Litecoin

Altcoins

What Are Altcoins? Everything Beyond Bitcoin

Bitcoin started it all. But the 18,000 coins that followed are where most of the innovation — and most of the risk — lives. Altcoins are not simply Bitcoin alternatives. They are an entire ecosystem of technologies, financial instruments, and experiments — some solving real problems, others riding pure speculation. Understanding the difference is the most important skill a crypto investor can develop.

By Jan Kara

Litecoin Overview

Litecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, created by Charlie Lee as the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold” with faster blocks and the Scrypt algorithm. This tag tracks Litecoin’s role as a payments and settlement network, the MimbleWimble (MWEB) optional-privacy upgrade, recurring spot ETF filings, and its halving cycle. Coinliva covers the ETF progress, the on-chain usage, and how a veteran proof-of-work coin stays relevant.