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by px43 1430 days ago
Litecoin was the third cryptocurrency to be added, and it was the most obvious choice to be next, seeing as how it had the next highest market cap after Bitcoin and Ethereum. Before Ethereum was a thing, Litecoin spent a lot of time as the #2 cryptocurrency. It was the original "altcoin". There was already massive demand to add Litecoin, which is probably a key reason that they hired Charlie in the first place.