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Litecoin
Three of the nine. It is the least discussed coin in this subject and the reasons people choose it are practical rather than ideological.
| Market | Since | Coins | Addresses | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nexus Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Mars Market | 2023 | BTC, LTC, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
| Anubis Market | 2024 | BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR | 3 | Global, English |
Why anyone picks it
- Confirmations arrive faster than Bitcoin. The waiting part of a deposit is shorter, which is the whole appeal.
- Fees are small in absolute terms even when the network is busy.
- It behaves like Bitcoin otherwise, so nothing about the process has to be relearned.
What it does not do
Hide anything. Litecoin writes sender, receiver and amount to a public chain in exactly the way Bitcoin does. Choosing it is a decision about speed and cost, and reading it as a middle ground on privacy is a mistake that shows up regularly in forum advice. There is no middle ground here. Either the chain publishes those three things or it does not.
The one thing to be clear about
If speed is what you want, this is a reasonable choice among the three markets that accept it. If privacy is what you want, this is the same choice as Bitcoin with a shorter wait, and the Monero page is where that argument actually lives.
The three markets that take it
Nexus and Mars appeared in 2023 and are identical on every fact this catalogue checks, which is discussed on the Mars page. Anubis appeared in 2024 and is the only entry that also takes Ethereum. So if Litecoin is your filter, your remaining decision is between two indistinguishable 2023 markets and one broader but newer one.
Where it leaves you
With a third of the catalogue available. That is a real narrowing, and it is worth asking whether the faster confirmation is worth cutting six options. For most people the honest answer is that it is not, and the coin that costs nothing in options is the one all nine take.
How the three markets that take it differ
| Market | Since | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nexus | 2023 | Three addresses |
| Mars | 2023 | Three addresses, identical to Nexus on every checkable fact |
| Anubis | 2024 | Three addresses, and the only Ethereum option here |
So filtering on Litecoin leaves you two indistinguishable 2023 entries and one newer one with wider coin support. That is a small enough field that the decision usually comes down to what is listed rather than to anything in this table.
The case against using it at all
It costs you six of the nine markets and buys a shorter wait. If the wait is genuinely the thing you care about, that is a fair trade and worth taking knowingly. If it is habit, the coin every market accepts costs nothing in options and does something the public chain coins cannot.