Topic: Litecoin v. Bitcoin - page 19. (Read 43665 times)

Litecoin will do what it needs to do in order to scale when the time comes, and I can guarantee you that it will be much smoother than what is going on with Bitcoin right now.

BTC is also easy to manipulate if you have the means.
If it wasn't then you would have been looking at a much higher price.

certainly better is Bitcoin
Bitcoin has a high value and also very coins are the most widely used today

Volume of BTC is much bigger than LTC. So BTC is easy to trade, but LTC is easy to manipulate.

Yeah, but what will happen when Litecoin needs to scale? Would they just release the block limit with no objections?

in terms of price, bitcoin is still better
but in trading, LTC may still be better

Would you think that current schizm in bitcoin should benefit litecoin? If btc collapses/forks into two or more ltc would be a key player on the scene. What do you think?

Thats where i feel litecoin is advantageous also as it has geniune long term holders vs other alts.... perhaps a few people hold out on doge & ripple scam also.   The highest % of people holding alts i would probably guess is litecoin due to its past record.

Actually most of altercoin owner just want to earn more bitcoin through pump and dump altercoin.

well if you assume that ALTS will survive in some form..then likely LTC will be in that group.....but the assumption is alts and litecoin would survive. I have seen good linkage at around 0.006 LTC to BTC price....but would like to see some of the same with BTC going up and LTC were to follow that would make me more confident that at least if you invested in LTC it would kinda sorta tag along with LTC

but I would say a LOT of folk are holding LTC I know a lot of folk with miner equip (titan(s)) and such arriving late is a better price then 1.44 LTC to BTC better be in the offing or they
will never even make some of their orig purchase price back...add to that the halving of LTC from 50 coin to 25 coin about the end of august 2016....and you have other ways to look at it

but as a miner ...just can't get myself motivated to sell LTC to BTC at 1.44 usd...seems obscene ....so my bet (currently it changes daily with fear/parinoia and fud) is the halving will EVENTUALLY increase LTC's price.....if not then I would guess their are other things going on at that time in the alt coin btc/ltc universe....that are more dire then LTC staying flat or going down in price

I suspect a lot ..I mean a lot ....of lurkers of holders of LTC in the background...be it from mining or just to speculate on the halving...we will see.....

Most Litecoiners interested in short-term gain will sell their coins on an exchange for BTC or USD. Long-term investors may be sitting on their coins for years before they consider spending them, to watch how/if their value changes and hoping for a Bitcoin-like rise. So in short LTC>BTC.

If we were just judging it on community then, doge currently has 5 times the reddit members online and 1 6th of the bitcoin reddit.  Im not bothering with doge personally.  Litecoin never had much of a community feel when it went to $50.

LOL That's a good point  

i think it is not right to compare pump and dump of a huge market like litecoin with > $500,000 daily volume with pump and dump of a random altcoin with $1000 volume.

Im too scared to hold LTC long time waiting for a pump that may never happen. The coin's pretty damn dead, look around, their reddit is half abandoned. Meanwhile XMR and MAID are something I feel more comfortable and expecting higher prices than the ATH is almost guaranteed, while with LTC is just a total gamble.

When the litecoin price was over $20 it stayed there for a while before coming back down. With pump and dump the price goes up then falls off rapidly because there is no real buy support. Litecoin showed plenty of buy support for a while before it finally went under $20, which I think it did because there are 4 times more coins than bitcoins. However, that means a wider distribution of coins too.

For speculation reason, I think when next bitcoin bubble comes, ltc will be pumped crazy as well. Remember last time, bitcoin went to da moon, and ltc went up crazily too, and it was pumped even more compared to the LTC/BTC rate, Ltc/btc was 0.007 btc before that pump, and the highest price was 0.049 btc. So the strong holders could earn 7 more times fiat rise than btc. From 2 USD to highest 60 USD, LTC was insanely pumped, and other altcoins were also pumped by crazy speculators.

In the end of 2013, I had the best memory.  

I don't know but this is not comparable , Bitcoin is the origin , also the litecoin price
is based on bitcoin many time I saw huge loss in litecoin because of bitcoin price
change . Also i don't think the litecoin price (38 $) were anything else a pump 

Bitcoin Boy .

yeah ....but even at my current 2k we are not talking life changing loss here if as the trolls of LTC say LTC is dead...but man ...just can't see selling at 1.45 if i have a chance at ROI and it rises with BTC....I"m just dandy with LTC at 0.006 LTC to BTC it seems to range it if/when BTC hit 500 usd......or 3 buck LTC.

so if you believe LTC WILL survive in some form at this 0.006 LTC to BTC 'attachment' yoshi like to mario that it seems ...then 1000 btc is 6 buck LTC ..hell I an't going any place

I could live with that

and again say I'm wrong and BTC goes to 150 usd and LTC goes to 90 CENTS I can live with that too.DIFFICULTY would likely dump and I'd make more coin...but will it come back and/or/if .but this 0.006 ltc to btc starts to fade lower and I will be concerned to say
the least...I'd like to see some of this linkage as BTC goes up however....just to see it work in that manner both directions...also at one time LTC was 0.10 LTC to BTC ....man....what I would not give for that to happen ....the lot of a miner....as a speculator this all sucks if you are trying to buy sell...me i'm kinda stuck on this path

but yeah.....me stuck on equipment ...ego/piece of mind..is linked to at least ROI......me I'm in a bad alt coin fast and furious movie...already bet the frigging car (eguip) just have to frigging hang in there till i win the race (roi)...limited options if I'm making the attempt ..fast and furious wise....to get out of that with the 'skin' I started with at least

sheesh...and I used to be 'bored' before 2013 go figure

The best way to time it is to buy just after we start going up crazy in bitcoin since new blodd has been introduced and is looking what else is around.  Timing this right though is really tricky, last time i ended up buying in @ $2.20 on the way up and there was plenty of chance to get in at the $1.xx levels before that.  All profit is good though.  I'd probably suggest long term holding some at all times incase it goes up too quick.