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Mark my words.

Not going to happen.

Maybe you could explain us how it is going to happen. And is it based on the price increase of Bitcoin ?

Yes

I could see this happening too. If BTC were to explode in value due to the halving, LTC seems to ride its coattails and could catch a wave.

Also, in general it seems there is a lot of renewed interest in Alt coins this year. I don't know if this is due to the ETH rise, but on Poloniex many once dead coins are returning to life.

The DOGE pump earlier this year really surprised me. It was a happy surprise as I had quite a few still in my wallet (and a few on Cryptsy too, but that is another story...), so I was able to cash out quite handsomely above 100 satoshis. But it just goes to show, with some fresh interest coming in, the upcoming BTC halving, and the gloom and doom in the financial markets, maybe 2016 will be the year for crypto's.

did you buy back in with doge? i sold a bit for 110 but bought it back now. I never bet against doge.

LTC - another coin I make sure to keep some of. $25 would be nice. Then again i didn't sell at 50 so even $25 isn't enough :)

Yeah, it's definitely possible this could happen.  I stupidly sold all of my DOGE well before that last pump, so I kind of missed out.  I'm cool with LTC skyrocketing, as it's not a bad altcoin.

With ETH around it looks difficult, but maybe.

Sounds super optimistic although long term chart looks promising... Maybe I should accumulate some

Ok i will save some LTCs but i hope your predictions are right!
I have a great doubts but i will try not to follow my feelings.

If there is no fresh money coming to the crypto currency, litecoin and Ethereum are competing for the limited funding. It is difficult to achieve high price.

 This isn't true or the insane explosion in eth volume would have hurt btc price.

No, I am wishing I had bought back in when it dropped to 55 sat shortly after the pump, but I was expecting it to go back down to the 30-40's where it started. It will eventually get back down there, I am not worried about that, but I missed out on the second mini pump and could have made a bit more off of it. :)

I think LTC should see some action this year, as well as any of the old-school coins that continue to have good trading volume. Beware those that have no trading volume, but sticking to the top 50 (sorted by volume on coinmarketcap) or so should give plenty of opportunity to catch some waves.

It seems that there is fresh money but is very soon to say it 100% because it can be only a pump, On the case of BTC it is strong, But yes litecoin and Ethereum will keep  competing for the second place.

You dreaming.

Even $5  seems unlikely now.

There is no competition any more. eth is second. The moment chinese exchanges add and/or replace ltc with eth on their trading platforms, ltc is doomed.

Please, that's a good prediction for ETH in the next months. Bitcoin is already done for and you think Litecoin stands a chance? Is funny to see people excited by a little spike in price for Bitcoin, I tend to think people and companies are buying BTC just to get ETH, therefore the recent price increase.

Bitcoin and Ether have two different use cases.
-Bitcoin will be nothing more than a commodity but a very valuable one (best distribution there will ever be).
-Ethereum is more about smart contracts
-Ripple and their Interledger Protocol will make XRP the perfect bridge currency

So there will not be one winner. I like ETH but I think it is over priced at the moment. 


I do not see Litecoin hitting 15$ - it only hit 8$ before its own halving.  Plus ETH and XRP will steal some of it's thunder.

Yes and perhaps higher...ltc and doge both strong

i was hoping ltc will turn just about $7-10 lately during the btc pump and so i bought some just to gain profit with less risk but turned out I just kept waiting.
I could have invest it to some other coin like monero which seem to have better system and has active devs.

I don't know about Ripple since I'm not sure how a centralized coin could fit into that but I think you are right that those 3 could definitely be onto something. I think Bitcoin is done for in the term of currency, it will never be adopted by the mainstream, but it can definitely reinvent itself like you said, as a commodity and invesment option, kinda like gold.

I definitely not agree that ETH is overpriced. Compared to what? it depends on how much it can achieve. It's like saying Bitcoin was overpriced at $10, $50 or $100 really. There's only 72 millions ETH, if the platform becomes a standard for developing apps in major companies and around the world, they will need that fuel to run them. $5 a piece it's nothing really when you have a coin as divisible as Bitcoin. The difference is that Bitcoin is not actually needed for anything so it's more of a commodity as you said.

Some facts about scam coin Ethereum. The following facts are undeniable. Because of this fact, Ethereum is automatically a worthless scam coin that is enjoying its 15 minutes of fame. Nothing more. But it will certainly become a lot less.

1. IPO Coin ****ALARM ALARM ALARM --> ALL IPO COINS ARE SCAMS. NO EXCEPTION**

2. Unlimited supply. Ethereum Scam Coin doesn't have max cap on coins like the only 2 legitimate cryptocurrencies Bitcoin & Litecoin. Ethereum is, in this regard, the same as dogecoin.

3. The main exchange where Ethereum Scam Coin is traded at is Poloniex, an exchange operating from a shed in the middle of the woods --> LOL

4. It has been proven that Ethereum Scam Coin volume is 95% fake and 5% of it is from noobs who believe it will overtake Bitcoin.

5. Ethereum has no liquidity. Try selling $10k worth of Ethereum. Coin's value will collapse immediately. LOL.

I'm not surprise though, even when the devs are known and have their photos scattered online they still can get away with it after scamming. would like to know where you got the info, maybe a link for these information.

Hard to happen even 10$ will be hard to happen maybe just maybe wheb halving passes

But who'll get there first?  LTC or ETH?

I do not recognise the existence of Ethereum.

Scam coins don't have legitimacy in the Crypto sphere.

Legitimacy according to you isn't the question here.  It's who will get to $15 - $25 first...?

Litecoin of course.

So in reality you are a monero bagholder who made up this story to loosen the bag a little

There are some other users who also mention about eth to be scam but none of you ever provide a link for such info as to why you considered them as scam.

Ethereum facts:

1. IPO coin. All IPO coins are scam (this is a fact)

2. It has no limit like legitimate BTC and LTC cryptocurrencies. No limit --> useless crypto.

3. Where volumes come from? It is traded on Poloniex (like 70-80%), Poloniex is operating from shed in the woods --> doesn't prove it is scam, but MAJOR RED FLAGS.

Those 3 things combined lead to this conclusion --> Ethereum is a scam.

If i must choose between LTC and ETH i would probably chose LTC.
I don't like IPO ICO also, but when you see opportunity on exchanges you forget fast what was all about. :D

I would choose Ethereum. The mining of the litecon is too concentrated, it is controlled by very few miners. The development is not active.

Xrp is becoming more decentralized over time.  Microsoft will soon be running a validaters. Even buteren had said 10 banks is better than 3 main miners.

Because of above FUD. Facts are required.

• Capable of four times as many transactions as Bitcoin in a ten minute period. Frankly if payment processors had adopted Litecoin in the past year current Bitcoin block discussions would be irrelevant (and likely the price of both coins higher). Anyone who has watched these discussions understands the immediate advantage of a network with larger transactional capability.  
• Faster confirmation times. The only people who don't think this is important have never spent a single coin or they have patience that the average person does not possess.
• The faster block time of litecoin reduces the risk of double spending attacks.
• Anti-spam.
• Fast well established network. Current Hashrate is 1,643 GH/s. Since scrypt is memory intensive it is known to be approximately 1000 times slower hardware wise in comparison to SHA256. Fair comparison to the Bitcoin network requires multiplying that hashrate by 1000 (1,643 TH/s). The fact is for most of Litecoins history the hashrate has been relatively high and secure. Those comparing it to the Bitcoin network without considering this 1k factor are either being disingenuous or just ignorant of the facts.
• Continuous development look here at number of releases in past year: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/releases
• Upcoming new features look here for whats happening in 2016:
  https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/3z2ta1/ama_official_litecoin_developers_and_litecoin/
• Longevity. Many coins have temporarily eclipsed litecoin as they were marketed for the purpose of increasing the fiat accounts of a small group and emptying the accounts of new users. Unfortunately this has been detrimental to crypto-space in general.
  
• Great community.
• Fully supported by GoCoin a growing payment processor used by thousands of merchants https://www.gocoin.com/
• Liquidity. You can sell thousands and not crash the market. Maintains value.

Good post but still not convinced.  Even the creator calls it silver to bitcoins gold. Btc and ltc will never be more than a commodity. Could it be worth 25$, sure in time. The currency of the future is what we already have in my opinion, it's how we move them. Xrp is faster than ltc but it won't become the global currency, just a great bridge for those that already exist.

There is a huge possibility right now many alt coins are now re surging and many of them are getting pump up,Litecoin is not your ordinary crypto currency it is always on the top 5 crypto currency since the beginning so I would not be surprise if it reach that..

Thank you. I wasn't suggesting that litecoin displace bitcoin. Most members of the litecoin community agree with the principle of being silver to bitcoins gold. I own both and have used both (I've mined both since 2012). I agree with the principle of being more of a commodity because of limitation speed of any decentralized network. This limitation in speed is what maintains security and prevents various attacks. Security is and should be the first concern of any digital system to maintain value (and if you want to sell it to institutional investors).

Someday it will probably be worth more than that, just not this year.  I read recently that an asteroid passed earth with 5 trillion dollars in platinum on board. Obama signed something allowing mining in space recently (out of my head, might not be perfect). Then you have government debt issues. Btc and ltc could be what people turn to in the future.  Xrp is what will move money (and btc/ltc) due to its speed, ilp, regulation and connections. All three could put our children and grandchildren through college but only time will tell.  But 25$ this year is high in my opinion.

Go away newbie.

Sweet and wet dreams. Litecoin has to offer nothing. There are far better players in the field.

Litecoin is stumped.  Better sell

How's it gonna do that?  :D

Who pamping those coins?
I see Monero rise ? Is this demise of SDC contributing , this is ironic?
ETH actually gone down as i see?

It is quite possible for the litecoin to be $20. That would happen when the bitcoin price rises to $1000. It might not hold there.

Yes i was right ETH is going down and Monero pump is over.
Let's go LTC pumpers..LTC looks the same all the time..Small decrease in LTC/BTC
but BTC is up..Hm ???

10 or 20$ increase in btc, I would not call large. But if it goes much more, then ltc will follow probably.

I hope ETH growing up more

You've been listened my friend ;D ! At the moment where I'm writting this, 1 ETH is worth 0,01016BTC. I went up-to 0,011BTC a few minutes ago, but now it is down at 0,01BTC.

My bet is on litecoin hitting around 0,05 BTC if/when there's another bubble in bitcoin value.

Historically, litecoin has been a far better investment than bitcoin, although price can usually be correlated with bitcoin swings.

Bitcoin will see $1700-$2300 this year.
Meanings LTC will see at least $15 (taking into account LTC/BTC going down, but USD value will still go up. If, like 2013, LTC/BTC ratio goes up 5-6 times, it means USD value of LTC could reach at least $75 when BTC is at $1700).

lmao, are you drunk ?

Are you new?

But why you are expecting this year 15$?
Maybe few years after but why this year?
What if everyone jumps in to BTC?

It jumpst to at least $15 BECAUSE everyone will jump into BTC this year.
2013 will happen again.

There are 2 cryptocurrencies available on the major exchanges. Gemini will most likely add LTC, so the only major exchange without Litecoin will be Coinbase.

When Bitcoin bubbles again, people will be looking for cheaper alternatives to buy. And what do they see on the exchanges? This strange commodity called ''LTC''. And it is not $1400 each like ''BTC'', but only $7! And they do a bit of research and find out LTC has in the past ALWAYS outperformed Litecoin, even reached $48 at some point! SO what do they do? Instead of buying 1 BTC with $1400, they buy 200 FULL Litecoins instead. People start speculating again, LTC demand increases, people rush to trade their few BTC for MANY precious LTC, and the price SKYROCKETS again.

That is what will happen... :)

Exactly, and the history repeats

WHen Bitcoin skyrockets, people will trade BTC for LTC to profit (profit in LTC will be bigger than profit in BTC)

Massive trading BTC for LTC and LTC price skyrockets!

Precisely, well said. The LTC price (even if bought via wire transfer) compared to BTC price now is a steal and the end result of the next LTC bubble will get you way more BTC when its price is high during its bubble and you can bounce via BTC/LTC or vice versa and then to cash if you so choose. For example, if this next BTC/LTC run mimics the 2013 hike (which it is likely to do or more) you get 6-7 times more BTC (from your LTC) or if it models the LTC halving last July - you get ~4x current prices in BTC. Either way, that's how you make a lot of Bitcoin when you have not much of them atm. These events only happen sparingly (oops, rare), so be on the fun side of this trade.

Critical reminder that you should hoard up LTC :).

I must admit you have provided many good reasons with much proofs!
Hope you are right! I must think about this.
Thanks!

Scam coin promoters, like Stoat, please dont bother posting here again. Your scam coin promotions will be removed without warning.

If you want to trap noobs into buying shit coins that are obvious scams, like IPO coin Ethereum, do that in your own topic. I am here to protect noobs from snakes like you, and won't allow such bullshit to thrive. I will cut its head off before it can raise it!

LTC last time was almost 4$ when btc was at 450$.
How come ltc didn't follow btc now?
Or he losing its strength?

I dont think so that it will reach to that amount. Maybe this is another speculation as what i have observed Lite has only minimal change. I've seen several faucets on LTC but btc/satoshi is still popular and it command a higher demand.

Well,we cant predict.... ;)

I don't think ltc will go 20-25 USD it may go up to 12 USD max.

Explain.

This could be right. Litecoin is not the second coin any more. Ethereum is the second largest digital currency.

This year is year of ALTS and everything is possible.

LTC have great chance for moon, this time we could see even more price rise because all this time
 LTC stagnating and only BTC rising, LTC just follows. We actually didn't see anything yet.

Well i hope it will be good but i dont think it will go to 20 maybe 15 if it good luck on this

Yeah not going to happen despite your best efforts to pump it. However I've been known to be wrong in the past and anything can happen so good luck to you sir.  I think all the money is flowing from bitcoin into eth and the newer coins and ltc is left in the dust.

i dont think we can see again so high price maybe just little over 10$ if LTC follow BTC in price this time after halving 12$ mazbe max price for LTC this year

last time it went to high it was because of the halving, litecoin is a 100% p&d now, nothing more, the focus is all on etheruem until pos at least
i would not invest a penny in litecoin, not even mining or anything

Well, if this year litecoin really will be worth $ 15- $ 25 a year, maybe from now on I will save litecoin I have  ;D

to be honest i dont think it will come to this this year only possible way is that when btc go crazy in price and go over 1000 for ltc to follow like last time in 2013

This year we have more chance to see great rise of LTC than ever. BTC will influence this is for sure.
Only question is will you recognize when is good time for buying? I saw many coins rising already.

It is quite difficult for the litecoin to be $25 this year. The market has limited cash available. They are in the more innovative coins.

Have to agree 15-25 is a real stretch for this year, but I agree it will rise steadily to around $6 by years end it has been pretty stable for the last couple of months.

When it comes to light coin i see 2 things happening. Either it go back to a high value neir the 20 usd region
or it goes down the drain.

OP, what happened to Litecointalk.org? :o Been offline for weeks...

''Twas hacked. Not sure what the status is though.

That's a near 8-fold increase from current prices at ~$3

So bitcoin should be $3000+ ...

It's possible I guess.

I'm expecting more alt-coins to stat emerging now that it is has been dethroned from #2 by ETH.     

Platforms like ETH/NEM are inking real world deals with public companies.  Inforteria's
stock rose over $70,000,000 from partnering with NEM's private chain mijin.
https://forum.nem.io/t/major-announcement/1670/23

In best case scenario if it folliw btc on halving only in this way

Or $15, than it would be a 4-5 fold increase, which is very possible. And Bitcoin does not have to make the same progress, in 2013, when BTC increased 7 fold, I believe Litecoin increased 16 fold.

The coming +/- 4 months will be crucial. (for both btc and ltc)

i hope, because have 100 litecoin in paper wallet buy at 2.5 $  ;D

I have 50,000 LTC from mining LTC in 2012 ;D

for upcoming month it will be crucial for sure
but this ETH seem like its on the up train somehow i hope that who ever invest in this wont regret and will at the end like we all want make some proffit

This price can only be done by ltc to follow btc if btc comes like last to over 1000 when ltc was over 40
No other way to happen

But the gap between the price of bitcoin and litecoin will widen in the future. The litecoin has little usage.

Everyone is entitled to blow lines of hopium.

I just bought a bunch. It seems like a safe bet considering it looks like its on bottom so your inv is pretty safe. It has a better chance of going up then down. Everything has had a pump in last 6 months except for LTC. Its due. I made out good on dash and rolled into LTC. Crossing my fingers and being patient something will happen soon.  ;D

it is really hard for a price increase in Litecoin at the moment as there is no positive signs seen in the development of the coin.even the Dev is not confident about the future of the coin. so how can you expect a price increase

On a related note,  does preev even list the price for litecoin anymore?  It looks like it's still on the list but it hasn't been loading for quite a while.   The other prices do.

I think its by design of the market makers. Just be patient. Same thing with dash and then boom,, evolution lol

It is hard to speculate on ltc price， it is equally speculate on ltc/ btc ratio?
I think ltc will not out perform btc in next 12 months? Do you agree?

that can be achieved with ease dont think it will go much in $ price but ratio will climb for some value in next period for sure

If the bitcoin price rises to $1200 this year, the price of the litecoin could also be higher. But I doubt it will be $15.

Well, this is April and Litecoin has not moved up to $25. Keep your fingers crossed you never know what might happen in June.

The litecoin price is $3.6 now, it will have to rise 400% to reach the $15 level. It depends on the further developments.

from look of things i dont see this can be achieved any time soon
perhaps im wrong but btc go up in price and ltc stays still

If the bitcoin price rises to $1200, the litecoin could be $20 again. Then it will drop back to about $10.

always stick to number 1, look at Google and Yahoo, you think Yahoo is cheap, and it is cheap, but investing in Yahoo is not as profitable as Google.

that was last time when btc went that much ltc was over 40 i dont think this time will happen like that maybe if btc somes over 2k this time

Looks like the litecoin still increase even the price of bitcoin is increase and i think it will increase more after block halving..
I have some litecoin from a faucet before and i think i have 13 ltc in my pocket.. i hope it will increase the price more after block halving..

ltc price is falling down a bit but from what i can read and  gather chinese dont want it to go up just yet
so this may happen but not now

Yeah, price is falling but I wonder if it isn't a fake out before pumping again. Though it seems tied to the BTC price decline as well, so we will see what happens in the upcoming days/weeks with price as we approach the halving.

I am sorry, LITECOIN Is dying . sell now, last chance before dump to $2 !!

The price is still over $4. So I think the litecoin is still very alive. It will follow the steps of bitcoin.

Litecoin currently gain its value, but I don't think will hit $15 again maybe will rise between $6 and $8 this year

10$ is realistically most achievable price for LTC this year cuz btc will pass over 500 ltc will go to 10 maybe little bit off 11 maybe

can't happen..I'm making 11 LTC a day with my KNC Titans...the 'shock' would be too much ..I'd just drop over dead :(

(hey I heard that cheering.......keep the difficulty down damn it ......we can do this 1 day after my equipment goes doorstop ...lets wait till then) :)

Hoarding don't ya know :)

When LTC skyrockets again, it will be EPIC and Unbelieviable

I'm just holding...

diff has been dropping past few days, looks like its estimated to retarget back up again!

Just hit a block on litecoinpool after 3 days of mining with my titan

Jacob

I admit i grow tired of reading posts on here where litecoin is 'dead', yet compared to 99.9% of all other shitcoins it has maintained a very steady price. It just isn't a get rich quick coin. At least litecoin isn't total dogshit.

Great coin because:

• Capable of four times as many transactions as Bitcoin in a ten minute period. Frankly if payment processors had adopted Litecoin in the past year current Bitcoin block discussions would be irrelevant (and likely the price of both coins higher). Anyone who has watched these discussions understands the immediate advantage of a network with larger transactional capability.  
• Faster confirmation times. The only people who don't think this is important have never spent a single coin or they have patience that the average person does not possess.
• The faster block time of litecoin reduces the risk of double spending attacks.
• Anti-spam.
• Fast well established network. Current Hashrate is 1,643 GH/s. Since scrypt is memory intensive it is known to be approximately 1000 times slower hardware wise in comparison to SHA256. Fair comparison to the Bitcoin network requires multiplying that hashrate by 1000 (1,643 TH/s). The fact is for most of Litecoins history the hashrate has been relatively high and secure. Those comparing it to the Bitcoin network without considering this 1k factor are either being disingenuous or just ignorant of the facts.
• Continuous development look here at number of releases in past year: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/releases
• Upcoming new features and active development look here for whats happening in 2016:
  https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/3z2ta1/ama_official_litecoin_developers_and_litecoin/
• Longevity. Many coins have temporarily eclipsed litecoin as they were marketed for the purpose of increasing the fiat accounts of a small group and emptying the accounts of new users. Unfortunately this has been detrimental to crypto-space in general.
  
• Great community.
• Fully supported by GoCoin a growing merchant payment processor used by thousands of merchants https://www.gocoin.com/ as well as other processors such as coinpayments, Asmoney, Alfacoins and Coinify
• Liquidity. You can sell thousands and not crash the market. Maintains value. Look at the chart here indicating volume in the last 24 hours relative to other coins. http://cryptocoincharts.info/coins/graphicalComparison In fact volume has remained high since last June while maintaining a stable price.

Looking forward to the announcement in next couple of weeks.

$15 maybe too high but $7 is sure maybe in a couple of weeks hold and see  ;)

I too am hoping for a price increase, not too sure when it'll be but I've got my finger crossed!

:-)

Tony

I will not buy more litecoin. I will just hold the existing coins. I will hold them for long term, as a hedge.

good to hold i hold mine for long time and hope for something like in 2013 when ltc was over 40$ i hope to see him this time at half of that

You're not doing that badly so far, at least in fiat terms. :)

How? https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/litecoin/usd
Maybe when coinbase opens a LTC pair, quite likely ah

$4.70 is not bad considering the lot of stuff out there.

I think that LITECOIN is aiming to its logical ending. You'd bett sell it asap

I do not think so. now can grow up above 20 dollars, so what is your arguments about end this coin?

As a prophet, your direction is good.....as an amount it still needs work...

I recommend the following:


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You may not be any closer...but hanging around with option (3) above would be well worth your time!

Its hard mate. We know many altcoin bearish because of bitcoin price.
This year is only left 1 month and its most likely impossible.