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Litecoin was created in 2011 by a Google employee Charlie Lee. Currently, this cryptocurrency is one of the largest by market capitalization. Litecoin was created as one of the first forks of the Bitcoin blockchain. Also, it is safe to say that Litecoin is one of the first altcoins. While Bitcoin is based on SHA-256 algorithm, Litecoin utilizes a lighter scrypt algorithm.
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Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency with strong cryptography that is supposed to provide high security and privacy. At some point, Zcash was endorsed by Edward Snowden and Roger Ver. Zcash is a Bitcoin fork and it exists since 2016. The mechanism providing privacy is called zero-knowledge proofs (or zk-SNARKS).
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Litecoin was created in 2011 by a Google employee Charlie Lee. Currently, this cryptocurrency is one of the largest by market capitalization. Litecoin was created as one of the first forks of the Bitcoin blockchain. Also, it is safe to say that Litecoin is one of the first altcoins. While Bitcoin is based on SHA-256 algorithm, Litecoin utilizes a lighter scrypt algorithm.
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Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency with strong cryptography that is supposed to provide high security and privacy. At some point, Zcash was endorsed by Edward Snowden and Roger Ver. Zcash is a Bitcoin fork and it exists since 2016. The mechanism providing privacy is called zero-knowledge proofs (or zk-SNARKS).
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| Type |
Type
coin
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Type
coin
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| Founding Date |
Founding Date
2011
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Founding Date
2016
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| Country |
Country
International
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Country
No data
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| Languages |
Languages
No data
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Languages
No data
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| Team |
Team
Public
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Team
Public
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| Protocol |
Protocol
Public blockchain
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Protocol
Public blockchain
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| Current price (USD) |
Current price (USD)
85.0571
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Current price (USD)
41.5796
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| All-time high (USD) |
All-time high (USD)
375.2900
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All-time high (USD)
5941.8000
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| Price change (24h) |
Price change (24h)
5.05
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Price change (24h)
8.95
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| Volume (24h) |
Volume (24h)
18533464.83659
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Volume (24h)
1119005.69889
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| Hashrate |
Hashrate
165730
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Hashrate
5
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| Max Supply |
Max Supply
84000000.00000
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Max Supply
21000000.00000
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| Total supply |
Total supply
No data
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Total supply
No data
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| Circulating Supply |
Circulating Supply
75998614.48347
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Circulating Supply
15119562.66555
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| Transaction speed / Block time |
Transaction speed / Block time
56
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Transaction speed / Block time
26
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| Transaction fee |
Transaction fee
No data
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Transaction fee
No data
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| Mining profitability |
Mining profitability
low
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Mining profitability
medium
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| Algorithm |
Algorithm
Scrypt
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Algorithm
No data
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| Proof type |
Proof type
PoW
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Proof type
No data
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| Fully premined |
Fully premined
No data
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Fully premined
No data
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| Smart contract address |
Smart contract address
No data
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Smart contract address
No data
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| Total coins mined |
Total coins mined
65464957.99676
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Total coins mined
No data
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| Is trading |
Is trading
yes
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Is trading
No data
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| Block reward |
Block reward
12.500000000000
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Block reward
No data
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| Block time |
Block time
150
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Block time
No data
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Litecoin (LTC) user rating is 5, based on 5 user reviews. Zcash (ZEC) user rating is 4.7, based on 3 user reviews.
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