Litecoin - Open source P2P digital currency

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<header> <div class="container"> <div class="intro-text"> <div class="intro-heading">The Cryptocurrency For Payments</div> <div class="intro-lead-in">Based on Blockchain Technology</div> <a href="#download" id="heroDownload" class="text-left page-scroll btn btn-hero btn-xl btn-spacer"> <i class="fa fa-group if-os-known distro-graphic " ></i> Download <div class="btn-small detect" data-windows="Litecoin Core 0.21.4<br /> for Windows" data-mac="Litecoin Core 0.21.4<br /> for Mac OS X" data-linux="Litecoin Core 0.21.4<br /> for Linux" data-android="<br /> Litewallet for Android" data-dl-windows="https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.4/win/litecoin-0.21.4-win64-setup.exe" data-dl-mac="https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.4/osx/litecoin-0.21.4-osx.dmg" data-dl-linux="https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.4/linux/litecoin-0.21.4-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz" data-dl-android="https://litewallet.io" ></div> </a> <p> <a href="#download" class="page-scroll heroGpg" 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Litecoin is an open source, global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. Mathematics secures the network and empowers individuals to control their own finances. Litecoin features faster transaction confirmation times and improved storage efficiency than the leading math-based currency. With substantial industry support, trade volume and liquidity, Litecoin is a proven medium of commerce complementary to Bitcoin.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="row "> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-group fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Community</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left"><p class="text-no-margin text-left text-muted">Find support across a growing number of Litecoin communities:</p><ul class="text-muted text-left "> <li><a href="https://litecointalk.io">Litecoin Forums</a></li><li><a href="https://t.me/Litecoin">Litecoin Telegram</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin">Reddit Litecoin</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=litecoin%20-bitcoin&src=typd">Search for Users on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="http://freenode.net/" rel="nofollow">IRC FreeNode</a> network channels <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=litecoin" rel="nofollow">#litecoin</a> (for general users) and <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=litecoin-dev" rel="nofollow">#litecoin-dev</a> (for developers).</li> </ul></p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-laptop fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Resources</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left">Find general information as well as a list of services and exchanges that support Litecoin at the <a href="http://litecoin.info">Litecoin Wiki</a>. <br> Up-to-date network statistics can be found at <a href="https://litecoinspace.org/">Litecoin Block Explorer Charts</a>. <br> Source code for Litecoin Core and related projects are available on <a href="https://github.com/litecoin-project">GitHub</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-heart fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Open Source Software</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left">Litecoin is an open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license which gives you the power to run, modify, and copy the software and to distribute, at your option, modified copies of the software. The software is released in a transparent process that allows for independent verification of binaries and their corresponding source code.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-link fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Blockchain</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left">The Litecoin blockchain is capable of handling higher transaction volume than its counterpart - Bitcoin. Due to more frequent block generation, the network supports more transactions without a need to modify the software in the future. <br />As a result, merchants get faster confirmation times, while still having ability to wait for more confirmations when selling bigger ticket items.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-lock fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Wallet Encryption</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left">Wallet encryption allows you to secure your wallet, so that you can view transactions and your account balance, but are required to enter your password before spending litecoins. <br />This provides protection from wallet-stealing viruses and trojans as well as a sanity check before sending payments.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4 text-center"> <span class="fa-stack fa-4x"> <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x text-primary "></i> <i class="fa fa-money fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i> </span> <h4 class="service-heading">Mining Reward</h4> <p class="text-muted text-left">Miners are currently awarded with 6.25 new litecoins per block, an amount which gets halved roughly every 4 years (every 840,000 blocks). <br />The Litecoin network is therefore scheduled to produce 84 million litecoins, which is 4 times as many currency units as Bitcoin.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section>  <section id="download" class="bg-light-gray"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-12 text-center"> <h2 class="section-heading">Download</h2> <h3 class="section-subheading text-muted"><a href='https://blog.litecoin.org/'>Release Notes</a> | <a href='https://litecoin.info/index.php/Upgrading_Litecoin'>Upgrade Notes</a></h3> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 btn-spacer "> <a href="https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.21.4/win/litecoin-0.21.4-win64-setup.exe" class="page-scroll btn btn-xl btn-wide 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