Litecoin price chart history
Proponents of Bitcoin argue that it is not susceptible to devaluation by inflation or seigniorage in the way other modern "fiat" currencies are.
Nor is it associated with an arbitrary store of value such as gold, unlike hard-money or representative currencies. The Bitcoin protocol was first described by Satoshi Nakamoto a pseudonym in Each bitcoin is divided into million smaller units called satoshis. MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended.
It was subsequently announced on Bitcoin news that over , Bitcoins had been stolen from customers of this exchange. Quandl provides historical data for MtGox. Note that this data stopped updating on 25 Feb Quandl has daily prices for over crypto-currencies from Cryptocoin Charts. You can view all Quandl's cryptocurrency time series on our Cryptocoin Charts source page. Dogecoin data, from Dogecoin Average, is available from our Dogecoin Average source.
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JSON , CSV Bitcoin Market Size Quandl provides several measures of the size and value of the Bitcoin market, including the total number of Bitcoins in circulation, the market capitalization of Bitcoin, and the number of unique Bitcoin addresses in use. More About Bitcoin Currency Bitcoin is a digital currency based on an open-source peer-to-peer software protocol that is independent of any central authority. Bitcoin Data from MtGox MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended.
Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee. In May , Litecoin became the first of the top 5 by market cap cryptocurrencies to adopt Segregated Witness.
In February , the EU online retailer Alza. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Litecoin Official Litecoin logo. Archived from the original on Retrieved 24 April Litecoin surpasses billion dollar market capitalization". Retrieved 12 May A guide to some other cryptocurrencies". A decentralized ledger of shared computational resources" PDF. These hash functions can be tuned to require rapid access a very large memory space, making them particularly hard to optimize to specialized massively parallel hardware.