For all you profit retards, TRC went from 0.0001 to 0.005 in a week or so - that would be $1 to $50, match that! Enjoy money made on LTC because that
is the only thing you can enjoy while dealing with LTC. It ain't gonna buy you much on it's own. The same goes for all other altcoins, with Namecoin having
some value actualy. One can make money on altcoins because and only because there is Bitcoin, but you retards got it the wrong way. You probably think
that altcoins would profit if Bitcoin dies. Dump Bitcoin in favour of Litecoin? Right, let's kill Bitcoin, let's drop BTC price, it would make Litecoin more valuable,
stable and useful - not really, it is exactly the oppossite!
You are blinded by profit to extreme, hence you are aware of nothing except the fact you made some money or you lost some money. For you, nothing else
matters. Since it is so, you would be better selling drugs, doing slave trades, smuggling nuclear weapons over the border and so on - which you would be
doing for sure if only you have balls, mental and physical capabilities. Since you don't have what it takes, making $1000 because external factors caused LTC
price to rise is a major achievement for you. Go tell that to rich people around you, they will laugh at you for being lame, incapable and incompetent.
except for the "small" market depth and market cap difference. (~720025BTC ltc market cap vs ~4066BTC trc market cap , or a difference of ~17708+%). bitcoin and litecoin are not competing for the same, fixed amount of already available resources.
as for using it to actually buy stuff, you can exchange it for usd....or you can spend it on one of the various ltc-accepting services.
http://uselitecoin.com/ . and no, i dont think it would be healthy for any altcoin if bitcoin died, nor would i want bitcoin to die.