Litecoin was announced in 2011 with the goal of being the 'silver' to bitcoin's 'gold'. At the time of writing, Litecoin has the 7th highest market cap of any mined cryptocurrency, after ...

That shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, as that was the original purpose of the cryptocurrency. Litecoin’s key developer, Charlie Lee, realized that Bitcoin was going to find things ...

Before I get into Litecoin a brief history of Bitcoin (BTC) is in order. For background I recommend the original paper (PDF) by Satoshi Nakamoto proposing Bitcoin. Bitcoin was revolutionary ...