Litecoin History
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The definitive chronicle of Litecoin's 14+ years as censorship-resistant, inflation-proof sound money. First edition coming soon.
Joined February 2025
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“Litecoin History” is a memoir of Litecoin’s 15 years of evolution. A compendium of the people, values, technology, principles, community and partnerships that shaped Litecoin into the world’s...
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RT @litecoin: Ex-Googler Gives the World a Better Bitcoin | Wired Enterprise | http://t.co/APIAS2YISz.
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Many credit @WIRED's 'Silk Road' coverage in 2011 as their introduction to Bitcoin, including @SatoshiLite - . Two years later, Wired introduced Litecoin to their readers with a feature on Charlie Lee. "Ex-Googler Gives The World A Better Bitcoin"
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Charles Lee was a software engineer at Google, spending his days hacking networking code for the search giant’s new-age operating system, ChromeOS. But in his spare time, he rewrote the world’s most...
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ICYMI | On this day 10 years ago, Litecoin had its first block reward halving. A 🧵to celebrate this piece of #LitecoinHistory -.
🎂Litecoin’s First Halving | 25 August, 2015 . A 🧵to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of this major moment in Litecoin’s History:
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“Litecoin History” is a memoir of Litecoin’s 15 years of evolution. A compendium of the people, values, technology, principles, community and partnerships that shaped Litecoin into the world’s...
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10 years on, Litecoin is thriving!. Three flawless block halvings. 300m transactions clocked. 0 minutes of downtime. Here’s to another 10 x 10 years (at least)!
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This was the first major test of Litecoin’s anti-inflationary design. A piece of Bitcoin DNA, tweaked in October 2011 by new kid on the blockchain, Charlie Lee (aka @SatoshiLite / coblee). 🔗 Read the 14-year-old Bitcointalk post in-full:
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In anticipation of Litecoin's rate of issuance halving, the price skyrocketed to US$7.50! . Somewhat poetically, however, the price of $LTC also halved post-halving. 🤷♂️ Hello again, $3.
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On 25 August 2015, a touch before 2300 GMT, Litecoin processed block # 840000 👀. And, just like that, Litecoin’s block reward halved for the first time - from 50 LTC to 25 LTC! Great success!
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🎂Litecoin’s First Halving | 25 August, 2015 . A 🧵to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of this major moment in Litecoin’s History:
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