Litecoin (LTC) Price Reaches $78.26 on Top Exchanges

Litecoin (LTC) traded 2.2% lower against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 22:00 PM Eastern on April 18th. One Litecoin coin can now be bought for approximately $78.26 or 0.00127950 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Litecoin has a total market capitalization of $5.83 billion and approximately $486.05 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, Litecoin has traded 20.6% lower against the U.S. dollar.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000236 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $5.84 or 0.00009547 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 2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0169 or 0.00000028 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded down 14% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0801 or 0.00000131 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded down 2.1% 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.

About Litecoin

LTC is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. It launched on October 13th, 2011. Litecoin’s total supply is 84,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 74,437,737 coins. Litecoin’s official website is litecoin.org. The official message board for Litecoin is litecointalk.io. 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 US dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView