Welcome to “Lightning Speed,” a new section in which NewsBTC will explore the possibilities that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network opens. In this first edition, we will focus on Peter St Onge’s “The Lightning Network is About to Change the World” article. According to his bio, the academic “holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University,…
Today is the day, Litecoin’s 10th anniversary. Congratulations to Charlie Lee and everyone involved in the project over the years. To celebrate, we are exploring Litecoin’s history through the eyes of its creator. We covered its fair launch, the long-hard road to exchanges adopting LTC, and we introduced the SegWit story. It’s time to finish…
The last time we checked with Litecoin, its creator Charlie Lee left Coinbase to focus on his own project. The mission at hand was implementing SegWit in the Litecoin blockchain, which is easier said than done. This story is as exciting as they come. It has twists and turns and it ends with a bang.…
The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, continues to guide us through memory lane. For part one, he took us through Litecoin’s fair launch. Considering the small number of projects that have managed to do that, it was a pretty big achievement. Today, for part two, we’re going to cover the project’s relation with cryptocurrency exchanges.…
The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, is ready to celebrate the project’s 10th anniversary. And, what better way to do it than by giving the public the oral history of Litecoin? Of course, that’s a figure of speech. Since it’s 2021, he gave us that “oral history” through a Twitter thread. And what a thread…
Litecoin has recorded massive price movement in the past hour. The coin started to rally after Reuters had reported that retail giant Walmart would begin accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for purchases. The news broke on Monday with a press release that stated Walmart had partnered with Litecoin to allows customers to make payments with…
Litecoin awoke from a month-long slumber to follow the general sentiment in the market. The price of LTC broke above the $200 resistance, only to drop with the crypto market flash crash. At the time of writing, Litecoin trades at $181 with a 17.31% loss in the daily chart. LTC is on a downtrend in…
Top crypto strategist known as Inmortal has revealed the three altcoins they think is ready for the next breakout. Immortal takes their pick from the top three altcoins that have been lagging recently. Even though they have been performing in the market, not performing to the level of other altcoins like ADA and SOL which…
The high jump in new registrations is on 45% increase, equivalent to 70 million compared to the previous year. The BSE stock exchange revealed this information was in their data. There had been an increasing number of users, mostly young investors in remote locations across India last year. According to the Economic Times report, these…
Bitcoin and its altcoin brethren are back bullish, both on individual price charts but also when looking at the total crypto market cap at large. The aggregate of all major and minor cryptocurrencies has fully reentered the bull zone on the monthly RSI, which could indicate that the bull market will blast back off any…