Posts Tagged ‘LTC halving’

Litecoin is Still on the Rise, Testing $8 USD

9, Jul 2015

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The exchange price of Litecoin (LTC) is still on the rise with the alternative crypto currency already testing the $8 USD target and this has caused a lot of speculation about the reasons behind this recent rise. Some people say it could be due to the recent high load on the Bitcoin blockchain and transactions processing slow due to a lot of unconfirmed ones in the backlog. Other say the reason could be just another pump and dump scheme by a big player with a lot of coins. Another plausible possibility is due to the upcoming fist halving of the LTC reward at the end of August, or the unfavorable situation in Greece at the moment or that on the issues with the China stock markets and the list goes on and on…

Regardless of the reason behind the jump in the exchange rate it is already causing increased demand for Scrypt ASIC miners and services offering Scrypt cloud mining, however nowadays these are scarce and had to find. The best thing you can probably get at the moment is an Innosilicon A2 Scrypt ASIC miner at a discounted price if you manage to find yourself a good deal for a SilverFish Scrypt Blade miner. With Bitmain Tech and ZeusMiner canceling their Scrypt ASIC projects last year (maybe they can restart them if the trend continues) and KnCMiner stopping to sell their Titan Scrypt ASICs and any other ASIC miners to end users there is just one new interesting option coming up. The new SFARDS SF100 Dual-Miner ASICs that are supposed to be available later this month, though SFARDS is still keeping silent about their pricing and expected availability is said to be July.

In the end it is good that we are finally seeing some movement surrounding LTC along with some other Scrypt crypto currencies as nothing much has been happening around Litecoin in the last few months, so the recent price jump and revived interest is definitely a good thing for people that are into altcoins. Especially now that Bitcoin mining is moving away from home miners and more and more towards large mining farms, whereas Scrypt mining is still at a phase where it is still focused mostly in the hands of small mining operations. So we are keeping a close eye on the development around Litecoin and so should you…

Make Sure to Update Your Litecoin Wallet to The Latest v0.8.7.4-beta

4, Jan 2015

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There haven’t been a lot of good news for Litecoin (LTC) lately with ASIC manufacturers cancelling the development of new mining hardware and the exchange rate going down, hitting even below $2 USD briefly today. But LTC is still one of the most popular alternative crypto coins and will most likely continue to be, even though some people think it is doomed. The situation with Bitcoin is not that great lately either, especially with the exchange rate also down like is the case with Litecoin, but we expect things to slowly start recovering in 2015. There is a change for Litecoin that is going to come in a few days – permanent lock of the v2 block type at block 710000 – something that should happen around 9th of January and you need to make sure that you have the latest wallet installed. The Litecoin v0.8.7.4-beta has been available for a few months, but still a lot of people might not have updated to that version and you need to make sure you are using it to avoid having issues with the LTC in a few days. Don’t wait for the last day if you still haven’t updated, although it is more important that pool operators update their wallets if they have not done so yet. Later this year we are also going to see the first blow reward halving for Litecoin that is expected to happen at block 840000 that should be reached at around August-September time.

– To download the latest Litecoin wallet v0.8.7.4-beta software for your OS…


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