Litecoin.watch original research, release 2026-09-30.1.
Publication date uses the site's normal clock. Experiments occurred 29 September
2026 after 22:30 UTC (30 September in Europe/Warsaw).
AI-assisted research, scripting and drafting; no independent human review claimed.
No real purchases, customer data, production wallet or payment was involved.
Contact /corrections/ at https://litecoin.watch for reproducible corrections.

Buying EUR 100 of Litecoin: the costs between your bank and wallet
https://litecoin.watch/articles/buying-100-euros-of-litecoin-the-costs-between-your-bank-and-wallet

Scope: three rounds of public LTC/EUR books, nine responses total. Two budget
calculations per book (18 rows), plus four explicit first-Kraken-book scenarios.
No authenticated quote, purchase, bank deposit or withdrawal was performed.
Coinbase Exchange book observations are indicative inputs; not a promise of a
retail Advanced Trade fill or a source for the account's retail trading fee.

REPLAY, offline, Python 3 standard library:
  python analyze-books.py books replay.json
Compare replay.json with purchase-results.json. The decimals and rows should match.
The CSVs will be written beside replay.json.

OPTIONAL NEW OBSERVATION, makes nine public GET requests:
  python capture-books.py new-books 3
  python analyze-books.py new-books new-results.json
It does not send any orders or require keys. Do not overwrite the archived books.
Snapshots are request windows, not synchronized exchange events. Three rounds over
about 20 seconds cannot establish representative liquidity or a cheapest exchange.

Fee assumptions in scenarios: quote-currency trading fee 0.008 (0.80%), reflecting
the public Kraken Spot Crypto Tier 1 schedule when checked; funding 0% or 2% of
the total budget; withdrawal deduction 0.002 LTC. Funding and withdrawal figures
are illustrative, NOT account quotes. The 2% case is NOT a quoted card price.
The model first reserves the funding cost, then divides the balance by (1+t).
The ask-book walk returns LTC, from which the assumed withdrawal is deducted.
Model receipt is rounded DOWN to eight decimals; actual venue precision and
per-fill fee rules are not modeled.
The benchmark is each captured book's midpoint, not an executable market offer.
Components reconcile: funding + trading + book-vs-mid + withdrawal + rounding.
Excluded: order increments, minimums, fee rounding, account eligibility, order
buffers, bank FX, authentication, withdrawal holds, market movement and actual
transfer time. Check the order and withdrawal preview before acting.

capture-manifest.json contains request and response UTC times, HTTP dates,
endpoint URLs and hashes. All nine response bodies are unmodified.
source-manifest.json records public documentation URL, retrieval time and hash;
copyrighted full documentation snapshots are not distributed.