Litecoin
LTC✓ Verified$51.14▲ 1.92%
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About
Litecoin, launched in 2011, follows bitcoin’s model with blocks four times faster and 84 million coins.
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Silver to bitcoin’s gold
Created by Charlie Lee, Litecoin produces a block every 2.5 minutes and caps supply at 84 million, four times bitcoin. It has often served as a testing ground for upgrades later adopted by Bitcoin. Its last halving, in August 2023, cut the reward to 6.25 LTC per block.
Actual protocol schedule. Solid: reward per block. Dashed: bitcoins issued (the top of the scale is 21 million).
Specific risks
- Little differentiation from bitcoin and stablecoins for payments.
Questions and answers
Does Litecoin have halvings?
Yes, every 840,000 blocks, roughly every four years like bitcoin.
Notitia newsroom · education, not investment advice. Crypto-assets are very volatile.