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Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin are known for their dangerous volatility, but have they generated any returns in 2015?Barring Dogecoin, which generated negative returns, the other two have generated phenomenal returns year-to-date (YTD) for investors.Let review each of them below.Bitcoin witnessed wide price vicissitudes in 2015, reaffirming its stance as one of the most volatile currencies in the world.Bitcoin started the year on a terrible note, immediately falling more than 50% from north of $310 to $150.Thereafter, it soon recovered and maintained a big range of $220-305 until the mid of August.In the last week of August, it breached $200 briefly and then attracted strong investment dollars which accelerated the recovery.The momentum, this time, was not to be abated.Bulls fired on all cylinders and Bitcoin was positive for the year by the first week of November.Soon, the speculative short sellers were seen running scared and Bitcoin witnessed a shot in the arm.

The price briefly kissed $500, at which all the long positions were liquidated and Bitcoin witnessed a free fall.Bitcoin has since recovered to $390.Would you believe it if I told you that Litecoin gave the best returns among the three?Even after remaining relatively calm in the past few weeks, the cryptocurrency has earned its investors a magnificent 26% return YTD.But it was not without its fair share of volatility.The cryptocurrency in the early part of July defied logic (and gravity) to touch $8.65, and it was during this time that analysts revised their short-term target to $10.But Litecoin had other plans!It crashed incessantly to a low of $2.500, and is now trading at $3.406.Dogecoin moved a lot differently from the other two.While the other two fell during January, it rose 25% from near 60 satoshis to 75 satoshis.The cryptocurrency then witnessed consistent selling pressure, which brought the price down to 36 satoshis.Yes, it was a 50% decline, but this decline was quickly followed by a surge to a new 2015 high of 87 satoshis.

Since then, it has been a heartbreaking, painful decline to a fresh 2015 low of 30 satoshis, and Dogecoin is currently trading at 32 satoshis.ma nguon bitcoinSo, Litecoin gave the best returns of 26% YTD, followed by Bitcoin’s 24% and a disturbing figure of -50% for Dogecoin.dogecoin accountLitecoin (LTC or Ł[1]) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license.[2]bitcoin unable to connectCreation and transfer of coins is based on an open source cryptographic protocol and is not managed by any central authority.[2][3]bitcoin chart excelWhile inspired by, and in most regards technically nearly identical to Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin has some technical improvements over Bitcoin, and most other major cryptocurrencies, such as the adoption of Segregated Witness, and the Lightning Network.[4]bitcoin wert heute

These effectively allow a greater amount of transactions to be processed by the network in a given time, reducing potential bottlenecks, as seen with Bitcoin.[5]bitcoin profitability calculatorLitecoin also has almost zero payment cost and facilitates payments approximately four times faster than Bitcoin.[6]goldman sachs bitcoin 2015Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011 by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee.bitcoin ppcIt was a fork of the Bitcoin Core client, differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased maximum number of coins, different hashing algorithm (scrypt, instead of SHA-256), and a slightly modified GUI.[7]bitcoin miner amazon cloud

During the month of November 2013, the aggregate value of Litecoin experienced massive growth which included a 100% leap within 24 hours.[8]Litecoin reached a $1 billion marketcap in November 2013.[9]As of May 9, 2017, its market capitalization is US$1,542,657,077 at around $30 per coin.[10][11]In May 2017, Litecoin became the first of the top-5 (by market cap) cryptocurrencies to adopt Segregated Witness.[12]Later in May of the same year, the first Lightning Network transaction was completed through litecoin, transferring 0.00000001 LTC from Zurich to San Francisco in under one second.[13]Litecoin version 0.8.5.1 was released in November 2013.The release included fixes for vulnerabilities and added enhanced security to the Litecoin network.The Litecoin developer team released version 0.8.6.1 in early December 2013.The new version offered a 20x reduction in transaction fees, along with other security and performance improvements in the client and network.The source code and binaries were released early to people in the "#litecoin" IRC channel, on the official Litecoin forums, and on Reddit, with information for power users to add a Litecoin supernode to the configuration file, while the main site was to be updated after enough of the network was running the new version.

This release method was used to ensure that the low fee transactions from version 0.8.6.1 clients would not be delayed by clients running older versions.In April 2014, a new version of Litecoin was released, version 0.8.7.1, which fixed some minor issues along with an important fix related to the Heartbleed security bug.Litecoin offers three key differences from Bitcoin.The original intended purpose of using Scrypt was to allow miners to mine both Bitcoin and Litecoin at the same time.The choice to use scrypt was also partially to avoid giving advantage to video card (GPU), FPGA and ASIC miners over CPU miners.Due to Litecoin's use of the scrypt algorithm, FPGA and ASIC devices made for mining Litecoin are more complicated to create and more expensive to produce than they are for Bitcoin, which uses SHA-256.[16]This is widely due to the Scrypt hashing scheme being more memory intensive; increasing memory requirements for ASICs and FPGAs.^ ^ a b c ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ /currencies/litecoin/ ^ ^ /Blockstream/status/862420329888595969 ^ ^ ^ ^ Cryptography portal Economics portal Free software portal Internet portal Numismatics portal