LiteCoin

Basic Info


Launched: October 13, 2011

By: Charles Lee

Type: POW Scrypt

Supply: 84 Million coins with 8 digits each; or 4 x BTC supply

Speed: 2.5 minutes

Retarget: 2016 blocks (3.5 days)

Reward: 50 initially

Reduction: 50% every 840,000 blocks (4 years)

Premined: 150

Fees: 0.02 LTC

Website: http://litecoin.org/

Summary

Litecoin (LTC) is clone of Bitcoin with three main differences. It uses a hash function that is ASIC resistant, has a faster confirmation time of 2.5 minutes instead of 10 minutes and has 4x more coins than Bitcoin.

News

Announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0

Websites

Main Site: http://litecoin.org/

Exchanges

Only a few major ones are listed here.

BTC-E: http://btc-e.com/

Vircurex.com: http://vircurex.com/

Charts

Block-Explorer: http://ltc.block-explorer.com/charts

CryptoCoinCharts: http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/#jump-ltc-btc

CryptoChart: http://cryptochart.com/LiteWatch.php

Explorers

Block-Explorer: http://ltc.block-explorer.org/

Pools

Only a few major ones are listed here.

Give-Me-LTC https://give-me-ltc.com/

We Mine LTC http://wemineltc.com/

LTC Mine http://ltcmine.ru/

Litecoin Pool https://www.litecoinpool.org/

List of all pools: https://www.litecoinpool.org/pools

Forums

Litecoin Forum https://forum.litecoin.net/

Unofficial Litecoin Forum http://litecoinforum.org/

Wiki

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin

Litecoin Wiki: http://litecoin.info/Main_Page

Bitcoin Wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin

source: http://coinwik.org/LiteCoin

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