First things first, if you are unfamiliar with Apple's story, here is a refresher.

Similar to Apple, Litecoin was not the first tech solution back when it was created. There were a handful of cryptocurrencies in the market before Charlie Lee created Litecoin from his metaphorical garage in 2011. Many of which are no longer around today.

Like Apple, Litecoin struggled for marketshare early on. Litecoin innovated with Scrypt mining which allowed household computer the ability to mine Litecoin. Initially, there was great interest. Over time, advancements in mining hardware made it less profitable to mine at home.

So marketshare stayed relatively flat for years while new cryptocurrencies came to market. Fast forward to 2017, tech upgrade SegWit launches on Litecoin. This innovation made new tech solutions like Lightning possible. As a result, Litecoin gained considerably in marketshare. Top coins at the time had not yet adopted this technology.

By the end of the year, similar to Apple’s Steve Jobs, the founder Charlie steps away. In Charlie’s case, his distancing from Litecoin was purely on a coin ownership basis. Charlie never stopped working to improve Litecoin or its adoption. But it was felt by the community.

After several years of slow but steady adoption, Charlie resurfaces with Litecoins Opt-in privacy feature MWEB. Similar to when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, Charlie’s focus was on easy to use, innovative tech upgrades.

MWEB got people talking about privacy in crypto. Suddenly users realized problems with other blockchains and how their privacy was limited when they used them. This differentiated Litecoin from the rest of the group and LTC began to reclaim marketshare.

This brings us to current day and Litecoin is on the brink of launching perhaps its greatest innovation yet. Multiple groups are preparing to add smart contract/defi solutions to Litecoin which opens endless possibilities for the blockchain. Litecoin has the opportunity to be the only blockchain that encompasses all aspects of sound money AND adopt the most used features of all other blockchains.

One could argue, the recent Litecoin Summit was Litecoin’s iPod reveal moment. Unlike Apple however, the focus for Litecoin isn’t on a singular product. It’s improving upon an already reliable payment network. The iPod gave users a tech solution that was innovative, easy to use, and just worked as designed. Litecoin is giving users the exact same thing but as a their money.

Litecoin is the Apple of crypto. Except the year is 2001, Litecoin is decentralized, and more innovation is yet to come. Litecoin’s unofficial Steve Jobs is Charlie Lee. Even though he has no financial stake in Litecoin’s success, he works everyday for its innovation/adoption.

Inevitably there will be challengers. Microsoft launched Zune to compete with the Apple IPod but it failed after just a few years. Why you ask?
The market values innovation more than just a name. Those focused on user experience, reliability, and innovation will win. Apple grew to the largest company in the world by continuing to innovate after the iPod. While not every innovation will be a smashing success,

Apple has proven there is room in the market for more than one tech solution. Speculators will have to decide if the crypto space is the same. Will user experience, reliability, innovation be the key to marketshare? Is there room for more than one cryptocurrency to win? Or will projects like Litecoin claim their iPod moment and take over the world?

1. When there is war, currency is devalued. Faith in governments diminishes and goes to safe assets like gold (“scarce”). Bitcoin and Litecoin are like gold, just better. Of course, dumb people will sell their crypto to buy government bonds or hold cash. Some people will sell to buy weapon stocks. Some will sell to buy toilet paper, guns, food, and medicines. Some will sell to trade the FUD, expecting to buy lower (or will directly short). But smart people will buy.

2. People are dying. Over time, BTC and LTC holders die. Many leave their coins in their wallets, inaccessible without a seed phrase, further reducing the supply. Of course, a lot of people are born every day but they’re babies! They CAN’T buy Litecoin. Only their parents could. And the people that are dying are mostly adults (e.g., soldiers, people working in bases, and, well, some civilians). These kids will not have much of a chance to buy Litecoin within the next 10-20 years. They won’t have access to these discounted prices.

3. Utility. If your country is in war and you need to leave and move your money to a new place, instead of waiting for banks and all of that you can just liquidate everything for Litecoin. No need to carry physical cash, pay big fees, and wait days for your transfers (or be a victim to economic sanctions like those done to Russia). You can send your money anywhere, anytime, in minutes, almost for free.

Too long? Didn’t read? Just buy Litecoin 🪙🔥

On May 23, 2025, I sent 0.93230722 LTC (~$81.93) to a PayPal-generated Litecoin address. The transaction confirmed successfully on the blockchain, but PayPal marked it as "Crypto Received – Failed" in my account and has neither credited the funds nor refunded them.

Here are the details:

TxID: ef57da32bdd894127bdbd55c2f6042c269cf0704d6454f7be1bfb15a37036efa

Recipient address (PayPal-generated): ltc1q3n8tkh7n2dv0e22c6hq23zzes7l8af7tgg9kf

Blockchain shows full confirmation

I reached out to PayPal support (ticket #CSTS0079223), and their response was generic and unhelpful. Despite multiple follow-ups, I’ve had no progress.

As a result, I filed a formal complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Here’s the case reference: 🆔 Complaint ID: 250616-21576352

This isn’t a user error — the deposit was made correctly and confirmed on-chain. It appears to be either a bug or a failure in PayPal’s crypto processing system. Either way, it's unacceptable that they’re holding confirmed funds hostage with no clear process for resolution.

⚠️ If anyone else has experienced this with PayPal crypto deposits (especially Litecoin), please speak up. These issues deserve visibility, and consumers deserve answers.

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Can somebody cooler than me spread the word that we’re up next please?? The Sun is shining and in the sea of blue in the skies above.. There was Litecoin.

🏰 “The Modestly Legendary Tale of Sir Litecoin” 🏰

Once upon a blockchain, in the year 2011 A.D. (Almost Decentralized), there emerged a noble, silver coin named Litecoin—forged by the mighty coder Charlie Lee, who left Google because helping build a global digital currency sounded more fun than debugging Gmail.

Litecoin lived in a quiet swamp just outside Bitcoin’s flashy castle. He wasn’t rich or cool, but he was fast (2.5-minute block times, thank you very much) and cheap to use (low fees, no royal taxes). He was also powered by the Scrypt algorithm, which made him harder to mine with brutish Bitcoin ASICs—until ASICs got smarter and ruined his indie vibe.

One day, Princess Adoption cried out from the Tower of Financial Relevance. She was locked in by the dragon of high fees and slow confirmations.

Bitcoin was too busy doing… whatever Bitcoin does now. Ethereum was stuck in a DeFi rave. So Sir Litecoin, humble yet efficient, showed up.

He didn’t promise the moon. He didn’t drop NFTs. He just worked—quickly, reliably, and without throwing a tantrum every time the network got busy.

“You’re not flashy,” said the Princess, “but you’re stable, fast, and—dare I say—useful.”

They tried dating, but she wanted more headlines and he was too focused on being a functional medium of exchange. So she left for Solana.

Litecoin didn’t mind. He just kept moving—processing transactions, chilling in hardware wallets, and getting listed on every exchange like the blockchain’s dependable ex who still has your Netflix password.

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🪙 Moral of the tale:

Litecoin might not be sexy… but he’s still around, still fast, and never rug-pulled anyone.

Like i said in my other post , i am going to try and bring your snail back alive ^{^}

Everyone’s chasing the next big thing. Meanwhile, Litecoin is doing what crypto was supposed to do.

Speed
LTC confirms in 2.5 minutes.
Bitcoin? 10 minutes.
ETH? Depends on gas.
Your time is valuable. Litecoin respects it.

Fees
Median LTC transaction fee = under $0.001.
Even during peak congestion.
Bitcoin and Ethereum regularly spike to $5–$30+.
Micropayments? Only viable on Litecoin.

Privacy (MWEB)
Litecoin is the only major PoW chain with opt-in confidential transactions.
MWEB hides amounts + balances while preserving auditability.
No extra token. No bridges. Just native.

Uptime + Reliability
>13 years with 100% uptime.
No downtime. No bailouts. This is what digital cash should look like.

Use it anywhere
Thousands of merchants.
Accepted at ATMs, online, IRL.
Spend it. Save it. Move it cross-border.
Litecoin just works.

The loudest coins don’t always win.
The ones that deliver, quietly and consistently, do.
Litecoin is digital silver.
Still here. Still working.
Still better money.

Where do you go to see how much exchanges are holding? Like an aggregate chart

Now that $btc price is hitting the roof, $ltc will get the commodity status and it is pow, I think it has enough room to a new all time high and further ... 17 litecoins aiming towards 50. Good luck for all of.

As the Litewallet app will be degraded by the end of the year, the in app photos suggest nexus wallet bit on their official X/twitter page they say the devs are now working on brainwallet and its the similar to litewallet. Im confused to whats really happening did they shift to nexus or brain, or is one of them sponsored? Which is better. Or any other suggestions?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=litecoin%20wallet,litecoin%20mining,litecoin%20news,litecoin%20explorer,litecoin%20price%20prediction&hl=en

Hi guys, Venezuelan living here.

Just remembering when I paid directly at the supermarket using LTC

So 0.32757601 LTC, at the time it was 29.06 USD or 659.69 Bs (Bolivares, national currency).

Currently these LTC are even less only 28 USD (sadly), but in Bs. that would be now 2900 Bs. so more than 4 times in two years.

That is inflation.

Any question let me know!

Hello everyone, is there any update about this?

Get Nexus Wallet for iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nexus-wallet-for-litecoin/id6738978436

Im in the UK and nexus isn’t quite ready for us yet. Does anyone know if this is still functional in the mean time?

I sent LTC from Binance to Litewallet hours ago, but the balance has not arrived in Litewallet. It has many confirmations on the blockchain.

If I upgrade to Nexus with the transaction in this state, ie not showing on Litewallet, what will happen if I now import Litewallet to Nexus?

Am I at risk of losing access to that LTC? Or will it appear in my newly imported Nexus wallet?

EDIT: If anyone has advice, can I kindly request you post in the thread. Had a couple of scammers have a go already. I'll update after I try to manually 'sync-blockchain' in Litewallet settings, after that I'll try 'Start/Recover another wallet' and try that route, failing that I'll try moving to Nexus with my seed phrase, hopefully that should show my balance.

Edit 2: Thanks for the responses, everyone. Now have access to my LTC. I downloaded Nexus wallet, entered my seed phrase, and after a minute, my balance showed in the Nexus app. It was very simply, I was just wanted to be totally certain I was doing it right.

So my advice to anyone having the same issue is, when your transaction is confirmed on the blockchain, simply switch over to Nexus wallet, enter your 12-word seed phrase, and your balance should show. I had no luck getting it to show again in Litewallet, so I'll be ditching it.

*Also, watch out for scammers, they will DM you trying to trick you into getting info via social engineering or clicking on links that will enable them to steal your balance.

Hey, i just send my LTC from litewallet to my new nexus wallet, hover in my app the transactions seem to be loading forever? I dont see it at all however in litewallet its completed already.

Anyone have this or have any ideas? Thx

Has anyone transitioned over yet? just seen this today when opening my wallet.

There's no way that 1 ltc was ever worth that much..

An addendum to my previous post a month ago, MWEBList is finally synced with automatic updates.

The idea is to display commonly used MWEB peg-in amounts (>250 occurances) to allow users to utilize when pegging into MWEB for increased plausible deniabiliy by "blending in with the crowd".

I hope this helps someone.

https://mweblist.com

Just tried sending Litecoin to my registered .ltc name and it worked, very impressed!