Litecoin (LTC) Trading 11.6% Higher This Week

Litecoin (LTC) traded down 0.6% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 10:00 AM ET on January 5th. During the last week, Litecoin has traded 11.6% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Litecoin coin can now be bought for about $111.50 or 0.00114049 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Litecoin has a market cap of $8.41 billion and $409.64 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.38 or 0.00000390 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $9.11 or 0.00009314 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• MegaCoin (MEC) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $4.30 or 0.00015776 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded down 5.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0846 or 0.00000087 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded down 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0005 or 0.00000002 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded down 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0129 or 0.00000020 BTC.

About Litecoin

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 75,385,800 coins. The official message board for Litecoin is litecointalk.io. Litecoin’s official Twitter account is @litecoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Litecoin is https://reddit.com/r/litecoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Litecoin is litecoin.org.

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 US dollars directly can do so using Gemini, Changelly or GDAX.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView