RIP. Was nice to know you.
Heh.... using the calc below what I'm doing with LTC now at 730mh at 10c kwh at 3000 watts (using gen tarkin firmware 3rd party watt calcs for such)
litecoinpool miner calculator anyone can use it (also allows your own changes/input)
https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=730&speedunit=MH%2Fs&difficulty=51707.17969709&price=3.2898¤cy=USD&power=3000&energycost=0.1030 days 221.53539551 LTC 728.81 USD Total 216.00 USD Electric 512.81 USD Profit PER MONTH YET AFTER 17 MONTHS.
So my electric costs I am making LTC for 1.03c and can/could sell them at 3.29 now....(LTC has been berry berry good to me)
Again equip is paid off. Thus will run it till the asic hamsters drop on the wheel.
But to be fair as to your point....IF to keep it all in LTC er nope...move it as the ratio is right last 17 months..have about 900 LTC as of now yet
sitting in LTC....but LTC from a MINER point of view IF you can get/or have a KNC Titan ...well works great ..especially if you have ROI'd
as to Scrypt in general a new A4 is coming out supposedly in July and likely (imho) 4k (overpriced) 400mh at 1100 watts
I won't get one (why my 350mh Titans at 1250 watts can play in this sandbox and have ROI'd) ....but others will likely buy this for whatever reason.
So this may help to bump all scrypt prices up in price in that FINALLY new scrypt machines after more then 1 year means it won't just fade away...scrypt
in general and likely LTC ..this also should be drive up scrypt and
helping LTC price. If you add the BTC halving and say BTC was to go to 650 usd and at a ratio say of 0.008 ltc to btc that is $5.20 LTC
so life in the old girl yet ..the hamster wheel of asic mining thrives onward....this above at 5.20 usd with even a doubling of difficulty would
still mean I'm making the same $$$ .....so.......yeah the ways of scrypt cyrpto are mysterious to me
but in my case I move most of it to BTC eventually....if ...as it has been...ltc is hitched to btc as a speculative trading coin..may as well do so imho
but again ..new equip/ btc halving.....it could (LTC) SPRING back up .......but imho would be due to the use/familiarity of speculation with this coin
and its relationship to BTC and hell china traders seem to like it...all ducks would kinda have to be in a row ...likely imho again ..is it will just kinda
continue to mirror BTC price at a 0.007 to 0.008 ltc to btc ratio as it has for it chinese trading speculative uses ..for whatever mysterious reasons
but for my purposes I have very little the last 17 months to complain about in mining LTC over other alts...the equiv NEPTUNE btc miner at same price
stopped ROI'ing around July 2015 I think...so scrypt/alts have SOME wind in them for whatever reason (screwy or no) it seems
So anyway probably reinforced the OP's point that LTC is dead..but is it really dead or just a coin with a different angle on value..which again imho
is its Yoshi to Mario's like connection to BTC and speculative/trading chops? Has to be for the $$$ it is at now...can it POP as its own on the above
guess of a modest scrypt coin revival due to new equipment ...unclear....but as transfer method to make me (mostly) BTC and its trading uses
I think it is likely to stick around for a bit.
not sure...but will ride this asic pony till she dies...
later