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Guides, news and analysis about Litecoin and the crypto market.
A brutally honest look at whether Litecoin helps people in Argentina, Turkey, and Nigeria — where it works as a transfer rail and where stablecoins crush it as a savings tool.
Litecoin has called itself 'the silver to Bitcoin's gold' since 2011. Tested against physical silver and the gold/silver ratio, the analogy holds on one axis and shatters on the rest.
A hard look at who maintains Litecoin's code, how the Foundation pays for it, and how few people understand the parts that matter most.
Litecoin and Dogecoin share one Scrypt computation through AuxPoW. On modern hardware DOGE often pays the bigger share. We model what breaks if either coin falls.
Litecoin is proof-of-work, so native staking does not exist. What "LTC staking" products really are, the custodial risks, and how to spot the scams.
LTC tops BitPay by transaction count and is its #1 payout coin since 2022. But stablecoins have won mainstream crypto payments. Here's the honest data.
Monero hides every transaction by default; Litecoin's MWEB is opt-in and rarely used. We compare the real privacy on offer, the regulatory fallout, and the trade-offs.
A sober look at two separate quantum risks to Litecoin: Shor's algorithm against ECDSA signatures, and Grover's against the Scrypt hash. One matters. One barely does.
A failed biotech bought 929,548 LTC and renamed itself Lite Strategy. The stock has fallen from $9 to about $1. Here is how the treasury-company trade works, and why it amplifies LTC's downside.
An EVM rollup is being bolted onto Litecoin to bring DeFi and smart contracts to LTC liquidity. A grounded look at what shipped, what's promised, and what could break.
Four years after MimbleWimble went live, the balance keeps climbing while real confidential usage stays thin. A data-led verdict on whether MWEB was worth the delistings.
Exact breakeven math for the Antminer L7 and L9 at five electricity tiers, before and after the 2027 Litecoin halving. The twist: DOGE merge-mining, not LTC, decides who survives.
Litecoin activated SegWit, Lightning, and MWEB privacy on a live chain with real money before Bitcoin did. A rigorous, dated look at the firsts and where the thesis breaks.
A data-driven attempt to estimate how much Litecoin is gone for good, using dormancy cohorts, early-mining forensics, and an honest accounting of what the chain can and can't tell us.
USDT on Tron dominates. USDC is growing. Lightning is trying. LTC is steady at top 3 on BitPay. Dash is dead. Nano never made it. The full ranking with actual payment volume data.
From the 85,034 LTC MWEB exploit to million-LTC exchange migrations. The biggest on-chain movements, who sent them, and what happened to the price after each one.
Bitcoin begat Litecoin. Litecoin begat Dogecoin, Feathercoin, Litecoin Cash, BBQCoin, and a dozen others. 95% are dead. The complete genealogy with dates, market caps, and causes of death.
MSTR buys BTC with debt (levered). LITS buys LTC with equity + generates yield (unlevered). Same thesis, different risk. Scenario analysis at -75% to +200%.
Released May 7, 2026. 47 files changed, 3,200 lines added. Mandatory MWEB upgrade, improved peer banning, additional validation. The code diff analysis and what remains unpatched.
LTC/BTC ratio at all-time lows. Price -87% from ATH. But hashrate at 3.5 PH/s ATH, 400K active addresses, 3.7M institutional LTC. Sentiment vs usage — who is right?
LITS sells covered calls on 929K LTC, generating $700K in premiums. 100% expired out-of-the-money. How the mechanics work, why ETFs cannot replicate it, and the MicroStrategy comparison.
One month until the biggest Litecoin event of 2026. Charlie Lee keynote confirmed. Live LitVM smart contract demo scheduled. Full speaker lineup and what traders should watch for.
Hashrate climbs to 3.5 PH/s while LTC trades at $56. Miner confidence at record levels. New Antminer L11 deployment, merged mining economics, and what the divergence signals.
Canary Capital slashes LTCC expense ratio from 0.85% to 0.39% ahead of Grayscale competition. Fee war dynamics, what it means for AUM, and why this matters more than price.