Litecoin (LTC) Price Up 3.9% Over Last 7 Days

Litecoin (LTC) traded down 0.4% against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 7:00 AM Eastern on April 22nd. Litecoin has a market capitalization of $6.32 billion and approximately $331.32 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Litecoin has traded up 3.9% against the U.S. dollar. One Litecoin coin can now be bought for $84.93 or 0.00128793 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000242 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $5.75 or 0.00008726 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 down 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0193 or 0.00000029 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0980 or 0.00000149 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 launch date was October 13th, 2011. Litecoin’s total supply is 84,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 74,449,925 coins. Litecoin’s official Twitter account is @litecoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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.

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.”

Litecoin Coin Trading

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

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView