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What is Best investment in 2017 in Bitcoin or in Litecoin ?

in 2013 Bitcoin was at 1100+ USD and that Time Litecoin was at 80+ USD but than due to crypto market falls Bitcoin falls 1100+ USD to 150+ USD and Litecoin fall 80+ USD to 1+ USD means both are falls around 80% now bitcoin increased upto 500% already in compare of 2014 Price But litecoin increase 400% only so if we considered litecoin increase more 100% in 2017 than litecoin price around 60 USD and if we invest in bitcoin than it is tough to increase bitcoin price 6000 USD in 2017 so according to my suggestion litecoin is best for investment.

Please tell me your opinion what major community says.

Bitcoin is very much in front of LTC in anyway, for years, LTC has been the second currency thinking about competing and taking the place of BTC but it didn't successfully do it. Even now the competitors of BTC are mainly ETH and Monero.

Litecoin only rose up this year, and now it is fluctuating a lot, whereas Bitcoin have been gaining momentum recently and steadily rising, but I would not be able to guarantee what would happen next. I would rather hold more Bitcoin now as I trust it more, at the same time holding some LTC.

If you are talking about percentage increase, then you may be right that LTC has more 'potential', but I still believe BTC has plenty of room for development and would rise faster than LTC. :)

Litecoin doesn't have anything new other than recent activation of segwit in litecoin, however that might not pump LTC anymore. LTC price was already pumped quite hard recently and right now it is correcting. Best investment for now could be ETC which is quite similar to ETH.

ETH really replaced LTC on it's leading position among altcoins. I have noticed that the price of LTC is nonstop following the bitcoin price when it's growing. So, by my opinion investing in LTC will suit more to people who don't have a lot of finances to invest in BTC.

Yup probably best thing to do, have some Litecoins and some BTC. Actually any coin which is legit, has good development team is worth buying and holding. You never know what will happen. Just spread you asset in cryptocurrenicies through many currencies, wallets.

How do you even dare to compare bitcoin with litecoin? What is making litecoin special? I can't understand this.

I think invest in Bitcoin is much more better than litecoin  because there's a lot of international online website accepting Bitcoin for online shopping and other online transaction and Bitcoin uses is much more High then litecoin there is a lot of users adopting Bitcoin every day increasing its price too much faster everyday then litecoin and other people invest their money for their future because a lot of people considered that Bitcoin its price in the future and gave it is declared a big profit in future form Bitcoin so Bitcoin is much more better than litecoin.

Bitcoin is number one currency so it is important that we invest in Bitcoin as it has a large amount of investors and a number up companies have their businesses in Bitcoin currency why litecoin is not that much famous so I don't think that much people will invest in litcoin and the price of litecoin will not increase in the same speed as Bitcoin price is increasing. The other point is that many country have started to accept Bitcoin for their states so it is sure that Bitcoin will be a global currency in the future and it will be a greatest is it for the investors to become rich

Bitcoin is easier to convert into fiat than litecoin so if I will choose between the two, I will invest into bitcoin. Also, I think if potential growth is discussed, bitcoin got more of it than litecoin because there is not a lot going into litecoin lately, while there are many developments are happening into bitcoin. Even if that's the case, I would like to invest in both because both still got potential to grow.

This could be a really good idea but currently buying ltc for a double profit seems hard as other coins like waves , stratis are significantly increasing

Seriously that is the excuse you are going to give to not buy ltc because you can't easily convert it to fiat. Currently ltc is listed on most of the exchanges and there is always something like shapeshift so conversion to bitcoin is surely not a issue and some exchanges surely provide ltc/usd trading options

I'll say that the main fundamentals for litcoins are still intact, and maybe a bit more improved, since the days of its $1-$2 price range. Now with the integration of segwit and talks of integrating the lightening network on LTC, it could be very valuable long term. It may not look so now because of bit coins and eth. Nothing wrong with adding a bit to your portfolio.

Yes you are right that we can invest money in both Bitcoin in LTC but comparing Bitcoin and LTC, the Bitcoin is such a currency that is more advanced and well established and also investing your money in Bitcoin will proof very profitable and you can get a good profit when the price of Bitcoin become high while in LTC the price will not go high very much and the profit from LTC will not very much big.

I also think both Bitcoin and litecoins is a good investment.  Since LTC had a major upgrade and then all other add ons will be implemented on that coins, I think it will increase in value over time.  Bitcoin is always a good choice, the high volatility, strong community and demand.  So I guess have both of them in your portfolio.

Diversifying investment is they key. Since you made a technical analysis of both cryptos, you created a finished work on it and managed to get a wild idea on the main subject. Both cryptos have wonderful increase throughout their operational time.

What Im trying to say here? Invest in both bitcoin and litecoin and see what's really the possible thing to happened on your investment in the future with the use of your own analysis. We will never know if you will not try.

I'll agree with this statement because you have less risk while you will still get a great reward though of course it will be less than if you picked the best of the two.

you have just listed random numbers without meaning some of which are also wrong.
i believe litecoin will go up but not just because of a series of numbers you listed but because it will be pumped soon enough. and mostly because  it is the clone of bitcoin and since bitcoin does not have any scaling solution implemented yet that gives litecoin, which has already implemented it, an edge.

in the end LTC is not yet adopted like all the rest of the altcoins but it is gaining some momentum again because of bitcoin's situation. and the longer it takes for bitcoin to come up with consensus the more these altcoins will get pumped.

I think litecoin can have a price for now, but seeing the ethereum that has a high price can affect litecoin itself.

More or less both seems to be working in the same platform, so no need of making the growth camparison in between ethereum and litecoin. Ethereum seems to be better because of the sustained growth which is not there with the litecoin.

Litecoin has significant increases after segwit implemented from $3-$4 to $30 but it seems stuck right there, can't break the $30 barrier. If you invest 1 btc on litecoin when it was $4, than you could get many profits and better to invest on cheaper coin if you don't have bigger budget to invest. Bitcoin has higher price and pretty hard to buy 1BTC and expected so much in the near future. But, for now I prefer bitcoin as it will gain more value in the future than litecoin obviously.

The only chance LTC has to pump anytime soon is if in august there is a big mess with bitcoin forking into 2 coins and whatnot. LTC has the infraestructure and tech to be a safe haven in case of bitcoin problems.

I want to find a big ROI coin, LTC is harder to pump now, its too high.

I also think that this is very visible and does not require even proof. Any crypto currency will not be able to achieve this potential, which has Bitcoin. The future is for Bitcoin If you want to become richer.

The percentage increase in the Litecoin exchange rates during the last 12 months is lower than that of Bitcoin. It is one of the few crypto-currencies, whose performance is even worse than the BTC. The implementation of SegWit was a major boost, but something went wrong with the currency after that. I don't understand. The basics are still strong. But the demand is not there.

Yes, bitcoins is good for invest in it long time because of it will be expensive in the future and it is good instrument of Investment to put the funds in bitcoins, and litecoin is good for invest short term, litecoin is good for trading altcoins getting profit from fluctuation of litecoin's price daily, weekly and monthly and litecoin is not scam coin.

I expected people to compare BTC to something going mainstream like either ether or monero but LTC already is late in the crowd, let alone fast rising in 2017 but if it just maintained itself behind BTC, ETH and even DOGE that would be a relatively good success, Compared to ETH, LTC offers nothing much more than BTC is already providing.

It may be too early to write off Litecoin. It is much older than the other alts such as Ether and Dash (not sure about Doge). They have successfully implemented the SegWit, and the confirmations are many times faster than that with Bitcoin. And even now, a lot of market places are accepting Litecoin, although the adoption seems to have got stunted.

I bought 7 btl. When i bought it its price was about 0.0191 btc
And now its price has fallen to only 0.0109. Which reason makes it so dramatic while segwit succeed.
How long will it take to get back to the price: D

I've also noticed basically the same

That's the reason why investing in Litecoin right now may be preferable than buying Bitcoin because if Bitcoin doesn't get split after August 1st, its price will surge, and Litecoin will obviously surge with it too. But if Bitcoin suffers a chain split, its price may crash dramatically, and it is a big if whether Litecoin will go down as well. Overall, Litecoin is more prone to severe price changes since its market seems to be by far smaller than that of Bitcoin, but it allows to buy the coins pretty cheap if you are willing to wait

Sleeping giant is more like what LTC is now, just give it some time, people are in accumulation phase right now so price will not increase too much

For a while and when the masses start seeing it's true nature which is the silver to the gold of Bitcoin, I'm sure many will start hoarding in bulk.

There is no denying and there is no doubt about the superiority of Bitcoin and that will always remain the original cryptocurrency but LTC is also

Legit and promising, so I'd first choose Bitcoin and then LTC even mining it is much easier than Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is still the best to invest in than all of the cryptocurrencies because its price is somehow reliable than any other cryptocurrency. Litecoin price is only increased this much during the past two months of this year. It is expected that bitcoin prices will be keep on increasing this year and will cross $5000 because the number of users and popularity is increasing day by day, while in case of litecoin many other currencies like ETH has already replaced the position of litecoin in the top cryptocurrencies.

I think Bitcoin is the most stable cryptocurrency out there are its a better investment option than any other altcoin available out there. Bitcoin has shown a better growth than most of the altcoins including litecoin so it's better to go for Bitcoin than litecoin.

This is quite worrying. If something bad happens to bitcoin (i.e a split), then it should negatively affect all the crypto-currencies, right? So Ether, Ripple, LTC, Doge.etc may go down against fiat. Or do you think that Ethereum prices will surge, due to its emergence as an alternative to BTC? 

I have the same thoughts with you. Ltc is in the momentum of growth with its value will increase over time. Look again, eth is a $ 8 coin but now it's $ 400
Maybe in the next time ltc can be at $ 50 for the time limit. Can not know in advance because if you know that you are already rich

it is all the money that came back to altcoin scene this year.
every year there is a same story, and this year is no different apart from being a bit bigger. if you take a look at all the other couple of hundred altcoins you can see ALL of them are being pumped with the same scheme.
open a couple of charts side by side and don't look at the price, just the lines and how they went up and then down and plateaued.

it is as if pumpers are jumping from one altcoin to another to do the same, then leave a lot of bag holders who lost money behind.

I don't know much about Ethereum

So I can't say anything specific in this regard, but people are saying that its price is pumped without any measure (read it may crash soon on its own). Regarding other alts, if Bitcoin crashes dramatically to 1,000 dollars per coin and below, these coins are obviously going to crash too, at least, initially (since folks will just cash out and wait with fiat in their pockets). But right now, for example, Litecoin is slowly but surely rising against Bitcoin, though both coins are going down in fiat terms

As we saw in the chart of bitcoin to litecoin. The bitcoin has a good movement rather than ltc. In past month, after the bitcoin core updated the price of bitcoin has a big pump many people don't understand of it because bitcoin price is already in the high peak. Unlike litecoin, after the segwit and update of this project, the pump is only 20%. There is no cryptocurrency that break the volume coinmarketcap and price of bitcoin because I think in every enrolled alts bitcoin is affected.

In my openion bitcoin is more stable coin than ltc.but ltc olso well than another coin.Bitcoin is already increased in high.but ltc is now little  yet.So i want to keep btc in front of ltc.

Forget about market crap finally

It is amount of fiat invested in a coin that counts. Regarding Bitcoin being pumped while Litecoin only moderately rising, we should rather look at how Litecoin trades when Bitcoin dumps. If it sustains Bitcoin crashes, it doesn't crash as much (i.e. its price in bitcoins rises despite all coins going down), it is a sign that people selling Bitcoin might in fact be buying Litecoin. The point is that if Bitcoin gets forked people will run from it. Most of them will likely remain in fiat (after liquidating their Bitcoin stashes) but some may in fact jump into Litecoin at the end of the day

Guys, Do you really think that someone can create a better Crypto currency than Bitcoin? In my opinion, there are so many options. Where it is possible to earn using different crypto-currencies, but what concerns Bitcoin, then this is a very stable crypto currency and its future is unshakable and very large.

Personally I don`t have any Litecoin but I believe Litecoin may have a potential because there are some practical facts for real business  accepting litecoin
1-it is much more faster than bitcoin
2-its fee is very cheap than bitcoin ,
that may create a demand for this coin ,
For bitcoin there is nothing to add new... 8)

I also do not have this coin.
But I do not think that this coin will ever become popular. Bitcoin is likely to be a competitor to ETH. It is supported by many investors. It seems to me that even people from the government

I am holding a few litecoins and i am waiting for the price to rise,i am happy to invest in good projects and my ultimate aim is to accumulate bitcoin through all these varied investments,we are yet to see a good rally with litecoin and so is the reason i am holding it but i am still not confident enough to invest further in it as there are many promising coins out there.

i think bitcoin is the best investment ever although bitcoin price is really too expensive now. beside that, i choose litecoin as the other best investment for now as i see that litecoin have a chance to be the best investment right now and litecoin itself its still cheap to buy and its worth to be good investment. right now, i am still holding litecoin and i am waiting the price is increase.

Im just hoping litecoin acts as a decent hedge against price turbulence during august 1st, UASF, JihanCoin and all those shenanigans. Im going to wait for a couple more days and see how it performs. If it doesn't crash and the graph looks good, I will buy a decent chunk and hold thought august hoping that if BTC goes down, LTC will not get dragged down too because that would suck.

Bitcoin price action more higher than litecoin and that's true. People interesting to use bitcoin to make profit and alternative payment grow up everyday. Litecoin is more stable but never get high volume. Buy both coins is the best way to make money but use long time period to take profit. I suggest both because we don't know the price next day, only predict. But you can buy another coin like eth and ripple for more profit ( diversification ). Buy it, wait and see next year hope you'll get more money. Good luck.   

But now that LTC dev and founder Charlie Lee left coinbase for more focus LTC, expect more announcement and development coming our way, in other words LTC might slowly climbing the $80 and regaining what is due already.

Nice suggestion. I have eth and traded my 14 LTC recently only to regret it because Lee decided to be more focus on his LTC coin. I am considering to hold some LTC again and also get some XRP which might boost its value maybe by early next year. What you all think? Will it be 1$ per XRP?

I think that Bitcoin is a much better choice because it’s been around for a while. Litecoin is a little bit too expensive right now though there is a very high chance that the price of it will go up. I am pretty sure that LTC will go up though I wouldn’t want to invest in it because I am not much of a fan of Litecoin so much.

For now LTC is even behind ETH not talk of BTC but if you want to invest in crypto currencies it is very wise to study the trend, dont be greedy, be patient and spread your assets around those doing well. You will definitely gain more in some places than others though

Ltc's aim is to $ 50 in timing. I bought one more ltcc at 0.0116. I've seen up to 0.0124 but currently in I would not want to sell it. I decided to keep it when it was 0.02, I would sell it. No one knows ahead of time if you know you're rich already

I like Litecoin, but I think LTC has a perception issue. To the tech crowd, it is just a clone of Bitcoin with just faster confirmation speed and lower fee. To the trading crowd, BTC or other easily pump-and-dump coins will be their first choice. To the first time investors, BTC will also be their first choice.

Ether has shot up so much in the last 3 months mainly due to a bunch of ICOs creating demands for ETH.

For now, I will accumulate at below $25 (seems like there is now a mini-correction every week or so), and hopefully it will break the $30-$35 wall soon.

Yeah there is a lot of people choosing the Bitcoin because they feel very much secure with Bitcoin than litecoin we know that Bitcoin is very much stronger than litecoin bitcoin using too much faster everyday and there is a lot of service is available and Bitcoin so bitcoin  is much more better than other currency.

in fact bitcoin is the main currency where people feel more confident to invest their money, they mostly invest their money in bitcoin because they know that it is more safe and secure place to put our assets, although some people also invest  their money in other altcoin, but actually the do investment in an altcoin after a deep study about the coin, and when they realize that their investment will also be safe their and that they can get good profit from there then they invest their asset also in such altcoins.

Litecoin was a great investment opportunity before segwit implementation, which caused the price to spike quickly. Since then there has been a minor correction, followed by a stabilisation and sideways price movement. I still think litecoin is a good investment long term, especially considering with the btc fork uncertainty causing greater volatility in the near future.  In saying that I don't think the two should be compared, no other crypto can be compared to bitcoin, who's future price is unlimited imo. (there's barely any real life use of ltc yet)

To summerise if you want to trade short term then buy bitcoin. If you want to trade/invest long term then buy 90% btc + 10% litecoin and you wont be disappointed in years to come.

But even after the study I do not think that they have to keep their money for longer time in altcoins because the altcoins have only one foundation and that is the traders who invest only to get the profit while if someone will invest in bitcoin then he will be more safer because bitcoin has more stronger bases like the merchants, traders and other investors.

Both of the coins got the advantages, from the price rising, bitcoin got a better prospect because there are more implementation, but from the techincal side, litecoin got a very fast transaction speed which is very important when we do transaction, for future bitcoin is still better than litecoin, from the comparison I still choose bitcoin

I think Bitcoin better than litecoin , because volume transaction its so verry hight .
but I choose Ethereum for good investement.

Instead of converting your precious coins to whatever altcoin, you are better off holding a bag of fiat ready, just in case the Bitcoin price happens to tank. If we purely take a look at how Litecoin has performed recently, then it's obvious that it is lagging behind some of its other altcoin competitors. Also take in mind that money mostly follows the hype, and the hype clearly has moved past Litecoin in order to blow up a few other alts. Add that Litecoin quite often ends up following Bitcoin's direction, and it again puts more value in holding fiat ready.

None of the altcoins will ride over the bitcoin in price and potential factor. litecoin value is around 31.33 USD now, If it has potential like bitcoin future, we can buy it more now itself. Now Etherum is looks like that people are buying more etherum than bitcoin in recent days.

Bitcoin will always be on top of the altcoins in this field of industry. Though litecoin is one the pioneering coins that can also be considered as one of the legit altcoins currency. But of course I still choose for bitcoin, :D

hard to predict LTC,
for. several years,LTC raise up with unpredicted,sometimes very low,sometimes raise up in a day and stable,
in another time LTC price down and need long time to rise up again

You just nailed it! Litecoin is a mirror image of Bitcoin, making them positively correlated, so that whatever affects Bitcoin most likely goes to affect Litecoin too. However only recently Litecoin had some added advantage and was able to gain more grounds. That however doesn't make it autonomous or a strict competition to Bitcoin, because its pioneer status, community and capitalization remains outstanding and a benchmark .

You may be right but currently I am seeing that more people are getting interest in bitcoin and more markets are starting the use of bitcoin and it is sure that it will be the next global currency so the future of bitcoin is more bright than any other coin. Better is that to invest in bitcoin.

That is a good point to notice that bitcoin is widely adopted my merchants for their business which is making this currency a most successful currency of the world after dollar. It will ensure the higher price of bitcoin in the future so we investors will earn a good profit from it after a wait of some period.

I still choose bitcoin, because the reputation of bitcoin was so high also their potential and their value in market were still growing up while litecoin were growing up and had a potential but not high like bitcoin.

I choose litecoin because there is chance to become doubles money because of halping block of litecoin
that is my prediction long term Investment in litecoin, for short term Investment in litecoin
 i can get the profit from fluctuation of litecoin's price daily, weekly and monthly.

If you are trying to compare this two then you are just looking to an original coin (Bitcoin) and also the copy cat (Litecoin) but if i will choose between of them in a wise and smart way then i will choose litecoin because it is very fast in transactions and low in fees unlike in bitcoin that its network is getting crowded and the network is getting slower so it needs a fork while litecoin is just getting more stabled that is already solving the current issues of bitcoin.

I choose both, LTC always follow the price of Bitcoin, but recently I looked the whale and shark control the price of LTC, they want buy it with cheap price before pump to the moon, and look now, after they have bought enough quantity, they create some wave pump 5-10% LTC ;)

I have never used LTC but I have geard a lot about it.
Considering its long term service for many years this one is a trusted coin.
They say getting profit from the movement of it is easy but it seems I cant find a way to do that.
Still I would pick bitcoin where many people are using it and the movements are really huge, the problem is it is just too expensive for many of us unlike those altcoins.

Bitcoin vs Litecoins? I think I will go to Bitcoins vs Ethereum
Ethreum go high and high each someone said Ethreum will beat bitcoins well let see

I think ltc has been drowned for so long. For a month, do not leave 1 place for 0.011.
Currently there is a big price spurt. It has risen to 0.0154, equivalent to 38 usd. So maybe it's $ 70 in the coming time is not surprising. =))

it is the awakening of the chikun :D
LTC, after the SegWit hype pump dropped down to 0.01BTC price range and has been keeping up there ever since. and as i said multiple times that was a very good sign. and we can now see that has led to another rise. and while everyone is so busy with the highly expensive and already in a bubble ethereum, all the other altcoins such as LTC and so many other small ones are rising like this and giving investors a lot of profit.

I think bitcoin is better. Price rising well.
If checked charts - can see that both BTC and LTC is good.
invest 50/50 to boths coins.

We shall see if this growth persists

It would be a good sign (in fact, even a telling sign) if Litecoin continues to rise when Bitcoin goes down. One thing is rising along with the latter (even if faster than it), and it is a completely different one if Litecoin would rise despite Bitcoin going down. If this tendency comes to stay, that would essentially mean that Litecoin no longer blindly follows Bitcoin (as it has been most of the time) but now plows on its own, and people are likely moving their wealth from Bitcoin into Litecoin

there is something special about those two coins,as you can see,both coins have almost the same trading volume and right now LTC  have the highest and this is to tell you that LTC have great future ,you won't  regret investing in both coins

Litecoin has made like 50% during the last 24 hours

While Bitcoin kinda looks like stuck in the rut and slowly dragging ahead. Litecoin will likely make 50 dollars per coin tomorrow. Let's hope this is not a regular pump and dump thing (though I'm always ready to buy in whenever the opportunity comes up), and people did actually start to move their coins from the former into the latter (which they should do). I guess the "fair" price should be somewhere in the range of 500 dollars per coin. In short, let's make Litecoin great again!

I hear a lot of information about the fact that Litecoin is a very promising coin. So far I have not bought this altcoin, but in the near future I will make investments in Litecoin. But this coin will never become a bitcoat competitor

Litecoin was the oldest altcoin and its good alternative for transaction for less miners fee. i could not imagine that the price of litecoin before that the price can increase too high.. i have lots of litecoin before but i forgot my password i can even recover my litecoin i like to exchange them all into bitcoin but i can't recover my wallet i earn those litecoin before in faucet and never exchange them,.
Other people who invest in litecoin already making a good profit this year..
Bitcoin will be still a good crypto currency because many site are accepting bitcoin as payment unlike LTC. so i vote for BTC.

Bitcoin isn't doing much for now because it has gone through a massive roller coaster already. Litecoin is the one that has been severely lagging behind not only Bitcoin, but also various other crypto currencies. Other than that, what justifies Litecoin to be worth $500 according to you? Don't come up with x coin has reached y level, and thus Litecoin should at least be $500....

My arithmetic is rather simple

And it has nothing to do with what you think I'm going to come up with. I assume that if Bitcoin kicks the bucket after August 1st (or comes close to that), Litecoin is likely going to take its place. But since the amount of litecoins is 4 times greater than bitcoins (21×4=84M), its price should be no less than ~2500/4>500 dollars per coin. Indeed, this is a wild estimate (though it is certainly not a guess), but given that Litecoin is technically superior to Bitcoin, its price should in fact be higher (and this is apart from its fast and cheap transactions)

I think its price will be 50 $ 70 $ 90 $ ..... 500 $. Can not say anymore . Ltc has been trading very fast and safe ^^

For sure China is behind this LTC pump. And it's good for the bitcoin economy too the price did went up again. So after the ETH's positive movement, they are now trying to pump LTC. Well whatever coin will be pumped the beneficiary will always be bitcoin. Much better to have a lot of bitcoins while having those alts.

It's indeed very simple the way you have put it down. It makes no sense that just because Litecoin's total coin cap equals 4 times the coin cap from Bitcoin, that its price should more or less be 25% of Bitcoin's most recent value. What matters here is the actual usage that a certain coin experiences, how its network is set up, how centralized the mining aspect is, etc. Litecoin experienced some sort of an increase in terms of usage, but so have other alts. I don't see anything significantly interesting in Litecoin here.

Litecoin onyl has speculative groups behind it. This causes sometimes good price incrementals, but it is not as safe as bitcoin. In bitcoin the market is more deep with more participants and this makes extreme speculative movements exist less.

The best investment for me is litecoin because the price of it is still cheap and if are always updated to the news then you already know that the dev of Litecoin is already get out from coinbase so he can focus on his own project which is one of the most stable top coin in the market; Litecoin. Litecoin is fast and also cheap in fees unlike in bitcoin that is already opposite of Litecoin.

Indeed, it doesn't make sense unless you take into account factors which I specifically mentioned in my post and which you deliberately chose to ignore in yours. Litecoin is a Bitcoin copycat, so it is no surprise either that it has been lagging behind Bitcoin all this time. But now times have changed, and they will likely change even more, dramatically more after August 1st. Anyway, let's wait until Litecoin jumps over 100 dollars per coin, I would be interested to hear if you still saw nothing interesting in it

I will certainly let you know

well so far if i recall correctly this tendency was the opposite. meaning when bitcoin went up litecoin followed and when it dropped ltc also followed. this was the first time that bitcoin price drop initiated an LTC rise.
so it is hard to say if it going to stay or not because so far this was a one time thing and we can see bitcoin has already reversed direction and is now rising up again.

also it can be because of a couple of news about litecoin such as bitstam (which if i am not mistaken) added LTC market and posted a big supporting tweet for it.

If you really had a chance to invest in litecoin before the current rally started then it was a worthy investment,really interested to see how long this rally stays as they never had a break out rally for a very long time and the volatility is really low with litecoin and that is not the case with bitcoin as you will always have a good opportunity to make good amount because of the volatility.

Curious that although the title does not mention the price, always only the price is associated in this kind of contest and it is automatically answered in function to that and not to other factors such as speed, safety, propagation, etc.

It is better to trade with bitcoin than litecoin. Well, the bitcoin price statistic increase is faster than ltc, besides, the bitcoin price is so big, so maybe you can make a profit in just a few days.

That may well be so

Nevertheless, Litecoin is pretty consistent now. It went for a small correction today but the price is still hovering above 40 dollars per coin. The next few days will reveal everything (if Bitcoin doesn't start a sudden rally of its own, of course). If the price continues to rise despite Bitcoin stagnating or even declining, these days may in fact turn out to be a tipping point of sorts, and we could finally see massive amounts of money flow out of Bitcoin (which might soon become a toxic asset) into this coin. So far I see people liquidating their Bitcoin stashes and mostly going for fiat

During the last 48-hours, the LTC prices have increased by more than 50% in comparison to BTC. A saw a lot of posts here urging users to purchase LTC, but I was stupid to ignore them. With Charlie Lee pumping LTC big time, I expect the LTC exchange rates to hit the historical peaks (i.e BTC0.05, which was achieved either in 2014 or 2015).

When speaking of long term, definitely bitcoin in my opinion. Litecoin is only great as of now because it has segwit implemented.

I think Bitcoin is the most stable cryptocurrency out there   :)

Litecoin is not yet great

But we will certainly make it great again! Right now SegWit and Lightning Network are of no use in this coin (apart from testing purposes, obviously). But if Bitcoin fails dramatically after August 1st and Bitcoin wars go from cold to hot, this is when these improvements may have their say in grabbing all the people that will be desperately trying to drop their bitcoins like hot potatoes and save their wealth

Litecoin is not profitable for long term investment.  It is just short time trading we can use this coin. But for long term investment, we choose bitcoin is better. It gives an unpredictable profit in the future. How we got now to compare last year. And Bitcoin is safer to compare to Litecoin. Before I was thinking about this coin, but now I am shifted to ETH.

At the moment it might be good for short term. But I think and believe it has many chances to rise even higher and quite faster.
And long term it will be obviously profitable if you have the patience to hold it for years, but yes it is still unpredictable but its quite reliable in my opinion.

We don't know what will be the future price of litecoin since the price before is really high. For now its really not a good idea to invest in litecoin just my opinion and zacash or ethereum is a good choice to invest right now because the price are really increasing fast.. I have litecoin before but the problem i forgot the password login to my account my plan is to sell all my litecoin that i was collected before..

Bitcoin good investment and for sure you will make a lot of profit after few months.
Litecoin also is one promising coin in this year maybe the price of this coin is 100 dollars in the next week or maybe next months.

Both is good to invest and for sure if you buy this you will earn a lot of money

You're right, Bitcoin already done its bit, now it's Litecoin's turn  to do the catch up and which is precisely what it is about. After now, it would most likely start to mark time until Bitcoin sets the next pace. At any point in time that it becomes able stand its own ground ,that will market the beginning of its reign and chance to compete with any other coin.

Ltc is surely winning this if you want to double your money quickly but only issue with ltc is stability. The price of bitcoin is really strong and selling so many wouldn't affect the price but ltc is still a small alt , we can surely make better profits with it than bitcoin only in short term for long term bitcoin is the leader for now

Yup like it won't harm you having both coins.
Just in today, btc fall to $2,500 from yesterday's rate and ltc now is $43 just rose up like yesterday's rate.
The sudden dump of btc today is not so alarming as it maintain its range to $2,000.
I hope there's a pump after this.

I hope everyone is correct about LTC. Ive been watching it for a few years and it only seems to be getting netter. I'm new to the scene but it has certainly improved in the last year. What really bothers me is how each coin has a connection. If BTC goes down nearly all the altcoins follow. I just do not understand why. If supply and demand is different for each coin. Maybe its the way they are all built on the BTC blockchain. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

The explanation is simple

Altcoins go down because people who are investing in Bitcoin are also investing in altcoins. These are mostly the same folks, and when they get panicky, it is not just about Bitcoin they are dumping, they are dumping everything. But this is not to say that it is going to last forever. If big whales start massively dumping Bitcoin and moving their wealth into some other coin (say, Litecoin), it will be different. This is just a matter of time, i.e. how quick Bitcoin will turn toxic in the light of the coming split

Here I bring you some information for reflection about the advantages that Litecoin has over other altcoins and Bitcoin.

Although most people will look at the current Litecoin price action as a pump-and-dump, there are some genuine reasons to get excited about this currency moving forward. Similar to any other altcoin, there are some interesting developments underway as we speak. A recent Medium post highlighted some of the upcoming changes, and we have listed a few of the points below.
3. Atomic Swaps
It is evident Litecoin has successfully set the tone when it comes to cross-chain atomic swaps. The developers successfully completed such a swap with Decred not too long ago, which is considered to have been the first of many in this regard. Being able to trade currencies across blockchains in real time – or something close to it – is a major development that could make centralized exchanges obsolete. If these developments ever come to full fruition, the cryptocurrency world will look very different.

More about
2. Mast
1. Convenants

at https://themerkle.com/3-reasons-to-get-excited-about-the-future-of-litecoin/

Lite coin what is it nobody had heard about it before it is new things and people are comparing it with the king of crypto there are no more than 100 people who know about lite coin but bitcoin is circulated all across the world you cannot just compete a new born coin with the one who started the trend of crypto on lighter note lite coins are nothing in front of bitcoin.

I think LTC works like a small brother for bitcoin. And its the first to adopt Segregated Witness(SW), which for most of us is like a test bed before actually applying it to bitcoin. I think there's the comparison surfaces. And if I'm not mistaken they also the first do the Lightning Network (LN), which might be adopted by bitcoin soon.

Why Litecoin exists (speculation and mining excluded)?
There are no reasons.
Litecoin is an alt-coin, without a real purpose.
Look at the price, there is no comparison.

While we need to speak only real facts, Litecoin should be at bitcoin level, but now we see that it is not even the second and not the third coin in the crypt, and therefore there is nothing to compare and everything is so clear.

Agreed, i think if seen from the value the different are so far than any coin. Also Bitcoin is more popular that's why there is no coins can beat it even Litecoin though.

Good speculations. Liked it when you compared the percentage of both coins from historical data. They seem to be perfectly matched and rise-fall pattern is almost same for them. According to you litecoin would be good because it's cheap to buy at this point and if we get 400-500% hike in rates then we can just grab more than enough profits from this investment. Seem to be practical approach to me. Hope to see some good bucks with it. But bitcoin has to be there no doubt. Yes 6K got reached no time after your post and now 10k is about to come.

Litecoin was the time I wanted to invest, but I gave up investing because it was not as popular as Bitcoin. I do not think Litecoin is worth too much. The price of Litecoin is up to $ 75. Probably will not see the $ 100 level.

Litecoin may not be able to rise again

I think both of them have their own advantages. LITECOIN is almost 4 times faster than Bitcoin as it has a block time of 2.5 minutes. It can handle transactions with a lightning speed and unlike Bitcoin, the network can handle way more transactions at once.
Bitcoin on the other hand, have the advantage of being the mother of all cryptocurrencies. It is without any doubt the most popular cryptocurrency available in the market.
If you want to invest, you can invest in both of them as this diversification can help you earn tremendous profits in the long run.

Not sure why you would say that Bitcoin has proved that news exposure if all you need. Bitcoin got the exposure it needed and went to new heights and there isn't a reason why litecoin can't do the same

It will, just like it has been doing in the last years. Litecoin is basically the second best of the 'old-school' coins, which is why people often refer to Bitcoin as gold, and Litecoin as silver. As long as Bitcoin is thriving, Litecoin and basically any other altcoin with a community and a purpose behind it will keep increasing too -- this shouldn't be so difficult to figure out, or is it? Crypto in its entirety is booming, and there definitely isn't coming an end to this any time soon. The average people are more and more finding their way to this market, and that clearly reflects in the level of adoption we have experienced so far.

You seem to have changed your attitude toward this coin

How come really? I remember you were not very fond (mildly speaking) of this coin in the not so distant past. Did you invest your capital (some part thereof) in it and felt the advantage of really fast and really cheap transactions? A few months ago I told you basically the same things which you are telling now, i.e. if Bitcoin is going to push up daisies due to some internal cause or conflict (systemic shutdown aside), Litecoin will take its place, and if Bitcoin is set to prosper (which seems to be the case), Litecoin will prosper alongside

LTC can become a very popular crypto currency. It has excellent technical characteristics and popularity. I am much more comfortable using LTC than Bitcoin

For me i think both will be very profitable investment in the future but i think both are something realated to each other. whatever affects Bitcoin most likely goes to affect Litecoin too. However only recently Litecoin had some added advantage and was able to gain more grounds but for me the margin of profit in litecoin is much bigger than that of bitcoin and i prefer litecoin over bitcoin for shorter term.

Your post is very convincing but for long term use I believe bitcoin is the only option that we will have to work with. Litecoin as we know is good alt but having trouble going up quickly. Within that much period bitcoin moves like legend with 400-600 USD prices. That's a huge move to get huge profits. So that's the point with bitcoin and litecoin. These are two good things about bitcoin which makes it better candidate for future prospects.

Here in my opinion both of them are perfect to make investment Because both of them have the same type of progress with potential According to Thier price .
Here at one side bitcoin have advantage of savings the principle amount of investment + constantly increasing the profit . And at another side litecoin has the potential of long time and it's value increased more ( about 6 times  which is same like bitcoin ) , so here we can expect that lite coin can acts as altcoin and can jump more fastly for small.time and we can make profit .
So if you want To go with the lite coin then keep your eye sharply Because can go down speedly as well up also but here in the bitcoin you will see constantly increase in price .

I dont think bitcoin and litecoins are even compareable....bitcoin is way ahead of litecoin at this stage and will always be

Obviously Litecoin is safer compared to Bitcoin and Litecoin. Because there are more manipulations in places that are overcrowded. Whale can not swim in the lake:) I think those reasons are more secure Litecoin.

Litecoin does not have popularity like that of bitcoin. People do not trust any other currency as they trust in bitcoin. I myself do not prefer any other digital currency over bitcoin. Bitcoin is more reliable and secure and also the most profitable currency all over the world. Why should I buy any other currency like litecoin except bitcoin? I trust only in bitcoin and so the rest of the people do.

Well taking nothing awaybfrom ltc, it's been around for quir a while already and i'm pretty sure it's legit and have a good future. Though popularity most of the time brings in demand and that's the advanatage that bitcoin hs over all other alternative coins.

If at this time the miners would prefer to hoard bitcoin because the price increase every year is often the case and able to jump drastically. So that the benefits can be maximal and able to meet the needs of every day while litecoin is still very difficult to be able to compete with bitcoin quickly.

I am really amazed that you are comparing litecoin with bitcoin and not only comparing but preferring litecoin over bitcoin. We all know that bitcoin is the most stable and established coin of this crypto world and litecoin also have its price with reference to bitcoin.

Bitcoin has very strong impact on the prices of altcoins. In short, litecoin can never ever surpass bitcoin whether a whale swims in the lake of altcoin or not.

Though Bitcoin has always been the dominant among the rwo, I think Litecoin has potential to grow more.
Litecoin has a lifetime capital of 84 million coins as compared to Bitcoin's 21 million (four times more). Hence litecoins are easier to mine in the future. This also makes Litecoin's blockchain which is 2.5 minutes, 4 times faster than Bitcoin.
All of these differences between Bitcoin and Litecoin point toward certain advantages that Litecoin might have over its bigger peer when it comes to investments.

As they say, never say never

I don't think that Bitcoin is a lot more established than Litecoin since Litecoin has been around for years. And don't agree either that Bitcoin is more stable. As I have already said on numerous occasions, at higher Bitcoin prices we will see higher Bitcoin volatility (even in relative terms). My point is that if Litecoin can be stable over longer terms (which it obviously has propensity for), it may interest merchants and vendors, especially when it offers cheap and fast transactions as well as is scalable enough to support a growing number of them

From past year itself Ltc was never comparable to BTC. Just think if you had invested last year 1000$ in both and what return at present LTC would have given you and with that of btc. You would have minted money with the btc and earned some giant profits.

Yes I agree I think LTC and BTC are really different. Although both coins have been in existence for several years, in term of making profit there is no question that bitcoin is really ahead of the competition. And as much as beautiful the project is, people will not look at it, specially investors because they are really in for the profit. And you have a nice analogy, if you invested both starting this year alone, bitcoin will surely gave you a good returns already.

The comparison might not be in favor of Bitcoin

Well, in fact, Bitcoin would be a clear loser. If you bought Litecoin when it was worth a little over 3 dollars earlier this year (for example, in March) and you sold it right now, you would make like 18x. And if you had sold it when it was at its max of over 90 dollars per coin a few months ago, you would have earned something like 30x. As you and everyone else can easily see, Bitcoin looks pretty pale with Litecoin returns specifically for this year

Yes. The ratio confirms we can very well invest in Litecoin. This would be the best time to buy litcoins to have a massive turn over in 1 or two years. When BTC had the same situation, many missed investing into it and now they really feel why they have ignored for any reasons. I am really finding time and amount to invest into Litecoin. I have been seeing this growth in coinmarketcap.com. A positive growth has been there since the time i watched. 

I think that you should invest in both of them as both of them are really popular and promising projects. Bitcoin being the first and the master of all cryptocurrency is the most widely accepted crypto. It has alot of potential to grow and you can expect good amount of growth from it.
Litecoin on the other hand, is also popular for its fast transactions. It is almost 4 times faster than Bitcoin and you can expect the price of litecoin to be above 200$ within 2-3 years.

Bitcoin is a very sensible option for short-term profit. But litecoin is impressing me with a steady price. Litecoin is a currency created entirely for shopping. Stable price is suitable for shopping.

Hopefully that becoming popular of litecoin will continue until next year, because as I can see this coin now was a little bit fluctuation in the exchange community. Otherwise for me I still believe in bitcoin because if you compare bitcoin into litecoin obviously that in popularity, price and any other aspects we all know that all people are favorable to bitcoin.
Even management of crypto currency society, most of them are favorable to bitcoin because this coin have a good foundation in the market. Therefore bitcoin was so famous in every sides of the world

Well, by the progress which bitcoin reached this day we easily can say that it is better then litecoin. Litecoin added just couple of tens of dollars, meanwhile bitcoin raised 7 times. I think bitcoin was and stays the best coin for investment.

litecoin is almost die, the price go up a little and then go down again, seems like there are no more attraction in litecoin, in the other side bitcoin is on fire, the rising is so fast, the dominance is bigger, the marketcap is getting bigger, so it is an easy choice, bitcoin is the champion

Lite coin where it come from and I don’t think so that no more than 100 people know about it and people are comparing it with the most precious coin in crypto, the popularity is of bitcoin is more than the value of litecoin and investing into lite coin mean attempting suicide and more of it comparison is irrelevant here because bitcoin has more no of user as well as profiting rate so go for bitcoin it is the best option.

Litecoin now have not enough power to chase with bitcoin. Dont hope litecoin will get more profit now. Litecoin team dev is weak, they cant make their coin worth.

Fuck off. Bitcoin does not have anything inside and only the fool invest their money in bitcoin. Those fool dont even care about what bitcoin is and what they can do with bitcoin. The value of bitcoin is high because of those fool. Inside litecoin, there are many things that we need to learn and many of them can bring us a better future

I see no point in discussing the obvious. The thing is that lightcoin will never be higher than bitcoin, just there are people who like alts very much, and therefore they want to believe it, because the price for buying is much lower. But you can also keep two options for a win game.

I'm utterly curious what it is

It is either you being a relentless hypocrite or a mentally disturbed fool like the one the dude above talks about. Litecoin rose a few dozen dollars, that's true, but you should look from which price it's started and where it is today. As back as in March this year, it was worth measly 4 dollars per coin and right now it is over 62 dollars per piece. If you have issues with doing simple arithmetic, I can tell you that it makes something like 15 times increase, which is over 2 times more than what Bitcoin did

this is was just prediction this is none sense but we know that litecoin are in progress but not all the time and we know that it will never compete for bitcoin because this is far from it.

In my opinion, Bitcoin is more potetial to invest than Litecoin before. But now, after Segwit2x canceled, there are more and more investors who are dissapointed with Bitcoin. They are willing to sell Bitcoin to invest in other coins.

Even comparing litecoin to Bitcoin is far far away from reality. There are surely some problems in Bitcoin world which is mostly because of people rather than the system itself. I am sure this will be solved soon and Bitcoin will be stronger than ever. No altcoin can compete with Bitcoin for now. Maybe in far future.

Yes others switch into altcoin because of this segwit cancellation but you know others also hold on btc. Same I prefer bitcoin than litecoin because btc is profitable than litecoin. Bitcoin has more advantages and use that is why more has on supports on btc and ofcourse btc is more profitable than ltc.

If you consider bitcoin investment as a fools investment then you should start considering every crypto currency investment like that as there is nothing special about litecoin either as it is simply a bitcoin clone and when that coin start having the number of transactions bitcoin has at the moment ,the scalability issue starts,so think before you talk .

I like both, LTC BTC for holding a trading. BTC for long term.

I just sold some LTC when the price hit my targets. It took a couple of weeks.

Will do the same with some ETH as it rises and BTC drops some more.

Small gains add up to more BTC in the long term. (One of the really strong points for BTC)

BTC might be having some problems but is seeming stronger as the growing pains are addressed.

I like XMR also but sold at the last pump, will buy some more when the next valley appears.
Problem with XMR seems to be with wallets peculiarity.
BTC, LTC, ETH, much easier to use right now.

I think it is far from comparison between Bitcoin and Litecoin. Though Litecoin had its days before when it was really something and its price was high but now it seems like it is left out. And Bitcoins price is far from Litecoins price now so I really don’t see anything that needs to be compared of between both.

I think bitcoin has reached the limit of the maximum price and now has started to decline due to other coins, while litecoin is a long development but until now continues to increase. so investing in bitcoin for now there is likely to be a loss.