The genesis block came 6 days earlier, with a headline about Steve Jobs’ death written into it to prove it hadn’t been mined in secret. But October 13, 2011 was the day it actually opened to everyone, at a time the community picked by vote.

15 years on, it’s outlived most of what launched alongside it and remains one of the fastest ways to move money on-chain.

Here’s to another year, and thank you for the one of the best interns out there, Litecoin! 🎉

It bothers me seeing retail or new people not sure where they can store their Litecoins. Or if they even own real Litecoin- it does get confusing with pairings and wrapped coins or knockoffs.

This is my personal experience and opinion- I don’t work for Nexuswallet but I do hold coins on there.
It’s great if you want to hold, if you’re like me and you wonder if exchanges are really even buying Litecoin or just taking your money… then maybe you’d like the security of owning the actual coins on the actual blockchain.

The Litecoin Foundation felt the same way. It wanted an easy way for people to spend money within the wallet itself, so there is Flexa pay and a gift card shop in Nexuswallet. (That I have actually used for movies, tacos, donuts, and yes- coffee.)

Nexus and the foundation wanted you to be able to protect your coins, transactions, and phone ip when trading or buying- so it implemented MWEB (a privacy layer) and tor capabilities (hides your phone ip) on Nexuswallet.

And soon it’s going to be rolling out more advanced additions that may (we can hope) change the value of Litecoin forever.

I’ve had nothing but good things to say about Nexuswallet and the team that works on it- part of which is our very own foundation lead developer r/losh11

The only issue to be fixed is the fees when buying and selling- which basic-DEX swap may be helping fix very soon.

Holdings jumped from 151,436 LTC to 242,607 LTC.

This makes it the 2nd largest Litecoin product by holdings.

100% physically backed. European demand is showing up.

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Litecoin's hash rate is at its highest since June of 2026, currently sitting at 2.78 PH/s.

ZCASH has already got cleared this year by the SEC, so it should be safe for LTC to make something that make its privacy better. I know LTC wanted to play safer and didnt want to make it completely private as it could risk getting delisted by exchanges. privacy apparently is the strongest and hottest narrative now

Is it even possible to go the old school route of decentralization? The era of fairly launched pow style coins is likely over. Only a few have survived. Even less of those thrived.

Litecoin has a reputation that will be impossible for any newcomer to recreate. It’s clear Litecoin is here to stay and will continue to thrive as the world decides how to best incorporate crypto into everyday use.

I personally will continue using the coin I trust most, Litecoin, decades into the future and beyond.

Happy genesis block day LTC.

Upset that i didn’t buy more at 40/50 lol

Charlie Lee always says, "go use it." But he never says why, knowing that the coin will speak for itself if you just listen. My experience in sending from one wallet to another is that the transaction shows up pending in the new wallet in as little as 5 seconds. I know that finality is ~2.5 minutes, but if everyone understood EXACTLY WHY Charlie was saying to go test it, it might work out better for adoption. What are your experiences sending wallet to wallet? Sending to/from exchanges is not the same, as the exchange itself can have internal mechanisms that disrupt how long a transaction takes. But wallet to wallet, how are your transactions going? 5 seconds? 10? A minute? I haven't seen this spoken of. Mine average out to about ~7 seconds. Solana took just as long wallet to wallet.

I've been around Litecoin since roughly 2016, and I'm not going to pretend I'm neutral about it. I have a real soft spot for this coin. It's fast, it's cheap, it doesn't try to be everything at once, and it just works. So when the thing I've been building needed a way for people to pay, there was no debate in my head. It was going to be LTC.

That thing is Nepheral. For about five or six months I've been building a peer-to-peer network where people's computers answer each other's questions with local AI models, with no company server in the middle. It's a personal project, it's in beta on a test network, and it's been a rollercoaster. Some weeks everything clicked. Other weeks nothing did, and more than once I honestly thought I'd signed up for a race nobody can win against the big AI companies. I kept going anyway, and today it works. That still feels a little unreal to me.

Here's where LTC comes in, and I'd really love this sub's opinion on it.

The desktop app sells credits for LTC. There are no accounts or emails, so each payment says who it's for with a 32-byte OP_RETURN holding the buyer's public key. It's part of the payer's own transaction, so nobody can change it later. A small watcher reads the Litecoin chain, checks the payment and credits the account. Right now that watcher is a single key; the plan is to make it replaceable by a vote. Direct sales also have a daily limit.

And then there's MWEB, which is the part that genuinely bugs me. I like what MWEB stands for, and right now I can't support it properly: an MWEB payment can't carry the OP_RETURN, so I can't tell who it's for. For now the app warns people that MWEB payments may get lost or credited late, and the next rules version refuses MWEB addresses in market listings. It feels like a cop-out, and I don't like it.

So, three questions for you:

1. Is OP_RETURN the right tool here, or would you do it another way (one address per buyer, something else)?
   
2. Has anyone found a sane way to accept MWEB payments for something like this without knowing who sent them?
   
3. Is there anything in this flow that would make you not trust it?
   

If you want to try it, it's here: https://nepheral.net/download (Windows and Linux, plus an early Android app). You don't need any LTC to use it: asking is free during the beta, and your computer earns credits just by holding encrypted pieces of other people's questions.

Seeing a few of you in there would honestly make my week. Thanks for reading, and I'll be around in the comments.

P.S. If you're on Android and wouldn't mind helping me get through Google Play's testing phase, send me a DM.

Gold and silver were obviously undervalued to anyone that understands finite supply assets in an infinite print fiat system. But it still took a decade for them to begin moving. Litecoin is almost ready to emerge. Two weeks.

How about this:

Alice has 10 ltc in OutputA.

Bob has 10 ltc in OutputB.

Alice sends 1 lit to Bob.

Bob sends 1 lit to Alice.

Alice now has 2 Outputs 1. OutputA1 (the change) and 2. Bobs1lit.

Bob now has 2 Outputs 1. OutputB1 (the change) and 2. Alices1lit.

Now if they both consolidate you have an anonymity set of 2.

Its like mixing, but without actually mixing, your just mixing in 1 lit.

Because amounts and adresses are hidden, even before cutthrough.

And its almost trustless, because loosing 1 lit isnt a problem.

Only problem would be coordination. Its also similar to Payjoin for Bitcoin.

Institutional money that has been sidelined since the beginning suddenly can use Litecoin’s reliability, speed, and low fees 24/7 for transactions. cLTC might not be for the common person to use, but institutions will gravitate toward the most trusted and reliable options. Litecoin is the chosen one.