LTC

Litecoin LTC

Price of 1 Litecoin today (23 April)

$ 85.03

-0.8%

Price Min/Max

24 hrs

$ 84.2

$ 86.29

30 days

$ 72.87

$ 111.22

1 year

$ 57.99

$ 114.55

Market Cap

$ 6,319,049,254

-3.34%

#22

Trading Volume, 24h

$ 323,695,632

-15.17%

Supply token

74,455,033 LTC 89%

Max Supply

84,000,000

The first currency trading commenced in 8 October 2011 , and up to the present day, Litecoin (LTC) торгуется только на . The maximum trading volume is observed for the trading pair LTC/USDT and reaches 261.6 mln. dollar (73% of the total volume across all exchanges). During the week, the minimum price for Litecoin (LTC) is fixed on Wednesday at 78.7 dollars. Currently, the token Litecoin is trading in the range of 85.03 dollars or 7,931.9 rubles for 1 LTC.

Price of Litecoin (LTC)

Exchanges where LTC is traded

	Pair	Price	Volume, 24h
1	LTC/USDT	$ 85.31 ₮ 85.24	$ 40,941,757	Go
2	LTC/USDT	$ 84.93 ₮ 84.91	$ 17,970,456	Go
3	LTC/USDT	$ 85.17 ₮ 85.14	$ 16,718,576	Go
4	LTC/USDT	$ 85 ₮ 84.94	$ 14,227,067	Go
5	LTC/USDT	$ 84.9 ₮ 84.86	$ 14,059,619	Go
6	LTC/USDT	$ 84.96 ₮ 84.99	$ 12,257,719	Go
7	LTC/USDT	$ 85.09 ₮ 85.03	$ 11,586,580	Go
8	LTC/BTC	$ 85.28 ₿ 0.0013	$ 11,343,334	Go
9	LTC/USD	$ 84.8 $ 84.80	$ 10,501,407	Go
10	LTC/USDT	$ 84.98 ₮ 84.92	$ 10,416,129	Go

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What is Litecoin?

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee. It was created based on the Bitcoin protocol but differs in terms of the hashing algorithm used. Litecoin uses the memory intensive Scrypt proof of work mining algorithm. Scrypt allows consumer-grade hardware such as GPU to mine those coins.

Why Litecoin?
Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that has evolved from Bitcoin after its own popularity in the industry, this alternative, or ‘altcoin’ has emerged to allow investors to diversify their digital currency package, according to Investopedia. Litecoin is one of the most prominent altcoins and was created by former Google employee and Director of Engineering at Coinbase, Charlie Lee. Litecoin was the first to alter Bitcoin and the most significant difference is that it takes 2.5 minutes for Litecoin to generate a block, or transaction, in comparison to Bitcoin's 10 minutes.

‘While this matters little to traders, miners who use hardware to run Bitcoin's network cannot switch over to Litecoin. This keeps bigger mining conglomerates away from Litecoin because they cannot easily optimize their profits by swapping to another coin, contributing to a more decentralized experience. Litecoin also has bigger blocks, and more coins in circulation, making it more affordable and swift when transacting,’ Investopedia explained.

As explained above, Litecoin can transact a lot faster than Bitcoin, but there are also a number of other characteristics that investors need to know before trading. Litecoin can handle higher volumes of transactions because of the capability of transacting faster and if Bitcoin attempted to transact on the scale of its altcoin, a code update would be needed. However, Litecoin’s blocks would be larger, but with more ‘orphaned blocks'. The faster block time of litecoin reduces the risk of double spending attacks - this is theoretical in the case of both networks having the same hashing power.

Litecoin Technical Details:
The transaction confirmation time taken for Litecoin is about 2.5 minutes on average (as compared to Bitcoin's 10 minutes). The Litecoin network is scheduled to cap at 84 million currency units.

Litecoin has inspired many other popular alternative currencies (eg. Dogecoin) because of its Scrypt hashing algorithm in order to prevent ASIC miners from mining those coins. However it is said that by the end of this year, Scrypt ASIC will enter the mass market.