The testnet has been running for a month now and has highlighted the areas where more work is needed. Several bugs were found as a result, which means the early testnet launch was highly valuable. After sorting out the most critical bugs (thanks to the help of a couple of…

Ever since the initial murmurings and quietly published patents from back in 2014/15, many had been wondering when paypal would finally take the dive into the emerging world of cryptocurrencies. Well that time has come with the company announcing that it is launching a new service enabling users to buy…

On the 27th September 2020 at 06:01 UTC Block 1,920,000 created the 66 millionth Litecoin, marking another milestone on the network. There are now less than 18 million Litecoin to be mined. The last Litecoin is estimated to be mined around 2142 due to the deflationary nature of the network. …

Testnet is here. So far, there are only a few nodes connected and mining, and there haven’t been enough blocks to activate mimblewimble yet (we’re using BIP9-style activation[1]). As more peers connect and start to mine, I’m hoping we can get the chain moving fast enough to activate in a…

The August MimbleWimble update from David Burkett has just been published, covering the latest work done on the project in the last month, along with discussing future plans and the testnet release at the end of September. So without further ado, over to David: I apologize in advance for the…

It’s been just over 3 months since I last talked markets, at the time a single Litecoin was valued at $46. Back then I made a prediction based on on-chain trend analysis comparing transactions and market price in an attempt to find a fundamental stable value. …

With the crypto markets finally breaking out above the 3 year downtrend, confidence is returning to the space and to cryptocurrency as a technology. …

Good / Bad news everyone! We are officially half way through 2020 and with June now behind us, David Burkett, the project leader for the Litecoin MimbleWimble implementation has published another development update so let’s jump right into it. Starting with mempool logic. Upon further exploration Burkett states this area…

Loshan, a Core developer on the Litecoin Project today announced a new update to the Litecoin Lightning Network Daemon (lndltc) with v0.10.1 beta. This release is the most feature complete and stable version of lnd for Litecoin users yet. …