Litecoin (LTC) vs Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Litecoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, open-source digital payment network launched in 2011 by Charlie Lee. It is a blockchain operating on a Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism, and its source code is a fork of Bitcoin's. Litecoin aims to be an alternative to Bitcoin with faster transaction confirmation times and lower fees.

Bitcoin Cash is a Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain that was born on August 1, 2017, following a hard fork from Bitcoin due to a disagreement within the Bitcoin community. While the majority of the community chose to adopt the SegWit proposal, a dissenting faction decided to split the blockchain (hard fork) and implement their own improvement, namely an increase in block size from 1 MB to 8 MB, following the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto.