Litecoin was launched by Charles Lee in 2011 and it is a top 5 cryptocurrency. It is a P2P crypto and it has gained immense popularity in the recent past. In a similar fashion to BTC, Litecoin is a form of digital money that uses blockchain technology to maintain a public ledger of all transactions. It is an open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license.
Litecoin has gained popularity due to its-
- Increased speed
- Number of coins
- Market cap
In brief, the differences between BTC and LTC is-
PARAMETERS | BITCOIN | LITECOIN |
Coin limit | 21 Million | 84 Million |
Algorithm | SHA-256 | Scrypt |
Mean block time | 10 minutes | 2.5 minutes |
Initial reward | 50 BTC | 50 LTC |
Current block reward | 25 BTC | 50 LTC |
Created by | Satoshi Nakamoto | Charles Lee |
Creation date | 2009 | 2011 |
Market cap as of Nov 2017 | $10,467,596,650.78 | $540,274,528.26 |
Having already published a tutorial on setting up an Ethereum node in your server, in this tutorial we will walk you through setting up a Litecoin node in your CentOS 7 server.
PrerequisiteS
- CentOS 7 server
- Root access
Steps to setup A full litecoin node in centOS 7
We will install the latest version of Litecoin from the official website. First log into your CentOS 7 server with root access and navigate to home directory using the command – cd ~ or any download directory. Use wget to download Litecoin using the command- wget https://download.litecoin.org/litecoin-0.14.2/linux/litecoin-0.14.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, you will be able to see a console message as shown below-
You can verify that the download has been successful by using the command- ls -ltr :
Once downloaded, you can extract the directory using the command- tar -zxvf litecoin-0.14.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Now we are ready to install all needed packages. To install use the command- sudo install -m 0755 -o root -g root -t /usr/local/bin ~/litecoin-0.14.2/bin/*
This completes our initial installation. Once installed you will be able to use commands – litecoind and litecoin-cli from anywhere in your command prompt. To verify you can try using the litecoin -cli command on the console as shown below-
We now need to configure the LTC node. First, create a folder using the command- mkdir .litecoin
Please note this is a hidden folder and will not be visible if you use the command ls-ltr. Instead, to verify, you can use ls-ltra. This will list your folder on the screen:
Navigate to the newly created folder using the command- cd .litecoin/ as shown below-
Create a new config file with vim using the command- vi litecoin.conf
Add the following entries (but make sure to modify the password) to the config file:
rpcuser=litecoinrpc
rpcpassword=Test123
txindex=1
server=1
daemon=1
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
bind=127.0.0.1
A snapshot of the file is shown below-
Make sure you’ve changed the rpcuser and rpcpassword values and save the file. With this, we complete our litecoin configuration.
To start your new Litecoin node use the command- litecoind. To verify that it is downloading blocks, use the command- litecoin-cli getinfo.
That’s it!! Assuming you followed the steps outlined above, you now have a full Litecoin node running on your CentOS 7 server.






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