Litecoin Undergoes Third ‘Halving,’ in Milestone for Cryptocurrency Known as ‘Digital Silver’

Bitcoin and Litecoin both reward “miners” who process transactions and secure the network, with a reward – a combination of variable transaction fees and a predetermined “subsidy” that gets halved approximately every four years. (With Litecoin, they happen every 840,000 transaction blocks, and the average time to generate each block is about 2.5 minutes.)

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