How to Swap LTC to BTC: 6 Confirmations and the BTC Fee

To swap LTC to BTC, send Litecoin to a LTC → BTC order and receive bitcoin at your own address. The swap widget does it without an account. On 21 October 2026 the minimum was 0.16 LTC (about $9.60), the provider credited LTC after 6 confirmations, and the BTC payout fee was 0.000057 BTC, about $4.70. With LTC near $60 and BTC near $82,600, 1 LTC is about 0.00073 BTC and 10 LTC about 0.0073 BTC before fees.

Where the time goes

This direction is slower than people expect because both chains are proof-of-work. Litecoin targets a block every 2.5 minutes; six confirmations take about 15 minutes on average, sometimes 25. The provider then quoted 16–18 minutes of processing for this route, which overlaps with the confirmation wait. After the payout is sent, your Bitcoin wallet needs one block, about 10 minutes on average, to show it as confirmed.

Plan for 30–45 minutes in total. The confirmation time estimator shows how wide the spread is: on proof-of-work chains, blocks arrive randomly, and six blocks can occasionally take twice the average.

The fixed BTC payout fee and the minimum

The 0.000057 BTC payout fee does not scale with the amount. On the 0.16 LTC minimum (about $9.60) it is almost half of the swap; on 1 LTC about 8%; on 10 LTC under 1%; on 50 LTC 0.16%. The widget quote includes it, so you will not be surprised at the end, but it is worth knowing before you decide to swap $15 of LTC into bitcoin.

• Below about $100, consider whether you need bitcoin on-chain at all. If the goal is dollars, LTC to USDT pays out on TRON for 1.3 USDT.
• If you need BTC and the amount is small, collecting more LTC and doing one swap later costs less than several small swaps.
• Above about $500, the payout fee drops below 1% and the 1% float fee dominates.

Sending LTC correctly

1. Enter the LTC amount and check the BTC you will receive.
2. Paste a Bitcoin address from your wallet: bc1q…, bc1p…, 3… or 1….
3. Create the order and send exactly the shown LTC amount from Litecoin Core, Electrum-LTC, Exodus, Trust Wallet, a hardware wallet or an exchange.
4. Send from a regular Litecoin address, not from MWEB. A peg-out from MWEB to a regular address is possible in wallets that support it, but the deposit itself must be a normal on-chain transaction.
5. Keep the order page open; once six confirmations are reached it switches to processing and then shows the BTC hash.

Litecoin fees are low — usually well under one cent for a normal transaction — so there is little reason to set a custom low fee. A transaction stuck in the mempool at a very low fee rate delays the whole swap.

If something looks wrong

• Deposit not detected after 10 minutes. Look your transaction up in a Litecoin explorer such as litecoinspace.org. If it is not there, it was not broadcast.
• Amount sent differs from the order. The provider processes the amount actually received at the current rate if it is above the minimum; for a fixed-rate order, a different amount may be handled at the float rate. Contact support if unsure.
• Order expired before the deposit. Do not send to an old deposit address. Create a new order; if coins already went to an expired one, write to support with the order link and the hash.

Fixed or float on a slow route

Because this route takes half an hour or more, the difference between float and fixed rates is larger than on fast chains. With float, the BTC amount is calculated at the moment your LTC is confirmed, roughly fifteen minutes after you send; if the market moves 1% in that time, so does your payout. With fixed, you pay 1.5% instead of 1% and the BTC amount is locked, provided the LTC arrives within the payment window. On a calm day float is cheaper; on a volatile day fixed buys certainty. The fixed vs floating rate guide works through examples.

Either way, the BTC payout fee stays the same 0.000057 BTC; the rate type changes only the service fee and who carries the market risk while you wait.