Litecoin Hits 24 Hour Volume of $471.09 Million (LTC)

Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.3% higher against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on April 19th. During the last week, Litecoin has traded down 5.4% against the US dollar. One Litecoin coin can now be bought for approximately $81.45 or 0.00126594 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Litecoin has a total market cap of $6.06 billion and $471.09 million worth of Litecoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

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

• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000240 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $5.77 or 0.00008975 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 6.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0186 or 0.00000029 BTC.
• Polymath (POLY) traded 5.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0867 or 0.00000135 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.

About Litecoin

Litecoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm. Its launch date was October 13th, 2011. Litecoin’s total supply is 84,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 74,439,756 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 US dollars directly can do so using GDAX, Changelly or Gemini.

LTC/USD price chart by TradingView