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Bitcoin will become the "gold" of the internet while Litecoin will become the "silver." With Bitcoin trading above $3000.

Sad part, there will be a lot of unclaimed Bitcoin by that time.

Just my thoughts.

i agree bitcoin will stay the course and will always be the leading crypto, but i am afraid that Litecoin is slowly going to disappear, i just dont see that there is any need for it.   ???

bitcoin always been and will be the best coins .....number 1 ;D ;D ;D ;D

i'd say within 2 years BTC completely owned by corporate interests etc, LTC becomes the peoples currency (kinda like gold/silver did in days gone by).

just like you've seen in the litecoin and bitcoin logo,litecoin logo is silver colored and bitcoin is gold colored,it'll be likely most like that,unclaimed bitcoin is a problem but it will not become a big problem at all just like when people losing a dollar in somewhere place

I think that Bitcoin will be at around $3000 in 20 years. Litecoin on the other hand will probably at $1. :)

Aren't we being a little optimistic? Litecoin at $1? :)

I dunno, $3000 seems a bit too optimistic for right now. There doesn't seem to be enough interest or movement for there to be such a substantial upswing in 20 years time, but you never know, a lot can happen over the span of 20 years.

I think Dogecoin will become the silver instead of Litecoin. TBH litecoin isn't that great to invest in...

don't worry about those unclaimed btc, it will never be yours after all.


Chinese have them though so i guess, LTC will still live for more than what you expect.

its obviously sacrilegious here, but litecoin most likely will replace bitcoin, and yes thats probably laughed at mostly now (but i can give many a reason why), wait 2 years and see  ;)

I agree with this sentiment, only I think BTC (at least core) is already controlled by corporate interests. :D

who knows what is going to happen in 20 years, but as speculation goes i agree with the bitcoin becoming the Gold of the internet but i don't agree with litecoin keeping its second position. litecoin is not actually offering anything extra and has not been developed as much even at all in the past.

i like your word "Bitcoin will become the gold" and for next 20 years i do really hope that will happen but i don't think Litecoin will become silver in that year because i so doubt that there are cryptocurrency besides bitcoin can survive till next 20 years

thats not going to be happening, because bitcoin have decimal amount

yeah Do not be afraid. its certainly bitcoin will remain the gold in the currency online

Well I would say, BTCitcoin is already the Gold of the internet (it's just few know about it but surely those aware of it, have it as their top priority). In regards to Litcoin being the silver (I believe some other coin is going to replace this spot in the future but for now, it could be considered as silver of the internet).

I think so too, but we don't know is bitcoin and litecoin still exist or not in 20 years. How about dogecoin ? Because dogecoin is also popular coin too.

why litecoin, which seems doomed and no one care about anymore, not to mention it does not offer anything

when you have ETH and decred that are much stronger and actually are a bit different than bitcoin, or even maidsafe if you want?

that make sense,bitcon as gold on real life,and litecoin as silver,but litecoin have chance to be replaced,some altcoin have good price to take over litecoin,such XMR or CLAM.

theres ton of reasons why ETH and the lastest co, may get flavor of the month with some of this crowd but not longterm mass adoption, KISS is one, trust is another (hell much of this forum have little trust for the motivation of the teams behind them).

lots care about litecoin, it has the trust and if you where to first come across all these latest 'original' or 2.0 or whatevers first, then btc/ltc came later everyone would be saying btc/ltc are a massive improvement on these.

over hyped 'innovation' for innovation sake doesn't make for a long term currency solution.

I think the next 20 years they will become very famous coin, especially bitcoin whose price will be higher and became a symbol for other coins, while litecoin might be the epitome of trade, because he might be well-known in trading

Bitcoin always being mother of coin, i trully believe that bitcoin's price in 20 years will be grow up, then litecoin i doubt, i think it's price will stable or maybe going down, due to it's adoption, nowdays litecoin's just used for investment purpose, not as a currency like bitcoin's did
just in my humble opinion

Optimistic speculators are hoping for the same spectacular returns from LTC as BTC given the way it’s following in big brother Bitcoin’s footsteps.

i know what you mean "litecoin was the second" but this argument makes sense only with the first, bitcoin, but i may see that there is a huge sentiment, and a huge attachment yet for litecoin, even if the market seems dead

i still believe that if bitcoin will be globally accepted on a very large scale, we will see many other coin succeed and not only litecoin, there will be probably a strong third fourth etc...

Thats the same im thinking.
Bitcoin yes. But more Cryptocurrencies are not needed.

My guess is that litecoin will die. The coin has nothing new nor anything to bring in the game.
It's a cheap rip off of bitcoin. No innovation whatsoever.

When it comes to bitcoin, well it will depend if we can make it go mainstream. If that happens, it will be the future.

Shallow thoughts, especially delusional about Litecoin being alive or "silver" in 20 years.

the part about bitcoin seems true enough , but dont know if litecoin will still be relevant or some other coin would have take its place or if its just bitcoin standing strong in the end.

Litecoin has always been the number two behind Bitcoin and that will not change any time soon unless there is another coin that is taking over Litecoin's place. And no, don't quote me with Ethereum.

I thought for a long time.litecoin will not be able to survive. altcoin lot better grow. I think litecoin will miss

Good chance neither will be around. If bitcoin can sort its shit out then it'll continue building and won't be deposed. As for the number two spot, that's a more dangerous and constantly changing position. I don't see what LTC can possibly bring to the table. It's sitting still while thousands of people are trying to come up with something sexier. Two decades of development is gonna turn it into dust.

sorry i have quote you and mention about etherum here. i thought litecoin could be number 3  ;D , etherum rumoured become the next bitcoin , it has a community power enough and good popularity lately.
just the matter of time , not sure but it's happening now.
litecoin looks "run-of-the-mill" , nothing changes significantly, in other hand etherum continues to show progress and innovation.

Bitcoin will be the king, no question about that. But litecoin, why? It offer not much value at all. In 20 years, chances are someone else will invent something else and taking over the second position.
There are many contenders out there already, I am not going over the list since will probably offend someone out there.

Bitcoin will remain in the number one spot for say the next 5 years, but I think something better are going to replace it soon. You will have the BankCoin vs PublicCoin and the governments will favor the BankCoin. People will then be forced to use these <Legal> coins sanctioned and backed by the governments and the <illegal> like Bitcoin and Dash.

LiteCoin and most of the smaller crypto's will fade away, once this happens. 

haha didn't realize the colours

talking about the future, it's really unpredictable. no one knows, but I'm sure it will be better because I read some threads that said their enthusiasm of bitcoin

When do you expect bitcoin to trade at above $3000? 20 years is a bit pessimistic. Where are the unclaimed bitcoin?

I think bitcoin will be the only coin alive out of all these garbage coins.

I could see another coin popping up that does something really different but no clue
what that could be to make it better than bitcoin

In my opinion, if bitcoin survives for another 20 years, it will worth at least $100,000. Not sure about litecoin.

We need to solve the problem of network bandwidth, stoarge, blocksize etc etc... Still long way to go. Litecoin has not even started on anything like that yet!

I don't think Litecoin, or any scrypt crypto for that matter, will be alive in 20 years... I don't even think they'd be used in half a decade from now. Bitcoin on the other hand, if an agreement for the scaling problem is reached its userbase would be able to expand along with all the use cases.

There will be no bitcoin in 20 years because bitcoin can't scale and people stop investing their time and money and everyone lost interest.

This. Litecoin s already number 3 and in 6 months to a year, it will not be even among top 10. It offers nothing and it s simply a Bitcoin copy. No need for it to be around at all.

i think that at that time, litecoin will be dead, because bitcoin will be main alt coin,

and price of bitcoin should be 2300$ atleast, and it will be really, really popular,  i mean every store will accept it, everyone will know it and even use it, even middle age and old people

I think bitcoin is the only coin that will stay for sure. The rest is not so sure.
Bitcoin cannot disappear i think, because all the exchanges changes altcoins for bitcoin. This market is the biggest. Litecoin is popular as well, and makes a good chance to stay as well.
The price, that is something else. If bitcoin is accepted by a lot of governments it can rise fast, otherwise, i really don't know.

yes, everyone thinks like that, and because of it,  i think that litecoin will be dead  in 15 years, while bitcoin will be main currency(alternative one)

and price should be (bitcoin) around 5000$ atleast, it should be even more popular than it is now

Correct litecoin has nothing to bring on to the table. It's a cheap clone of bitcoin. No new things just copy paste with a different ALGO.
In 20 years i think there will be many alts too but only a few will be big.

Yes and I think bitcoin will be main currency in future and I doubt if litecoin can survive that long or not, as majority of the people have more faith in bitcoin in compare to litecoin.

i agree with the bitcoin being the gold of the internet, actually i like that comparison. also i am sure that soon we are going to witness a very good price of bitcoin.

but i don't agree with litecoin being the number 2 coin. it is not really interesting and has nothing extra to offer.

Well personally i don't think that litecoin will be alive after 20 years, while bitcoin will be more and more popular each year

 And price i think is too low,  in 20 years there will be 5 halvings, so it will rise price for sure then other random ries, price will be around 5000$ i think

Im not so sure that litecoin will be the silver, unless it works on its marketing and rolls out some new advancements I  believe it may just die out over the next 3-5 years

For sure lite coin may die in the years to come as its being left out by its user for not having any movement recently.

Litecoin has the potential to be "silver" of the internet but the developers need to put some work into it first.

I agree with both of you here. its all about the community and the devs.
we'll see what happens over the next 12 months, these will be the most crucial as all these new projects will be in full force by then and taking their share of the market cap.

I think bitcoin will survive in long run but not sure about litecoin whether it will exist after 20 years or not as the user base of litecoin is very small in compare to bitcoin.

Actually, there are many litecoin holders, its just that they are not supporters. They bought into ltc, and are holding but supporting the more popular coins they hold.

This. Litecoin hasn't made any effort to get merchant adoption or new useful features. The only reason it's still there is because of the Chinese exchanges. It's starting to sink.

Or maybe that is their plan, mine and buy all the cheap ltc, while in the back they are securing partnerships that they will announce at a later point.
Don't forget, the Chinese are behind ltc and they are tricky and sneaky business people.
You cant ever count them out.

I used to hold litecoin and be a supporter but was forced to stop holding it due to lack of development.

That's you, but there are still a lot of holders, mostly Chinese I think.
It's possible they know something we don't.

That would sound logical time ago but now in the case of Litecoin not much.

How do you know that most of the current litecoin holders are Chinese?

Maybe they are holding for the long-term.

If majority of the litecoin holders are chinese then they are planning something big.
Well who knows what they are up to.

Is there any evidence to prove that the Chinese are holding most of the litecoins in existence?

Well of course that bitcoin and lite coin will be very popular in future, but i don't think that stores will accept litecoin, they will bitcoin only so it will be more popular, and price yes, might be around 3000$

I don't see any future for litecoin. The coin is just a clone with nothing new when you look to it's features.
Bitcoin however could be the real deal, since it's has many supports; both merchants as users.

well i don't really think that litecoin will be alive after 20 years, since bitcoin will be more and more popular each year, because of News, of China and  of course people because they buy/sell bitcoin so more and more people will be interested in bitcoin

i like this comparison and bitcoin is indeed as gold among all the cryptocurrencies.
also litecoin has been keeping up so far with the market cap for a very long time. but sadly i don't see any interesting thing about litecoin, and it seems to me like it is abandoned somehow.

That's right. the more people hear about bitcoin the less they will hear about litecoin.
I think its time to start unloading the ltc bags.

In future, Litecoin will be replaced Bitcoin bro, thats my prediction

Replaced is most likely out of reach, but it will very likely grow a lot in the future when it is being used together with bitcoin for different types of transactions.

If the dev teams manage to figure out a way to make the chains work together (sort of sidechain), there is the added benefit of speed and scalability, together with a highly secure and decentralized network.

In 20 years (very long time..), I see bitcoin around 10-20k each and litecoin easiliy around 200-500 each.

I don't see the reason for Litecoin to exist in the next couple of year. Its only innovation is that it has more coins than Bitcoin. If it stays like that, Litecoin will be soon replaced by more innovative coins that we have plenty around.

Litecoin is considered to be "Silver" and Bitcoin "Gold" by some people. And it makes sense as Litecoin functions as backup coin for Bitcoin. Beside that, if BTC-E delist Litecoin for whatever reason (I don't think it will happen) then 50%-75% of its value will vanish. It depends too much on just a single exchange.

Being dependent on one exchange is one of the worst things you can get. What happens if that exchange goes out of business for whatever reason?
I know that historically Litecoin is the second most important coin. My point however is that the network effect in case of Litecoin is much weaker than in case of Bitcoin, and the only 'innovation' is biggernumber of coins than Bitcoin. That is, in my opinion, too little to guarantee surviving the next 20 years.

litecoin is not considered silver anymore probably ethereum it's taking its place now,litecoin will end up in the same way as doge, forgotten slowly

I think that half of the currently circulating litecoins are in the hands of Chinese investors and pools.

Do you remember the pump before the litecoin block halving?

That was probably the last big pump for litecoin before it slowly start to lose popularity and value.

i think that litecoin will be really popular, but not as popular as bitcoin, bitcoin will be main alternative currency now and i don't think that stores will accept litecoin, they will accept bitcoin only and price of bitcoin will be pretty high too

Litecoin was very popular back in 2013 because it was getting pumped quite frequently. Nowadays Litecoin is only one of the many altcoins that we have. Nothing special about it and it will never get it popularity back.

if you are looking for pumps only, litecoin is being pumped from time to time but since it is older the space between the pumps are bigger (longer accumulation phase).
i think the only reason why litecoin has stayed alive is because it was the second crypto (major one) that is created after bitcoin and is very similar.

People investing in bitcoin and this is probably very good investment, but many don't consider to invest in LTC which is mistake if you asking me. LTC will surprise us all, call it what you like (final pump,pump before death..) But this is certainly we will see much higher price of LTC then today!
20 years is very long time period, don't bother with it. We only can talk about months and one or two years.

oh yes, bitcoin will be gold of all cryptos because it will be even more popular than now, also litecoins will be more popular too but not so popular as bitcoin, stores accepts bitcoin now only not litecoin, same will be in future too

Bitcoin is the reserve currency of all the currency in 20 years. It is the base currency of the digital currencies.

So the bitcoin could still be there in 20 years. I am not sure about litecoin. If it is developed further, it might be there.

I'll be glad if I'll be still alive in 20 years! Apart from that I think in 20 years Bitcoin should be very high in value or, if everything will fail, it will be considered nothing more than stamps.
No, I'll go for the high value

The bitcoin will be still alive because it is in active developments. But the litecoin might not be there at the time.

yeah i think that interest in litecoin will diminish significantly in the future as all people will be concentrated on bitcoins as there will be big possibilities for making good investments

i hope that bitcoin will be huge in 20 years and that a lot of poeple will adopt it to use everyday what will cause a huge price increase that will allow me to make some good money

I use the bitcoin to buy computer components. So I contribute to the bitcoin economy. Some other people use it to buy plane tickets.

I see every alt coin fail outside from the ones that need it for something..like clams for example.

Everything else doesnt show some form of natural demand to buy the coin.

Yeah, and Amph and a lot of the other posters on this thread will likely still be on my ignore list.   ;D

But seriously, I do wonder if either coin will be around in 20 years.  You just never know, but I think the community is big enough and strong enough that at least bitcoin will survive that long.  Litecoin I'm not so sure about.  I never bought into the whole bitcoin=gold, litecoin=silver stuff.

Somebody bump this thread in 20 years.

I'm really really hoping that bitcoin will be around in the next 20 years. It's a very significant stride in digital technology, I don't want it to just eventually disappear.

I think bitcoin and litecoin in the future will be very much different. I am very confident for the popularity of bitcoin will beat litecoin at the time. bitcoin will be accepted throughout the country and can you use to buy goods in supermarkets, but litecoin will only remain a altcoin and tools for trade

Yep Bitcoin will we gold , but i doubt about Litecoin , isn't it dead already?
Litecoin will we replaced by many new altcoins.

Bitcoin is going to be in a good place with in 20 years I think, it is not guaranteed so please do not quote me on this. I am not a Litecoin user so I do not pay any attention to it.

What does you like to say with unclaimed bitcoin? Never heard those terms. If you are talking about bitcoin in bitcoin address whose private key were lost than i also think there will be lots of bitcoin stucked that can't be move by 2020 adding more price to per bitcoin.

I used to mine litecoin. I had quite a few litecoin left. But I do not have a chance to use it. I hope I can use it in the future.

So looks poor LTC it seems to be only falling positions. However its value tied to BTC  even so someday  could be interesting.

in 20 year again we still can see or use bitcoin but i'm not sure with litecoin, looks like now eth is more popular and have good prospect than litecoin.

Litecoin will die within 3 years. It's been nothing but a name which is getting faded day by day.
For newbies it's just a name they have never hold any litecoin nor will hold it..

In 20 years man will be arriving to Mars and advanced technologies will take over these current altcoins because they are still starting at this moment, and are very primitive compared to future payment methods.

bitcoin always been and will be the best coins .

Well for me bitcoin is still the best and this is my online gold yeah your right that litecoin is silver in to the internet..
Even theres new altcoin releasing to any trading sites i will stay at bitcoin.. bitcoin has potencial to grow not only in this community also it will happen to in every each country..

It is impossible to predict the price of the Bitcoin especially when you are talking about 20 years in to the future. Anything can happen within these years. The price has to be in the thousands that is for sure.

I'm quite certain that the value of bitcoin will somehow survive in the next 20 years, although I doubt it will go above $3000.
As for Litecoin, I'm kind of hearing less and less from. I'm getting more 'noise' from Eth rather than lite coins.

Okay, so whats surprising is that people look forward to lite coin, when ETH is the new hype right now lol.

I guess we all see ETH not much of a value since its unlimited supply lol.

Looking at the price of Ether and how it has been performing people don't seem to care (yet?) about there being so many coins in existence. It's greed that takes over as usual.

it is not unlimited supply that part is wrong but the rest is true and it is good to see other people are finally realizing this fact about ETH.

there are 80 million Ethereum coins created so far and it is still growing. it is just a simple rule of supply and demand and looking at any other altcoin with similar huge supply can give anybody a good idea about the real value of ETH by comparing the two.

http://coinmarketcap.com/ sort by available supply!

Bitcoin is going to be gold of the online currencies because it is if I am correct the most popular one. With in 20 years I hope that both currencies are valued somewhere in the thousands.

you are absolutely right. bitcoin is the most popular crypto currency so far. it is the most popular in every aspect, the market cap, most investors, most users and more importantly the most number of cases you can use it to purchase stuff.

The lite coin wil go away for sure but the bitcoin will stay in the future. Only because he is growing that big you can now pay allot of things what you want. Don't think to invest in litecoins now becasue that would be stupid.

unlimited supply?? why?

perhaps in the future may be equivalent to bitcoin bitcoin, bitcoin well if prices continue to decline, and litecoin prices continue to rise, it really allows

The litecoin market cap will not be larger than that of the bitcoin. It is just a clone of the bitcoin.

Litecoin had a chance to be independent coin a few years ago. There was a discussion to change it to anonymous coin.

they keep saying that, but I see no reason why litecoin has any place to exist at all.

With gold and silver, there's demand for silver because gold is so expensive that even a gram of gold is really expensive, and a gram of gold is so small that it becomes easy to lose.

For most people, gold is just overly expensive, and they can't afford it, so silver is a good alternative, because even for $100 you can get several 1oz coins, that are easy to carry but hard to lose. And also easy to store.

With bitcoin, it's another matter, because even though 1 full bitcoin is very expensive, it doesnt matter because you can buy 1/100.000.000th of a bitcoin, and no one is that poor that they can't afford a few satoshi.

So why would someone ever want to buy litecoin instead of a fraction of bitcoin?

Litecoin also doesn't offer any advantage over bitcoin at all.

ETH is very unclear about how they plan the supply of new coins, and they don't seem to ever have a stop to new coin production, so there will always be new coins produced.

Unlike bitcoin, which is very clear about the distribution method and when it ends.

I would like to know as well how there can be an unlimited supply of ether.
Always thought it would be very much like bitcoin, based on a blockchain and the hype at the moment is a simple pump effect by some people in the background.

or they may even both be worthless because of what they say the better coin, ETH. ETH has been around for years and gradually being accepted by merchants.
I personally like them smart contracts  ;D

20 years is a long time, I wonder how will evolve BTC and LTC, I mean electronic equipment like miners or computers running nodes may become obsolete, this represents a strong investment being renovating these,
In the other hand, That may not be a drawback if the price soars in the same proportion. So someone supporting the network BTC think should renew their equipment 3 times during that period at least, Or this finally came to be centralized in any way.

20 years is not a long time at all. The bitcoin is already 7 years old. So 20 years is not 3 times of bitcoin age.

It is really hard to predict the future of both Bitcoin and Litecoin because there can happen way to much in the mean time. I think that Bitcoin would be even more popular then it already is but I cannot speak on Litecoin.

If you think that because of bitcoin is more popular, so  Bitcoin is a in number one and i don't know what is the number of Litecoin, because now and after 20 years, i like only bitcoins, so we think that Bitcoin is a gold,and litecoin is a sliver, so it is right.

The litecoin will not be a sliver. If the bitcoin is the gold, 0.1 bitcoin is the silver. That is because the bitcoin is divisable.