Market Cap: $3.2 T
BTC Dominance: 58.26%
24 Vol: $386.4 B
Fear & Greed: Extreme Greed
  📉A drop in today's Fear and Greed index. Remaining in 'Extreme Greed' but dropped by 4 points. Overall index is now 76
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Litecoin logo Litecoin (LTC)

$131.38
13.21%
24hr Low $115.12 24hr High $139.71

Everything you need to know about Litecoin

Litecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies launched back in 2011. For a long time flipping between the 2nd and 3rd highest market cap. It was created from forking  Bitcoin's source code and modified to use a slightly different hashing algorithm & coin tokenomics. Created by Charlie Lee, who came under fire after selling all of his LTC right at the of the 2017 bull run. Lee explained this was to reduce his conflict of interest in a Reddit post

Litecoin vs Bitcoin


LITECOINBITCOIN
Release dateOct. 7, 2011Jan. 9, 2009
Maximum Supply84 million21 million
Hashing algorithmScryptSHA-256
Average transaction time2.5 minutes10 minutes
Halving Every block rewards840,000 blocks210,000 blocks

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