I dont trust Charlie Lee since he sold all his litecoins. Some people said he had inside information about the bear market coming, so he shorted all his LTC.
Not that kind of insider information. I'm sure he has insider information concerning Litecoin development, which probably didn't look bright enough for him to stick with his massive stake in that coin.
Let's be honest here, what is Litecoin's purpose in this industry? Its main purpose is being Bitcoin's testbed, maybe to some extent offer fast and cheap on-chain transactions, but that's all there is to name up.
I'm sure that he allocated a part of his freshly obtained fiat wealth to buy Bitcoin at bottom levels. I like how he's not letting his bias towards his own project work against him. I respect his move to get rid of Litecoin.
Litecoiners can complain all day, but they should accept that Litecoin hasn't much to differentiate itself with in an industry with thousands of similar coins......
Well being Bitcoin's testbed is already a way better usecase than 99% of altcoins out there. It has a decent amount of liquidity and will always have the "the original altcoin" distinction honorary badge if that counts (even if technically there was I think an altcoin before Litecoin but never went anywhere, I forgot the name right now).
I actually think LTC can pump again after the next halving which is coming may 2019. Of course im not gambling a single satoshi on it.
As far as Charlie Lee going, he did the right thing I guess. He made a ton of money and people can no longer claim he has a conflict of interest.
I wonder if he opened shorts before dumping tho. That could be insider trading? he was a market maker definitely.