What is Litecoin? The Beginner’s Guide to LTC

Litecoin is not the little brother of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is undoubtedly a more familiar cryptocurrency, but you might be surprised to learn that Litecoin was introduced more than seven years ago. Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. It is an open source software project that is released under the MIT / X11 license, which means that it only has very limited restrictions on reuse.