Litecoin$LTC

is one of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

- Litecoin was among the earliest altcoins, starting in October 2011.

- It is widely considered the first successful altcoin.

- Litecoin is one of the first altcoins and allows users to send payments quickly and easily.

- It is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open-source software project released under the MIT/X11 license.

- It is inspired by Bitcoin and shares many similarities with it.