The Litecoin cryptocurrency is a fork of the Bitcoin codebase that was positioned as “a silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” It was created by former Google and Coinbase engineer Charlie Lee in 2011.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price rose 6% before facing a 4% rejection from the $330 mark on Friday. BCH average transaction size has plunged by 67% since Feb. 3, while Litecoin’s rose 35% in the same ...