Litecoin is one of crypto’s oldest and most established cryptocurrencies, launched in October 2011 by former Google engineer Charlie Lee as a lite version of Bitcoin, designed for faster transactions, lower fees, and a more accessible Scrypt-based mining model than SHA-256. Often called “digital silver”, Litecoin has long served as a testing ground for features later adopted by Bitcoin, most notably Segregated Witness (SegWit) and the Lightning Network. Yet as crypto evolved and kept exp