Litecoin analysis
Network observations, market analysis and recorded tests.
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Litecoin in 2035: three honest scenarios
Three internally consistent futures for LTC: quiet utility, slow fade, or second wind. Explicit conditions, watchable early signals, and the fee-market problem nobody has solved. No price targets.
Litecoin block time: waiting probabilities and confirmation limits
Understand the 150-second target, unbounded waiting tails, confirmation starting points and the difference between analytical models and observed inclusion.
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If Bitcoin fails: mapping Litecoin dependencies and failure modes
A mechanism-based review of Bitcoin-failure scenarios, with precise cryptographic and software boundaries instead of fixed correlations, automatic contagion or return forecasts.
Can a government actually ban Litecoin?
China banned crypto three times. Nigeria cut the banking rails. Korea delisted LTC by name. What states can actually do to Litecoin, what they can't, and why both truths matter.
Why Litecoin has no whitepaper — and why that's fine
Litecoin launched in 2011 with a forum post and open-source code, not a whitepaper. Why that omission was honest, what documents actually define LTC, and why great whitepapers never saved a bad coin.
Is it too late to buy Litecoin? A framework instead of a hot take
Litecoin trades around 90% below its 2021 high, which makes "is it too late" the wrong question. A framework for thinking about entry, cycles, the 2027 halving, and position sizing without pretending anyone knows the price.
How many payments can Litecoin handle? Why a single TPS figure misleads
Litecoin's practical capacity changes with transaction size, batching and the route a payment takes. This guide separates modeled base-chain throughput from Lightning, MWEB and custodial transfers, with reproducible assumptions and clear limits.
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Can Litecoin reach $1,000? An honest look at the math
What $1,000 LTC actually requires: a ~$77B market cap, a major BTC bull run, and a reversal of a decade-long LTC/BTC decline. The arithmetic, not the hopium.
What moves Litecoin prices? Test associations before ranking causes
A reproducible framework for investigating LTC price moves, with synthetic beta windows, correct flow definitions and limits on halving and causal claims.
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Why did Charlie Lee sell all his Litecoin? Revisiting the 2017 decision
In December 2017, near the top, Litecoin's creator sold and donated nearly all his LTC. The conflict-of-interest defense, the top-signal backlash, and what hindsight actually shows.
Is Litecoin a ghost chain? Six claims that need different evidence
Our mainnet sample shows activity, but transactions are not customers. A practical framework separates payment use, investment returns, mining and security.
Litecoin and inflation: local returns, purchasing power and access
Corrected country evidence and a worked purchasing-power model explain why currency exposure, inflation, crypto prices and usable transfer routes need separate checks.
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Digital silver vs real silver: does the Litecoin analogy actually hold up?
Litecoin has billed itself as 'the silver to Bitcoin's gold' since 2011. Hold it up against physical silver and the gold/silver ratio, and the analogy holds on one axis and shatters on the rest.
Who develops Litecoin? Code, review, funding and continuity
A practical method for assessing Litecoin development, upstream integration, review capacity and funding without unsupported headcounts or staffing conclusions.
Litecoin and Dogecoin merged mining: stress-test both revenue streams
Model a DOGE downturn and an LTC halving without assuming that two chains share every block or a fixed attack cost.
Do people pay with Litecoin? Read the denominator before the headline
CoinGate reports LTC payment use, but one denominator choice changes a 2025 estimate by about 14,416 orders. Our calculation separates shares, counts and scope.
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Litecoin MWEB vs Monero: what each privacy model can protect
What stays visible depends on the payment route and who is watching. Compare MWEB and Monero across amounts, transaction links, network traffic and service records.
Could quantum computers break Litecoin? Keys, mining and the limits
Quantum threats to Litecoin depend on what is being attacked. Understand exposed public keys, Scrypt mining, hardware evidence and what a real migration would require.
A Litecoin treasury stock is not Litecoin: holdings, dilution and NAV
Dated company holdings and a reproducible synthetic model show how share dilution and NAV discounts can separate treasury-stock returns from LTC returns.
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LitVM explained: testnet evidence, bridge claims and open questions
A source-led review of LitVM that records conflicting architecture descriptions, separates testnet claims from deployment evidence, and provides a practical checklist.
What 50 Litecoin blocks tell us about MWEB activity
Our frozen window separates HogAddr value, peg-outs and 16 kernel records. Download the series and see why reserve size cannot measure private payments.
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Litecoin and Bitcoin upgrades: what the historical record shows
A source-led correction of the testnet analogy: distinguish independent networks, SegWit chronology, MWEB deployment and the evidence needed for a historical first.
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We checked 998 early Litecoin outputs. Unspent does not mean lost
At one chain cutoff, 42 selected early outputs still held 2,100 LTC. Our downloadable census explains why this cannot estimate lost Litecoin.
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Crypto payment competition: counts, value and complete routes
Replace an unsupported worldwide payment ranking with a reproducible comparison of invoice counts, transfer value, data coverage and actual merchant routes.
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