Litecoin Subject to Hate Over the past few months, the Litecoin (LTC) community has been under a barrage of rumors that the project is dead. Indeed, Bitcoin millionaire Erik Finman called the altcoin nearly dead in December, claiming that it is currently relishing in its last minute of sunlight. These...
Litecoin Tanks, Yet May Soon See Bounce Mere weeks ago, Litecoin (LTC) underwent its latest block reward reduction — also known as a “halving” or “halvening”. While many expected for this to kick off the cryptocurrency’s next surge, it didn’t. In fact. the popular altcoin plunged after the halving, falling...
Litecoin is now a payment option on the Protonmail shop and Venmo Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash is also supported by the two platforms The Protonmail Shop has additional support for DAI Litecoin has bounced back above the 200-day moving average You can now use Litecoin (LTC) as a payment...
Litecoin is a “Payment Token” In a report from the IMF published late last year, but that only surfaced on Crypto Twitter over the past few days due to a tweet from the Litecoin Foundation’s Xinxi Wang, the monetary authority’ statistics department subtly gave Litecoin (LTC) its stamp of approval....
Quick take: Litecoin’s MimbleWimble privacy protocol has resulted in some South Korean exchanges issuing warnings about LTC. Upbit and Bithumb have advised crypto users of the risks associated with the privacy upgrade. Both exchanges cited South Korea’s Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information. Bitcoin’s little...
Litecoin miners have started the process of signaling for the MimbleWimble upgrade AntPool was the first mining pool to signal for the upgrade 75% of the miners need to signal for MimbleWimble for it to be activated If the miner’s threshold has not been reached in 1 year, MWEB will...
Launched in October 2011 as a Bitcoin (BTC) fork, Litecoin (LTC) has consistently ranked among the top cryptocurrencies. As a leading peer-to-peer (P2P) digital asset platform, the Litecoin network adopted SegWit (for more efficient transaction data processing) before it was added to the Bitcoin protocol. Litecoin’s developers have also integrated...
In summary: The Litecoin network has gained 307,603 new non-zero LTC wallet addresses in the past week. This equates to an average of 43,943 new addresses per day. No direct explanation can be found for the sudden increment in LTC addresses. One explanation could be DeFi. A second could be...
In brief: Litecoin’s founder, Charlie Lee, sold his LTC in late 2017 to concentrate on the project’s development Charlie Lee received a lot of criticism for his decision to sell his Litecoin bag According to David Schwartz, Mr. Lee sold his Litecoin at an average price of $205 Litecoin is...
Litecoin Price May Continue Recovery Mere weeks ago, Litecoin (LTC) underwent its latest block reward reduction — also known as a “halving” or “halvening”. While many expected for this to kick off the cryptocurrency’s next surge, it didn’t. In fact. the popular altcoin plunged after the halving, falling from three...
Quick take: Flare Networks will be integrating Litecoin ahead of their Q2 launch Litecoin users will be able to use Ethereum style smart contracts Litecoin holders qualify for a 5 Billion Spark Token (FLR) airdrop Details of the airdrop will be provided later with the tokens being sourced from the...
In summary: On the 1st of this month, Litecoin’s MimbleWimble protocol was launched on the Testnet MimbleWimble developer, David Burkett, explained that the testnet version still has to undergo further testing before the Litecoin community can test it Full activation on the mainnet will be some time in 2021 On...
