02:41 PM
 Winklevoss’ Gemini to List Litecoin (LTC), Delays Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Support

The Gemini exchange owned by the US billionaire brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss has announced that it would add Litecoin (LTC) to its trading and custody platforms on Tuesday. However, the exchange held off listing Bitcoin Cash (BCH) due to possible investor protection issues during BCH hard forks next month. Eric Winer, Gemini’s vice president and head of engineering made the announcement in a blog post on Friday.

The US exchange had initially planned to support both LTC and BCH simultaneously, but decided to delay Bitcoin Cash support until late November.

“[…] there has been much uncertainty lately within the Bitcoin Cash community about one or more possible hard forks arriving in mid-November. Some of those forks lack the replay protection feature that would be required for Gemini to safely support Bitcoin Cash,” Winer exp...


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