Who is even keeping litecoin alive? Why are people buying it at btc-e?
I am, and so are the estimated 2200+ GPUs mining on the network. I've been mining since release over a year ago and been making nothing but money.
I predicted the difficulty coaster attack to litecoin as well, but oddly it doesn't seem to affect the currency as I had thought it might. The result seems to be that whoever is mining on the low difficulty periods is dumping quickly, but whoever is mining on the high difficulty periods is hardly dumping at all, so the price has been maintained stable.
The hash rate of the network is also slowly going up on the high difficulty periods.
You're the poster boy for LTC. LTC won't ever be worth anything because the only people using it are people like you. BTC has the industrious, the inventive, the people who know how to work. LTC is full of people like you. Scammers.
Yes, the BTC community is full of incredibly reliable and honest people like Pirate@40, Zhou Tong, Butterfly Labs, and Taaki to name a few... And services such as Silk Road.
I've got no desire to put my wealth into any centralized organization after Bitcoinica etc 
