December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
564 pages
17h 34m
English
This is one of the initial Altcoins, released in 2011. The prime modification of Litecoin over Bitcoin is the use of the script algorithm instead of SHA-256 used in Bitcoins. Also, the limit of coins for Litecoin is 84 million, compared to 21 million Bitcoins.
Litecoin was created in October, 2011, by a former Google engineer, with its prime focus to reduce the block generation time from Bitcoins from 10 minutes to 2.5 minutes. Due to faster block generation, the confirmation of a transaction is much faster in Litecoin compared to Bitcoin.
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