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Tenebrix was one of the first altcoins ever created in 2011. It introduced Scrypt mining to resist ASICs In 2011, when Bitcoin was still mined on laptops, someone launched an experimental coin called Tenebrix. No VC. No hype. No roadmap. Just code and curiosity. The idea was simple: Bitcoin was becoming dominated by powerful GPUs. Regular users were getting pushed out. So Tenebrix introduced something new: Scrypt mining. A way to make mining more accessible and ASIC-resistant. It worked. For a moment, Tenebrix was one of the most discussed altcoins on Bitcointalk. But there was a problem. The creator lost interest. Development slowed. Bugs piled up. Trust faded. The project was abandoned. Most people forgot it ever existed. Except one developer. Charlie Lee studied Tenebrix’s code. Fixed its flaws. Improved the design. And launched Litecoin. That’s right. One of the largest cryptocurrencies in history traces part of its DNA back to Tenebrix.