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Where & how to buy Litecoin (LTC) Guide

Updated on: 2025/05/25 02:17:03（UTC+0）

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Buy LTC in 3 easy steps!

Create your free Bitget account

Provide your email address and place of residence.

Select a funding method

Fund your account using your preferred payment method.

Complete your Litecoin purchase

Buy Litecoin with as little as $5.

Step 1: Create a free account on the Bitget website or the app

Please verify your identity to ensure full compliance and enhance your Bitget experience.

You can access the identity verification page, select your country, upload your ID documents, and submit your selfie. You will receive a notification once your identity has been successfully verified.

Step 2: Place an order for Litecoin using a payment method of your choice:

Buy Litecoin with a debit/credit card
For Visa or Mastercard, select Credit/Debit card, then click Add New Card under the "Buy" tab
Credit/Debit in the Buy Crypto tab of the Bitget app
Credit/Debit in the Buy Crypto tab of the Bitget website
Select your preferred fiat currency, enter the amount you wish to spend, link your credit card, and then complete your payment with zero fees.
Add a new card to complete your payment on the Bitget app
Enter your bank card details to complete your payment on the Bitget website
For Diners Club/Discover card, click Buy Crypto > [Third Party] in the top navigation bar to place your Litecoin order.
How to buy crypto with credit/debit card
Buy Litecoin with Google Pay or Apple Pay
Converting your Google Pay and Apple Pay balance into Litecoin is easy and secure on Bitget. Simply click Buy Crypto > [Third Party] in the top navigation bar to place your Litecoin order.
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Buy with bank transfer
We accept various payment methods, including iDeal and SEPA for EUR, PIX for BRL, PayID for AUD, UPI for INR, QRIS, DANA, and OVO for IDR, SPEI for MXN, and GCash for PHP. These services are facilitated by Alchemy Pay, Banxa, Mercuryo, and Simplex payment gateways. Simply select Buy Crypto > [Third Party] in the top navigation bar and select a fiat currency to place your Litecoin order.
Buy Litecoin with the fiat balance in your Bitget account
You can Deposit fiat funds using Advcash, SEPA, Faster Payments, or PIX payment gateways to top up your Bitget fiat balance. Then, click Buy Crypto > [Cash conversion] in the top navigation bar to place your Litecoin order.
P2P trading
With Bitget P2P, you can buy crypto using over 100 payment methods, including bank transfers, cash, and e-wallets like Payeer, Zelle, Perfect Money, Advcash, and Wise. Simply place an order, pay the seller, and receive your crypto. Enjoy secure transactions with escrow protection.
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Step 3: Monitor Litecoin in your Bitget spot wallet

If you've chosen to purchase Litecoin on Bitget, your Litecoin will be instantly credited to your Bitget spot account upon payment completion. You can click Assets located on the top right corner of the page to check your assets. Additionally, you can buy, deposit, convert, trade, and withdraw them.

Check your assets

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Alternative methods to buy Litecoin

In addition to purchasing Litecoin directly, there are numerous other ways to obtain Litecoin.

Buy Litecoin with crypto on Bitget Convert

Bitget Convert offers a secure, swift, and zero transaction fee method to convert crypto to Litecoin. Just choose your available crypto assets, specify the amount for the Litecoin swap, confirm, and check Litecoin instantly credited to your spot account. Ensure sufficient account balance before proceeding with the conversion.

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Swap on-chain assets to Litecoin with Bitget Swap

Unlike buying or selling crypto, swapping does not access traditional financial rails since fiat currencies are not involved. Bitget Swap supports over 250,000 cryptocurrencies on 30 major blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana. You can exchange any other crypto to Litecoin anytime, anywhere, including cross-chain transactions. Transaction gas fees are automatically converted.

Click Trade > [Bitget Swap] in the top navigation bar to swap any other cryptocurrency for Litecoin.

How to buy Litecoin for free

Using real money to buy Litecoin is not the only way to obtainLitecoin. If you have the time to allocate, you can get Litecoin for free.

Learn how to earn Litecoin for free through the Learn2Earn promotion
Earn free Litecoin by inviting friends to join Bitget's Assist2Earn promotion
Receive free Litecoin airdrops by joining On-going challenges and promotions

All crypto airdrops and rewards can be converted to Litecoin through Bitget Convert, Bitget Swap, or Spot Trading.

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LTC / USDTCurrent price:

$94.84

-1.46

-2.00%24H

The live Litecoin price today is $94.84 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $9383476.62 USD. We update our LTC to USD price in realtime. LTC is -2.00% in the last 24 hours.

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You can easily buy Litecoin (Litecoin) with the lowest fees and highest security wherever Bitget is available. Simply select your country in the search box below to start buying Litecoin in your preferred location:

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What can you do with Litecoin?

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Store/Hold Litecoin

Many users hold on to their Litecoin with the expectation of it increasing in value. You can store your LTC safely on your Bitget account or on our crypto wallet app BG Wallet, the most user-friendly and secure mobile wallet.

Trade Litecoin

You can trade Litecoin for 150+ cryptocurrencies on Bitget’s industry-leading, fast, and secure trading platform. Bitget offers many trading pairs for Litecoin trading to meet your needs.

Send Litecoin

Yes, Bitget allows you to easily transfer value around the world, fast. You can buy Litecoin online and send to anyone and anywhere with their Litecoin address.

Spend Litecoin

You can also buy goods and services with your Litecoin. More and more vendors and retailers accept Litecoin every day.

Earn Litecoin (LTC)

Earn passive income by staking or lending Litecoin (LTC) through services like On-chain Earn, PoolX, and Launchpool on Bitget.

Litecoin (LTC) futures

Bitget, a world-leading cryptocurrency futures exchange, offers a variety of trading strategies to adapt to different market conditions. With 24/7 trading, ample liquidity, fast matching, and an excellent user experience, it provides unparalleled convenience for investors.

Market stats to assist in determining optimal times for purchasing Litecoin

Maybe you just need to know more about it. Let us briefly guide you through the most interesting Litecoin facts from our Bitget Academy articles. Learn why people buy Litecoin today!

What is Litecoin (LTC)?

Litecoin is a decentralized open-source blockchain and is widely considered the first successful alternative coin (or altcoin) in the market. Technically, Litecoin was not the first altcoin to exist in the market; there were many that came before Litecoin, but all of them died soon because they were not convincing enough so that crypto users could adopt them en mass. Launched in 2011, Litecoin has the aim to be “the silver to Bitcoin’s gold”. Though whether the goal of Litecoin is achieved is up for debate, it is no doubt among the biggest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

Litecoin was a hard fork from Bitcoin that was created to remedy the shortcomings of the original. The major differences of Litecoin are that

(1) it was fairlaunched,

(2) block is generated in less time,

(3) total supply of token is increased,

(4) different hashing algorithm, and

(5) different GUI (graphic user interface).

These technical improvements lead to faster speed, lower fee, and more accessible for the masses.

Regarding the creator of Litecoin, he is an MIT graduate and former Google engineer, Charlie Lee. Lee invented Litecoin as “mainly a fun side project” and got a job at Coinbase not long after. However, in 2017, he quit Coinbase to work on Litecoin full-time.

How Litecoin (LTC) Works

Litecoin is one of the few popular cryptocurrencies that still use the PoW consensus algorithm because PoW is often criticized for huge energy consumption, low speed, and lack of scalability. Yet, the PoW consensus of Litecoin is quite different. Instead of using the SHA-256 hashing algorithm of Bitcoin, Litecoin implements a different hashing algorithm called Scrypt. It has a special time-memory trade-off to enhance the decentralization in mining and avoid the situation where a few miners with better computing power claim too many tokens. Basically speaking, a miner can increase speed while having to use more memory, or they can use less memory while doing more work and taking longer. This means that it would cost either a lot of time or a lot of resources to perform operations on Litecoin, thus making a large-scale attack much less likely. In fact, Litecoin has not had any major exploits.

Moreover, this inherent time-memory compromise of Scrypt allows easier mining for those with limited computing power. In Litecoin, custom hardware does not necessarily have the edge over non-custom hardware. For example, mining Bitcoin with a GPU is twenty times faster than with a CPU (a more general-purpose hardware), while mining Litecoin with a GPU is only ten times faster than with a CPU.

Other than the fundamental difference in hashing algorithm, Litecoin has each block added every 2.5 minute instead of every 10 minute like Bitcoin. This means that transactions of Litecoin are technically processed four times faster than in Bitcoin.

How Many LTC Tokens Are There in Circulation?

The main token of the Litecoin network has the ticker LTC. This token has a total supply of 84,000,000 to ensure that the last LTC is mined at the same time as when the last Bitcoin is mined. At the moment, there are 71,224,181.28 LTC in circulation.

LTC implements a halving mechanism to control inflation. Yet to make Litecoin’s halving event happen at roughly the same time as Bitcoin's, 840,000 blocks must pass before each halving event on Litecoin while the number is 210,000 on Bitcoin. LTC has gone through two halving events, the first one in 2015 and the second one in 2019. At the beginning, each block rewarded 50 LTC, then decreased to 25 LTC and 12.5 LTC after each halving. Currently, the reward for mining is 12.5 LTC per block. The next halving event of LTC will happen in 2023 and the mining reward per block will be reduced to 6.25 LTC then.

How to Buy Litecoin (LTC)

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How to safely store your Litecoin

After purchasing your Litecoin, you have several options for managing it. You can store it in your personal crypto wallet or keep it in your Bitget account. Some investors choose to hold onto their Litecoin for long-term growth. For enhanced security and risk management of your LTC assets, consider using Bitget Wallet, known for its top-tier protection supported by Suntwin Technology, Qingsong Cloud Security, HEAP, and Armors.

Here's how you can manage your LTC on Bitget:

1. Storing your Litecoin:

Sign up and transfer LTC to your Bitget account.
Alternatively, use Bitget Wallet as a self-custody solution for your LTC.

2. Trading and earning:

Trade Litecoin for other cryptocurrencies or stake LTC on Bitget Earn to earn passive income.

How to withdraw Litecoin with Bitget's hassle-free withdrawal process

Using an exchange is one of the most convenient methods to cash out your Litecoin or other crypto, and Bitget stands out as an excellent choice. With its user-friendly Buy/Sell buttons, Bitget simplifies the experience, allowing you to intuitively select the cryptocurrency you want to sell and specify the sell amount.

When it comes to withdrawing the Litecoin you've acquired, Bitget offers a seamless experience. Enjoy competitive fees, a flexible minimum withdrawal threshold, and lightning-fast delivery times within 24 hours, ensuring your is readily available for you.

FAQ

Can I buy US$1 worth of Litecoin?

In theory, Litecoin can be divided and bought in an amount that is worth US$1, but on Bitget, the minimum order amount on the spot market is limited to US$5.

Can I buy US$10 of Litecoin?

Yes, can be divided and bought in an amount that is worth US$10. On Bitget, the minimum order amount on the spot market is limited to US$5.

Where else can I buy Litecoin?

If a token is not available for purchase via the P2P market or debit/credit card. You can place a buy order for it via the spot market.

Where is the best place to buy Litecoin?

The best place to buy Litecoin is the exchange that provides hassle-free and secure transactions combined with a convenient interface and high liquidity. Millions of users every day choose Bitget as a trusted crypto purchase platform.

Should I buy Litecoin right now?

You should make a decision on purchasing or investing in Litecoin or other tokens after performing your own research and analysis. Bitget provides user-friendly crypto trading and purchasing services. Additional resources such as Bitget Academy and Bitget Insights help users to navigate the current market news and trends.

Cryptocurrency investment activities, including actions done to buy Litecoin online via Bitget, are subject to market risk. Bitget provides easy and convenient ways for you to buy Litecoin instantly, and we put our best efforts to fully inform our users about each and every cryptocurrency we offer on the exchange, but we are not responsible for the results that may arise from your Litecoin purchase. This page and any information in it is not meant to be interpreted as an endorsement of any particular cryptocurrency or method of acquiring it.