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Litecoin guides, news and market analysis. Explore wallets, security, payments, mining and market data, with links to practical LTC tools.
LitVM explained: Litecoin's bid for smart contracts and where it actually stands
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.
MWEB four years on: what the adoption data actually says about Litecoin privacy
Four years after MimbleWimble went live on Litecoin, the parked balance keeps climbing while real confidential usage stays thin. A data-led verdict on whether MWEB was worth the delistings.
Scrypt ASIC economics after the 2027 halving: when does your miner go negative?
Breakeven math for the Antminer L7 and L9 at five electricity tiers, before and after the 2027 Litecoin halving. The twist nobody prices in: DOGE merge-mining, not LTC, decides who survives.
Litecoin as Bitcoin's testnet-in-production: every feature LTC shipped first
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.
How much Litecoin is lost forever? On-chain forensics of dormant LTC supply
A data-driven swing at how much Litecoin is gone for good, built on dormancy cohorts, early-mining forensics, and an honest accounting of what the chain can and can't tell us.
Litecoin's real competition in 2026: who is actually winning the payment coin race
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.
The 10 most expensive Litecoin transactions in history: on-chain forensics
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.
Every Litecoin fork ever made: the complete family tree from 2011 to 2026
Bitcoin begat Litecoin. Litecoin begat Dogecoin, Feathercoin, Litecoin Cash, BBQCoin, and a dozen others. 95% are dead. The complete genealogy with dates, market caps, and causes of death.
The MicroStrategy playbook applied to Litecoin: LITS vs MSTR model-by-model comparison
MSTR buys BTC with debt (levered). LITS buys LTC with equity + generates yield (unlevered). Same thesis, different risk. Scenario analysis at -75% to +200%.
Litecoin Core v0.21.5.5: the post-exploit security audit nobody is talking about
Released May 7, 2026. 47 files changed, 3,200 lines added. Mandatory MWEB upgrade, improved peer banning, additional validation. The code diff analysis and what remains unpatched.
Why traders are losing confidence in Litecoin — and why the on-chain data disagrees
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?
Lite Strategy turns LTC into a yield machine: how covered calls on crypto treasury work
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.
Litecoin Summit Amsterdam: 30 days out — speaker lineup confirmed and LitVM demo announced
One month until the biggest Litecoin event of 2026. Charlie Lee keynote confirmed. Live LitVM smart contract demo scheduled. Full speaker lineup and what traders should watch for.
Litecoin hashrate: correcting the 3.5 PH/s record claim
Why a hashrate record needs a consistent source and averaging window, and how to interpret mining estimates.
Canary drops LTCC fee to 0.39% as Grayscale filing advances: the LTC ETF fee war begins
Canary Capital slashes LTCC expense ratio from 0.85% to 0.39% ahead of Grayscale competition. Fee war dynamics, what it means for AUM, and why this matters more than price.
Litecoin Core v0.21.5.5 released: post-exploit hardening and what changed
One month after the MWEB reorg, Litecoin Core ships a hardening release. New validation checks, improved peer banning, and mandatory MWEB upgrade. What node operators need to know.
$1,000 at Litecoin milestones: a reproducible historical comparison
A reproducible $1,000 investment study using Coin Metrics daily prices, a fixed valuation date and an equal-budget DCA comparison. Includes calculation CSVs.
Litecoin governance: who proposes, reviews and adopts changes
How Litecoin proposals, code review, deployment rules and operator choices interact. Public LIPs exist; no single role controls every decision.
Litecoin's rich list: what the largest addresses can and cannot reveal
Address balances are not a census of owners. Learn how custody, change outputs and incomplete labels affect Litecoin concentration claims.
Litecoin's codebase: Bitcoin ancestry, consensus changes and MWEB
Trace Litecoin consensus parameters, subsidy arithmetic, address encoding and MWEB in version-pinned source code. Separate historical facts from unsupported code claims.
The cost of a Litecoin transaction: fees, subsidies and resource costs
Separate wallet fees, miner revenue and resource costs. Worked examples explain fee units and why allocated subsidy is not a user invoice.
Litecoin infrastructure: who operates it and how it is funded
Examine funding and continuity across miners, nodes, developers, wallets and explorers without inventing private budgets or contributor salaries.
Holding LTC through losses: psychology, evidence and portfolio decisions
Review anchoring, loss recovery arithmetic and portfolio exposure without diagnosing every holder. Includes a practical decision journal framework.
Litecoin as Bitcoin's canary: shared lessons and the limits of the analogy
Distinguish implementation from activation and shared engineering from adoption. Litecoin is an independent network, not Bitcoin’s official testnet.