Here are some key points to know about Litecoin ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵:
- Current Price: The live price of Litecoin is around $79.00
- Market Cap: Litecoin's market capitalization is $5,943,526,776
- 24h Volume: The volume in the last 24 hours was $363,961,542
- Circulating supply: 74,638,787 LTC
- Total supply: 84,000,000 LTC
- Max supply: 84,000,000 LTC
- 24h price change: 0.78%
- 7d price change: 7.54%
- Litecoin was created by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee
- Litecoin was created based on the Bitcoin protocol, but it differs in terms of the hashing algorithm used and its max supply
- Litecoin uses the memory-intensive Scrypt proof of work mining algorithm
- There will be 84 million Litecoins that can ever be mined, which is 4 times more than Bitcoin's max supply