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Excited to publish my Crypto Trends Report for 2025! It frames crypto’s growth as a story of 3 compounding s-curves: asset creation, asset accumulation, and asset utilization The report applies this lens across five key thematic areas – macro, stablecoins, centralized exchanges, onchain activity, and frontier markets – to predict where the industry may be headed

Litecoin fees paid on a given day in $ is incredibly low. Many times under $1,000 for an entire 24 hour period. How is this good, you ask? Miners mostly mine LTC currently for block rewards. It is the main driver of their operations. Merged mining is even more profitable with a slew of coins available through Litecoin as the merged mining parent. With coins like Dogecoin, which is merge mined with Litecoin, having an inflationary attribute there exists a constant incentive beyond just Litecoin to mine. But, at some point, transaction fees must come closer to the forefront as the amount of mineable Litecoin per block gets halved every 4 years (currently at 6.25 ltc per block reward). The next halving is already scheduled for 2027, dropping it down to 3.125 LTC per block and 1.5625 LTC per block by 2031. So again, how is low fee income a benefit both now and into the future? Because transactions have risen substantially over time, normally costs would rise as well as blocks become fuller. But currently, even with litecoin absorbing an average of ~200k trx per day this only amounts to around 2.5 TPS (transactions per second) which is well below the maximum capacity on the base chain of 56 TPS. This doesn't count transactions done on MWEB, the optionally confidential addresses active on litecoin through a soft fork since early 2022. For this reason, the median cost per transaction is still well below $0.0007. This is the entire point behind Charlie Lee 4x'ing both the block rewards as well as the total amount of Litecoin versus Bitcoin. Litecoin was built to handle larger amounts of transactions for much less cost, a key attribute for any blockchain focused mainly on being a daily transactional ledger that benefits both the user and miners. With added benefits such as Segwit in 2017, MWEB addresses in 2022, and multiple updates in-between aimed at lowering costs per transaction, Litecoin not only performs as a long term store of value (SOV) but also as a safe and reliable means of exchange. Hence the identity as 'digital silver'. In this way, as time goes on and blocks continue to fill up with more TPS the cost per transaction to the user is not substantially impacted but miners are also receiving more transactions to verify, creating a healthy balance of supply and demand. This was proven to be accurate during Bitcoin's congestion period of October 2023 - October 2024 (see fig. 3 below). This time period caused massive mempool congestion due to high transaction counts (mempool is basically transaction purgatory/holding area until other transactions have been verified into a block and a new block is created) and many nominally funded transactions to be sidelined for prolonged periods of time. It is during these times that more people choose to move their funds out of Bitcoin and into Litecoin in order to save on transaction fees than at any other time, proving once again the utilitarian and cost effective advantage of Litecoin over Bitcoin. So even though Litecoin also saw an influx of TPS during that same time (over 10 TPS), the maximum median cost of a daily transaction was just over $0.01 compared to Bitcoin's $17.50. As a matter of fact, there are only two times in the past 6 years where the median transaction fee exceeded $0.01 (one penny) for Litecoin: September 2, 2025 and December 26, 2019 (according to blockchairdotcom, see fig. 2). So even though on days like December 20, 2023 when Litecoin had over 1.2 million transactions in a day, the median transaction fee was still well under $0.01!! As global adoption of reliable transactional blockchains such as Litecoin continue to grow, the need for lower fees will continue to become more important along with privacy features, both currently already active on Litecoin. Not only does Litecoin have inherently low fees and optional privacy, but it also boasts 14+ years of zero downtime, fully decentralized validation through mining, no founder's stash, and a non-profit foundation with a strong volunteer community backing it up. All of this creates the perfect organic storm of adoption and interest from not just regular users of the tech, but also institutional, publicly traded entities, and sovereign interest in holding Litecoin as a long term SoV due to its programmed deflationary and hard capped supply. Want to learn more about Litecoin and what makes it so special? Visit litecoindotcom today and join the revolution of money! There's plenty of room for everyone!!

Good morning to everyone except AWS apparently.

🚫 Most of the internet is still down. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is one of the largest in history. 🗒️ Full list of websites confirmed to be affected as of this moment (if another website emerges that was not listed here, please leave it in the replies): Adobe Creative Cloud Airtable Amazon (incl. Alexa & Prime Video) Apple Music Asana AT&T Battlefield (EA) Blink (Security) Boost Mobile Canva ChatGPT Chime Coinbase CollegeBoard Dead By Daylight Delta Air Lines Duolingo EA Fanduel Fetch Fortnite (Epic Games services) GoDaddy Grubhub HBO Max Hinge Hulu IMDb Instacart Kik League of Legends Life360 Lyft McDonald’s app Microsoft (incl. 365, Outlook & Teams) MyFitnessPal Navy Federal Credit Union Peloton Pinterest PlayStation Network Pokémon Go Rainbow Six Siege Reddit Ring Robinhood Roblox Roku ShipStation Signal Slack Smartsheet Snapchat Square Starbucks Steam Strava T-Mobile Tidal Trello Ubisoft Connect United Airlines Venmo Verizon VRChat Wall Street Journal Whatnot Wordle Xbox Xero Xfinity by Comcast Zillow Zoom