Protocol · October 13, 2011
Litecoin launches — 'silver to Bitcoin's gold'
Price at event
$4.05
Today
$73,577
Since then
×18167
Charlie Lee's Litecoin goes live: a Scrypt-based fork with 2.5-minute blocks and an 84M cap. The first altcoin to matter at scale, and the template for the entire altcoin market that follows.
⸺ Sources ⸺