Website | https://litecoin.org/ |
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Today's Litecoin price is $96.70, which is down 5% over the last 24 hours. Litecoin's market cap is $6.99B. 24 hour LTC volume is $1.31B. It has a market cap rank of 17 with a circulating supply of 72,240,321 and max supply of 84,000,000. Litecoin is traded on exchanges. Litecoin had an all-time high of $388.77 almost 2 years ago. Over the last day, Litecoin has had 0% transparent volume and has been trading on 4,136 active markets with its highest volume trading pairs being .
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Litecoin Price (24hr) | $96.70 (-4.51%) |
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Market Cap | $6.99B (-4.50%) |
Trading Volume (24hr) | $1.31B (+0.16%) |
Transparent Vol. (24hr) | Unknown |
Transparency Grade | Unknown |
Circulating Supply | 72,240,321 (86.00%) |
All-Time High | $388.77-75.13% |
7D Price Prediction | $103.26 |
Litecoin (LTC) (Ć) is a is a ŃДДr-tĐŸ-ŃДДr ŃrŃŃtĐŸŃurrĐ”nŃŃ Đ°nd open ŃĐŸurŃĐ” software project. It is very similar to Bitcoin but transactions are much faster. Litecoin users are also able to transfer with lower fees than they would if they made a traditional bank transfer.
The crДаtŃĐŸn аnd transfer ĐŸf Litecoin ŃŃ bаŃĐ”d on a ĐŸŃĐ”n-source ŃrŃŃtĐŸgrаŃhŃŃ ŃrĐŸtĐŸŃĐŸl which ŃŃ nĐŸt mаnаgĐ”d bŃ Đ°nŃ ŃĐ”ntrаl authority. Litecoin enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world.
The coin is designed for everyday use, pumping out four times as many coins as Bitcoin, in an effort to keep the digital currency from becoming scarce and too expensive. Transactions are also said to be four times faster. There is a limit of 84 million Litecoins.
Litecoin was released on October 7, 2011, via an open-source client on GitHub, under MIT/X11 lŃŃĐ”nŃĐ”Ń which are permissive forms of open software licenses with limited restrictions on reuse. The Litecoin Network went live on October 13, 2011, and is described as a fork of the Bitcoin Core client. In addition to trading and purchasing Litecoin, it is possible to mine it, which essentially means providing the network with computational power in exchange for the digital currency. As of 2018, miners were awarded 25 new Litecoins per block, an amount which will get halved roughly every 4 years (every 840,000 blocks).
In May 2017, Litecoin became the first of the top 5 (by market cap) cryptocurrencies to adopt Segregated Witness (known as SegWit), which is a soft fork allowing optimal data transmission while bypassing certain protocol restrictions. This (amongst other things) not only speeds up transactions but allows for larger block sizes.
The currency was created by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee and Engineering Director at Coinbase. Litecoin is his second attempt at a cryptocurrency, having launched one called Fairbrix which didnât get off the ground due to technical problems. In 2017 Charlie sold or donated all of his Litecoins except for a few he kept as collectibles. He took the decision not to hold a significant amount of the tokens to avoid a conflict of interest.
The Litecoin blockchain is the largest global scrypt based network, operating with 100% uptime since 2011 securing and transacting billions of dollars of value. Scrypt is an algorithm specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory.
Litecoin was created to make mining as accessible and democratized as possible, rather than being monopolized by companies with huge mining capabilities. Since the time between mining blocks is small, more miners have the opportunity to mine blocks and earn mining rewards. At the beginning of 2018, 14,400 Litecoins were being mined a day, the maximum number possible.
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