Litecoin vs Bitcoin Cash
The past year, from the same start
Side by side
Price, size and supply, then returns, volatility and the deepest fall, each on the coin’s own daily closes.
| Litecoin | Bitcoin Cash | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $50.09 | $238.90 | hourly close, 00:00 UTC |
| Market cap | $3.897 billion | $4.805 billion | price × circulating supply |
| Fully diluted value | $4.208 billion | $5.017 billion | price × maximum (or total) supply |
| Circulating supply | 77.81 million LTC | 20.11 million BCH | |
| Maximum supply | 84.00 million LTC | 21.00 million BCH | |
| All-time high | $387.80 9 May 2021 | $3,747 20 Dec 2017 | daily close |
| From the all-time high | −87.1% | −93.6% | |
| Return, 7 days | −10.0% | −16.0% | |
| Return, 30 days | −21.1% | −13.6% | |
| Return, 90 days | +11.0% | +12.1% | |
| Return, 1 year | −53.2% | −51.8% | |
| Return, 3 years | −32.2% | −0.5% | |
| Volatility, 1 year | 54% | 77% | annualised, daily log returns |
| Deepest fall from a peak, 1 year | −62.9% | −70.9% | daily closes |
How they move together
Whether one coin’s good and bad days are the other’s too, measured on the days both have a close.
- Correlation, 1 year
- 0.561 moves in lockstep, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite; daily log returns
- Correlation, 90 days
- 0.58the same over the last 90 days
- Beta of BCH to LTC
- 0.79a 1% move in LTC came with 0.79% in BCH on average, 1 year
If Bitcoin Cash had Litecoin's market cap
$193.77 per BCH, 0.811x today's price
Litecoin's market cap of $3.897 billion divided by Bitcoin Cash's circulating supply of 20.11 million BCH. A thought experiment, not a forecast: supply and demand would not stay the same.
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Questions
Which has done better over the past year, Litecoin or Bitcoin Cash?
Bitcoin Cash: −51.8% against −53.2% for Litecoin, on daily closes to 8 Nov 2026.
Is Bitcoin Cash more volatile than Litecoin?
Bitcoin Cash's annualised volatility over the past year was 77%, against 54% for Litecoin.
Do Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash move together?
Their daily returns had a correlation of 0.56 over the past year and 0.58 over the last 90 days. A correlation near 1 means they mostly rise and fall on the same days; near 0 means their moves are unrelated.
How much bigger is Bitcoin Cash than Litecoin?
Bitcoin Cash's market cap of $4.805 billion is 1.23x Litecoin's $3.897 billion.
Where do these figures come from?
From CryptoKeyhole’s own US dollar price indexes of public exchange markets (daily closes at 00:00 UTC) and the supply our nodes count or, for coins whose chain we do not run, the project’s own published supply. Returns use each coin’s own closes; volatility, falls and correlation use the days both coins have a close.
Daily statistics as of the latest closed UTC day; prices are hourly closes. Last update