Litecoin Price Reaches $136.26 on Major Exchanges (LTC)

Litecoin (LTC) traded up 8.1% against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 11:00 AM Eastern on January 17th. During the last seven days, Litecoin has traded 30.1% higher against the dollar. Litecoin has a market capitalization of $10.28 billion and $2.42 billion worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Litecoin coin can now be purchased for approximately $136.26 or 0.00130118 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.

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

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 7.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00000395 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded up 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $9.74 or 0.00009303 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded 2.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000186 BTC.
• MegaCoin (MEC) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $4.30 or 0.00015776 BTC.
• Lotto (LOTTO) traded 2.1% lower 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.

Litecoin Profile

Litecoin (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 75,429,306 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.”

Litecoin Coin Trading

Investors seeking to trade Litecoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Changelly, Coinbase or GDAX.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView