Litecoin Price Down 0.1% Over Last 7 Days (LTC)

Litecoin (LTC) traded up 0.2% against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 18:00 PM ET on October 28th. One Litecoin coin can now be purchased for approximately $70.76 or 0.00101489 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Litecoin has a total market cap of $5.32 billion and $274.43 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, Litecoin has traded 0.1% lower against the US dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 12.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000229 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $6.04 or 0.00008668 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower 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.
• Polymath (POLY) traded 33% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0601 or 0.00000086 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0005 or 0.00000002 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded 2.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0129 or 0.00000020 BTC.

Litecoin Coin Profile

Litecoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. It was first traded on October 13th, 2011. Litecoin’s total supply is 84,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 75,133,606 coins. The official message board for Litecoin is litecointalk.io. 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. Litecoin’s official Twitter account is @litecoin and its Facebook page is accessible 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 acquire Litecoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Gemini, Coinbase or Changelly.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView