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Litecoin
LTC
$71.48
0.82%
$70.7624H Price$71.56
24 Hour High
$71.56
-0.10%
24 Hour Low
$70.76
1.01%
Market Cap
$5.35B
Fully Diluted Valuation
$6.00B
24 Hour Trading Volume
$213.97M
Circulating Supply
74.80M
Total Supply
84.00M
Max Supply
84.00M
Websites
litecoin.org
Community
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Industry
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Sector
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About Litecoin
The price of Litecoin (LTC) is $71.48 today, as of Jul 27 10:57 a.m., with a 24-hour trading volume of $213.97M. Over the last 24 hours, the price has increased by 0.82%. Litecoin currently has a circulating supply of 74.80M and a market cap of $5.35B.
LTC is the native cryptocurrency of Litecoin, an open-source blockchain project whose code is copied from Bitcoin’s. Touted as the “silver to bitcoin’s gold,” Litecoin was developed to have much faster transaction speeds than Bitcoin, as well as to be more scalable.
The blockchain was created by Charlie Lee, a software engineer who had worked at Google and crypto exchange Coinbase, and it was launched on the bitcointalk forum in October 2011.