Litecoins Hashrate reaches all -time high, difficulties follow - old coins

Litecoins Hashrate reaches all -time high, difficulties follow - old coins

The computing power of the Litecoin blockchain network reached an all-time high (ATH) on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at a block height of 2,411.048 and reached 798.43 TeraHash per second (Th/S). In addition, Litecoin's level of difficulty also reached an all -time high this week and reached 23,505,031 the following day.

Litecoin's computing power increases by 38 %

in 30 days

A considerable amount of hashates was dedicated to Litecoin ( ltc ) network in the last 30 days, as the computing power of the blockchain of 576 Terahash per second (TH/S) on December 28, 2022 by 38 % to which All-time high of 798 Th/S recorded on January 25, 2023. The Hashrate of Litecoin on January 28, 2023 at around 691 Th/S, which is 20 % higher than the hashrate of the last month. The price of litecoin has also increased higher ltc The value of has been 34 % in the last 30 days.

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on January 25, 2023, ltc The hashrate of reached with about 798 Th/s an all-time high, and the following day ltc The level of difficulty rose from 23.50 million.

The all-time high-halge rate of 798 terahashs per second (Th/s) is about 202 Th/s from a single petahash per second (ph/s), which corresponds to 0.798 pH/s. VIABTC is the best litecoin mining pool with 192 Th/s , or 27 % of the entire Litecoin-Hashrates. F2Pool (121 Th/S), Antpool (104 Th/S), Litecoincoinpool.org (77 Th/S) or Binance (69 Th/S) follow on the crypto mining pool VIABTC. All five Litecoin mining pools also take part in the Merge mining of Dogecoin (Doge) through a process called auxiliary proof-of-work (auxpow).

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In the last week, ltc rose by 3.28 %, in 30 days by 14.80 %and in the past three months by 32.41 %.

litecoin will be the first of a few proof-of-work (pow) cryptocurrencies Halves his mining reward because his network protocols like Bitcoin Cash precedes ( bch ), Bitcoinsv ( bsv ) and bitcoin ( Bitcoin ). The ltc It is expected that the network from 12.5 reduces ltc to 25.06 ltc around or around August 3, 2023. Litecoin's difficulty rose to 23.50 million on January 26 and has been 3.28 % higher in the past three days. As with Bitcoin, Litecoin is adjusted every 2,016 blocks, but ltc blocks are used with a rate of about 2.5 minutes per block discovered.

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Worldwide Google Trends data for the search term" Litecoin "on January 28, 2023.

This means that the difficulty adjustment of Litecoin is reoriented every three days to keep the block time on a constant rate. Last month the difficulty has increased by 14.80 % and 32.41 % in the last 90 days. ltc has lost a lot of its market dominance since his beginnings, as was once second largest cryptocurrency after market capitalization at the end of January 2014. By the next year, around the same time, it was put down to the depressed third largest cryptocurrency after market capitalization. In the following years ltc has gradually fallen back to the current 17th place.

Interested in ltc has also fallen since 2013, as Data from Google Trends (GT) indicates that the search term "Litecoin" of 1-100 achieved a score of 6 in 2013. In December 2017 the term reached the highest score of 100, but today the score is 3 half of what it was in 2013. GT data further shows that the search term "Litecoin" had an upswing at the end of 2020 and recorded a much larger increase in the course of 2021. The greatest interest in Litecoin comes from Nigeria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United States and Slovenia.

What do you think the future does for the Litecoin network if it approaches its next halving of the mining reward in August 2023? Share your thoughts and predictions in the comments below.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news manager at Bitcoin.com News and a Journalist for Financial Technology living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source code and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com news about the disruptive protocols that arise today.


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