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The Historical Importance of SegWit on Litecoin

Today (5/10) marks the day when Litecoin successfully activated SegWit. This was an important moment for both the Bitcoin and Litecoin communities. In the beginning ...

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Understanding Default Minimum Fees

Litecoin’s New Minimum Transaction and Relay Fees Per Kilobyte (kB). Currently, Litecoin’s minimum transaction and relay fees are set by default to 0.001 LTC/kB. However ...

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1 for 1 Litecoin Bounty Program

In this past month, the Litecoin community has shown an incredible amount of generosity to The Litecoin School of Crypto with their donations. After some ...

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Litecoin Report (2nd Half of 2018)

In June, I posted a mid-2018 report. With the year coming to a close, it’s only appropriate that we take a look at the second ...

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A Primer to Confidential Transactions

This article is a primer to Confidential Transactions (CT) with the goal of providing a framework to understanding the technology.  It is not intended to ...

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Breaking Down a Litecoin Transaction

Before we talk about Litecoin transactions, let’s talk about Litecoin addresses. A Litecoin address is created by the following steps: A private key is created ...

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RSK and Sidechains

What is Rootstock? Rootstock (RSK) is an open-source platform.  It uses the concept of a “sidechain” that could bring Ethereum-like smart contract capability alongside Litecoin. ...

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Litecoin’s Current Value Proposition (Mid-2018 Report)

It is a cheaper and faster Bitcoin, plain and simple. If you’ve been paying attention to any of the news in 2018, you’ll start to ...

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Litecoin Joins Bitcoin With Mainnet Lightning Network Purchases

On April 20, 2018, ecurrencyhodler bought 1 month’s worth of reddit gold and tipped Loshan1212 through Bitrefill with Litecoin on the Lightning Network. However, this ...

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Staging Core Releases and Litecoin Dust

On March 1, 2018, Litecoin Core v.0.15.1 was released.  One revision included in this update was that the minimum relay fee was lowered to 0.00001 ...

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