Detractors calling Litecoin a ‘dead' project, or a ‘shitcoin', are simply wrong. Despite the proliferation of altcoins over the past few years, Litecoin remains one of the most widely adopted and utilized networks. Beyond usage, there are a…
The crypto market has recovered very well since the December 2021 low of $800 million total market cap, which now stands at around $1.25 trillion. Amidst this, Standard Chartered Bank has predicted Bitcoin price to reach $100,000 by the end of 2023...
A Bitcoin iteration of sorts, Litecoin (LTC) has played second fiddle to the flagship cryptocurrency for most of its history – living up to its ‘the silver to Bitcoin’s gold’ tag. The pair’s price movement has also mostly been much of a…
Ordinals have been a hot topic in the Bitcoin community recently. They first started flooding the Bitcoin network earlier this month, and as the hype continued to build, it peaked with hundreds of ordinals inscribed. But what are they exactly? Ordinal…
Traders closely following the macro news this week picked up narrow profits yesterday as cryptocurrencies gained steam at the expense of a weak US dollar following the Federal Reserve’s CPI release and a statement of a 50-basis point hike in interest…
Litecoin (LTC) is the best-performing token in this bear market. Emerging as the rare winner in the ongoing downtrend, LTC went on to hit about $83 on Wednesday, a level last seen almost six months back in May 2022. However, as of writing, LTC is trading…
Speaking at an event in Chengdu, China on June 19th, Bitmain, the largest supplier of specialised ASIC cryptocurrency mining hardware, announced the release of its new L7 Scrypt based mining hardware. Colin Wu a Journalist at the event reported the…
LitecoinPool Opens Miner Donations to Support Litecoin Development. Litecoin Pool, the longest running Litecoin mining pool has just expanded its donation options to allow its members to donate a percentage of their block rewards to the Litecoin…
Charlie Lee Proposes Voluntary Mining Reward Donations to Fund Litecoin Ecosystem. The problem of how to properly and successfully fund open source, non-profit projects has been an eternal question and altruism only goes so far. Some ventures are…
The Litecoin Foundation Launches a Dedicated Fund for Confidential Transactions. Yesterday the Litecoin Foundation, a Singapore based non profit headed by the projects founder Charlie Lee, announced it was starting up a dedicated fund to fund development…
Litecoin's Oldest Mining Pool Celebrates Eighth Birthday. LitecoinPool.org, Litecoin’s oldest pool which has been mining Litecoin since October 21, 2011, celebrated its 8th birthday earlier this month. ‘Pooler’ the pools founder and operator posted…
The Litecoin Foundation Partners with San Diego International Film Festival. Yesterday the Litecoin Foundation, a Singapore based non-profit organisation set up to support the marketing and adoption of Litecoin, announced it had just embarked on a new…