Litecoin officially coming to Coin Base (self.litecoin)submitted by Hey all, LTC is officially being programmed into the back end of Coin Base and should be released in the coming weeks...You can see the confirmation on: / Cheers π Rendered by PID 13172 on app-241 at 2017-06-24 12:27:42.367841+00:00 running 3522178 country code: SG.Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, has confirmed via Twitter that Litecoin support is finally on the way.A recent press release hinted that Coinbase might be eyeing LTC, but this is the first time Armstrong has publicly acknowledged implementation plans.No time frame was mentioned, but this is good news for Litecoin regardless!HomeNewsCrypto Coinbase to Support Litecoin and How it Can Change Bitcoin’s Path Crypto, NewsWe are pleased to announce that Coinbase is adding support for Litecoin.Customers can now easily buy, sell, send, and store Litecoin via the Coinbase website or mobile apps. or tap on “Buy” or “Sell” options in our iOS or Android apps.At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world.

With the addition of Litecoin, one of the most trusted and popular digital currencies, we are moving one step closer to our goal.For more information on Litecoin, please check out this beginner’s guide to Litecoin by Coinbase product manager, Linda Xie.Your feedback is important to us.Feel free to reach out to us at our Community Forum.If you don’t have a Coinbase account, sign up here!Coinbase is officially adding support for the digital currency litecoin to its wallet offering.The decision comes months after Coinbase's digital asset exchange, GDAX, added support for litecoin trading, though the startup has long teased the prospect of additional litecoin integrations – its creator, Charlie Lee, serves as the startup's director of engineering.Overall, it's the latest notable boost for the older cryptocurrency, which has seen its public profile rise recently amid news of its forthcoming adoption of the scaling solution SegWit.That adoption has signaled the possibility for additional tech upgrades (not to mention a rising price).

In statements, Coinbase positioned its litecoin integration as part of a larger strategy, explaining: "At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world.We're paving our path to that goal by creating the most trusted and easiest way to buy [and] sell digital currency."Litecoin is unlikely to be the last blockchain token added to the startup’s online service, Coinbase went on to indicate."This [integration] is part of our shift to supporting more types of digital assets over the coming year," the company said.Coinbase has just rolled out full support for Litecoin, its third cryptocurrency.Users will be able to buy, sell, send and store Litecoin from Coinbase’s website or mobile apps, using easy payment methods like a credit/debit card or PayPal.While Coinbase was founded as a platform to transact only with Bitcoin, the company has since announced its intent to add other cryptocurrencies with the broader goal of becoming a “digital currency company.” Last summer Coinbase added support for Ethereum, which is now the second most-popular digital currency with a market cap about one-third the size of Bitcoin’s market cap.

At the time, the reasoning was that Coinbase saw Ethereum’s focus on smart contracts as a tangible improvement over Bitcoin, and not just another alt-coin that doesn’t serve any real function.bitcoin pool calcInterestingly, Litecoin’s creator, Charlie Lee, has been director of engineering at Coinbase for nearly four years.bitcoin foundation russiaAnd while there were always ongoing discussions about adding Litecoin to the platform, they didn’t really materialize until recently.ethereal blade buildLee explained that it’s been a slow few years for Litecoin.bitcoin mining expected profitWhile the digital currency had a heyday in late 2013 with its price spiking to over $50 per coin and over $1 billion in total market cap, it quickly fell back to earth and basically remained flat for three years.global bitcoin lottery

So why the sudden change?If you’re familiar with Bitcoin you know that the community is facing an internal struggle with deciding how to scale the currency for the future.Essentially, Bitcoin’s original code wasn’t designed to process this many transactions on a daily basis, and now the network is charging too much per transaction, which takes too long to confirm.bitcoin exit strategyLuckily there are two main proposed solutions: Bitcoin Unlimited, which aims to get rid of the block size limit altogether, and Segregated Witness (SegWit), which wants to slightly increase the block size while also moving some non-essential data out of the transaction and off the blockchain.bitcoin fbi auctionBoth solutions would require a “fork,” meaning the majority of miners would have to agree on the changes and signal to slightly alter the currency’s blockchain.bitcoin pump dump

So far the Bitcoin community has been unable to reach a consensus on how to fix the scaling issue.A few months ago Lee and the Litecoin community decided to work on implementing SegWit into Litecoin.precio objetivo bitcoinAnd after heated discussions with the biggest players in the Litecoin mining community, the group reached consensus about a week ago to implement SegWit.Last week, miners “voted” with their hash power to signal for SegWit, and the actual code will be implemented next week.While Litecoin is still small enough that it’s not suffering from the same scaling issues as is Bitcoin, the team thought it’d be a good way to bring something exciting to Litecoin.Plus, SegWit has some other benefits besides just increasing network capacity.It prevents malleability, which is essentially the risk (that currently exists in Bitcoin) that third parties can alter transactions before they are confirmed by the network.

Implementing SegWit will also allow Litecoin to experiment with something called Lightening Networks — which would essentially allow for instant Litecoin payments off the main blockchain, with transactions only settling on the chain when they need to.And perhaps best of all, these recent developments have rekindled interest in the Litecoin currency, sending the price (and more importantly, volume) skyrocketing.This increased trading volume is what finally allowed Coinbase to implement Litecoin, knowing they now have a liquid enough market (on the Coinbase-owned exchange GDAX) to supply user demand.Essentially, Lee sees Litecoin’s long-term goal as being able to help Bitcoin alleviate some transactional volume by taking over smaller, less important transactions.So you could use Lightening Networks on Litecoin to buy a coffee with zero confirmation times or transaction fees.But if you’re wiring $50,000 to your bank, you could still use Bitcoin for the increased security that comes from a bigger network of decentralized miners.