Litecoin (LTC) Price Up 16.9% Over Last Week

Litecoin (LTC) traded 6% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 10:00 AM Eastern on November 10th. During the last seven days, Litecoin has traded up 16.9% against the U.S. dollar. Litecoin has a market capitalization of $5.79 billion and $621.17 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Litecoin coin can currently be bought for $77.00 or 0.00097113 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 18.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.24 or 0.00000304 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded up 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $6.22 or 0.00007844 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.
• Polymath (POLY) traded up 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0510 or 0.00000064 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded down 2.1% 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

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 75,179,993 coins. Litecoin’s official message board is litecointalk.io. The official website for Litecoin is litecoin.org. 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.

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 acquire Litecoin using US dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView