Litecoin - KaveriBridge/crypto GitHub Wiki
About
- A cryptocurrency
- Launched: Late 2011 by former Google and Coinbase engineer Charlie Lee
- Total amount: ~84 million
- New blocks: Every 2.5 minutes
- Crypto Algorithm: Scrypt
- Market cap of $7.7 Billion in Apr 21
Comparison with Bitcoin
- Seen as a “digital silver” to Bitcoin’s “digital gold” by LiteCoin community