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Litecoin

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Symbol: LTC
LTC

Price

Fundamentals

Rank

 
#24

Market Cap

 
$5.19B

Circulating Supply

75,143,908.00
89.46%

Max Supply

 
84,000,000.00

Frequently asked questions

What is the rank of Litecoin by market capitalization?

Litecoin holds the #24 position among cryptocurrencies based on market capitalization. This ranking reflects the relative size and significance of Litecoin compared to other digital assets in the crypto market.

What is the market capitalization of Litecoin?

The market capitalization of Litecoin is $5.19B. Market cap is calculated by multiplying the current price per coin by the number of coins in circulation.

How many Litecoin are there?

The circulating supply of Litecoin is 75,143,908.00, which is 89.46% of its maximum supply. This figure represents the number of coins that are currently available and can actively be traded in the market.

What is the maximum supply of Litecoin?

The maximum supply of Litecoin is 84,000,000.00 coins. This is the total number of coins that will ever be created, serving to limit inflation and ensure scarcity.

How much of Litecoin's maximum supply is already in circulation?

Currently, 89.46% of Litecoin's maximum supply is in circulation, amounting to 84,000,000.00 coins. This indicates how close Litecoin is to reaching its maximum supply limit.

Pricing

1D span
$68.10$69.61
52W span
$50.07$112.88

Information

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee. It was created based on the Bitcoin protocol but differs in terms of the hashing algorithm used. Litecoin uses the memory intensive Scrypt proof of work mining algorithm. Scrypt allows consumer-grade hardware such as GPU to mine those coins. Why Litecoin? Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that has evolved from Bitcoin after its own popularity in the industry, this alternative, or ‘altcoin’ has emerged to allow investors to diversify their digital currency package, according to Investopedia. Litecoin is one of the most prominent altcoins and was created by former Google employee and Director of Engineering at Coinbase, Charlie Lee. Litecoin was the first to alter Bitcoin and the most significant difference is that it takes 2.5 minutes for Litecoin to generate a block, or transaction, in comparison to Bitcoin's 10 minutes. ‘While this matters little to traders, miners who use hardware to run Bitcoin's network cannot switch over to Litecoin. This keeps bigger mining conglomerates away from Litecoin because they cannot easily optimize their profits by swapping to another coin, contributing to a more decentralized experience. Litecoin also has bigger blocks, and more coins in circulation, making it more affordable and swift when transacting,’ Investopedia explained. As explained above, Litecoin can transact a lot faster than Bitcoin, but there are also a number of other characteristics that investors need to know before trading. Litecoin can handle higher volumes of transactions because of the capability of transacting faster and if Bitcoin attempted to transact on the scale of its altcoin, a code update would be needed. However, Litecoin’s blocks would be larger, but with more ‘orphaned blocks'. The faster block time of litecoin reduces the risk of double spending attacks - this is theoretical in the case of both networks having the same hashing power. Litecoin Technical Details: The transaction confirmation time taken for Litecoin is about 2.5 minutes on average (as compared to Bitcoin's 10 minutes). The Litecoin network is scheduled to cap at 84 million currency units. Litecoin has inspired many other popular alternative currencies (eg. Dogecoin) because of its Scrypt hashing algorithm in order to prevent ASIC miners from mining those coins. However it is said that by the end of this year, Scrypt ASIC will enter the mass market.

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