Litecoin halving about 159,000 blocks away as reward drops to 3.125 LTC
- —Halving is hard-coded at block 3,360,000, with an interval of 840,000 blocks
- —At 556 blocks a day, daily issuance falls from 3,475 to 1,737 LTC
- —Annual inflation drops from 1.69% to 0.84% of circulating supply
- —Dogecoin merged mining supplies 84.5% of scrypt miner revenue
Why it matters: The supply cut halves new issuance, but merged mining with Dogecoin means miner revenue falls only about 8%, softening the impact on hashrate.
Source: CryptoTicker