LTC

Due-Candy-8929

XRP ETH LINK LTC FLR XLM HBAR SOL SUI… QNT good as well but I don't have any

evnsbn

Oh ok, now that's a really nice question! Thank you. I guess Litecoin is like that high school sweetheart who never let me down, but eventually I grew up and met new people. Haha... ok, now let's get serious. I have great memories of using it with no hassles. Back then we didn't have too many options. You really got me thinking about this. Maybe that's why I still trust the project and what it stands for? Maybe because I trust Charlie Lee and like his personality and way of doing things? About tech: I don't need a hundred features to move money around. Just something that works. Lean and clean. But yeah, for my needs today, XRP does that faster and cheaper. So LTC is mostly just a project I'm fond of nowadays. I also respect Charlie Lee's decision to sell his LTC in 2017. I know it was controversial, but I appreciated his reasoning about conflicts of interest, and the fact that he stayed committed to the project afterward. About valuation: there's a difference between appreciating a coin for what it does and holding it as an investment. To me, crypto isn't just about price performance or fancy features. It's also about philosophy, utility, and trust. I think that's about it. Any thoughts?

PsychoticDisorder

Litecoin might be old news in 2026 but it used to be THE chain for token swapping and quick and cheap transactions. BTC fees were expensive back in the days and the next best thing was LTC. All coins had pairs with LTC. Was no2 in charts and in our hearts!

evnsbn

LTC was my favorite way of payment for years since inception. Always fast, reliable. I love LTC.

DeadPhish-710

Not sure there is anything to be excited about. The price of litecoin did not increase after the last three halvings. In fact, it dropped every time. Also if you look at a chart of the LTC/BTC ratio you will see it has spent the last 15 years trending towards zero. I would not be the least bit surprised to see litecoin continue that trend and underperform the rest of the market like it always has.

OnlyOne_4ks

I'd go with LTC/SOL and DOGE I don't know why, but I'm sure these coins will yield more returns than ETH and BTC combined

Serenaded

Idk I'd say LTC optimism is at an ATH in crypto communities. Price action is getting played but it's still early days for the rebound. 92% supply mined, old dino coin that even boomers on wall st know about, longest 100% uptime of any chain, cheap and easy transactions with a well established and stable network, community on ct getting stronger, I'm not saying it will happen, but it could happen and I wouldn't be that surprised.

Serenaded

Inb4 LTC 10x's, just been seeing a lot of boners out for LTC this year which time in the market tells me is in an accumulation phase pre bull. I think people are getting quite horny for LTC and XMR if you ask me.

c_medina_926

Those are a lot of announcements, but they measure different things: a treasury buying LTC or a company accepting it doesn’t tell you whether customers regularly choose it at checkout. Recurring payment volume would be a more useful adoption signal.

Lunican1337

LTC is one of the most widely adopted and USED coins out of all. Kids in here thing of everything as it its full purpose is to HODL and invest. But Litecoin is one of the few that really holds up to what Bitcoin was created for in the first place

A_Honking_Goose

You probably aren't paid you are probably doing it for free because you've been a bag holder for years now but should probably tell your group that its painfully obvious with these weird posts on this subreddit that you people are trying to shill LTC

LoathingLoather

Hopefully that friend swapped the LTC into more ETH and hodled

Beautiful_Finger4566

around five years ago I gifted one LTC and ETH to my friend as a wedding present LTC was around $200... it's now at $60 ETH was around $700... it's now $2400

byylu

biggest thing is network security. miners on LTC and Doge can merge mine $PEP at the same time for free, so pep gets basically doge level hashrate. high hashrate = hard to attack. remember memetic - the pepecoin from 2016? it had its own chain too but mining it wasnt worth it, so it ended up moving to eth. pep doesnt have that problem. and its already the 2nd biggest pow memecoin by market cap after doge

Sic_Sic_Six

What year? I still hold LTC from 2017 and had 1 huge bull run and never again.

helen_3410

A flat dollar quote leaves out the benchmark: compare LTC to BTC over the same dates, which is what that pair chart captures.

badjano

LTC is the bitcoin clone nobody needs, but I guess anything can pump in crypto at the right time

xmrcache

True that is something LTC can make

Vydrah

Nobody literally gives a shit about LTC.

tenor_tymir

Why LTC-BTC-Fiat? Why not LTC-fiat?

Escapement_Watch

LTC is same price as 13 years ago. should mega pump next cycle to at least 4% ratio

moop44

The days of mining LTC to trsde for BTC to trade for fiat to buy beer were the glory days.

Serenaded

I like Litecoin and it would probably be one of the cryptos I would invest in after ETH, XMR and BTC. But I'm currently not buying into any projects, just more safer and easier money to be made in stocks. So saying this, it wouldn't suprirse me in the slightest if LTC suddenly melted faces with a pump. It's extremely overlooked while being one of the most stable, oldest coins that actually achieves what it set out to do. It has all the hallmarks of something that could 20x. Still not buying into crypto though, not in this economy.

groundkittenbeef

I used to mine 1.2 LTC a day. Glad I dumped it all. ✌️

ihatearguingonline

I agree with those BTC criticisms, but if we're looking for a coin that takes BTC's best characteristics (fair launch, fixed supply, strong PoW security/decentralization), and combines them with next gen speed/scalability/low fees, then KAS is the obvious choice. LTC really is an obsolete dino coin at this stage. Zcash is similarly obsolete (XMR is still the coin of choice for the dark web), but due to its small market cap it was a good candidate for market manipulation. Small but recognizable. Claims to be fairly launched even though it has a 20% dev tax. There's a chance LTC will be artificially boosted in a similar manner, but I doubt it. It's already so big that it's much harder to give it enough momentum for escape velocity like they did with zcash.

lite_hause

got it. most litecoiners like bitcoin and own some, too. LTC and BTC are the only two cryptos I care about. They’ve always worked hand in hand and LTC’s privacy feature is interesting

MrBurtSpaghetti

Btc is slow, public, expensive, nobody works on it, it can't scale and has a mystery dev hoarding 5% of the float. The moat for btc is wall st, who's chasing the next thing already. Tom with ETH, Winks with ZEC, Lee with LTC DATS and grayscale converting the ALT trusts to ETF. If it's alt season then ltc is in the right spot imho.

scp-NUMBERNOTFOUND

There's nothing to say about LTC, it just works exactly as intended.

ihatearguingonline

Here's the issue: LTC has no moat whatsoever. It's not the best at anything. If you want the most trusted store of value you go with BTC. If you want a next gen, fully scalable, fast PoW chain, you go with KAS. LTC sits in this awkward middle ground where it's inherited good tokenomics but no compelling reason that people should expect others to keep investing in this technology.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Imagine pretending that r/cryptocurrency bans litecoin discussion, to try to cover up for the fact that hardly anyone here cares or ever talks about litecoin that much. I guess that's another way to try to bring back LTC to the conversation.

SuspiciousMorning639

The interesting part to me isn't really the price action, it's how many different pieces are starting to connect around LTC at the same time. Institutional products, payment infrastructure, DeFi and even a corporate treasury move is a pretty wide range. Makes me wonder whether LTC is quietly getting more utility while everyone is still mostly looking at BTC and ETH. BYDFi recently expanded its BTC/ETH futures offering too, so I'm curious whether we'll see more attention shift toward established altcoins as liquidity grows.

Additional-Ask-2775

LTC is really an underrated coin tbh and I think its gonna show it's move in upcoming years

olduvai_man

I struggle to imagine what they think the use-case is at this point for LTC. Stablecoins won so we can get rid of all of the transaction-focused L1s.

Escapement_Watch

LTC will shock everyone watch and see. Btw I don't own any. But it's very obvious what will happen

stefan_lago

LTC, SC (Siacoin) and XRP

Educational_Speech58

Dud LTC can run smart contracts BTC cant thy both should be first and second Zcash is a scam 10 tax transaction and tbe developers can create more Zcash and have a faucet to buy more . You has the invester has a inflation token Zcash

Educational_Speech58

Charlie Lee sold all his LTC that's a good thing. How much bitcoin does satoshi nakamoto have who says he can't rug pool the mark

Educational_Speech58

That's a smart move ltc I holde LTC it just work no bell or whistle

nuclearmeltdown2015

I was buying BTC and LTC up until 3 months ago now that it's rising up so rapidly I agree I'm just gonna chill out in happy with the size of my stack but if it drops more I'll buy more and if I see LTC hit something like 15 bucks then I'll take out a god damn loan to maximize the amount I can buy altho I don't expect to ever see it reach that level 🤣

st_crypto

Me when i was mining in 2014 i thought it was over and moved on to mining LTC then ETH by gpu-s and stopped after that... fun times

NonVideBunt

I know who has a fat bag of LTC that’s trying to offload and not a loss

coolgamerboi23

So I recently sold a few roblox items on the grey market, and now I need help cashing out. paypal requires my SSN, which I dont know and dont want to give, so that leaves 3 options, BTC, ERC20, and LTC, the latter 2 I've never even heard of. Idk if there even is a way, but I figured if anyone knew it, it'd be you guys

No_Ninja_5063

Pepecoin (layer one coin not the eth token) on kraken is a steal at the moment, Ive been reading a lot of countries where USD is controlled currency people are adopting it as payment system. Its triple mineable with doge and LTC so I basically I get it for free.

byylu

Good question Merged mining solves network security problem. The same hardware mining Litecoin can simultaneously, with 0 extra electricity or hardware, secure any number of smaller chains on the same algorithm (Scrypt). This isn't theoretical, the AuxPoW protocol has supported it since 2011(?) (Namecoin has been merge-mining with Bitcoin ever since, with no changes to BTC's code), and today on Scrypt, LTC + DOGE + BELLS + PEP all do it at once. So: Bitcoin was technically capable of this from the start, all the merge-mining logic lives on the auxiliary chain's side, not the parent chain's. And yes, in theory you could merge-mine a "ton of tokens" at once, the protocol allows it. In practice, the bottleneck isn't cryptography, it's pool software (has to handle x different chains) and economics (each additional token is marginal benefit for the miner). But here's also a part merged mining doesn't solve: it secures the network against attacks, but says nothing about how fairly the coin launched.... Creator can premine or instamine, meaning allocate themselves a big chunk of supply before or right after launch, and then still plug in merge mining later to look "secure" and legitimate. Hashrate defends against rewriting block history, not against dishonest distribution at launch. Those are two completely separate things, and both need to be checked independently. That's why, for any merge mined coin, I look at two things: who's securing the network, and who actually holds the coins. Pepecoin checks both boxes: 100% of supply mined publicly from block one, no premine, no ICO, and merge mining was added only after the fair launch, not as a way to disguise one.

brk816

It doesn’t matter what you think tbh, it’s the climate we’re in currently and Zcash is gonna rip its way up for the exact opposite reasons LTC can’t. I hold 10 ltc just for hopes and prayers too, but zcash will take the crown for obvious reasons.

marxxy94

Is LTC the new ZCASH?

redditSwingking

LTC Long Time Crypto 😁

nigmuh

$LTC 82k

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yefuck

Tom Lee should stfu he used to be normal when he was LTC focused. Now he’s looking weirder and weirder since the ETH/BMNR saga… I think he’ll make money on it but…. Come to think of that Vitilak looks weirder all the time…. Does Ethereum make you look funny?

sockhergizer

LTC and Algo

whodamans

I'm still holding 1 LTC i bought at $330 on a Ledger somewhere. It still keeps me up at night after all these years. Its kind of my own personal meme... the moment LTC hits 330 again im cashing it all out.

BitterlyPhony

Lost me at "Israeli backdoored" but LTC has definitely just been quietly doing its thing forever, that kind of longevity counts for something

mrjune2040

I was mining LTC in 2013, you don’t need to give me investment advice mate. You could have reallocated at the time of your post and you’d be up more on basically any of the other large cap tokens at this point. Good luck, but doing a ‘told you so’ on something that’s still underperforming the market both on short and long term charts isn’t the win that you think it is.

Prestigious_Way_738

It's been undervalued for a decade. It's time is now. Get in while you can! Ill forgive you for your LTC slander!

mrjune2040

Lmao. Replying to a 90-day old comment just so that you can point to $70, a price is was at in late 2017 (9 fucking years ago), a price still 13% down from its price one year ago, more than 100% down from Dec 21, almost 500% down from May 21 highs, and despite the upward market where EVERYTHING rises, STILL downtrending against BTC on the yearly chart. You absolute LTC cuck 😂

No1worldchamp

LTC, everyone keeps laughing but it’s solid. 2027 halving.

Prestigious_Way_738

Why would you support a coin where the founder sold at the top and told all LTC holders to hold while it tanked?

Escapement_Watch

everyone should have been buying LTC last couple months. It is the only crypto down to its same price 10-12 years ago. Easy 4x. and when it does salyor will come to fud it and it will dip then go higher. just get a few ltc.

CounterAdmirable4218

I am taking the hint with LTC.

eetmyfartz

Been using LTC to pay for things a day it's one of the safest 2-3x investments out there as long as you get it below $60.

marxxy94

LTC has been supressed for so long.. the breakout should be quite violent

marxxy94

LTC is breaking out of the range

Systemonly69

LTC Pumping means could me we are going to see a 10% dip. Just be alert guys

Dr_Armani

Hope You Took BTC. All the other ones will explode soon. LTC Next

No1worldchamp

LTC halving in 2027, potential bull run going into this. What more can I say. I just Lite the coin.

LanaDelRhodez

Who’s buying LTC in 2026? \^\^\^ this guy

Sastroprawiro

Agree...LTC fee is supercheap, but not that cheap 😬

Peturio

Ran the five coins in your screenshot (if there are more below ROSE, post them and I'll add them). At current prices that's about $1,020, LTC 70%, DOGE 10%, VET 9%, ADA 8%, ROSE 3%, and you need roughly +80% to get back to what you paid. Bad year first. Simulated one year forward from current volatility and correlations with no trend assumed, the worst 5% of outcomes lose 64% or more. The same dollars in BTC alone lose 51% or more. The median path goes through a 49% drop at some point during the year, so the odds of sitting through a 50% drop in the next twelve months are about one in two. For BTC alone it is one in five. One path in ten goes through a 70% drop. The recovery question, since that is really what you asked. In the same simulation, 18% of paths end the year at or above what you paid in May 2025. Put the same dollars into BTC and that number is 8%. The reason is the same one that makes the 50% drop likely. These five coins run at about 65% annual volatility against 44% for BTC, and volatility cuts both ways. It is what gives you a real shot at +80%, and it is what puts 13% of paths below half of today's value. If the next twelve months look like the last twelve (a resample of the real daily moves since September 2025), the picture is much worse, under 1% of paths reach breakeven and the median path loses another 54%. That is a statement about how bad the last year was for these five, not a forecast. Which coin does the damage. LTC is 70% of the money and 69% of the risk, so there is no hidden concentration beyond the obvious one. The five move together at 0.8 to 0.9 with each other (ROSE at 0.6), and the mix has a diversification ratio of 1.08, meaning five coins take about 7% of the volatility off compared with holding one of them. If BTC drops 30% tomorrow, the last 90 days of betas say LTC drops 26%, DOGE 35%, VET 31%, ADA 44%, ROSE 29%, and the book 29%. The coins you are down most on (ADA, ROSE) are also the ones that fall hardest when BTC does. Replays of actual crashes on today's mix. October 2025 to July 2026 costs 68%, BTC alone 51%. The 10 October 2025 flash crash costs 23% in a day, BTC 7% (the mix falls three times as far as BTC on a fast liquidation day). The June 2026 cascade costs 20%, BTC 15%. The FTX week costs only 1.6%, but that is because LTC happened to rise 11% in November 2022 while DOGE fell 47%, so treat it as luck rather than protection. The August 2024 yen unwind costs 20%, the December 2024 Fed selloff 17%. Days to get out. At this size every one of the five sells in minutes, total slippage about $4 even at 5% of a stressed day's volume. Liquidity is not a risk you have. What the numbers above do not include is that all of it sits on one exchange, which is a separate risk from price. One more thing the models say. A stock market selloff on its own (S&P −15%, dollar +8%, credit down) moves this book by under 1%. It only reacts to what BTC and ETH do, which matches the 0.8 to 0.9 correlations above. And the necessary disclaimer at the end: none of this is a prediction or advice.

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final_lionel

I'm tired of altcoins after years accumulating. I think ETH and SOL can outperform BTC if you want to try. XMR too but it's delisted from most CEX now. I have a big bag of LTC. I don't know what to think about LTC. For me it's undervalued

Ok_Reputation9512

Automatic buy some $Sui, $Sol, $LTC, and $LINK every month. Just put $100 in each.

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Sastroprawiro

Don't get me wrong, I like BTC, but more as a store of value because in the end it will outperform and increase in value more than LTC would ever be. So, LTC to p(l)ay or send money to fam abroad, and BTC to hold. Until when? I dunno, my kids may decide...

Sastroprawiro

I see BTC as an investment (you buy and you keep) like gold. And LTC as a payment asset (you buy and you spend it) like...well...digidollars. It's not the silver to BTC like a lot of cryptonatians are saying. But hey, I can't predict the future and this is what I see right now :)

celmate

People shit on LTC, and I don't know how it is as an investment but man it's great functionally

Electronic_Quote399

Sure it could. I dont see why it would though. If you believe in it, buy more and give it time. Youll never predict when. If you lost faith, sell. If youre in the red and you've already written it off, and still have some belief? Hold your bag. I personally think there are a lot that are getting more attention than LTC, so i'm focusing on them. But it could be ltc as easy as anything else. I wouldnt have picked zcash to be the top gainer from last year. Never know.

Sastroprawiro

LTC work as intended, a decade steady and growing. Price wise could be a lot better...so, curious about the next halving coming right up. But this shows, nobody is into crypto for the tech...

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libretumente

Trading crypto is a casino. Crypto itself is a huge umbrella term that includes very sound, scarce, and relatively decentralized and fair projects such as BTC and LTC, as well as absolutely centralized scamcoins which unfortunately makes up 99.999% of projects. Cryptos are not made equal. I consider some coins, and most (scams) tokens. Tokens =/= coins. Buyer beware.

PeteyPab305

Digital Silver! LMFAO Ok well it launched in 2011 only 2 years after BTC, how long will I need to wait, exactly for it break back above $100? NTM Charlie Lee sold and donated all of his market-accumulated Litecoin holdings on December 20, 2017, to eliminate a conflict of interest, following a launch that is widely considered to "fair" at best. I know more about LTC than you might think bud. It assure it's hot trash that lost all of it utility when Stable Coins launched enabling a pegged coin to settle into with near zero transaction fee's! Why would I settle into LTC when Stable Coins exists?

roctac

Honestly LTC has decent transaction volume

PeteyPab305

OK? I already know these things, but claiming LTC is better simply because it shares Bitcoin's UTXO model is an empty assertion. Zcash is an upstream fork of Bitcoin Core: it uses the exact same base UTXO model for transparent transfers, but pairs it with actual zero-knowledge cryptography (zk-SNARKs) for shielded privacy. LTC’s opt-in MWEB sees negligible volume and adoption by comparison. Beyond that, ZEC maintains an active developer roadmap, clear cryptographic utility, and liquidity, whereas LTC’s main historical purpose as a fast, cheap transfer rail died once low-fee stablecoins took over. Dropping buzzwords like UTXO doesn't prove superiority when the actual market utility has passed LTC by.

Educational_Speech58

LTC uses same amounting model as BTC UTXO and Cardano uses EUTXO so LTC is better than ZEC ore XLM ore XRP

moonRekt

I don’t think there’s any such thing as a good altcoin. But I bought some cashcat, might DCA into laptop if it stays dropping, and I’ve had XRP/LTC/XLM since my first year of holding ETH is a good altcoin?

GiveInsteadOfTaking

I'm sure the 10 people using LTC are excited

rose98734

Doge is actually **useful**. I and tens of thousands of people use it to move money from DEXs to CEXs (to swap to fiat), as transaction fee is only 1 Doge (8 cents). In other words, it's functioning like a currency. Same with Litecoin. Doge and LTC are currencies, not speculative assets.

MediocreAnalyst2121

The it solves the exact same problem as BTC, it’s literally a fork of BTC, but does it cheaper, faster, and with optional privacy. If you ever consider using BTC to do a transfer, just use LTC instead - that’s the use case. I generally don’t want to use stuff like USDT, so I use LTC for transfers.

PeteyPab305

That's is exactly why I don't buy it though, It offers essentially no special utility, it solves not problem, and has never really peaked my interest, XMR has some unique traits - ASIC resistance etc.. ZEC has a great wallet, and both unshielded and shielded TX's and both have a semi decent exchange presence. ZEC is especially intriguing being that is it fixed. LTC doesn't solve an obvious problem to me.

VettaQ

Honest answer: it is good at being boring. 13+ years of uptime, 2.5-minute blocks, sub-cent fees, listed and liquid everywhere - it works as a transfer rail. MWEB gives opt-in privacy at the base layer, and merged mining with Doge means the Scrypt hashrate securing it is larger than its market cap alone would buy. It is not a 100x narrative, but for "move value cheaply, with optional privacy, between venues" it does the job. The ZEC run was a privacy-narrative trade; the LTC version of that trade would need MWEB adoption numbers to actually grow, and those are still small.

ubermensch1001

He isn't the only one, there were several other posters on here that were arguing with me about this. This was a reply I made to another poster more or less arguing with me about the same thing pertaining to buying ETH vs. ADA right now. "Let's say we go into 2027; the market is starting to get into a bullish environment and BTC is trading at 90k+. Let's say ETH at this point is trading at 4k, so a little over a 50% move from here. What do you think would happen with the rest of the alts? In this environment, do you see ADA at best matching ETH's performance by only being at 30 cents? Very short term price action is impossible to predict and pointless. For instance, in the fall of 2024 ADA was trading around 35 cents while ETH was at a similar price to where we are currently, about $2400. After the 2024 election hype ADA traded as high as $1.30 while ETH peaked at about 4k. I'll use XLM as an example from that same time period. Right before the election it was trading around 10 cents and then climbed above 50 cents at it's peak, so a 5x. A weak example would be LTC, it was around $65 and peaked at a little over $100 in this same time period. Another one is Bcash, both of these had very little price movement for years leading up to this, at least relative to the rest of the alts out there. The whole point is that when we do get bullish phases with alts, ETH leads and many of the alts with smaller market caps will OUTPERFORM it. IF someone were looking to do this, they need to be able to identify the correct time to be buying. I'm not saying people should do this, the point is that when ETH pops hard relative to BTC the broader alt coin market follows along even stronger. It has nothing to do with fundamentals of the coin lol. If you aren't aware, virtually all alts, including ETH, are primarily driven by hype and speculation. Picking the horse that runs the fastest is honestly going to come down to luck. What is NOT luck is identifying when these alts are low and where they could be making large gains for profit. What you are seeing now is NOT a bullish phase in the market, it's a bear market rally. This is not the same as the Q1 2024 ETF pump, the Q4 election pump or the spring 2021 alt season. When this occurs again, and it will, you will see what I'm describing here play out."

JoJopama

Exactly. If you want a optional privacy coin that has longevity, cheap transactions, and had no premine; go with #LTC. The founder bought his own coin and later sold what he bought to not be accused of it being centralized. LTC has been operational for fifteen years. I’ve personally been using it since 2016 without a single problem. If you want a non-optional privacy coin get #XMR by swapping for it with #LTC or #BTC. 

ubermensch1001

Yeah, man, I've been in this space since 2018, BTC is the only thing I'm still holding from way back then. Going into the bull market of spring 2021 I had large bags in ETH, LTC and Bcash. ETH I continued to hold until early 2024 when I converted it into BTC after months of thinking about it lol. LTC and Bcash I exited a very long time ago, they were bags I bought on robinhood in late 2020 that I rode into huge profits in 2021. My average on LTC was $40 and it peaked at $400 that year and for bcash my average was $200 and it peaked at $1400. 80% BTC right now but have large holdings in ETH and ADA. ETH I bought heavily last spring when it's pairing to BTC was under .02 and ADA I've been buying heavily whenever it was under 30 cents. Scooped some up with the lows here earlier in the summer but mostly just been buying BTC this year. This stack of cash I have in reserve is going to be my last big move for a while so I want to spend a lot of time weighing my options.

ubermensch1001

Bro, I'm talking about right here and right fucking now with ADA. The guy has these coins locked in at the time we are writing on here. Let's say we go into 2027; the market is starting to get into a bullish environment and BTC is trading at 90k+. Let's say ETH at this point is trading at 4k, so a little over a 50% move from here. What do you think would happen with the rest of the alts? In this environment, do you see ADA at best matching ETH's performance by only being at 30 cents? Very short term price action is impossible to predict and pointless. For instance, in the fall of 2024 ADA was trading around 35 cents while ETH was at a similar price to where we are currently, about $2400. After the 2024 election hype ADA traded as high as $1.30 while ETH peaked at about 4k. I'll use XLM as an example from that same time period. Right before the election it was trading around 10 cents and then climbed above 50 cents at it's peak, so a 5x. A weak example would be LTC, it was around $65 and peaked at a little over $100 in this same time period. Another one is Bcash, both of these had very little price movement for years leading up to this, at least relative to the rest of the alts out there. The whole point is that when we do get bullish phases with alts, ETH leads and many of the alts with smaller market caps will OUTPERFORM it. IF someone were looking to do this, they need to be able to identify the correct time to be buying. I'm not saying people should do this, the point is that when ETH pops hard relative to BTC the broader alt coin market follows along even stronger. It has nothing to do with fundamentals of the coin lol. If you aren't aware, virtually all alts, including ETH, are primarily driven by hype and speculation. Picking the horse that runs the fastest is honestly going to come down to luck. What is NOT luck is identifying when these alts are low and where they could be making large gains for profit.

ubermensch1001

2024-2025 we never had an alt season. However, in an environment like in the spring of 2021 EVEYTHING pumps hard when a wave of liquidity enters in with FOMO and euphoria. LTC in the spring of 2021 trading above $400, it's highs from 2017. I'm not saying to buy LTC, but the point is that everything does this under this types of market conditions. If you can spot when it's a good time to buy alts you can make moves. With this particular thread, you could buy ADA around 20 cents and hold this for a period of time. When the market has some sort of euphoria, which eventually will happen, you can bet this will pump. We can speculate all day as to what this could do, but buying at this point IF you wanted to would be solid. In my honest opinion, alts collectively are for speculative moves and swing trading, including ETH. They should only be touched when looking at it with this lens AND with the goal to swing trade this for profits. If you can identify when it is the correct time to be buying them you'll do well. For instance, I didn't touch ETH at all in 2022-2024 because it's pairing to BTC was still strong. However, in the spring of 2025 it dropped under .02 to BTC, it's cycle lows with it's BTC pairing that go all the way back to late 2019. I made a lump sum purchase here. Now, I could have been buying ETH at a similar price in the 2nd half of 2022, but it's pairing to BTC at the time was ABOVE .05. If I had bought ETH at the time I would have watched this slowly bleed compared to BTC over those years. For instance, 10 ETH bought at 1.2k in late 2022 could have bought me roughly .75 BTC. That 10 ETH in the spring of 2025 would have been only worth .2 BTC. Most people don't understand this, which is why they either get wrecked by buying alts at high $ valuation OR where they would have made better gains just buying BTC instead.

Crypto-Bets

🤡 ZEC has no actual infrastructure, it doesn’t have thousands of payment rails like LTC/XMR/BTC DarkFi has already chosen LTC & XMR. They’re never abandoning the legacy payment rail in exchange for ZEC. ZEC is going to remain speculative, it’s never going to be used for DarkFi & it will never be used as a mixer.

Remarkable-Tax6464

You claim LTC and BTC don't compete because Bitcoin is a store of value and Litecoin is a payment network. But BTC entire premise is that **value accrues to scarcity, network effects, and security guarantees, NOT transactional convenience**

No-Masterpiece2246

Why even use any Layer 2 tech? Just use any blockchain validated via proof of work. BCH, XMR, DOGE, LTC, etc all work fine and their fees don't go to the moon. Same thing with ERC20 tokens (similar to Layer 2s), they're 99% shitcoins. Just use native ETH or ETC.

automotive420

LTC suffered the same fate, if not worse, than XMR. only available on a few major exchanges

SuitApprehensive3240

What do you think of LTC AND LitVm??