Electrum-LTC for Litecoin payments

Electrum-LTC is the same wallet adapted to Litecoin, and using it feels identical. The differences are all downstream of the chain rather than the software.

What changes

Blocks land every two and a half minutes rather than every ten, so confirmations complete quickly and the waiting is short. Fees are low and stable, which means the fee estimation anxiety that comes with Bitcoin largely disappears. Set it and it lands.

What stays the same

Tor routing is configured the same way and is worth doing for the same reason. The seed rule is identical. And the ledger is just as public, which is the part people forget because the experience is smoother.

A note on address reuse

Like Bitcoin, Litecoin uses discrete outputs and the wallet generates a fresh receiving address per use. Let it. Reusing one address for everything turns a series of unrelated payments into a single readable history.

Fee direction

Added on top of the amount, not deducted from it. The shortfall this produces is small enough to look like nothing and large enough to leave an order unfunded.

Verified addresses

Before you sign in. Open these in Tor Browser only, then compare the onion printed on the login screen against your browser address bar. If they do not match, close the tab.