What Litecoin used to offer:
ASIC Resistance
GPU Resistance
2.5minute blocktime
What Litecoin now offers:
2.5minute blocktime
Basically, Litecoin is worth less than Blackcoin, Netcoin, OompaLoompaCoin, heck, practically anycoin that has a faster blocktime and Any other feature... Litecoin offers absolutely nothing over what 99% of these alt coins offers, even the worst alt coin offer more innovative features than Litecoin. And to those litecoin bagholders, who say that "Litecoins age and adoption" is something it offers, that's not true..There are NO reputable stores Worldwide that accept Litecoin, not one.
Verdict: Litecoin is dead, it hasn't been updated in years, it's a practically abandoned coin. I'm gonna feel really sorry to all the litecoin bagholders that are still "HODLING" when Litecoin reaches $1, 50 cents, 10 cents etc.
What happened was: Since the time of your post many years ago: Litecoin became the opposite of dead. But, your account, however, became dead with that -4 trust rating.
Litecoin now has LitePay and LitePal. Lee left CB just to exclusively work on LTC's code.
They hired full-time devs now. Litecoin is just going up and up and up. It's the silver to BTC. It's the coin that's so close to BTC in code that it experiments with all the radical shit first, so that BTC can adopt it after the stability ensues.