Cryptomining with Litecoin Traveling Lite

Although not as popular as headliners like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Litecoin is one of the oldest crytocurrencies, and it offers some useful features, such as dual-mining with Dogecoin.

- Daniel LaSalle

After the big bang of the cryptocurrency revolution, the universe of alternative coins began with the launch of the Litecoin project. Litecoin (LTC) was created in 2011 by Charlie Lee [1], a software engineer working at Coinbase, who was able to fork the code behind Bitcoin (BTC). LTC is a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency that borrows from the same proof-of-stake blockchain verification underlying Bitcoin. But instead of using Bitcoin’s SHA-256d algorithm, LTC adopted the scrypt [2] algorithm, which offers additional support for the use of GPUs in the mining process. The scrypt algorithm also makes it costly to perform hardware attacks on the encryption by requiring large amounts of memory.

The day of its launch saw LTC priced at about $0.30. Over the course of the past decade, its pricing has gone from around $40 to $410. During 2023, LTC fell anywhere between $60 and $100, and the price was at about $90 at the time of this article. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (USCFTC) recently declared LTC a commodity [3], which is a giant step along the path of legitimacy and acceptance [4].

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