Litecoin Foundation’s Project Director Makes The Case For LTC’s Network Effect

The Litecoin blockchain has been up and running for over a decade with no downtime. Litecoin (LTC), known as “the silver to Bitcoin’s gold,” has been around for almost 11 years — which is quite a feat considering a fair amount of cryptocurrencies go bust within 12 months of launching. Cointelegraph spoke with the Litecoin Foundation’s managing director, Alan Austin, about why he thinks Litecoin’s core utility is serving as a reliable means of payment.As told by Austin, much of his vision for Litecoin is drawn from personal experience:“When I finished grad school, I worked with startup....

Andrew Vegetabile, director of the Litecoin Association, announced on the LitecoinTalk forums that a fifth director would be joining the team. While reorganizing the Litecoin Association, which Vegetabile alluded would be completed soon, he explained that the Litecoin Association was looking for one new director through a list of candidates. Of those candidates, Phil Auman of LitecoinLearner.com was made a new director. Vegetabile outlined that the mission statement of the Litecoin Association is to educate interested parties on the benefits of Litecoin. The association wants to push a....

F2Pool, the same mining pool which generated the largest bitcoin transaction ever recorded on July 11, mined the Litecoin network's block 840,000, with a declined mining reward from 50 LTC per block to 25 per block for the first time since its launch in 2011. The Litecoin network, similar to the Bitcoin network systemized to halve its block reward every 840,000. To celebrate its technological "milestone," the Litecoin association published a video explicating the process of the decline in mining reward. Currently, the halving of the mining reward has not affected the network significantly.....

Litecoin follows the general sentiment in the crypto market and trades in the green during today’s session. As of press time, LTC is exchanging hands at $110,21 with a 1.7% profit in 24-hours. Related Reading | Charlie Lee Sums Up Litecoin’s 10 Years History. Part Five: Conflict Of Interest The increase in the price of Litecoin has been driven by relief in larger cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The latter has been showing bullish momentum in lower timeframes and could see more profits in the coming weeks. Selling pressure triggered by macro factors has been and will....

Litecoin creator Charlie Lee believes that the price of the digital currency could reach $14 when SegWit is activated on the network. On Saturday, F2Pool mined Segregated Witness (SegWit) blocks for both Bitcoin and Litecoin. Charlie Lee tweeted that he sees a 72.34 percent chance of another pool signaling for SegWit in the next seven days. He equates the estimated prices to the level of signaling the network has received thus far: 20 percent => $4, 60 percent => $9, 100 percent => $14. There are indications the network will activate SegWit soon. It creates excitement - even in....