Charlie Lee Proposes Miner Donations To Fund LTC Development

The founder of Litecoin, Charlie Lee proposes a 1% donation of the block reward to fund further LTC development as we are reading further in the latest Litecoin news.

Charlie Lee proposes donations as a solution to underfunded initiatives. The Litecoin miners which also take rewards for Dogecoin and other algorithms can now afford to share some of their block rewards according to the founder. He stated:

‘’I think a better way to fund development is mining pools voluntarily donate a portion of the block reward. How about Litecoin pools donate 1% (0.125 LTC) of block rewards to the @LTCFoundation? If every miner/pool does this, it amounts to about $1.5MM donation per year!’’

The Litecoin Foundation is one of the most important development entities and underwent a lot of funding deficits that seek other ways to survive the harsh effects of the bear market. The proposed solution angered the community since mining was unrestricted and voluntary activity. The rewards remain for the miners and anyone that tries to take part in the reward will have caused discontent. Litecoin started without a premine phase but other projects such as Zcash built their idea of a developer reward during the early years of mining.

The proposal also came right after Bitcoin Cash decided to introduce a tax on the miners and the coin will now levy a 12.5% miner tax to all entities wishing to discover blocks so if the tax is not paid, any blocks discovered will not be considered and propagated. The approach of the founder of Litecoin is different and intended to be voluntary but will spike a whole set of activities that are supposed to have no barrier to entry. Litecoin mining has slowed down quite enough as 12.5 LTC block reward most of the miners give up after the recent halving.

If the donations are levied, it would possibly bring around $3,816 per day for the Litecoin development based on the current block reward. Currently, the mining rate of LTC dropped by 70 percent from the all-time peak ahead of the halving and the miners produce around 142 TH/s which is only a small part of the Bitcoin cash activity. Scrypt mining happens on a much smaller scale with smaller machines as the activity is pointed to the SHA-256 mining for bitcoin and other forks of it.