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Litecoin halving
countdown.

Current height
live tip
Reward
per block, this epoch
Interval
840,000
blocks · ~4 years
Cap
84M
total ever mintable
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Tip ETA assumes 2.5 min / block
/reference — halving schedule
#blockdatereward · LTC
genesis02011-10-1350
1 840,000 2015-08-25 50 → 25
2 1,680,000 2019-08-05 25 → 12.5
3 2,520,000 2023-08-02 12.5 → 6.25
4 3,360,000 ~ estimate 6.25 → 3.125
5 4,200,000 ~ estimate 3.125 → 1.5625
6 5,040,000 ~ estimate 1.5625 → 0.78125
/notes
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Same cadence, faster blocks.
Litecoin halves on the same ~4-year calendar as Bitcoin, but its 2.5-minute target time means halving block intervals are 4× larger (840,000 instead of 210,000). Total mintable LTC: 84 million — exactly 4× Bitcoin's cap.
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Why halvings matter.
Halvings cap Litecoin's issuance — the only mechanism that controls eventual supply. Each one cuts new LTC issued per block in half, and the schedule is hard-coded into the protocol.
03
Tip lookup.
The current block height is fetched from a public Litecoin tip endpoint once a minute. The countdown re-renders every second using local time — no per-second network call.
/faq
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When is the next Litecoin halving?

The next halving happens at block 3,360,000 — roughly four years after the August 2023 event. The exact date depends on actual block-production speed; this page estimates the ETA from current tip height assuming Litecoin's 2.5-minute average blocks.

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How often does Litecoin halve?

Every 840,000 blocks. With 2.5-minute target blocks, that works out to approximately four years — the same calendar cadence as Bitcoin, even though Litecoin produces 4× more blocks per day.

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What happens at a Litecoin halving?

The block reward is cut in half. After the third halving in August 2023, the reward dropped from 12.5 LTC to 6.25 LTC. The fourth halving will drop it to 3.125 LTC.

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How accurate is the countdown?

The countdown assumes 2.5 minutes per block — Litecoin's long-term target. Actual blocks vary; weeks of fast or slow blocks can shift the estimated date by days. The block-height field, by contrast, is exact.