Litecoin
Litecoin (LTC[3]) adalah sebuah mata uang kripto yang di buat pada tahun 2011 dan perangkat lunak sumber terbuka dibawah lisensi MIT/X11.[4] Litecoin adalah salah satu mata uang kripto turunan Bitcoin Core QT yang berarti semua yang ada di dalam Litecoin tidak berbeda jauh dengan Bitcoin. Litecoin membuat perbedaan sendiri yaitu dengan harga murah, cepat dan praktis karena penambangan untuk mendapatkan Litecoin bisa menggunakan sistem operasi Windows, Linux, MacOS dan lainnya.[5]
| Litecoin | |
|---|---|
 Official Litecoin logo | |
| Denominasi | |
| Subsatuan | |
| 0.001 | mLTC (millicoin) |
| 0.000001 | μLTC (microcoin) |
| 0.00000001 | Smallest unit |
| Bentuk jamak | Litecoin, litecoins |
| Simbol | Ł[1] |
| Julukan | LTC |
| Demografi | |
| Tanggal peluncuran | 7 October 2011 |
| Pengguna | International |
| Emisi | |
| Ledger | The Litecoin peer-to-peer network regulates and distributes through consensus in protocol. |
| Valuasi | |
| Inflasi | Limited release (geometric series, rate halves every 4 years reaching a final total of 84 million LTC) |
| Sumber | Historic and Current Charts for LTC. |
| Metode | Increasing difficulty per every 2016 blocks produced.[2] |
Sejarah
By 2011, Bitcoin mining was largely performed by GPUs. This raised concern in some users that mining now had a high barrier to entry, and that CPU resources were becoming obsolete and worthless for mining. Using code from Bitcoin, a new alternative currency was created called Tenebrix (TBX). Tenebrix replaced the SHA-256 rounds in Bitcoin's mining algorithm with the scrypt function,[6] which had been specifically designed in 2009 to be expensive to accelerate with FPGA or ASIC chips.[7] This would allow Tenebrix to have been "GPU-resistant", and utilize the available CPU resources from bitcoin miners. Tenebrix itself was a successor project to an earlier cryptocurrency which replaced Bitcoin's issuance schedule with a constant block reward (thus creating an unlimited money supply).[6] However, the developers included a clause in the code that would allow them to claim 7.7 million TBX for themselves at no cost, which was criticized by users.[8] To address this, Charlie Lee, a Google employee who would later become Engineering Director at Coinbase,[9] created an alternative version of Tenebrix called Fairbrix (FBX).[10] Litecoin inherits the scrypt mining algorithm from Fairbrix, but returns to the limited money supply of Bitcoin, with other changes.
Lee released Litecoin via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011. The Litecoin network went live on October 13, 2011.
It was a source code fork of the Bitcoin Core client, differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased maximum number of coins, different hashing algorithm (scrypt, instead of SHA-256), and a slightly modified GUI.
During the month of November 2013, the aggregate value of Litecoin experienced massive growth which included a 100% leap within 24 hours.[11][butuh sumber yang lebih baik]
In May 2017, Litecoin became the first of the top 5 (by market cap) cryptocurrencies to adopt Segregated Witness. Later in May of the same year, the first Lightning Network transaction was completed through Litecoin, transferring 0.00000001 LTC from Zürich to San Francisco in under one second.
In September 2021, a fake press release was published on GlobeNewswire announcing a partnership between Litecoin and Walmart. This caused the price of Litecoin to increase by around 30%, before the press release was revealed as a hoax.[12]
Perbedaan dengan Bitcoin
Litecoin memiliki beberapa perbedaan dengan Bitcoin, diantaranya:
- Liecoin mhanya emerlukan waktu 2,5 menit untuk menghasilkan satu block transaksi, sementara Bitcoin emerlukan 10 menit. Ini berarti Litecoin dapat mengkonfirmasi transaksi kira-kira empat kali lebih cepat daripada Bitcoin. Hal ini memungkinkan komputer rumahan dapat digunakan untuk emeambang Litecoin, sedangkan Bitcoin membutuhkan komputer khusus yang spesifik.[13]
Lihat pula
Referensi
- ^ "Ł as the litecoin "symbol"?". bitcointalk.org. 2012-05-06. Diakses tanggal 2014-01-02.
- ^ "Difficulty - Litecoin Wiki". Litecoin.info. 2013-12-09. Diakses tanggal 2013-12-16.
- ^ "LTC Charts". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2014-01-18. Diakses tanggal December 12, 2013.
- ^ "Litecoin.org". Litecoin.org, April 2013. Litecoin.org. Diakses tanggal 24 April 2013.
- ^ "Bitcoin vs. Litecoin: What's the Difference?". Investopedia (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2021-11-06.
- ^ a b Lee, David, ed. (May 5, 2015). Handbook of Digital Currency: Bitcoin, Innovation, Financial Instruments, and Big Data. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9780128023518.
- ^ "scrypt page on the Tarsnap website". Diakses tanggal 21 January 2014.
- ^ Deng, Robert H. Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation. United Kingdom: Elsevier Science. ISBN 9780128104422.
- ^ "Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC". TechCrunch (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2021-02-21. Diakses tanggal 2018-08-20.
- ^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag
<ref>tidak sah; tidak ditemukan teks untuk ref bernamaWIRED - ^ Charlton, Alistair (2013-11-28). "Litecoin value leaps 100% in a day as market cap passes $1bn". International Business Times, UK Edition. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-12-03. Diakses tanggal 2013-12-16.
- ^ "Walmart denies tieup with litecoin, fake statement rattles cryptocurrency". Reuters (dalam bahasa Inggris). 2021-09-13. Diakses tanggal 2021-09-13.
- ^ "Apa yang membedakan Bitcoin dan Litecoin?". Luno. Diakses tanggal 2021-11-06.
Pranala luar
- Situs web resmi
- Litecoin Wiki, wiki resmi Litecoin
- Litecointalk, forum resmi Litecoin