Litecoin
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Litecoin
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Market Cap and Supply
Market Cap
$4,824,479,894
8.56%
Fully Diluted Market Cap
$6,012,184,019
8.56%
Circulating Supply
67,405,840
Supply Availability
Availabile
80.25%Not availablele
19.75%Trading Statistics24h
Volume
$198,415,604
2.80%
Open
$66.39
Low
$64.623
High
$72.672
Close
$71.725
Liquidity
Bids vs Asks (1% depth)
$17,398,857
$15,022,081
All Times
All time high
$410.26
All time low
$1.15
ATH
Current Price
$71.57362
ATL
17.13%
Social24h
Lists
4,783
Followers
939,223
Statuses
1,809
Likes
7,865
Talks
37
Post Daily
3.37
Comments
85
Subscribers
358,199
Development24h
Github
Stars
3,928
Subscribers
533
Github Issues
Closed
377
Open Total
60
Closed Pull Req.
284
General Information
Consensus
PoW
Algorithm
Scrypt
Sector
Currency, Top 5
No. of Exchanges
23
No. of Pairs
About Litecoin
What Is Litecoin?
The “lite version of Bitcoin,” Litecoin (LTC) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee, in 2011. It has a circulating supply of 65,816,553 LTC coins and a max. supply of 84,000,000 LTC coins. Although it is based on the Bitcoin protocol, LTC is characterized by a markedly shorter transaction speed of 2.5 minutes per block (unless there is network congestion). Litecoin also differs from Bitcoin in that it uses the memory intensive Scrypt Proof of Work (PoW) mining algorithm, which allows users to mine Litecoin on a Mac or on Windows, solo or via a pool. Users that want to mine via CPUs or GPU turn to Scrypt for its accessibility, and ASIC-based mining rigs are not suitable for Litecoin mining. See below for a full selection of markets where you can trade Litecoin for other cryptocurrencies, US dollars, and other fiat currencies.