It was bad day for Litecoin (LTC), as it declined by $ -1.24 or -3.81%, touching $ 31.28. International Cryptocoin Experts believe that Litecoin (LTC) is looking for the $ 34,408 goal. According to 8 analysts could reach $ 52.4979128533313. The highest price was $ 32.81 and lowest of $ 30.5 for January 15-16. The open was $ 32.52. It last traded at Coinbase exchange. Aproximately 434,666 LTC worth $ 13.81 million was traded.
For a month, Litecoin (LTC) tokens went up 6.72% from $ 29.31 for coin. For 100 days LTC is down -47.38% from $ 59.44. It traded at $ 81.12 200 days ago. Litecoin (LTC) has 60.04M coins mined with the market cap $ 1.88 billion. It has 84.00 million coins in circulation. It was founded on 13/10/2011. The Crypto LTC has PoW proof type and operation under Scrypt algorithm.
Litecoin LTC – provides faster transaction confirmations (2.5 minutes on average) and uses a memory-hard, scrypt-based mining proof-of-work algorithm to target the regular computers and GPUs most people already have – which are its main differentials to Bitcoin. The Litecoin network is scheduled to produce 84 million currency units with a halving reward every four years just like bitcoin. The coin was created by a Google employee, Charles Lee. Litecoin is in second spot to Bitcoin and has spawned numerous clones – yet it has a solid base of support and dedicated development team.
The Litecoin project is currently maintained by a core group of 6 software developers, led by Charles Lee, with a large community that is growing in support.
In May 2017, Litecoin became the first of the Top 5 (By Market Cap) cryptocurrencies to implement the SegWit scaling solution. Later in May, the first Lightning Network transaction was completed through litecoin, transferring 0.00000001 LTC from Zurich to San Francisco in under one second.
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