Wallets & recovery articles
Custody, receiving addresses, backups, restoration and signing access.
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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.
Before you fund a Litecoin cold wallet, check recovery
A hardware wallet is only one part of cold storage. Verify the account, protect the backup and check recovery before moving the main balance.
Recovering a Litecoin wallet: identify the backup before restoring
Identify the backup format, preserve original files and diagnose a zero balance. Includes a reproducible encrypted Core wallet recovery experiment.
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Litecoin for complete beginners: the start-here guide
Learn what Litecoin does, how wallets and fees work, and how to check a small first payment without exposing your recovery phrase.
Litecoin inheritance planning: how to pass your LTC to heirs
Plan access, legal instructions and wallet recovery for heirs. Separate discovery information from secrets and test the process safely.
Common Litecoin scams in 2026 and how to protect yourself
Recognize wallet, recovery, phishing and address-poisoning scams. Verify software sources and respond without exposing keys or paying recovery scammers.
Litecoin address formats: checksums, compatibility and MWEB
A practical guide to Litecoin address encodings, historical P2SH overlap, receiver compatibility, checksums and wrong-network recovery limits.
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How to survive a crypto bear market: a Litecoin holder's complete playbook
Build a bear-market plan around essential expenses, concentration, custody and written decisions. Recovery arithmetic is not a promise of a rebound.
Tristero and MWEB: the announcement, compatibility and security checks
Review the March integration announcement, MWEB transfer compatibility and later security incidents without claiming unverified product capabilities.
January 2026 BTC and LTC theft: correcting the report and protecting wallets
Correct the incident date and distinguish combined BTC/LTC estimates from LTC-only loss. Explain social engineering, recovery evidence and wallet controls.
Litecoin MWEB: privacy, wallet support and the security record
Understand MWEB transfers, dated balance statistics, wallet compatibility, recovery requirements and the documented 2026 security incidents.
Litecoin Lightning: implementations, channels, fees and recovery
Explore Litecoin-compatible Lightning software, directional liquidity and channel recovery. Separate documented support from unverified network claims.
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Choosing a Litecoin wallet: custody, backups and MWEB support
Compare full-node, lightweight, mobile, hardware and custodial approaches. Check exact feature support and recovery requirements before choosing.
How to store Litecoin safely: wallets, backups and recovery
Understand Litecoin wallet types, recovery phrases, passphrases, hardware devices and a practical plan for testing your backups.
What is Litecoin? A practical guide to payments and wallets
Understand LTC units, transaction outputs, confirmations and wallet recovery. Includes a worked payment calculation and links to practical tools.