Litecoin Reaches Market Cap of $6.34 Billion (LTC)

Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 22:00 PM ET on April 28th. Over the last seven days, Litecoin has traded up 1.1% against the dollar. One Litecoin coin can currently be bought for $85.16 or 0.00134849 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Litecoin has a market cap of $6.34 billion and $297.08 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000234 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $5.76 or 0.00009116 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• MegaCoin (MEC) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $4.30 or 0.00015776 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0189 or 0.00000030 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded 4.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000167 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0005 or 0.00000002 BTC.
• EAC (EAC) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $0.0011 or 0.00000004 BTC.

Litecoin Profile

Litecoin (CRYPTO:LTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was October 13th, 2011. Litecoin’s total supply is 84,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 74,474,175 coins. The official message board for Litecoin is litecointalk.io. Litecoin’s official Twitter account is @litecoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. Litecoin’s official website is litecoin.org. The Reddit community for Litecoin is https://reddit.com/r/litecoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Litecoin (LTC) is a digital currency designed for fast, low-cost payments over the internet. Created by Charlie Lee in 2011 as an alternative to Bitcoin, it offers improved transaction times and a higher maximum supply, using a different algorithm (scrypt) for mining. Litecoin facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without a central authority, making it suitable for a wide range of financial activities, from everyday purchases to trading and investment. Its creation by a former Google engineer aimed to address and improve upon some of Bitcoin’s limitations, establishing Litecoin as a practical complement to Bitcoin in the digital currency ecosystem.”

Buying and Selling Litecoin

Investors seeking to trade Litecoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView