Wallets & recovery articles
Custody, receiving addresses, backups, restoration and signing access.
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Review a Litecoin PSBT before signing: inputs, change and fees
Inspect a transparent PSBT v0 without treating decoding as approval. Reproduce a synthetic fee example and review recipient, change, inputs and signature commitments.
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Why mined Litecoin is not immediately spendable: coinbase maturity
Why a visible mining reward may remain unavailable: distinguish consensus height rules, Core wallet maturity, normal pool payouts and MWEB peg-outs.
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A Litecoin wallet can sign a payment without sending it
Our signed Litecoin payment stayed outside the mempool until explicit submission. Output changes broke its signature; a second complete signed file became unusable after its input was spent.
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Before you share a Litecoin xpub, know what it reveals
In our public-only Core test, one parent derived ten receiving and five change candidates. See what that disclosure means before sending an xpub to a service.
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Can a Litecoin wallet work without the whole blockchain?
A phone wallet, a pruned node and an archival node keep different data. Five Core startup tests show why a pruning setting is not a complete storage budget.
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A valid Litecoin message signature does not prove a balance
A zero-funded address signed successfully, and the same expired response still verified. See what the legacy Core test establishes and which context, expiry and replay rules an application must enforce.
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Your Litecoin payment arrived. Did the note arrive too?
In four isolated Core sends, the payments reached the recipient while the comments stayed at the sender. See what the test proves and where an order reference needs to go.
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Three new tools for Litecoin charts, wallet backups and invoice deadlines
Compare what chart intervals leave out, separate restored addresses from signing access, and replay an invoice deadline. Three new Litecoin.watch tools come with worked examples, downloadable results and explicit evidence limits.
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Your wallet is offline. Can Litecoin still arrive?
Three test payments confirmed while the receiving Core process was stopped. Restarting without peers still showed zero; synchronization revealed the receipts. The experiment separates chain receipt from wallet display and service credit.
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The old Litecoin backup still spent after a password change
An earlier encrypted copy unlocked with its known old password and spent the test output. Twelve Core cases separate local file encryption from on-chain control.
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A Litecoin timelock does not send the payment for you
A future-dated ordinary transaction did not reserve its input in our Core test. Compare that result with a required CLTV path, block-height rules and the chain's median clock before relying on a scheduled payment.
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A valid Litecoin address can still be the wrong destination
An accepted address is not proof of the intended recipient or exchange credit. Our synthetic parser test explains shared historical formats, checksum limits and why recovery depends on the actual route.
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How to send an exact Litecoin amount or your whole wallet balance
See where the recipient amount, change and fee go in 24 controlled constructions. Compare exact payments, fee subtraction and send max, with measured sizes and downloadable checks.
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Your Litecoin wallet shows a balance. Why won't it send?
A correct balance can still lack eligible coins or a usable signer. Eleven controlled Core states show how to check what is missing before depositing more or reinstalling.
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Can a hardware wallet protect your Litecoin from every scam?
Seven scenarios show where hardware signing helps and where it does not: a copied recovery backup, a substituted address or a payment you approve to a scammer. Learn what to check on the device, how to verify the full destination and how native Litecoin payments differ from token approvals on other networks.
Why your Litecoin receive address changes—and whether the old one still works
A private Core experiment checks older receiving addresses after 41 newer addresses. Learn what changes in a self-custody wallet, what exchange deposit policies can change and how to verify a saved destination.
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How two wallet parsers handle Litecoin payment requests
Twenty identical requests reveal differences in repeated amounts, decimal precision and metadata at the parsing boundary of Electrum-LTC and Cake Wallet. Exact versions, code and results are published.
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What a Litecoin payment QR code actually tells your wallet
Twenty URI cases across two parsers, SVG scan examples and a practical checklist for Litecoin amounts, labels, address checks and invoice expiry.
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Why a restored Litecoin wallet can show zero: three controlled tests
We tested missing history, an imported key absent from an older backup, and an Electrum address beyond the initial range. Inspect the balances, exact versions and reproduction scripts.
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Can you recover your Litecoin wallet? Tested backups, seeds and account keys
We restored an encrypted Core wallet, Electrum seeds and BIP39-derived account keys. The tests separate matching addresses, finding funds and recovering signing authority.
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Litecoin multisig: how a 2-of-3 wallet works
Eight regtest cases show which key combinations can spend. Includes a recovery checklist, backup requirements and a reproducible Core experiment.
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Litecoin UTXOs and coin control: inputs, change, fees and privacy
Understand where Litecoin change goes, how input count affects fees, when consolidation can help and which privacy tradeoffs coin control introduces.
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Unexpected Litecoin in your wallet? What to check before you send
A small incoming payment, a lookalike in history and a changed clipboard need different checks. Inspect the exact output and authenticate the next destination.
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How exchanges account for your Litecoin deposits and withdrawals
Separate an on-chain output, a custodial account balance and a completed withdrawal before diagnosing a transfer.