If there's one thing we can all agree on it's that the many echo chambers of the cryptosphere do nothing to help curb the parroting of unnecessary fear, uncertainty, and doubt spread by those who even might think they're doing some kind of service by it. Litecoin Cash is no exception to this rule, in fact they might even be more in the hot seat due to their controversial name and the timing of the fork. Let's take a look at some of the recent issues people keep bringing up and try to address them reasonably.

(Preface: I'm just someone who likes truth and due diligence, I have no affiliation with Litecoin Cash)

1) "Litecoin Cash is a scam!"

• Charlie Lee tweeted something like this out before the fork and that was apparently that for most folks but no one ever states HOW it's a scam, just that it IS one. The simple fact of the matter is that it's NOT. Why? Because they asked nothing of you, unlike an ICO where you are required to send funds to participate. In fact, the Litecoin Cash team has been VERY transparent about HOW and WHY you should move your coins first and then SAFELY participate in the fork. If you didn't follow the many many many directions and ended up losing your LTC then that is entirely your fault.

2) "There's only 1 exchange and it's locked! It's a scam!"

• This one kills me. Yes, it's true Yobit was the first exchange to have LCC and yes, as of this post, their wallet is still locked down so we cannot deposit. This is not the fault of LCC it is the fault of Yobit, who has quite a history of lackluster performance and shady practices. Also, it IS currently possible to trade, deposit, and withdraw LCC at Meanxtrade, however the prices aren't near Yobit's so people are getting salty about "missing out on profits." Remember how these coins were free and cost you nothing? Relax, you're not losing any money plus they have stated numerous times that the other exchanges listed on the official website are currently in the process of configuring the wallet. These things take time, regardless of how quick you think YOU can do it.

3) "The dev team is never around and never responds!"

• Highly untrue, perhaps you are looking in the wrong places for information? There is a very lively and active Discord channel which you can find listed on the official website. Join it, and ask your questions there. The dev team is regularly in the chat rooms but more importantly THEY HAVE DEVELOPMENT WORK TO DO so most of their time will not be wasted answering your questions that are likely already in a FAQ or posted somewhere to be easily found with a smidgen of due diligence.

4) "There's a Reddit post showing a Binwalk where there's discrepancies between the released binaries and the Github repo."

• /u/Litecoincash (dev team member btw) has refuted this already on both Discord and Reddit trying to attempt to recreate the issue unsuccessfully and has invited the entire community to try to reproduce the apparent fault. So far, no one can, so before you go believing ONE SINGLE POST's bad news, maybe double check on things for yourself and don't spread unverified information.

5) "Why is Roger the Uniorn anonymous?"

• He actually answered that in the Discord. His job is in financial sector and frankly his involvement in crypto could compromise his career. The man has a family to feed and bills to pay too. Chill out. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Answer that, scientist.

6) "NO WHITE PAPER!!!! IT'S A SCAM!!!"

• Please send me a link to Litecoin's white paper :)

7) "They took the name of Litecoin to confuse people!"

• I'm a total Litecoin fan, I admit, but what ever happened to healthy competition in a marketplace? I do agree a unique name is a better alternative but I also think the trolling of Bitcoin Cash with this name is rather hilarious and poignant to these times. Yes Bitcoin Cash is trying to subvert Bitcoin, but the Litecoin Cash team has been nothing but supportive of Litecoin since their launch and don't seem to be doing anything malicious against Litecoin's marketing or adoption. I'm sorry but if you cannot distinguish between the two and buy the wrong coin maybe you were moving a little too quickly and need to rethink your investment strategies.

UPDATE #1 - QUESTION ADDED - 02/23/2018 @ 12:55 PM EST

8) /u/ecurrencyhodler brought up a very good point regarding network safety via mining malpractice in the comments:

Please don't omit the biggest weaknesses of this project. If LCC is profitable at all, it will get rekt by powerful sha-256 miners. Blocktimes will be ruined and tx's won't get processed.

I will be the first to admit I'm not personally qualified to answer mining related questions as I've not delved that deep into that end yet, but I did raise this question to Tanner, one of the dev team for LCC who is often available in the Discord server. He replied with:

The issue is, people aren't used to seeing effective difficulty adjustment on sha256 coins, so they tend to assume that like BTC, the network can't react very quickly to changes in hashpower (BTC only adjusts the mining difficulty every 2016 blocks). That's much more of a problem on sha256 coins without effective difficulty retargeting. LCC uses DarkGravity, the difficulty adjustment algorithm from Dash, which recalculates difficulty every block to respond to changes in hashpower.

I will certainly be looking more in depth into the DarkGravity algorithm myself as I further my education on mining but hopefully this answer can at least satisfy those who were worried about overpowered miners harming the integrity of the network. Dash seems pretty successful so far, so there's got to be some merit to it, right?

UPDATE #2 - QUESTION ADDED - 03/06/2018 @ 4:03 PM EST

9) "Yobit and the devs worked together in secret so they could all cash out the premined coins and win big!"

• While it's a decent theory on paper it is provably untrue as 90% of the pre-mined coins are still sitting at their original wallet linked below. The 10% spent has been to go toward listing fees for future exchanges. (Hint: devs are smart people who wouldn't dare keep their valuable LTC coins on a shady exchange like Yobit haha)

• View the dev's premine wallet on the block explorer

• You'll notice it starts out with 5,500,000 LCC coins. There's been a few transactions since the original premine deposit leaving ~4,745,463 LCC coins in the wallet. The numerous in/out transactions are simply payments and change deposits (i.e. You own 10 LCC, you pay 1 LCC but you actually send 10 LCC and receive 9 LCC back automatically). So only ~754,536 pre-mined LCC coins have been spent/sold/traded/etc. Just saying if any one of us were going to dump our pre-mined coins we had and cash out on everyone, we'd certainly go for more than 10% haha!

Aside from these there are complaints of wallet issues and other such things but frankly that's on the user as many have shown already the wallet works quite successfully. I, myself, had issues getting everything to sync and scan properly but I simply asked for help in the Discord and Tanner, the lead dev, was kind enough to help me and lo and behold his advice was correct and I now have my coins safe and sound.

So there is some logic and calm arguments to refute a lot of this FUD being spread. I know a lot of people will still have issues with this post and that's fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but I've personally been involved in a number of coin forks and launches now and frankly this is one of the better ones with on time deliveries and plenty of communication.

Stay safe out there, always double check your sources of information (including me please) and just think twice before you act once. Much love crypto fam!

Oh and if you just want a place to dump your "useless garbage coin" I'll happily take them off your hands for you! Just send them here: CeNAjxEAja8hrdF1pzP4u3RHfStqhWYEyq (LCC)