Fairness was a design objective.

The announcement disclosed 150 LTC in three initial blocks, including the genesis block and two validation blocks. It also described releasing code and binaries before the public start. That is a more precise account than an unqualified claim that no coins existed before launch. The stated aim was to avoid a large discretionary founder allocation.

Fairness has several dimensions: access to information, time to prepare, hardware availability and distribution after launch. No short slogan measures all of them. What the archive can show is a public attempt to coordinate access and explain the initial conditions. It cannot retrospectively make all participants equally equipped or equally informed.

For this publication, celebrating Litecoin means preserving those details. A reader should be able to distinguish the founder’s intention from a mathematical guarantee, and an initial allocation from the later distribution of holdings. The early record is compelling because it is specific enough to inspect. Its small imperfections are part of a real engineering history, not obstacles to telling one.