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Guides, news and analysis about Litecoin and the crypto market.
Six verification steps every merchant needs. Confirmation requirements by amount, zero-conf risks, MWEB blind spots, and what the April 2026 reorg taught us.
ETH has $50B TVL and staking yield. LTC has 14-year PoW security, sub-cent fees, MWEB privacy, and a hard cap. The LitVM wildcard could change everything.
LTC correlates 0.85 with BTC but has higher beta and pre-halving alpha windows. Portfolio templates, Sharpe ratios, rebalancing rules, and the barbell approach.
Buy, store, send, verify. Four steps from zero to your first Litecoin transaction. Common beginner mistakes and what to learn next.
LTC is dead. Charlie Lee abandoned it. Nobody uses it. The halving always pumps. Each myth examined with data — and honest acknowledgment of what critics DO get right.
Every LTC sale, spend, and swap is a taxable event. Capital gains rates by country, cost basis methods, mining income rules, DCA complexity, and reporting tools.
Payment channels, off-chain transactions, cross-chain atomic swaps. How Lightning works on Litecoin, its current state, and when to use it vs on-chain vs MWEB.
The inflation bug existed for 4 years undetected. The patch created a new DoS vector. MWEB adoption dropped 40% post-incident. Honest risk assessment for privacy feature users.
Proof-of-work gives probabilistic finality, not absolute. The April 2026 reorg proved that 6 confirmations protect against hashrate attacks but not consensus bugs. How it all works.
Two critical bugs patched: MWEB inflation vulnerability and mining node DoS. Step-by-step update guide for Windows, Linux, Mac. Only 52% of nodes upgraded so far.
Two new LTC ETF filings join the existing LTCC. Analysts give 90% approval odds. A fee war could slash costs from 0.85% to 0.25%. What competition means for LTC demand.
14 years of zero incidents — over. A zero-day MWEB bug caused a 13-block reorganization on April 25, 2026. NEAR Intents lost $600K. An inflation bug created 85,034 fake LTC. The full breakdown.
June 22-23, Amsterdam. LitVM mainnet date expected. Charlie Lee keynote. MWEB payment demo. The most important LTC event since the ETF.
LitVM testnet launched Q1 2026. Solidity contracts deploy. EVM tools work. But no TVL, no bridge, no mainnet date. Hands-on review.
Both target payments. LTC uses faster blocks. BCH uses bigger blocks. BCH got 51% attacked. Both are losing to stablecoins.
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.
LTC/BTC has bled 98% since 2013. The ratio tells you whether holding LTC instead of BTC is making or losing money. Key levels and trading windows.
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.