BTC & LTC 🤝 Two are Better than One. Creator & WEB3 Domainer 🛸 I Dream of a Decentralized Future for Humanity Coexisting with Nature in Peace and Harmony 🌞🌱
On August 2, 2023 Litecoin had its supply distribution per block halved from 12.5 LTC to 6.25. The hash rate at that time was 0.767 PH/s.
The next supply distribution halving per block is estimated to take place around July 27, 2027. Today's hash rate for the Litecoin network currently sits at 2.721 PH/s. An increase of nearly 4x what it was less than 3 years ago.
The Litecoin mining operations used to secure the global network have grown substantially and show no signs of slowing down.
This is what fully decentralized, fair launched, fungible freedom money looks like from a security perspective. This is exactly how money should be. Strengthened by the masses, used by the masses, feared by the upper classes.
Roughly 395 days from now, Litecoin does something no central bank can do on command.
The 2027 halving takes the block reward from 6.25 $LTC to 3.125 $LTC.
It cuts its own new supply in half right on schedule, with nobody able to rewrite it.
Fewer coins enter circulation, the 84 million ceiling draws closer, and the scarcity Litecoin was built around in 2011 gets one degree harder.
The Litecoin meta is making headlines 🔥
“As a major Litecoin holder, we have a direct financial incentive to see LitVM succeed... Our investment thesis isn’t speculative, but infrastructure-focused.”
— @jay_lits, CEO of @LiteStrategy
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While some are busy writing $LTC off as a dinosaur, here’s what’s actually happening:
LiteVM testnet went live April 15th. 96,906 transactions and 10,589 unique addresses in the first 24 hours alone. By day three it crossed 230,000 total transactions. That’s not hype, that’s developers showing up!
EVM-compatible smart contracts built on a ZK-rollup Layer 2. Backed by the Litecoin Foundation, Polygon, Arbitrum and BitcoinOS. Over 50 teams already committed to building on it. Mainnet launch coming Q2 2026.
Add a spot ETF already trading on Nasdaq, an all-time high hashrate, and nearly 400 million lifetime transactions with zero downtime.
Money you can trust, and now money you can actually build on 👀
$BTC has been declared “dead” 472 times.
And every single time, it came back stronger.
Yet the same panic returns every cycle.
If you had invested just $500 every time people declared Bitcoin dead, your portfolio would be worth over $325 MILLION today.
Litecoin should not still be here.
It launched in 2011, watched thousands of flashier coins promise to replace it, and quietly buried almost all of them.
The survivor everyone wrote off is about to do the one thing nobody expected.
In this conversation, Roc and Aztec of LitVM walk through a major expansion that finally brings smart contracts to one of crypto's oldest names.
Their argument is that the recent downturns, which they attribute to predatory shorting, are masking a quieter trend, with capital steadily rotating back into proven legacy assets that have already weathered more than a decade of cycles.
The project itself is a purpose-built layer-two (L2) modular stack that brings Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility natively to Litecoin.
They point out that while the major chains support dozens of layer twos, LitVM is the only one building on Litecoin, using zero-knowledge cryptography to let users launch smart contracts and real-world assets trustlessly.
Here is the part that should make you pay attention.
With no airdrop incentives dangled in front of anyone, the testnet has already crossed 40 million transactions and 3 million unique active wallets, which means people are showing up for the technology rather than a payout.
Roc and Aztec explain what that signals, and why they believe the oldest survivor in crypto might be the one writing its most important chapter yet...
@LitecoinVM
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00:00 Mario Nawfal, Roc, and Aztec break down the current market cycle and the reasons capital is returning to legacy chains.
04:40 The founders address crypto's narrative crisis and why sovereign networks are essential against financial weaponization.
13:51 The discussion shifts to LitVM and how it delivers smart contract and EVM functionality directly to the Litecoin network.
23:14 The team elaborates on LitVM's position as Litecoin's exclusive layer two and their community-driven distribution strategy.
35:48 The founders reveal strong organic testnet numbers before Mario closes out the session.