Litecoin (Litecoin) is a network currency based on "peer-to-peer" (peer-to-peer) technology. ="nofollow">BTC), and has the same technical realization principle. It differs from Bitcoin in that consumer-grade hardware can also be "mined" efficiently, providing faster transaction c...
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Issue Date2011-11-09
Initial Price4.3
Max Supply84,000,000 LTC
Total Supply84,000,000 LTC
Circulating Supply74,301,275 LTC
AlgorithmScrypt
Exchanges--
ConsensusPoW
Events
Litecoin Expects Second Halving
Litecoin core v0.14.2 released.
The founder of Litecoin officially announced the launch of the Litecoin Lightning Network.
Litecoin founder Li Qiwei announced that he will no longer work for Coinbase and will focus on the development of Litecoin.
Segregated Witness was officially activated in block 1201536 of Litecoin, and Litecoin users can use Segregated Witness as a new transaction method.
The Litecoin Foundation was officially registered in Singapore to provide financial support for the development team; on the 12th, the BW mining pool of the currency network voted to support Litecoin Segregated Witness.
During Babbitt's AMA event, Charlie Lee revealed that he plans to forcibly push Segregated Witness. The next day, Litecoin's main network will start the activation process (voting) of Segregated Witness.
The Litecoin core development team and the Litecoin Association released the "Litecoin Official 2016 Development Roadmap", claiming that they will release a new version with functions such as "Segregated Witness", "Lightning Network", and "Smart Contract". The buzzword in the community, Litecoin pioneered the experiment.
Litecoin ushered in the first halving, and currently (2017) each data block can generate 25 Litecoins.
Online wallet service provider Hive added support for Litecoin; Litecoin core v0.10.2.2 was released.
Mt.Gox launched an API for LTC transactions, preparing for the official launch.
Litecoin is released through the open source client on Github, marking the birth of Litecoin, the founder is Li Qiwei
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Team
Li Qiwei
Li Qiwei
Founder of Litecoin
Xinxi Wang
Xinxi Wang
LTCFoundation, Founding Member and Director
Franklyn Richards
Franklyn Richards
LTCFoundation, Founding Member Director | | Chief Designer
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