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- Market value
- $5.5B
- Traded in 24 hours
- $305.7M
- Coins
- 77.7M LTC in circulation, and in total
- Highest price ever
- $410.26 9 May 2021
- Rank
- #24
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Genesis, Litecoin
- First block
- Litecoin Space (opens in a new tab)
Block 0. Every later block points back to this one.
- Made
- 7 October 2011, 07:31 UTCLitecoin Space (opens in a new tab)
Litecoin's first stamped a message.
block
NY Times 05/Oct/2011 Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, Dies at 56
A genesis block. Litecoin is the native coin of the Litecoin chain, and it began with that chain's first on 7 October 2011. It copied Bitcoin's code and started its own chain from block 0, so it is not a split.
block
- Whitepaper
- crypto-risk-metrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-04-22-White-paper-Litecoin-FFG-D74JZ1VRD.pdf
- Official site
- litecoin.org
Show the technical record
- First transaction
It paid 50 litecoin to a public key with no address form. Like Bitcoin's, that first payment is skipped by the software and cannot be spent.
- Listed start date
- 8 October 2011
Checked 22 Sep 2026. A record of beginnings, not advice.
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