Pay Your Race Entry in Litecoin: Silver to Bitcoin’s Gold, Now Spendable on a Marathon

Litecoin gets called “the silver to Bitcoin’s gold” for a reason. Faster blocks, lower fees, and a 14-year track record of just working as digital cash. If you have been quietly stacking LTC since the early years, you can now spend some of it on a marathon medal.

LTC checkout, no middleman

The Malad Valley Marathon accepts Litecoin directly at checkout. Pick your distance, choose Litecoin, scan the QR with Litewallet, Electrum-LTC, Cake Wallet, Trust Wallet, or any wallet that handles a litecoin: URI, send, and your entry confirms after the first network confirmation, usually inside three minutes.

Why Litecoin specifically

A few reasons we are happy to take LTC:

• 2.5 minute blocks. Your race entry confirms faster than your post-run shower.
• Fees that have stayed honest. Sub-cent fees for a year, even at network peaks.
• MimbleWimble extension blocks if you want a measure of transaction privacy without leaving the LTC chain.
• A long-tail community of holders who actually spend their crypto. Charlie Lee built Litecoin to be money, and the community treats it that way.

How to register with Litecoin

1. Pick your distance and go to checkout.
2. Choose Litecoin at the payment step.
3. Scan the QR with your wallet.
4. Send. The checkout watches the mempool and confirms your entry after one block.
5. Email receipt with your bib number arrives within the minute.

The crypto discount applies

Paying in Litecoin earns the same crypto discount we apply to Bitcoin and Monero, stacked with the skip-shirt $10 and the open RUNTHEVALLEY $5 coupon. Full breakdown in our affordability post.

Register with LTC

Sign up for any distance and pick Litecoin at checkout. Race day is Saturday, September 12, 2026 in Malad City, Idaho.

Spend the silver, earn the medal.