Litecoin (LTC) Price Reaches $81.95 on Top Exchanges

Litecoin (LTC) traded up 3.4% against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 0:00 AM E.T. on April 19th. During the last seven days, Litecoin has traded down 4.4% against the US dollar. One Litecoin coin can now be purchased for about $81.95 or 0.00128121 BTC on exchanges. Litecoin has a market cap of $6.10 billion and $409.50 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

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

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 6.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000243 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.81 or 0.00009088 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 20% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0192 or 0.00000030 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded 12% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0922 or 0.00000144 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

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 74,440,675 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 official website for Litecoin 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 acquire Litecoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, GDAX or Changelly.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView