Litecoin’s price plunge in recent months has whittled away the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency, leading to a shakeout among computer operators on the network seen as a faster and cheaper but less secure version of bitcoin. 

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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee remains committed to funding the Litecoin Foundation despite rumors that its financials are in the red.

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A rule embedded within litecoin’s (LTC) code is set to soon reduce rewards for the miners who today ensure transaction processing on the world’s fourth-largest blockchain by total value.

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Litecoin’s (LTC) price has doubled in the first three months of 2019 to register its best first-quarter performance on record.

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A new report from crypto data startup Messari estimates that the true market capitalization and circulating supply of the digital asset XRP is markedly less than what data sources currently present.

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Distributed ledger startup Ripple has endorsed three cryptocurrency exchanges as its "preferred partners" for transacting with its xRapid payments service, which uses the cryptocurrency XRP.

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A U.S. district judge has denied an investor's effort to move a lawsuit against payments firm Ripple to a lower court.

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The price of XRP, the world's third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell to a new 2018 low on Wednesday.

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It was news that was perhaps too strange for crypto's typically divided reactions. First revealed Wednesday, the Litecoin Foundation, the non-profit that develops the software that powers the sixth-largest cryptocurrency, bought a stake in a very real, non-crypto bank. The move was met with applause and skepticism, but also a stunned sense of disbelief from nearly all sides.

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Litecoin's (LTC) close this week will likely set the tone for the next major move in prices, the technical charts indicate.

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Would-be Litecoin merchant processor LitePay has abruptly terminated its operations, the Litecoin Foundation announced in a post on its website on Monday.

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Litecoin (LTC) founder Charlie Lee announced few days ago on Reddit and Twitter that he has completely unloaded all his Litecoin holdings via selling and donation.

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