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Guides, news and analysis about Litecoin and the crypto market.
140B+ in crypto lost to death without key transfer. Five inheritance methods compared: sealed letters, Shamir, multisig, commercial services.
748 GWh/year. 18-67 kWh per transaction. How merged mining changes the calculation and why the ESG narrative misses the security argument.
Your transaction is in limbo until a miner picks it up. Fee market, congestion events, stuck transaction fixes, and why LTC mempool rarely jams.
Perpetuals are bets with a countdown timer. Funding rates, liquidation math, hedging, and why 90% of leveraged traders lose money.
Address poisoning, fake wallets, phishing, rug pulls, fake giveaways. The Walmart fake news that moved LTC 35%. How to verify everything.
Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, OKX, KuCoin, Gemini compared. Fees, security, and which exchange for which use case.
L-addresses cost the most fees. ltc1q costs the least. MWEB hides everything. All 5 Litecoin address formats compared.
Every LTC transaction since 2011 is public. A block explorer lets you verify payments, track whales, and decode addresses.
84 million coins. 32 halvings. The complete emission table from genesis to the last litoshi. What happened after each halving, why returns are diminishing, and the security budget question nobody wants to answer.
94% drawdown from ATH. Exchanges collapsing. Leverage getting liquidated. 7 rules for surviving a bear market with your capital intact — from position sizing to self-custody to exit planning.
Two coins, one algorithm, zero extra electricity. Since 2014, Litecoin and Dogecoin mine together — and this symbiosis is the reason both chains are still alive. How merged mining works and why it matters.
LitVM mainnet. The 2027 halving. ETF competition. The CLARITY Act. Four time-bound events with observable triggers — and the bear case for each one. No guarantees, no hopium.
USDC is faster and stable. Litecoin is censorship-resistant and private. The SVB depeg proved stablecoins have failure modes. A practical framework for choosing the right tool.
A full node validates every transaction without trusting anyone. 120+ GB blockchain, Raspberry Pi compatible, MWEB support. Complete setup guide and why your node strengthens the network.
80-95% of active crypto traders lose money. DCA into LTC removes the timing variable. Step-by-step stacking plan, historical return calculations, and when the strategy fails.
NVT warned before the May 2021 crash. MVRV signals accumulation zones. Active addresses separate real adoption from spam. A practical guide to reading Litecoin on-chain data without the hopium.
Litecoin hashrate hit 3.34 PH/s — an all-time high. How merged mining with Dogecoin doubles the security budget, what a 51% attack would cost, and why the 2027 halving creates a temporary vulnerability window.
BitPay, CoinGate, BTCPay Server — the complete guide to accepting Litecoin payments. Sub-cent fees, 2.5-minute settlement, and why stablecoins are the real competition.
LitVM is on testnet. Wrapped LTC exists on Ethereum and BSC. CeFi lending platforms collapsed in 2022. Here is the honest state of Litecoin DeFi — what works, what does not, and what could kill your funds.
Charlie Lee forked Bitcoin in October 2011 with no ICO, no pre-mine, and no VC money. 15 years later, Litecoin has processed 300M transactions, survived three halvings, and outlasted thousands of dead altcoins.
Every LTC sale, swap, or spend is a taxable event. Here is exactly how Litecoin is taxed in the US, six EU countries, and the UK — including cost basis methods, wash sale rules, and MWEB implications.
Litecoin and Ethereum solve different problems. One is a payment network with sub-cent fees and built-in privacy. The other is a smart contract platform with $50B in DeFi TVL. Here is when to use each.
Over 350,000 LTC are locked in MWEB confidential transactions. How it works, how to use it, which wallets support it, and why Litecoin can offer privacy without getting delisted from exchanges.
LitVM is Litecoin's first Layer-2 smart contract platform, built with ZK-rollups, Polygon CDK, and BitcoinOS. The testnet is live. Here is what it does, how it works, and why most L2 launches fail.