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Hello Altcoiners, ;D

I would like to invest in Alt Coins.
Which is better in long time investment, LiteCoin or Bitshares ?

Total Supply of LTC is 84millions.
Bitshares is 2 billions.

LTC : $ 35.19
BTS :$0.041847

Thanks.

IMO LTC, but not now. It's price is currently too high to be making any sort of "long term" investment. Course I don't believe you can treat Crypto the same way as you would stocks so "long term" for me is a much different thing.

may be two month ago i saw ltc price 6. something doller but today price 35$. to all intents and purpose ltc is good for long time invest.

One thing to consider

LTC was at 50 bucks before when BTC was 1100

LTC at that time had less reason to exist than it does now that BTC scaling is a big problem.

LTC has perhaps just solved that problem, and been added to coinbase.

So although in crypto using that kind of reasoning does not always work sometimes it does.

For me it is a 100 or bust for LTC i will hang on until then selling little bits on the way to the bulk at high 90's


BTS - how does his new project coming out relate to BTS? not looked into it.

I would avoid BTS, Dan is like a grasshoper, going form a project to project.
Never got anything good from backing up his project with angelshares.

Bitshares look like a good short-term investment. It is 18% up on coinmarketcap. But the price is too small for this coin to be good. BTS has extremely fast (5 seconds) transactions and smart contracts can be performed with it. But I don't like that it is tied hard with the company BitShares which can, of course pump the price any time they want. Plus, it is somehow connected to fiat which makes it more or less stable. The currency looks suspicious to me. So I vote for litecoin like everyone else.

LTC but the price is high now due to SegWit

i prefer ltc

ltc is good for invest. it's price regularly increase. so I suggest for ltc.

If you're planning long term and want more tuple profit, then go with BTS, if you want a safer option and want to go with where you are less likely to lose your investment but you will get lesser percentage of profit, then choose LTC, but don't buy LTC right now as it is on a pump, wait for the price to settle and then buy whichever you like.

I like LTC.

As long as Bitcoin is having these scalability issues, I could still see LTC growing after this initial Segwit interest.
I could definitely see more and more Bitcoin users switching if the transactiomn stay slow and expensive.

Plus, who knows what Litecoin will do after as few months? Can't completely count out some new announcement.

I love litecoin very much.

for long term (from a month to couple of years) only bitcoin and never even consider anything else.

for shorter term (a couple of months). litecoin has a good potential of rising up. it has the SegWit being activated in it in about 2.5 hours and then we are off to the moon. there may be some drops but fear not, you can wait for the bottom because moon is on sight.

however the other altcoin you mentioned seems to have some easir path of rising. the risk is higher but the rise may be bigger. so choice is yours.

With all the recent development on Litecoin,litecoin is my hands down choice I don't know much about bitshares but litecoin is slowly getting a lot of buzz because of the recent development all the other altcoins went down but litecoin is still up

Which factors made your investing strategy to rest on these two? There are several more options available around to choose from. However, if you are concerned with these two only then no doubt, LTC is far better and particularly presently when LTC is on its full blossom.

Because you post that you are interest for long term investment then LTC is my choice between two because,

It has some time around, from 2011, means that have resistance in time,
It is segwit activated,
A good alternative coin instead of btc in small transactions that means a potential increased adoption in cryptocurrency world.

I go for LTC.

Litecoin is probably the worst investement you can make of any crypto IMO, specially at this price. Its record as a store of value is abominable and it relies on periodic "resuscitation" pumps just to be kept alive. Have a look at this:

https://i.imgur.com/6nAkzD4.png

Clearly the place not to buy is right at the top of one of those spikes - or in fact anywhere during a litecoin spike, unless you happen to know exactly where you're going to jump off.

The current pump has nothing to do with scaling. It would be if litecoin implementing segwit could scale bitcoin but it isn't, it's scaling litecoin and so it's no more a driver or value than any other scaleable altcoin is. The reason for the pump (as you can see from that chart) is that whales are accumulating bitcoin, not litecoin and are using the recent addition to coinbase as a basis for fleecing unassuming traders jumping on the bandwagon, just exactly as they did with the previous 'spikes'. Note the lower low every year.

Bitshares meanwhile has potentially massive growth at hand.

The reason is that it's uniquely placed to benefit from the large and increasing demand for fiat-pegged cryptographic assets. Just have a look at Tether's volume to see what the potential is. The problem is that Tether is fiat backed whereas Bitshares is a pure crypto solution backed by a genuine market-driven peg.

No brainer I'd say.

Difficult to compare the two.  BTS is more of a platform where LTC at this point is strictly a token.


BTS with it's current tech, graphene, has been showed to scale quite nicely: 
http://docs.bitshares.eu/_downloads/bitshares-stresstest.pdf
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@steempower/bitshares-state-of-the-network-9th-may-2017

With Dan announcing EOS, we can only wonder when BTS and Steem will move to this technology allowing large volume exchanges to move their operations onto the BTS blockchain.  OpenLedger has already done this and seems to be working just fine for them!

too late for entry. Better think about shorting it. LTC was a good buy when it was 3$ to 5$. BTS i wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

I should be agree with your statement, The purpose of segwit just to driving the price of litecoin. The scaling solution from litecoin just to attract new investors and no more. With his fast block and it doesn't make sense to implement scaling solution for bitcoin.

Is there a reason why you are deciding between these two? They are both imo a bad investment at this point in time, as others have said LTC was once a decent buy but its gone up too much in value now. There are plenty of good alts still decently priced though.

Ltc is good for invest.

Before any Investment first you need to understand about the basic principle of the Investment in any altcoin , Because Investment In altcoins is also have chances of loss Because a particular coin in which you made Investment can go down to 1 satoshi ( here the big Example is yes coin ) .
So never put your all the eggs in single bucket , always put in different different bucket .
Here i made Investment in the BTM , dgb , doge , ripple , monero Because I . thinking that out of one of them will surely rise to double and will turn my Investment into double .
So here I will suggest you to Invest in the both Instead of single one .

Anybody who said to invest into LTC doesn't know a shit about Cryptocurrency. Right now LTC is being OVERVALUED and it's going to fall anytime soon. If you go in now you will have to wait for a long-time to get into profit.

If you read good about BTS then you will know that the price has spiked recently because it got the hype
Take a look at https://twitter.com/bitshares/status/864574047169982464
BTS can handle 3000 transactions per second
I don't want to brag or anything but I'm into BTS since it was 2 cents and I see it hitting atleast 15 cents by the mid of June. I'm here for the long-term investment so I'll just wait and re-invest more once I got some chunk of cash.

But definitely, you should bypass LTC since there will be no profit for you anytime soon there.  You should take a look at NAV, SIA and BELA.

Both are trashcoins ltc more so than bts so if those are ur only two choices then get bts

Why do you think BTS is a trash coin?
Please elaborate more details before doing a trashtalk, thanks.

I always choose LTC.

When I learn trading LTC is my best choice among cryptocurrency. Because I believe it has a good future and still on top in the market. And, many traders invest in Ltc.

How can ltc be a "trash coin" when coinbase has listed it? When eth had problems and was at its lowest, coinbase listed it and look at where eth is now. Would ltc head for that same path? It's a possibility. Perhaps Coinbase wouldn't gamble on a coin that won't have a future  ;) So I'd say ltc. Hold some until it peaks.

Just because CoinBase listed it, doesn't mean it has bright future. CoinBase is only in this sector just for the pure profit. They're ripping customers so bad, that's why i never use them.

Keep digging into BTS and one can see some interesting news:


Dan's new project EOS.  While Bitshares has been shown to be able to currently hit ~8k operations a block, http://docs.bitshares.eu/_downloads/bitshares-stresstest.pdf, this number needs to be a magnitude higher for real adoption levels.  EOS should help this scale much, much higher.

https://consumerreality.services/ TV show that is coming? https://steemit.com/bitshares/@stan/hollywood-heros and here for the LONG but very, very interesting presentation: http://consumerreality.services/mission-2/

Volume & liquidity is way up over the years: http://cryptofresh.com/charts (this chart takes awhile to load)

For those that call it trash, have you actually tried using it?  The wallet has come a LONG way in the years BitShares has been up and running.  https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core/releases

I think LTC is better than BTS, because LTC will have a better future than BTS.

LTC is way more developed, accepted and trusted. I'd definitely recommend LTC from the two options.
But why only these two? Why are you ruling out other good options? I think Decred, Golem and Monero would be good options too. You should check them out before making a final decision.

I think it's not fair to compare these two as LTC is far more potential than BTS. After the addition of LTC in coinbase it got more popularity and demand from the cryptocurrency world. I would always prefer BTC over all other altcoins. Started buying and trading CRBIT and its quite good for early traders.

For the long term it is BTS more promising but it remains market dependent.

Textbook 101 for investments is the fact that past performance does not guarantee future performance.

You are being blinded by technical analysis and ignoring the fundamentals. The game has changed, now litecoin has a main role since it has segwit and its added in coinbase, and its making milestones like getting on the lightning network as the first coin ever with an actual transaction.

With LTC, you invest in a coin that has a totally unknown future.

With mining, there can be a technological breakthrough, and it will affect the coin. It can be a chip, it can be a memory, you don't know, but it can be crippled at any moment.

We all know that BTS has the chance to take over exchanges since it is a decentralized exchange, let's hope the people will notice that and start using it.

I like the decentralized system although it would be great if the BTS exchange will undergo more improvements so people will appreciate it more. Nonetheless crypto is guided with the spirit of decentralization making BTS very promising.

First principle in investing is don't invest on others suggesting and specially in cryptocurrencies. Listen everyone and take your own decision if you want to invest in any of these. I can say about myself if I had to choose surely was going for LTC. It has lot of space to grow with genuine team and lot of hype about it.

I'd invest LTC for long term most probably between the two but LTC's price today is not a good time to buy for investment, on the other hand for BTS though I'm not really familiar with its project if it has but probably do short term on that but is not really my priority or at least not in my priority list of the altcoins.

Ofcoarse invest your money in Litecoin because if you choose this coin you have big future . Because this coin for sureincrease in the future. I think they have possible you become rich after few years of holding. I dont have BTs because I dont like to buy I dont know whybut base on my research even they have potential but little only compared to the litecoin is one popular altcoins in crypto world.

I think that investment in litecoin will be better than in BTS if you are ready to hold for sometime. Litecoin is a very promising coin and you can be sure that you will be able to earn good profits for your investment if you will hold for sometime.