{"id":49192,"date":"2018-05-01T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T02:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=49192"},"modified":"2020-03-24T06:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:55:29","slug":"litecoin-payments-slowly-moving-into-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/litecoin-payments-slowly-moving-into-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Litecoin Payments Slowly Moving Into the Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin, the world's leading cryptocurrency, has long been facing issues with delivering efficient, affordable payment transactions. In 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/charlie-lee-inventor-litecoin\/\">Charlie Lee<\/a> was among the first to identify these drawbacks and soon sought out to develop a more payments-friendly blockchain known as <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/litecoin\/\">Litecoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Litecoin has consistently placed among the top 10 cryptocurrencies internationally and is one of four cryptocurrencies available on Coinbase, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange that is <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/cryptocurrency-exchange-giant-coinbase-valuing-itself-at-8-billion\/\">currently internally-valued at $8 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its rise to prominence in late 2017, Litecoin has lived in the shadow of leading cryptocurrencies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\">Ethereum<\/a> \u2013 seldom making headlines above ICO fervor or hard-fork speculations.<\/p>\n<h2>Litecoin Gaining Recognition<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49238\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alza-logo-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"Alza.cz\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alza-logo-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alza-logo.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alza.cz a.s. is an e-commerce store operating in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and since 2014, in other European Union countries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alza.cz, one of the largest online retailers in the EU, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alzashop.com\/alza-introduces-a-payment-by-litecoin\">announced<\/a> in February that they would be accepting Litecoin as a payment method \u2013 marking a step forward in the mass usage of the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, Business Insider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-99-million-litecoin-trade-took-just-25-minutes-and-cost-040-2018-4\">revealed<\/a> that $99 million-worth of Litecoin was transferred between two cryptocurrency wallets in just 2.5 minutes and at a cost of only $0.40 in mining fees.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/wirexapp.com\/card\/\">Wirex<\/a>, a provider of crypto debit cards, announced this week that they would be fully integrating Litecoin into their blockchain payment cards \u2013 allowing users to make payments and exchange dozens of altcoins into Litecoin. CEO of Wirex,\u00a0Pavel Matveev stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWirex keeps growing as a platform so it\u2019s natural for us to add new services\u00a0and currencies&#8230; Litecoin has huge potential and a big community, so there is a lot of demand for this service in the market.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>How Litecoin is Faster than Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>By decreasing the block time from 10 minutes to 2.5 minutes and maintaining the block size of 1MB,\u00a0Litecoin is able to confirm nearly four times as many transactions as Bitcoin in the same interval of time.<\/p>\n<p>Litecoin also increased the number of coins available compared to Bitcoin from 21 million to 84 million.<\/p>\n<p>As a quicker, cheaper alternative to Bitcoin, Litecoin may finally be drawing the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Litecoin including price, market cap, and technical information, please see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/litecoin\/\">Litecoin coin profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin, the world&#8217;s leading cryptocurrency, has long been facing issues with delivering efficient, affordable payment transactions. 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