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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.
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.
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.
MSTR buys BTC with debt (levered). LITS buys LTC with equity + generates yield (unlevered). Same thesis, different risk. Scenario analysis at -75% to +200%.
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.
No formal proposals. No on-chain voting. No DAO. Charlie Lee proposes, developers implement, miners signal, nodes upgrade. Is this decentralized governance or benevolent dictatorship?
Exchange cold wallets, LITS treasury (929K LTC), Grayscale trust, dormant 2011 miners, MWEB hidden whales. On-chain wealth concentration analysis with Gini coefficient.
Users pay $0.005. The network spends $0.70. The difference is paid by inflation — new LTC diluting all holders. Full economic breakdown of what a transaction really costs.
Miners earn $195K/day. The Foundation runs on $500K-1M/year. Core has 3-5 active developers. Exchanges spend $200K/year per listing. The full cost of keeping Litecoin running.
87% below ATH. LTC/BTC ratio bled 98%. Yet holders stay. Sunk cost fallacy, anchoring bias, identity attachment, and the "would I buy this today?" test.
SegWit: LTC first (May 2017), BTC later (Aug 2017). Lightning atomic swap: LTC first. MWEB privacy: LTC has it, BTC does not. The pattern — and why being the canary does not capture value.
Seven threats ranked by probability: protocol bugs (already happened), miner exodus, regulatory ban, quantum computing, narrative death, stablecoin displacement, Bitcoin Lightning.