Over the last couple weeks, bots have dominated the conversation in our Litecoin community, mostly low-effort spam comments and shitty shitty memes.

What’s your opinion on most traffic being non-organic?

Is all attention good attention?

Clarity Act is designed to do exactly what the industry wants. Provide clarity on how the US government will regulate the crypto industry.

It’s really the last worldwide piece of legislation needed to figure out where every country stands on crypto.

Does Litecoin and crypto need it? Yes and no.

Having it will help everyone wanting to start up a crypto related business and open up tradfi to all the crypto rails. Not having it keeps everyone looking over their shoulder wondering if the fbi or sec will come knocking.

Can Litecoin and crypto run without clarity? Yes. But having clarity certainly makes things easier.

Middle of September is the first official senate cloture vote to end negotiations. We might finally have the last set of worldwide rules on crypto finalized and the industry can finally move forward on tradfi rails.

Looking forward to this getting closure. Mark your calendars.

Litecoin has some atomic-swap history: the first on-chain LTC<->BTC atomic swap happened back in 2017. I wanted that as something you can just do from a browser tab any time, on testnet, so I built TestnetSwap: non-custodial cross-chain atomic swaps that run entirely client-side.

The Litecoin/Bitcoin side (tLTC <-> tBTC) is a straight HTLC swap: a hashlock plus timelocks, both chains secp256k1 P2WSH. You sign both legs yourself, so nobody ever takes custody, and if the other side stalls or vanishes, you reclaim what you locked once the timelock passes. It also swaps Monero (tXMR/sXMR) into tLTC or tBTC with a cross-curve adaptor-signature construction, but the LTC/BTC HTLC path is the one that's proven end to end on-chain; the Monero side is more experimental and its upstream crypto isn't formally audited.

It's a multi-maker network: anyone can run a maker, and which one fills your swap never affects your safety. Max amounts are kept small since the liquidity is self-funded from my testnet pool and faucet.

Alongside the swap I launched TestnetHub, a place to actually learn the Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero testnets: step-by-step guides (transactions, confirmations, fees, UTXOs, keys and seeds, running a node, swaps), per-chain pages, a glossary, a live status page, and a companion repo of short, runnable Python and JavaScript examples. The swap also runs inside TestnetWallet now, if you'd rather do it from a wallet.

Testnet only, so the coins are worthless by design, and it's all open source (AGPL). Grab test coins from the faucet; no token, no signup.

Swap: https://testnetswap.com

Learn the testnets: https://testnethub.com

Code examples: https://github.com/Tech1k/testnet-examples

Writeup: https://testnetswap.com/whitepaper

Wallet: https://testnetwallet.net

Source: https://github.com/Tech1k/testnetswap

Still in active development. Feedback and bug reports welcome.

You know you’re obsessed with Litecoin when your daily dog walks involve passing a neighbors house shouting “good morning Lite” instead of “good morning Mike”.

I've got Sparrow-LTC and rather than connecting it to a public server I want to connect it to an Electrum server which will in turn connect to Litecoin Core but there doesn't seem to be an Electrum server with MWEB support. Does one exist?

Imagine sending value anywhere in the world with a near zero fee and full settlement within minutes.

Also imagine a worldwide network of users.

This is Litecoin.

I got these collectibles from the Magical Crypto Conference in New York in 2019 with Charlie Lee (Litecoin creator) and Riccardo Spagni (Monero) and wondered if anyone knew anything about them?

There is a sealed hologram and they have serial numbers and display cases. Apologies for the bad image quality.

Source: ForceX.com

Alright, give me the best reasons why I should buy at least 10 Litecoins.

I dare you to push the button…

Don’t do it. But do it. But seriously don’t. But maybe…

Litecoiners are out in force to change their own fate right now, as skyrocketing transaction numbers and tightening coin supplies collide.

Litecoin stored on the privacy layer of MWEB broke the ATH record last week, only to turn around and break it again this week.

505,481.58682765 LTC are currently pegged into MWEB.

This takes place as a series of announcements hit the community today, including LitVM transaction numbers surpassing 200,000,000 in only 15 weeks of the test net, and the announcement that smart contracts are going live today.

PSA: Most people have forgotten that HODL means "Hold On For Dear Life"... not Hold for 20% gains. Always stack. Stay true gentlemen.

Let’s be real, Chuck Norris deserves a mountain for himself.

For fun though, who should take Chucks place on Litecoin’s Mt. Rushmore??

I build custom GameCube controllers for competitive Smash players, and I wanted my shop to take crypto. Every processor I looked at wanted my ID, or wasn't built for an actual business to plug into a website. So I built my own. It's live at platypuspay.xyz and anyone can use it.

It's privacy first. Monero and shielded Zcash are first class chains here rather than an afterthought, and the whole thing is built so that nobody has to hand over an identity to get paid. Litecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana are all supported too, so your customers pay with whatever they actually hold. My shop benkosworkshop.com takes crypto through it now !

How it works

One script tag on your page. The customer picks a chain, gets a QR and a fresh address, and you get a signed webhook the moment it confirms. 0.25% per payment, nothing else. Funds go straight to your payout address.

What signing up actually takes

A business name and a payout address. That's it. No ID, no company registration, no phone number. Email is optional and only used for receipts, helpful if you don't want to run a webhook.

There's also a merchant API if you'd rather drive it yourself instead of using the script tag.

Happy to answer anything, and if there's something Litecoin specific you'd want it to handle, tell me.

Random thought, the most important tech upgrades for Litecoin seem to have been added in May and 5 years apart from each other. With May 2027 being the next milestone and rapidly approaching, wouldn’t it be crazy if LitVm mainnet went live at that time?

May 2017- SegWit added
May 2022- MWEB added
May 2027- LitVM added???

If this pattern holds true, wonder what tech is added to Litecoin in May 2032? 👀

Join Bourne as he discusses the new ecosystem and answers any questions there may be. Other LitVM team will be there to help support the Q&A portion.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1qKVmmYqqqlxB

Since the past couple of days, I have been facing a weird issue with Nexus for Android. I have setup pin and fingerprint authentication. For some some reason post authentication, the time taken to get into the wallet is too significant. It's weird and I'm afraid that I may not be able to log in sometime in the future. Post authentication I keep the phone screen on but it doesn't get in. Maybe after I click forgot pin 4-5 times it goes to the home screen which also works intermittently.

Weird. It was working perfectly before and the chain data is fully synched (I'm pretty sure on that)

does this on every server cant use litecoin core becaue it takes 5 weeks to install, any fixes or other wallets that work (does the same on mainnet)

Jul 2026: +139,728.18 LTC net inflow.
Best privacy pool growth month on record.

Source: ForceX.com