Litecoin, a “fork” or clone of Bitcoin, is sometimes affectionately referred to as “digital silver.” Both blockchains 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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