Network & basics articles
Litecoin fundamentals, history, consensus, supply, nodes, scaling and development.
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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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A Litecoin transaction: signing, relay, inclusion and credit
A transparent payment walkthrough with explicit value accounting and separate evidence for signing, local acceptance, active-chain inclusion and recipient credit.
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.
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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Litecoin Ordinals and LTC-20: transactions, indexers and transfers
Understand inscription allocation, separate token indexing, atomic transaction boundaries and wallet checks without unsupported activity statistics.
How many Litecoin exist? Why the 84 million cap is only part of the answer
Litecoin's cap, permitted issuance and coins available to spend are different quantities. Follow the subsidy schedule at a recorded height and see why dormant outputs cannot simply be counted as lost.
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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 transaction pending? Find the delay before sending again
Separate a pending withdrawal, an unconfirmed transaction and missing account credit. Check the evidence before attempting a fee bump or another payment.
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.
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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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.
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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Why a large Litecoin transaction is not always a whale transfer
In 50 blocks, all ten largest naive output totals were MWEB HogEx rows. Download our classification, ordinary ranking and full transaction IDs.
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Litecoin forks explained: code ancestry, chain splits and AuxPoW
A source-led history of selected Litecoin relationships: code derivatives, later rebases, ledger inheritance and merged mining, with corrected dates and explicit evidence limits.
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Checking Litecoin Core security claims against release notes
How to distinguish a documented fix, an operator check and an independent security audit when reading Core updates.
Litecoin sentiment and on-chain activity: compare the evidence carefully
Why active addresses, hashrate and fund holdings cannot prove trader sentiment or predict Litecoin returns.