Litecoin’s Genesis block was mined on the 8th of October 2011 by Charlie Lee to ensure the validity of the chain. Five days later, after being put to a vote, this ‘Genesis Hash’ was publicly released and on the 13th of October 2011 the network was opened.

Litecoin is the result of some of us who joined together on IRC in an effort to create a real alternative currency similar to Bitcoin. - Charlie Lee

Since 2017 Litecoin’s network hash-rate has increased more than 5x, transactions on the network have gone up over 10x and active addresses are up over 5x. All indicating continued growth and adoption of Litecoin and breaking previous records despite the recent downturn in the cryptocurreny markets.

On this 7th anniversary, perhaps as no coincidence, Gemini are Launching Litecoin support and will open up trading on Tuesday the 16th at 9:30am EDT and tradeable against BTC, ETH, ZEC, USD. Deposits will open today at 9:30am EDT. Gemini was the final large-scale cryptocurrency exchange left to support Litecoin which now means Litecoin is available across all major exchanges, a truly exclusive club with only three members, the other two being Bitcoin and Ethereum.

From Everyone at Litecoin.com, happy 7th birthday Litecoin, here’s to 2019 🥂