Litecoin FAQ source review — 23 October 2026 (Europe/Warsaw)
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Scope: all 41 existing answers at https://litecoin.watch/faq/
13 answers materially corrected; 28 retained after source review.
This was an AI-assisted review of current primary documentation and selected
source code. No independent reviewer is claimed. It was not an exchange-account,
wallet, transfer, mining-hardware or security-audit test.

Files:
- sources.json: 29 successful primary-source captures, retrieval times, source
  URLs, SHA-256 hashes of private captures, and bounded findings.
- question-sources.json: source mapping for each answer; answer hashes bind the
  map to this revision, not to future edits.
- changes.json: exact previous/new text and reason for the 13 corrections.
- checksums.sha256: checksums of these public records.

The captures were retrieved on 22 October UTC, already 23 October in Warsaw.
The latest stable Litecoin release endpoint returned v0.21.5.8. The annotated
tag resolves to commit ec1b6489a900d09cf5991e220dce089c77a232a2.
The source links are evidence of reviewed rules, not of deployment by all nodes.

Main corrections: rounded issuance cap versus spendable supply; conditional
purchase/withdrawal routes and PayPal app/web availability; custody and backup
responsibilities; Scrypt and SegWit scope; actual pool payout versus guaranteed
profit; exact subsidy eras; and descriptive prices versus predictive claims.
Stale hardware recommendations, unsourced aggregate losses and investor
prevalence statements were removed.

Limits and source conflicts:
- Product documentation can change after retrieval. No current fee, account
  eligibility, wallet compatibility, merchant availability or profitability was
  inferred without its own stated scope. PayPal must be rechecked in the live
  account before a transaction.
- The current Foundation history distinguishes software release from public
  launch. An older creation-page summary has inconsistent genesis/launch
  sequencing and was not used to resolve that sequence.
- The Core subsidy function has a stale 210000-block comment. Its actual code
  reads the mainnet 840000 parameter. The rounded 84m headline is not a claim
  about coins that are spendable or available for sale.
- Foundation explainers include promotional anonymity, adoption and mining
  language. These were not imported as measurements or guarantees.
- The MWEB postmortem does not cover every later security finding. The current
  release was checked separately; neither is a comprehensive security audit.
- Backup, ratio and energy statements include explicit definitions/arithmetic;
  a source mapping does not convert those into an empirical experiment.
- FAQ text and FAQPage structured data still use the same single array.
  The glossary has not received a new completed review in this work.

A content review date records this source check. It is separate from original
publication dates, routine edited timestamps and AI-generated artwork.
Next scheduled FAQ review: 23 November 2026. A passed due date flags maintenance;
it does not by itself establish that an answer is false.

Corrections: https://litecoin.watch/corrections/
Editorial method: https://litecoin.watch/methodology/#editorial