I was just taking a look at the charts and noticed Litecoin was the top moving coin today. It moved 8%.

I started thinking about Litecoin and all the posts/comments I've seen over the last couple weeks.

Litecoin seems to receive a lot of hate in this subreddit and on social media in general. I am genuinely curious why Litecoin gets so much negativity. I always notice that anytime somebody makes a post about Litecoin everybody calls it "Shilling" and continue to shill their own " shit coins"

I tend to buy my crypto based on fundamentals. Objectively speaking, Litecoin does what its suppose to do and it seems like a good coin.

Lets have a serious discussion about Litecoin and set our emotions aside.

Why does the Reddit community love to hate Litecoin?

Have fun :)

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https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/09/13/2295879/0/en/Walmart-Announces-Major-Partnership-With-Litecoin-LTC.html

If you read the bottom of this article for the contact details of Walmart Media, it says

William White
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Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Looking up walmart-corp.com. It was registered less than a month ago

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Seems to be an ingenious way to quickly pump Litecoin (and other coins).

12 months ago I wrote here that Litecoin had delivered its 100 millionth transaction over 10 years. In just one year it added to that very large base another 39% increase in transactions. Off chain stats tell a similar story with the oldest crypto payments processor BitPay seeing growth of Litecoin to 27% of all payments, just shy of exceeding the share of all other altcoins on the platform COMBINED. Before Litecoin was added, Bitcoin was well over 50% share while eth and bch managed around 11%. Litecoin changed the game.

For years I've heard people downplay the importance of payments, they were less sexy than smart contracts, yesterday's news, but everything moves in cycles. The cycle where litecoin outperforms smart contracts has already begun, those chains are bleeding against ltc. That's the inflection. Since Litecoin didn't outperform in the '21 bull market, and thus didn't take on long leverage it has to work off now, will there be short leverage, thanks to Mike Novogratz's buddies that it gets to work off in the other direction? What happens next year as we approach litecoin's 3rd halving?

All we can do is look back. It's not predictive, but it is informative. In 2015 coming out of the first cryptowinter, litecoin 7x'd outperforming everything early in the cryptothaw. In 2019 it did similar 6x'ing against the grain and with Mike Novogratz openly shorting it (I suspect he and his will be less open about what they're doing this time). In neither instance was litecoin's payment dominance so pronounced. It's infrastructure was better than average back then, it's incredible now.

I absolutely believe litecoin deserves outperformance this year more than anything else out there, partly because of how much it has outperformed on adoption and how much it's underperformed in investment. Litecoin is Deep Clucking Value. Some will say fundamentals don't matter, it's all just a casino, but I believe while markets are a popularity contest in the short run, in the long run they're a weighing machine. LTC's network has performed like a boss in every fundamental, adoption above all. Will the market give it what it deserves? Buckle up for 2023, we're about to find out.

Personally I think it’s had its pump already in the last few weeks. I see it stabilising to 70-75 USD in the next 7 days or so.

Previous LTC halvings haven’t led to explosive/dramatic price action but it will be interesting to see what happens nevertheless. What do you think?

I think LTC is solid and somewhat underrated. It’s reliable and been around for a few years. It might not seem exciting to some but it’s a good project with a sound technical base and some good developments. I think long term it will do really well, but again, it’s not one I see having a humungous price rise.

IF you are buying LTC for the fork, DON’T. Charlie Lee (the creator of Litecoin) has stated that it is mostly likely a scam and the Litecoin Foundation DOES NOT endorse the coin.

The Litecoin Cash Team looks sketchy as fuck. Their public relations manager's photo is the fucking Unicorn emoji. You can't press on any of the developers pictures of find any information about them.

Whoever created the fork is a genius marketer who is playing on the similarities between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (which AFAIK was endorsed by Gavin Andresen and others in the Bitcoin Foundation) and the branding of Litecoin. Don't fall for this trick.

I’m not saying the recent price increase is solely due to the fork. In fact, I’d argue that a lot of it revolves around Litepay. However, if you are buying LTC as a short-term move, please move forward with caution (at least until Sunday).

Furthermore, if you think you’re going to “time” the market and try and sell immediately after the block which the fork happens on you’re going to get burned. Literally thousands of other people have that same idea, and what’s going to happen is that Litecoin’s price will decrease significantly right after the fork (I think it will recover due to Litepay coming out and other promising progress). The bots are going to beat you to it. You'd be much better off taking profits before the fork on Sunday and then buying back when it inevitably dips.

NOTE: I know a lot of you are probably aware of this fact. However, I am in a Telegram group of about 60 people mostly composed of friends from college and their mutual friends, and I was amazed to find that several of them were hyping up the Litecoin Cash fork. I’ve also seen on some daily discussions over the past week discussing it.

I do not own any LTC I am just trying to make sure people aren’t making poor investment decisions

EDIT: DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS OR ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER.

EDIT 2: Those of you saying I'm bringing attention to something pointless, good for you, just move along. Sadly there are people who will perceive this as the equivalent of Bitcoin Cash to Bitcoin and if they are left unaware that it is in fact not, they will get burned.

EDIT 3: I'M NOT HATING ON LTC, THIS ISN'T MEANT TO DETER LONG TERM HOLDERS. If you're planning on holding long term then don't bother with this post. There are people trying to play this.

I'm admittedly not too well versed in the crypto world but have been watching on and off since I was a kid.

I remember getting some litecoin during the old bitskins csgo days and Litecoin stood side by side with bitcoin back then (in terms of relevancy not value).

Entering the crypto scene now though, the prices seem to be night & day, and conversations online don't really seem to discuss it all that much. Even the recent halving, quite literally, almost cut the price in half.

I'm most likely missing a great amount of context here, but while doing research on the topic I wasn't able to find anything "wrong" with Litecoin.

It seems to follow the same high-low trends as every other mainstream coin on the market, so why is it still so low despite its longevity?

Why did BTC and ETH rise to the prominence they are right now but LTC got left in the dust?

The most frequent snarky comment I hear about litecoin is that it has no use case. My reply is always, then why are so many people using it?

It took just 3 months on bitpay.com/stats to exceed the transactions of every other altcoin on the platform, the top of which had multiple year headstarts to secure their leads. Coinatmradar shows litecoin has more atms than any other altcoin. The number of exchanges, payment processors, trusts, exchange traded projects, brokerages, direct retail relationships, point of sale terminals and many more alone tell the tale. Litecoin has the users.

The second most popular snarky comment is "well, it gets infrastructure just because it's old". It doesn't take a whole two brain cells to know that doesn't make sense. Namecoin is older than ltc, 10s of thousands of projects are pretty old, all dead or close enough. It's costly to build and maintain infrastructure and keep projects up to date on it, infrastructure providers take dead projects down, they don't keep adding them. Litecoin just keeps growing, thriving in infrastructure while some not dead projects struggle to get and keep basic infrastructure. All for the same reason... users matter.

My investment thesis inside and out of crypto is that ultimately investors follow users, even when they prefer not to. Quibi was an example of investors thinking they could force users into something no one wanted and many of you can probably think of other dumb VC wall street crap that didn't pan out. Right now, there is a growing contingent of that in crypto, pushed by the likes of mikey novogratz and other hedgies and vc dudebros.

Feel to play around there if you think you can get out before the exit scammers, but don't forget that in the longer run, what matters is network effect, from users, to infrastructure, and the deeper and broader those network effects, the harder they were to build, the longer they'll last and keep generating new growth.

For more questions about Litecoin, see this writeup I posted here a few months ago: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/r23ufg/litecoin_is_deep_clucking_value_an_exhaustive_and/

Is it just me or does Litecoin seem to be picking up momentum? Say what you want about it, but it has some fundamentals behind it.

-It seems to be always accepted anywhere BTC is accepted.

-It’s still being developed (mweb) even after all of these years.

-Transaction count is the 3rd highest of all crypto which means adoption is growing with the entire market.

-With the privacy option rolling out it will be the largest accepted privacy coin in the market.

-Omnilite is a pretty cool addition giving it a smart contract element.

• It’s been around for 10 years.

Again, say what you will about it being dead, that just doesn’t make sense to me with continued adoption and development. In stock fundamentals always win, I think the same thing can be said about cryptocurrency.

Yes this is a litecoin shill post. Before you all comment your usual anti litecoin comments please let us have one shill a year that is not the same recycled shills on this subreddit! Comon, litecoin only ever does something once in a blue moon!

The reason most people don't make money on crypto is that they measure a coins worth by it's price performance.

This means they are inclined to chase a coin that has already pumped, meaning minimal to no gains. Their judgement is clouded and they fail to objectively analyse a coin by it's fundamentals. I am sure I am not the only one here who is sick of seeing the same coins shilled over and over again in this reddit when they have clearly already pumped!

With the implementation of mimblewimble, Litecoin now has optional privacy.

Furthermore Litecoin is like that annoying sports all rounder on your team that can do a bit of everything.

Smart contracts, nfts, store of value, brand recognition, has lasted 10 years survived multiple bear markets and to top it all off 100 percent uptime with low transaction fees. Not only that it is accepted everywhere bitcoin is accepted and has a growing not decreasing userbase.

Price will catch fundamentals, for the savvy investor Litecoin is a great choice as part of a balanced portfolio as it is seriously undervalued but fundamentally solid.

I don't have any kids right now, but i'm sure that in a couple of years this could change. That's why i'm already thinking about giving them the best future as possible. I am planning on buying all my kids 0.1 BTC, 1 ETH and 1 Litecoin each. I will be putting away this crypto on a hardware wallet for at least 21 years. And when the time is right, I will give them full permission to their money.

Yes this is a very expensive gift, but you have to remember that this is an investment. I won't touch the crypto in their entire life, I wont mess with it and try to time the bull and bear market. I'll just store it in a safe place and forget about it.

But what will all of this cost, if I were to buy right now? 0.1 BTC would cost around 3000 dollars at this moment, 1 ETH would cost around 2000 dollars at the moment and 1 Litecoin would cost around 100 dollars at the moment. This would come to a cost of around 5100 dollars + the price of a hardware wallet. Is this expensive? Yes, but I also see it being worth it. I won't touch this crpyto for 21 years, imagine what will happen with the prices.

I understand that investing in crypto is a risk. But I see no better return to risk ratio anywhere else. I truly believe that everyone here, that has the capabilities for this, should do this. You will thank yourself in 20 years.

You may have heard recently that Litecoin has just become a privacy coin with it's mweb upgrade.

Furthermore Litecoin is like that annoying sports all rounder on your team that can do a bit of everything.

Smart contracts, nfts, store of value, brand recognition, has lasted 10 years survived multiple bear markets and to top it all off 100 percent uptime with low transaction fees. Not only that it is accepted everywhere bitcoin is accepted and has a growing not decreasing userbase.

I don't get why litecoin is so undervalued it is clearly a fundamentally solid coin that has stood the test of time. Logically price should catch fundamentals but I can't understand why it's a top 20 coin?

Exactly 12 years ago, on October 7, 2011, the alternative to our digital "gold" was born.

Created by former Google engineer Charlie Lee, Litecoin's mission was to offer a faster and more efficient alternative to Bitcoin.

Litecoin is often referred to as "silver" compared to Bitcoin's "gold." It shares many similarities with Bitcoin, including its proof-of-work consensus mechanism and blockchain structure. However, Litecoin uses a different hashing algorithm called Scrypt, which is considered to be more memory-intensive and resistant to ASIC mining compared to Bitcoin's SHA-256.

One of Litecoin's standout features was its shorter block generation time, set at approximately 2.5 minutes compared to Bitcoin's 10 minutes. This innovation meant faster transaction confirmations, making Litecoin a more efficient choice for everyday transactions.

So it's quite obvious the majority of the market is sleeping on Litecoin, here's why you shouldn't. I've also noticed several people trashing Litecoin and asking why people hold it, so here's my answer.

Inflation & store of value - I think we can all agree this bull run is fueled by inflation in fiat currencies, at levels never seen before. Well Litecoin also has limitted supply just like BTC. I see LTC as silver 2.0 while Bitcoin is gold 2.0

PayPal - When PayPal enabled it's US customers to buy crypto, LTC shot right up. Why? Litecoin is the most appealing coin to most people. It's very similiar to Bitcoin and it has a relatively low price. Q1 of this year, PayPal will enable ALL it's 345M customers worldwide to buy crypto, this should benefit LTC the most out of all the crypto choices PayPal offers.

MimbleWimble Network Upgrade - MWEB will enable opt-in privacy features for Litecoin, and it's just around the corner. A lot of people expect privacy to be the next hype/trend in crypto. Together with privacy, MWEB also offers scaling solutions.

Cardano Velvet Fork - A Velvet Fork / Nipopow will enable smart contract compatability to Litecoin. On top of the store of value and cheaper transactions Litecoin offers, it will be getting a lot more token use cases.

Flare Network airdrop & smart contracts - Litecoin users will receive an airdrop of 5B Flare tokens. Together with this, LTC will be available on the Flare network as fLTC and be able to utilize Smart contracts and DeFi.

Grayscale - While the majority sleep on Litecoin, institutions know it's next in line once enough BTC has been bought by them.

On top of Grayscale heavily accumulating, they had stopped buying all crypto's around Xmas time. Today they announced they will be taking investments again, well they have disabled investment for ETH & XRP. LTC is by far the most attractive alt for Grayscale investors and when the competition is offline, you know where the money is going to flow.

There are several other factors such as LTC being made available on other networks and being cheap / fast, but these are the main and most important and recent developments people aren't keeping track of.

might be relative new to the space but after doing a little bit of research, i found out that LTC has zero downtime in over eleven years of existence. In adittion to that, the transaction fees are low and there's even a halving coming in just 94 days. During these times, that more and more scams and rugpulls emerge, doesnt Litecoin sounds like a great choice? I hold some BTC and Eth but im still hesitant to invest in alts. Would love to hear more experienced people and their opinions/view on the near-future price action.

Litecoin basics

In October 2011, Charlie Lee launched Litecoin. He wanted to make a peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency that was both faster and more cost-effective than Bitcoin which, at the time, was nearly 2 years old and gaining a larger following for the first time. Lee has always described Litecoin as a complement—not a competitor—to Bitcoin: as “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” It is meant to be “Bitcoin Lite”, which is why it is named Litecoin. Not very novel or creative by today’s standards, but keep in mind these were the days of the industry’s infancy.

Compared to Bitcoin, Litecoin’s block time is 4x shorter; instead of each block taking an average time of 10 minutes, each Litecoin block is 2.5 minutes. This allows transactions to execute more quickly than on-chain Bitcoin transactions.

Whereas Bitcoin’s max supply is 21,000,000, Litecoin’s is 4x higher, 84,000,000.

Other than these changes, BTC and LTC are nearly the same, functionally speaking. (I should add that they do also use different cryptographic algorithms.) Charlie Lee copied Bitcoin’s halving cycle (approx. every 4 years) and Proof of Work consensus mechanism. The next Litecoin halving will be August 2023, when the block reward will decrease from 12.5 down to 6.25. Currently, 7,200 LTC are created daily, making current inflation rate 3.72% and always trending toward zero.

Transaction fees are usually under $0.01USD, over 100x cheaper than a BTC on-chain transaction. historical transaction fee data. Litecoin also has a Lightning Network, though demand is admittedly quite low compared to BTC LN. Low transaction fees are one of Litecoin’s greatest strengths.

Litecoin is the first cryptocurrency that could ever boast of 100% network uptime for 10+ years. The Litecoin network has still never gone offline even once, giving it a perfect history of reliability.

The most active Reddit communities are r/Litecoin, r/LitecoinMarkets, and r/litecoinmining.

Price, marketcap, and transaction metrics

Litecoin currently ranks 16th in marketcap according to Coingecko. It spent a lot of time in the top 5 from 2012-2017.

LTC/USD price is currently around $69, down 83% from ATH in May 2021.

LTC/BTC price is currently 0.004, down 92% from ATH in November 2013. This price has been in a long-term downtrend and poor long-term LTC/BTC price action is the most convincing bearish argument for Litecoin.

Number of transactions: LTC has a very steady daily transaction count of about 100,000. Despite poor price performance, it appears that the number of transactions are going up long-term. I think my favorite dataset I discovered while researching for this post is these visualizations of all-time activity on various cryptocurrencies. We can see here that Litecoin usage is accelerating long-term more than lots of other cryptocurrencies. I was personally surprised to see how much Litecoin stands out here.

All-time, Litecoin network has processed over 137,000,000 transactions have been processed (compare to 790M for BTC).

LTC is one of the most widely accepted cryptocurrencies. If you find a merchant that accepts cryptocurrency payments, chances are Litecoin is probably one of them.

Hashrate: currently at an all-time high. And, fun fact, because of merged mining with Dogecoin, LTC and DOGE have the same hashrate. In my opinion, Dogecoiners owe Charlie a big thank you because at the time Dogecoin was extremely vulnerable.

In 2017, Charlie Lee infamously sold all his LTC. He seems to have had good intentions, but the announcement had a massive negative impact on Litecoin’s price. He didn’t feel it was good for the health of the cryptocurrency for him to be holding any. Many investors however saw this as a sign to sell.

Future of Litecoin

In May, a major development for Litecoin was the rollout of MWEB (Mimblewimble Extension Block. MWEB is an opt-in feature for more anonymous transactions in which explicit transaction info is obfuscated. It’s currently only supported by Litecoin Core Wallet, and as such most users are not yet able to opt in. Because of this major privacy upgrade, some have strong opinions either for or against this upgrade. If using the optional privacy features, it is impossible to comply with monetary laws in some regions, leading to removal of LTC trading or threat of removal of LTC trading, in some jurisdictions such as Thailand and South Korea.

Perhaps more than any other cryptocurrency, Litecoin’s relevance likely depends on Bitcoin. If more people become comfortable sending, receiving, and storing BTC, then many people might gravitate toward the alternative that is almost the same except 4x faster and about 100x lower transaction fees (at least by today’s prices). However, Bitcoin Lightning Network offers promising solutions to these concerns over bitcoin being too slow or expensive to transact. It is my opinion that, after (or in addition to) BTC and ETH, LTC has the best chance of becoming a global digital currency adopted by the masses. But I’m well aware that most people disagree.

If you believe that Proof of Stake will win out and Proof of Work will die away, then Litecoin isn’t an investment you’re likely to consider or a currency you will want to use and support. Many will completely disregard LTC as soon to be irrelevant, and you may be right.

Speculating on the long-term value of Litecoin is something I think about often but I find it hard to predict. On one hand, I see adoption on the rise (bullish), but I also see long-term poor price performance versus Bitcoin (bearish). I’m currently buying and holding LTC monthly, and it comprises about 5% of my total crypto holdings.

I personally use Litecoin more than any other cryptocurrency because transactions are so cheap, it’s pretty widely accepted, and because I believe it’s undervalued and worth holding long-term.

After all the shit with Luna, UST and other crap, a friendly reminder about Litecoin, which boasts 100% uptime for more than 10 years since inception. The only thing lagging is price, but if you're looking for a real, true, solid crypto, remember:

- OG, created in 2011 as a clone of bitcoin but on its own blockchain (not a fork like btc cash, btc sv, btc gold etc) but faster with negligible transaction fees.
- Hard capped supply at 84 million coins that will ever exist (21 million for bitcoin) = scarcity.
- Lightning fast transactions thanks to lightning network (shared with bitcoin, also atomic swaps) = scalability.
- Privacy (optional!) and fungibility thanks to MWEB.
- Security thanks to PoW through scrypt.
- Liquidity thanks to being on basically every exchange.
- OmniLite for creating NFTs, smart contracts, stablecoins, decentralized tokens.
- Adoption, most recently Paypal, Venmo, AMC, Regal, Newegg, interactive brokers, Grayscale eyeing a spot ETF conversion, top alt on Bitpay, Amazon, Verifone, VISA, litecoin in most ATMs that have bitcoin including El Salvador, Coinstar, several banks globally, etc.
- The Economist put litecoin on the cover next to bitcoin for their 2022 issue.
- Charlie Lee, the founder, sold his coins in 2017 to make litecoin truly decentralized. And he's still, half a decade later, working on litecoin and matches donations!

Other crypto might be fast, OR scarce, OR secure, etc. Litecoin does everything.

Litecoin is the second most widely accepted cryptocurrency globally & has literally zero downtime in its over 11 years of existence. The longest uninterrupted uptime in. And the network processed its 148 millionth transaction last night (3/23/23), amassing over 8 million transactions so far this year. And it's only March! It seems litecoin receives a lot of (imo) undue fud and hate. I've used Litecoin many times over the years & have a small satchel and have never had an issue. I'm by no means a maxi, but... LTC seems as solid as its big brother. Am I missing something here?