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Litecoin Core v0.21.5.8 is now available. All users are advised to upgrade. This release contains important security updates. ## Update from litecoin.org only. This is a maintenance release that…
Within six months, Litecoin and Zcash each shipped a critical bug in their privacy layer. Litecoin's was exploited and produced 85,034.47285734 LTC that should not have existed. Zcash's may never have been used, and nobody will ever be able to say. That difference, not the bugs, is the story.
Litecoin spent August 2026 doing three things at once: running a payments network that barely notices the market, quietly expanding a privacy layer built to stay auditable, and hosting a…
