Litecoin (LTC or Ł) Litecoin (LTC or Ł) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open-source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. The crypto was an early bitcoin spinoff or altcoin, starting in October 2011. In technical details, Litecoin is nearly identical to Bitcoin.   Litecoin is different in some ways from Bitcoin: The Litecoin Network aims to process a block every 2.5 minutes, rather than…