What is Luckycoin?

Luckycoin ($LKY) is a cryptocurrency that launched in May 2013, by an anonymous developer called LuckyC.

In August 2024 a backup of the Luckycoin blockchain from 2013 was discovered and the chain was revived from block 81,743, thus enshrining as much of the history of Luckycoin as possible in the current actively mined chain.

Luckycoin was one of the earliest cryptocurrencies ever launched and after its revival in 2024 is now one of the oldest actively mined cryptocurrencies in existence.

Luckycoin could be considered the oldest active 'memecoin' in existence at the time of writing. Although the concept of memecoin hadn't taken hold back in May of 2013 it's clear that Luckycoin offers no utility and instead was described by LuckyC as 'Fast, Fun & Fair' with a playful introduction on the Bitcoin Talk forums.

What's the Dogecoin connection?

Luckycoin is the coin that Billy Markus used as the basis for creating Dogecoin.

Markus spent just 2 hours (mostly changing the font to Comic Sans) creating Dogecoin from Luckycoin.

What is UCID 22?

CoinMarketCap maintains their own Unified Cryptoasset ID (UCID) registry. This is a registry of all cryptocurrencies CMC support. UCID's are incremented in chronological order of their listing on CMC. Bitcoin is UCID 1, Litecoin is UCID 2 and Luckycoin is UCID 22. At the time of writing the UCID of a newly added coin is over 33,000.

This means Luckycoin was the 22nd ever coin listed on CoinMarketCap.

Luckycoin was listed on CoinMarketCap on June 14th 2013.

How many Luckycoin are there in circulation?

Luckycoin's maximum supply is approximately 20 million coins. It's an approximate amount due to Luckycoin's 'Lucky Blocks' which randomly offer 2x, 5x or 58x opportunities.

You can view the circulating supply here on this very page under Total Supply or find more detail on this community built website.

It's worth bearing in mind that approx 8 million $LKY were mined in 2013 and could potentially be deemed lost forever if the holders no longer have access to those 11 year old wallets. There are of course no guarantees that this is the case though.

Where can I buy Luckycoin ($LKY)?

Luckycoin is available to buy on exchanges such as MEXC, AscendEX, Ourbit and NonKYC.

What are the Luckycoin blockchain tokenomics?

Luckycoin offers 1 minute block times, with halvings occurring every 100,000 blocks. You can find more details on Luckycoin's halving schedule here.

Can I mine Luckycoin?

Yes. Luckycoin is a Proof of Work cryptocurrency which uses the Scrypt algorithm.

Luckycoin uses AuxPoW to allow it to be merged mined with other Scrypt currencies such as Litecoin and Dogecoin.

This ensures the security of the network thanks to Luckycoin usually averaging over 1 PH/s of hashrate at any given time. More details on Luckycoin's mining stats can be found on MiningPoolStats.

Who is behind the Luckycoin revival?

A community of passionate volunteers who believe in preserving a piece of blockchain history.