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Title: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 08:20:02 AM
The alt community should focus all its might on getting Litecoin going as a true BTC alternative, and I will share with you why.  Litecoin was gaining major ground against BTC when the flood of scamcoins happened.

I was speculating about recent shenanigans in general on IRC when I was messaged on IRC that from someone who would definitely know that some of the flood of altcoins is being done purposefully by BITCOIN-ONLY adherents in a Machiavellian attempt to discredit Litecoin...as Litecoin was getting close to MAJOR acceptance as *THE* BTC alternative - it was no coincidence that it was at that time the scams hit the alt community like a mack truck!

UNTIL - *one* alt gets widespread acceptance (and IMHO) Litecoin is the most fairly distributed, was the first scrypt based with some real advantages over BTC, and LTC has some real existing value, long term track record, and the ONLY CHANCE to break the BITCOIN MONOPOLY NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

I would urge the alt community to stop self-destructing!  Push Litecoin together, then later mess with another alt - or there will be NO ALTS.

Stop and *think* they are winning in getting any "altcoin" automatically seen as a scam!

Uniting behind Litecoin acceptance is a last hope at this point IMHO.  Certain people you may know of from the Wiki, here, and in the ASIC business who HATE Litecoin and have done everything to keep Litecoin out of the press and off of Wikipedia are trying to MAKE anything other than Bitcoin be perceived as "scam."  Much trickery and manipulation has been done to protect their BTC only investment MONOPOLY.

Certain BITCOINERS (ASIC Investors/producers/owners, DEVS, HOARDERS) are using Nelson Rockefeller/Nathan Rothschild type tactics to create a CRYPTO-CURRENCY MONOPOLY.  This is the worst possible outcome.

The shills will come to this thread and tell us why they love Feathers, and Royals, and CHN - its all to fracture the effort THAT WAS WORKING to make LTC BIG.

There are new fake accounts here to fracture and divide this community, there is HUGE pressure on GOX and other retailers, service providers etc to *NOT* accept LTC.


Divide and Conquer? Please Stop and Think...this community is being played like a fiddle, divided and broken, - unite behind LTC and win or else *everyone* loses.


THEY FEAR LITECOIN.  They have BIG money to protect, don't let them make you all their fools - I have never seen a community so well manipulated as this one has been since the LTC rise.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

They are fighting us, all out.  Can we put aside differences long enough to win?

Getting LTC widespread acceptance is the KEY to opening the door to other alts, and EVERYONE having a seat at the table - if we do not stop it now cryptocurrency will become a monopoly.

I am not much for soap boxing - but I felt this needed to be shared.  Do you want a market of cryptocurrencies or a single one?  Unless one is pushed into the public now the chance will be GONE.  Best.


---edit---

I have about 1000 LTC.  Not even worthy of mentioning.  I am not an early hoarder of either currency - however I care about the future of my money.  Personally I have more fiat value in the Bitcoins I have mined, than the Litecoins.

This is of interest to me because of the corporate takeover of BTC that is happening.

I predicted the Litecoin hate and here it comes pouring into this thread - I posted this because I truly believe that we need to establish a majorly accepted Bitcoin alternative NOW before it is too late.

This is deeply important if you care about what type of cryptocurrency future we have.

SAY NO TO A ONE CURRENCY MONOPOLY.

There is mega-corporate attention and takeover of crypto-currency underway, and they are focusing on Bitcoin to do it.  An alt (Litecoin IMHO) keeps this a democratized system where the people create money - not a central ASIC authority.

these people are not our friends -

Quote
BitInstant Introduces Bain Capital to Bitcoin – Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees represented BitInstant (and by extension Bitcoin itself) [to Bain Capital] at the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas from October 22-24, which focused on emerging and innovative financial services. BitInstant managed to get a booth directly next to that of PayPal, and Charlie Shrem reports that the president of Bain Capital, a firm now famous for its connection to US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had breakfast with him and Voorhees, and responded very positively to Bitcoin when the two introduced the currency and the Blockchain mobile Bitcoin client to him.  - !!!!!!!!! -

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/  - all of you have greed making you blind.

http://s23.postimg.org/6kx70k7tn/found.jpg
These self appointed corporate saviors do NOT speak for a lot of us.

Litecoin FIRST opens the way for more alts later and secures a future OWNED by the people that can STAY anonymous and free.
 This is what is important to me - not personal profit motive.  The fact that all of the haters assume it is about personal profit shows that is WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM!


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: AlternativeCypt on May 12, 2013, 08:23:22 AM
Oh, I see.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: sterob on May 12, 2013, 08:23:33 AM
Copy pasta reply from altcoin hate (possible scamer who wanted to buy alt coin cheap):
"Litecoin is premined. The insiders mined crap load of block when it was released. Now i cant mine them with large quantity anymore. It must be a scam."


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Frizz23 on May 12, 2013, 08:28:21 AM
**UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
[... lots of crap deleted ...]

Why? Because you have lots of them. That's why.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: saudibull on May 12, 2013, 08:34:58 AM
Well, I agree to the extent that people, especially here need to focus more on BitCoin and LiteCoin - We are all here because of one thing, BitCoin, we all want BTC to succeed, around the world. We want to push it, advertise it, have more and more people accepting it so our BitCoin will be worth more in the long run, as well as having this type of currency as a alternative to the "almighty" dollar - It's not a bad thing to have a "silver" to the "gold" such as LTC, I see no reason why both cannot coincide with each other.  Yes we can all make money pumping and dumping all these useless alt. coins, but we still have a lot of mountain left to help BTC and LTC climb -


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Goldmember on May 12, 2013, 09:13:32 AM
If there is a strategy to defame LTC I would say it failed miserably. With every scam coin it becomes clear that the only two hard currencies we have are BTC and LTC. Anything else is a risky, but often profitable, gamble.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: hope2907 on May 12, 2013, 09:21:46 AM
i see ltc at long term invest, other (except btc) are quick bump and dump with hope it will hit exchanged


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Operatr on May 12, 2013, 09:40:42 AM
If anything all of these garbagecoins are making your case for you, as BTC and LTC are granddaddies of them all.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Noitev on May 12, 2013, 09:45:21 AM
Replace all instances of Litecoin and LTC with Tenebrix and TBX. Litecoin wasn't the first scypt miner and only has ground because people are sad they aren't making a profit with their gpus on bitcoin anymore /thread


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Vycid on May 12, 2013, 09:45:27 AM

... blah, blah, blah...

I am not much for soap boxing - but I felt this needed to be shared.  Do you want a market of cryptocurrencies or a single one?  Unless one is pushed into the public now the chance will be GONE.  Best.

Oh, I want there to be one. Absolutely. I consider it a huge convenience that dollars are the only currency I have to deal with and worry about in day to day life. I suspect others feel the same.

I don't really care if Bitcoin, Litecoin, or something else wins out in the end, so long as crypto gains widespread adoption. In my mind, the alts' sole purpose is to innovate in ways Bitcoin is too big and slow and entrenched to attempt. If that means another coin ends up being deemed technically superior, good; then it shouldn't need my help being adopted over Bitcoin.

PS: it is my suspicion that any coin which needs its major stakeholders to beg for more support is not going to overturn Bitcoin.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Noitev on May 12, 2013, 09:48:06 AM
one more thing, it's pretty funny how he makes BTC the oppressive regime in here. lol


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Caesar V on May 12, 2013, 09:58:39 AM
**UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
[... lots of crap deleted ...]

Why? Because you have lots of them. That's why.

+1


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: skyangel on May 12, 2013, 10:00:44 AM
I'm stopping to think about it...


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Punkonjunk on May 12, 2013, 10:14:39 AM
oh wow. I'd never seen the altcoin hate until now, like geniune, bitcoin is the one true god stuff.

That's nuts, man. I like scrypt. If someone CAN make more money mining litecoins, or more bitcoin, why is that bad?

How does that hurt bitcoin or hurt anyone? If no one buys litecoins, well then, it wouldn't work. Clearly, it has some value.... isn't this the advantage to a decentralized currency? no banks, regulation, or rulers, just de facto values assigned based on what one is willing to pay?


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: GIANNAT on May 12, 2013, 10:18:25 AM
Market will decide. As for now the only strong and most traded currency are BTC and LTC, all the others will shade and disappear in a week or so (see chinacoin and feathercoin and other ponzi). The only people defending these "coins" are the unlucky/stupid bagholder.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: add1ct3dd on May 12, 2013, 10:23:35 AM
Love the altcoin hate (people who hate on litecoin particularly), guess BTCers are scared, or just stupid/ignorant/12.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Impaler on May 12, 2013, 10:29:05 AM
Our resent spat of alt-coins are pump and dumps that are in no way some kind of grand conspiracy against BTC, you people see conspiracies everywhere.  It's just that after the BTc bubble popped and its value has leveled out their is no quick profit their and scamers start scamming again.

Now SOME of the people here are interested in genuinely innovative concepts and they deserve a chance to prove themselves.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Zaih on May 12, 2013, 10:44:08 AM
Yeh, I can put up with Litecoin..

But that's about it  ;D


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: skull88 on May 12, 2013, 11:07:12 AM
that some of the flood of altcoins is being done purposefully by BITCOIN-ONLY adherents in a Machiavellian attempt to discredit Litecoin
No it's not, it is done by some greedy persons that want to make a quick buck on the back of some people, that's it. Litecoin never was meant to overtake Bitcoin else it wouldn't been promoted as the silver to Bitcoins gold, this knows every person involved with Bitcoin, and nobody fears it.

The only thing I can agree with, It's better to focus your energy on Litecoin than on any of those crapcoins.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: qiuness on May 12, 2013, 11:25:49 AM
unite behind LTC.. .i agree, but if all of us started mining LTC the difficulty would make even big GPU Farms unprofitable.
I mean @ 10GH (which is a good chunk of GPUs) you would make 200$ @ 1000 difficulty, which is right around the corner


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 11:33:41 AM
**UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
[... lots of crap deleted ...]

Why? Because you have lots of them. That's why.

+1

I have about 1000 LTC.  Not even worthy of mentioning.  I am not an early hoarder of either currency - however I care about the future of my money.  Personally I have more fiat value in the Bitcoins I have mined, than the Litecoins.

This is of interest to me because of the corporate takeover of BTC that is happening.

I predicted the Litecoin hate and here it comes pouring into this thread - I posted this because I truly believe that we need to establish a majorly accepted Bitcoin alternative NOW before it is too late.

This is deeply important if you care about what type of cryptocurrency future we have.

SAY NO TO A ONE CURRENCY MONOPOLY.

There is mega-corporate attention and takeover of crypto-currency underway, and they are focusing on Bitcoin to do it.  An alt (Litecoin IMHO) keeps this a democratized system where the people create money - not a central ASIC authority.

these people are not our friends -

Quote
BitInstant Introduces Bain Capital to Bitcoin – Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees represented BitInstant (and by extension Bitcoin itself) [to Bain Capital] at the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas from October 22-24, which focused on emerging and innovative financial services. BitInstant managed to get a booth directly next to that of PayPal, and Charlie Shrem reports that the president of Bain Capital, a firm now famous for its connection to US presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had breakfast with him and Voorhees, and responded very positively to Bitcoin when the two introduced the currency and the Blockchain mobile Bitcoin client to him.

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/  - all of you have greed making you blind.

http://s23.postimg.org/6kx70k7tn/found.jpg
These self appointed corporate saviors do NOT speak for a lot of us.

Litecoin FIRST opens the way for more alts later and secures a future OWNED by the people that can STAY anonymous and free.
 This is what is important to me - not personal profit motive.  The fact that all of the haters assume it is about personal profit shows that is WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM!


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 11:34:41 AM
unite behind LTC.. .i agree, but if all of us started mining LTC the difficulty would make even big GPU Farms unprofitable.
I mean @ 10GH (which is a good chunk of GPUs) you would make 200$ @ 1000 difficulty, which is right around the corner

The price will rise as we build the services to accept Litecoin and trade Fiat for it in the mainstream.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: MaGNeT on May 12, 2013, 11:42:02 AM
I agree that LTC has the most potential over other altcoins.
But market will decide what happens.

CNC and FTC are dying, other coins will die even sooner.
Time will fix these things.

When Gox starts accepting LTC, other altcoins will be forgotten about.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 11:43:13 AM
oh wow. I'd never seen the altcoin hate until now, like geniune, bitcoin is the one true god stuff.....

It's not hate, it's the truth. They are pure junk and worthless. This doesn't mean I don't mine them myself but the sole reason in doing so is I get more btc for my mining power mining this shit than bitcoin itself.

All the funding and investment is coming into Bitcoin startups, not litecoin or any of the other shit kicker coins. What I hate is people who think these altcoins actually have potential to take out btc itself.. fucking laughable.

Mine alts, sell to idiots, buy more btc.

Altcoins are a short lived train that are provided an opportunity to get more BTC. Don't miss the boat a 2nd time because of some bullshit altcoin.

[blah blah blah]

translated:

I am dummy account and/or corporate shill who wants you to follow the instructions above as all that trading for BTC will lead to Litecoin becoming worthless.

-or-

I am hoarding Bitcoins and want them to go up, if LTC gains traction as a REAL alternative then I lose money.

-or-

I pre-ordered ASICS and I am going to be the only one allowed to mine and make money.  I will control the currency.


It all adds up to - this guy wants a currency monopoly and wants to kill the anonymity and freedom that comes from MULTIPLE cryptocurrencies being used as equal payment methods.

Bitcoin alone -

it is almost WORSE than cash - after the governments and corporations get a hold of it, they will put supercomputers into tracking every satoshi and know where every satoshi goes and who gets what.

the darkside of Bitcoin ONLY is that it is almost perfect for Orwellian Police control and monitoring when it becomes controlled by the corporate government complex.  That is what is happening now.

Fascinating that the Bitcoin foundation talks about their "Foundation's Vision" with a symbol of the all seeing eye right next to it!



Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Mhash pipe on May 12, 2013, 11:50:48 AM
Lol at bitcoin monopoly, do you realize how stupid you sound? Think about it. :-\

Litecoin was not on the rise because it was gaining acceptance, it was on the rise because people speculated it would be the next coin on mtgox where it could be dumped on to new bagholders. What is the purpose of actually holding litecoin other than pure speculation?


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 12:00:22 PM
Lol at bitcoin monopoly, do you realize how stupid you sound? Think about it. :-\

Litecoin was not on the rise because it was gaining acceptance, it was on the rise because people speculated it would be the next coin on mtgox where it could be dumped on to new bagholders. What is the purpose of actually holding litecoin other than pure speculation?

wow so many posts in like 10 days you have.

another alt account?  I know from someone who has seen IPs that the forum has an alt account problem.

the point is to build acceptance of Litecoin as another useable currency - this is what the alt community should focus their collective work towards - then the value of LTC will rise to support way more than all of the GPU miners combined - since that seems to be the major concern.

i know from an insider that there has been a deliberate, organized attempt to discredit alts, that was greenlighted right as Litecoin started to really gather attention.

i am probably blowing my chance at getting inside info like that again by posting it publicly.

Bain Capital and Paypal are NOT who we want running this show.  I even saw that Lockheed Martin is getting into Bitcoin.

Do you think they are going to let some computer geeks, crypto-capitalists, and other enthusiasts retain control?

This makes me wonder a bit more about who Satoshi really was/worked for - Stuxnet was US/Israeli, so was Flame, was Bitcoin a government's or corporation's experiment?


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: cebb on May 12, 2013, 12:06:45 PM
I took OP's text, Replaced Litecoin with YACoin and Replaced Bitcoin with Litecoin.

Looks Something like below.

You think it's ready to be posted on YACoin support thread??

and Oh BTW I own 10,000 YAcoin. I know its nothing.



**************************************************

The alt community should focus all its might on getting YACoin going as a true LTC alternative, and I will share with you why.  YACoin was gaining major ground against LTC when the flood of scamcoins happened.

I was speculating about recent shenanigans in general on IRC when I was messaged on IRC that from someone who would definitely know that some of the flood of altCoins is being done purposefully by LITECOIN-ONLY adherents in a Machiavellian attempt to discredit YACoin...as YACoin was getting close to MAJOR acceptance as *THE* LTC alternative - it was no coincidence that it was at that time the scams hit the alt community like a mack truck!

UNTIL - *one* alt gets widespread acceptance (and IMHO) YACoin is the most fairly distributed, was the first scrypt based with some real advantages over LTC, and YAC has some real existing value, long term track record, and the ONLY CHANCE to break the LITECOIN MONOPOLY NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

I would urge the alt community to stop self-destructing!  Push YACoin together, then later mess with another alt - or there will be NO ALTS.

Stop and *think* they are winning in getting any "altCoin" automatically seen as a scam!

Uniting behind YACoin acceptance is a last hope at this point IMHO.  Certain people you may know of from the Wiki, here, and in the ASIC business who HATE YACoin and have done everything to keep YACoin out of the press and off of Wikipedia are trying to MAKE anything other than Litecoin be perceived as "scam."  Much trickery and manipulation has been done to protect their LTC only investment MONOPOLY.

Certain LITECOINERS (ASIC Investors/producers/owners, DEVS, HOARDERS) are using Nelson Rockefeller/Nathan Rothschild type tactics to create a CRYPTO-CURRENCY MONOPOLY.  This is the worst possible outcome.

The shills will come to this thread and tell us why they love Feathers, and Royals, and CHN - its all to fracture the effort THAT WAS WORKING to make YAC BIG.

There are new fake accounts here to fracture and divide this community, there is HUGE pressure on GOX and other retailers, service providers etc to *NOT* accept YAC.


Divide and Conquer? Please Stop and Think...this community is being played like a fiddle, divided and broken, - unite behind YAC and win or else *everyone* loses.

THEY FEAR YACOIN.  They have BIG money to protect, don't let them make you all their fools - I have never seen a community so well manipulated as this one has been since the YAC rise.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

They are fighting us, all out.  Can we put aside differences long enough to win?

Getting YAC widespread acceptance is the KEY to opening the door to other alts, and EVERYONE having a seat at the table - if we do not stop it now cryptocurrency will become a monopoly.

I am not much for soap boxing - but I felt this needed to be shared.  Do you want a market of cryptocurrencies or a single one?  Unless one is pushed into the public now the chance will be GONE.  Best.

***********************


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Mhash pipe on May 12, 2013, 12:08:41 PM
Lol at bitcoin monopoly, do you realize how stupid you sound? Think about it. :-\

Litecoin was not on the rise because it was gaining acceptance, it was on the rise because people speculated it would be the next coin on mtgox where it could be dumped on to new bagholders. What is the purpose of actually holding litecoin other than pure speculation?

wow so many posts in like 10 days you have.

another alt account?  I know from someone who has seen IPs that the forum has an alt account problem.

the point is to build acceptance of Litecoin as another useable currency - this is what the alt community should focus their collective work towards - then the value of LTC will rise to support way more than all of the GPU miners combined - since that seems to be the major concern.

i know from an insider that there has been a deliberate, organized attempt to discredit alts, that was greenlighted right as Litecoin started to really gather attention.

i am probably blowing my chance at getting inside info like that again by posting it publicly.

Bain Capital and Paypal are NOT who we want running this show.  I even saw that Lockheed Martin is getting into Bitcoin.

Do you think they are going to let some computer geeks, crypto-capitalists, and other enthusiasts retain control?

This makes me wonder a bit more about who Satoshi really was/worked for - Stuxnet was US/Israeli, so was Flame, was Bitcoin a government's or corporation's experiment?

Well I heard from an inside source that you are batshit crazy...


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Mhash pipe on May 12, 2013, 12:31:50 PM
It is quickly shifting to who else would even mine these scam coins...


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Tobius on May 12, 2013, 12:38:48 PM
BTC - SHA-256, 10 minutes blocks, mined on ASIC, low decentralization
LTC - scrypt, 2.5 minutes blocks, mined on GPU, modest decentralization
YAC - scrypt-jane, 1 minute blocks, mined on CPU, high decentralization

Anything else is will become obsolete.
YAC is doomed too, don't be delusional :P


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Tobius on May 12, 2013, 12:51:50 PM
BTC - SHA-256, 10 minutes blocks, mined on ASIC, low decentralization
LTC - scrypt, 2.5 minutes blocks, mined on GPU, modest decentralization
YAC - scrypt-jane, 1 minute blocks, mined on CPU, high decentralization

Anything else is will become obsolete.
YAC is doomed too, don't be delusional :P

The more of you who think it is doomed the better because it will hopefully never reach high enough N for GPU to start messing with it. I've already set 8 BTC buy at the bottom
on the Bter so please go ahead and doom your YAC. Tell everyone to do it. The more YAC I have, the more will I put into making it big, very big.

Not targeted at you in any way, but isn't that what everyone under the sun is trying to do with all of these clones? Also, even with it's minor scyrpt edit, the name alone dooms it to a minor market of hobbyists. Who's going to invest seriously in something called YAK, worse, it doesn't even have a true name, just a name that says it's "Just another coin".

Even if the idea works, this implementation of it won't go too far.

Regardless, hope it works out for ya.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: spoid on May 12, 2013, 01:13:14 PM
I don't know, I personally would like to have a coin that is still much faster than litecoin be the mainstream. People are used to one click paypal online already. Having to wait doesn't feel much like new technology.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: trdiablo on May 12, 2013, 01:19:42 PM
OP dont worry, LTC will become big. It is not the handful of geeks on this forum that decide the future of a coin, it is about trust by the average Joe, media attention and acceptance of the coin by (underground) merchants. That is the reason why BTC now has a lot of value.

I think that the trigger for a big value increase for LTC will come from MtGox. A lot of average people are not even aware that there are more crypto's then just BTC. Once MtGox starts offering it and it gets media attention the average Joe's will be interested in this "new" coin and will buy it because it is so cheap compared to BTC.

Nobody should see LTC/BTC as silver/gold but more as Visa/Mastercard or USD/EUR. They can exist next to eachother just fine.
I would advise everyone to buy 1000 LTC, keep for a couple of years and then sell for at least 50$ each.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Tobius on May 12, 2013, 01:32:48 PM
I don't know, I personally would like to have a coin that is still much faster than litecoin be the mainstream. People are used to one click paypal online already. Having to wait doesn't feel much like new technology.

In the case of that, it would probably be the same thing. As soon as the transaction appears on the network, say it's confirmed, then when X actual confirms apppears, say it's verified. Shouldn't affect to many people unless this is a live payment or something like that.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Tobius on May 12, 2013, 01:51:42 PM
February - MtGox is going to list Litecoin any day now!
March - MtGox is going to list Litecoin any week now!
April - MtGox is going to list Litecoin any month now!
May - When is MtGox going to finally list Litecoin?

...
..
.

Year 2152 - MtGox is yet to list Litecoin.

Indeed, yet people are still keeping the LTC price up in the sky. Those same people should go put money into BFL ASIC as well, price is up due to same "one day it will be big" crap.  :D

Well, at least acknowledged that it was only in April that MTGox actually said that were going to do it.
Also, that plan was delayed thanks to all of the attacks on the site, so it's not like there was absolutely no schedule for it


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: huggybear on May 12, 2013, 01:55:39 PM
oh wow. I'd never seen the altcoin hate until now, like geniune, bitcoin is the one true god stuff.....

It's not hate, it's the truth. They are pure junk and worthless. This doesn't mean I don't mine them myself but the sole reason in doing so is I get more btc for my mining power mining this shit than bitcoin itself.

All the funding and investment is coming into Bitcoin startups, not litecoin or any of the other shit kicker coins. What I hate is people who think these altcoins actually have potential to take out btc itself.. fucking laughable.

Mine alts, sell to idiots, buy more btc.

Altcoins are a short lived train that are provided an opportunity to get more BTC. Don't miss the boat a 2nd time because of some bullshit altcoin.

The only laughable here are you and your insults.


Probably the most new alt coins will disappear just as quickly how they come out.
But everyone should distinguish between alt coins with an active development and dayflycoins.

If you generally don't believe in alt coins, fine. But i don't believe that you are able to predict
the success or failure of all alt coins. I am a strong believer that in the long term more than one
cryptocoin having success.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: huggybear on May 12, 2013, 02:51:05 PM
Define success.


"Success is a term denoting the achievement of aims or attaimment of goals,
or levels of social status, and is often used specifically to mean financial profitability.
People who achieve their goals are frequently termed "successes"."

related to cryptocoins

an by people accepted cryptocurrency with an an active development and community
meaning a payment method where you can buy goods, services
meaning a possibility to save value
meaning a possibility to trade with other cryptocoins without using fiat


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 12, 2013, 03:14:51 PM
Amazing being called nuts by a drug addict with a username "hash pipe" who has appeared on the forum 11 days ago and made almost 100 posts.

So many of these accounts appeared around the time Litecoin was gaining huge momentum and either:

a) bashed Litecoin in rage and called it a scam.

b) promoted an actual scamcoin.

c) both.

I know for a fact that people have made mistakes with their proxies and mods have seen many accounts from the same IPs.  I know for a fact some of these scamcoins were made to discredit all altcoins (main target Litecoin).  Just a few were genuine get rich quick schemes.

There is a lot of dirty dealing going on that is the equivalent of insider trading/fraud, there is also a concerted effort to depress the rise of Litecoin through threats, bribes, and shilling misinformation.

If people would stop buying into the scams and get back to developing services for Litecoin the price would rise to compensate the miners.

I am not even going to go into the launch issues with YACoin.  Congratulations to the alt community for letting simple greed be used by big corporations to defeat ALL alt-coins.  If ONLY Bitcoin is the payment method it will be controlled 100% by government corporations within 10 years.

Realize this forum is more or less 70% shills with an agenda other than the good of the future of multiple cryptocurrencies. 

It is the same technique governments and corporations are CONFIRMED using - for confirmed examples- political parties, the nation of Israel, various corporations, other nations, and paid marketers - actually employ people to try to create "consensus" opinions when they do not exist naturally.  They have one person posting on multiple accounts to try to create a "peer pressure" effect - it works very well.

They employ bots and real people together to influence what is voted up on sites like Reddit, and unfortunately those techniques are being used on this forum in a big way now.

It will be a tragedy if an alternative to BTC is not brought fully to market because of rubes listening to these shills (you can tell who they are look for account creation date between April 26th-May 10th combined with super high post counts for the time they are registered - go through their post history and you will see an obsession with hammering on a few ideas over and over - manic posting).

This forum is really no longer useful, unfortunately the admins do not want to clean up the problem in the alt forum, because they also favor BTC only.

Best.



Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: bitbitcoincoin on May 12, 2013, 03:25:54 PM
I think it's hilarious how litecoin devotees argue they are the only true alt coin.  Other than having alot of adopters due to it being one of the first non ASIC scrypt coins, what does it bring to the cryptocurrency community that BTC doesn't?  It's got relatively slow confirmations(compared to all the LTC clones to come out), a dwindling cost/benefit ratio when it comes to mining at current difficulty(locked in for 20 more days afaik), and doesn't solve the micro transaction problem BTC recently admitted to.

Now Im not going to foolishly claim that any of the other alt coins are currently any better, Im just pointing out that there is still a huge market for them because there is still plenty of room for improvement and innovation outside of "new ways to mine!'.   Devs need to realize if they want a alt coin to succeed long term, they need the non miner community to have some incentive to use it as well.  Otherwise you're just another pump and dump, which miners will leave to die when more profits are elsewhere.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: Mhash pipe on May 12, 2013, 07:07:11 PM
Amazing being called nuts by a drug addict with a username "hash pipe" who has appeared on the forum 11 days ago and made almost 100 posts.

So many of these accounts appeared around the time Litecoin was gaining huge momentum and either:

a) bashed Litecoin in rage and called it a scam.

b) promoted an actual scamcoin.

c) both.

I know for a fact that people have made mistakes with their proxies and mods have seen many accounts from the same IPs.  I know for a fact some of these scamcoins were made to discredit all altcoins (main target Litecoin).  Just a few were genuine get rich quick schemes.

There is a lot of dirty dealing going on that is the equivalent of insider trading/fraud, there is also a concerted effort to depress the rise of Litecoin through threats, bribes, and shilling misinformation.

If people would stop buying into the scams and get back to developing services for Litecoin the price would rise to compensate the miners.

I am not even going to go into the launch issues with YACoin.  Congratulations to the alt community for letting simple greed be used by big corporations to defeat ALL alt-coins.  If ONLY Bitcoin is the payment method it will be controlled 100% by government corporations within 10 years.

Realize this forum is more or less 70% shills with an agenda other than the good of the future of multiple cryptocurrencies

It is the same technique governments and corporations are CONFIRMED using - for confirmed examples- political parties, the nation of Israel, various corporations, other nations, and paid marketers - actually employ people to try to create "consensus" opinions when they do not exist naturally.  They have one person posting on multiple accounts to try to create a "peer pressure" effect - it works very well.

They employ bots and real people together to influence what is voted up on sites like Reddit, and unfortunately those techniques are being used on this forum in a big way now.

It will be a tragedy if an alternative to BTC is not brought fully to market because of rubes listening to these shills (you can tell who they are look for account creation date between April 26th-May 10th combined with super high post counts for the time they are registered - go through their post history and you will see an obsession with hammering on a few ideas over and over - manic posting).

This forum is really no longer useful, unfortunately the admins do not want to clean up the problem in the alt forum, because they also favor BTC only.

Best.



Glad you've admitted that about yourself. And actually my name is mhash pipe... must have gone over your head. Or maybe I'm just a manically posting Isreal bot funded by the CIA and lockheed martin trying to reach a certain demographic. Get real...  :D :D :D


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: eule on May 12, 2013, 07:13:56 PM
Say No to a two currency duopoly.  :P


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: adpinbr on May 12, 2013, 08:01:16 PM
LTC is the only viable alliterative at the moment. The way I see it BTC had to centralize mining and had to give a lot of wealth distribution to early adopters in order to get someone to get the crypto concept out there. LTC fixes these problems simply because it can address the fundamental needs of a decentralized crypto currency without having to "beg" early adopters to use it, since BTC did that.
All the other cryptos were formed out of greed trying to achieve LTC success (Not NMC, PPcoin and a few others).
Of course we need to unite behind LTC. we can convince average Joe to use LTC as a store of value cause only 20% is held by EA vs 50% with BTC. meaning you get more bang for your buck with BTC. A logical human being would store value in LTC and use BTC for its ease of utility. Maybe MtGox is just saying they will accept it, hoping LTC advocates will rely on that info, giving BTC enough time to kill LTC. I would assume thats the case if they are highly invested in mining, but they could also buy a shitload of LTC and then add it making millions so its a crab shoot. Anyways we should all support LTC, and yes I am invested in LTC, I don't mine, I bought them with BTC, I invested cause I think they are superior and a more fair distribution of wealth, rather than vice versa


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: J23450N on May 13, 2013, 03:46:30 AM
I definitely agree that there needs to be a rally behind LTC. Mt.Gox needs to get their *cough* affairs in order and soon. PPC and perhaps NMC, FTC, seem to me to be viable alt-coins, and realistically the same people that made bitcoin what it is could be turned off by the corporate maneuverings happening. This could really push one or several alts in to the big leagues given that the same process could happen, i.e early adopters/techies/libertarians/people in the know make the switch -> price rises -> greater acceptance -> speculators and others invest -> price spikes -> price goes HAM -> who knows.(Probably past the start of that for LTC). Generally this might just mean that there will always be a demand for some lesser known crypto(s), and so while the "scam-coin" flood is kind of ridiculous atm, i'd bet we'll see the rise and fall of many cryptos in the future. It's probably going to be crypto Thunderdome for a bit.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: counter on May 13, 2013, 04:40:32 AM
I personally enjoy the idea of Litecoin taking it's as number 2.  Just as a safety measure if BTC or the community needs it.  I don't see anything wrong with that, can't hurt form my perspective it's a great safety measure.  Especially in these early stages who knows I could be way off but that's my opinion for right now.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: peacefulmind on May 13, 2013, 10:00:43 AM
I personally enjoy the idea of Litecoin taking it's as number 2.  Just as a safety measure if BTC or the community needs it.  I don't see anything wrong with that, can't hurt form my perspective it's a great safety measure.  Especially in these early stages who knows I could be way off but that's my opinion for right now.

All of these recent scams do is discredit *ALL* cryptocurrency, and mainly Litecoin.

We were very close to getting Litecoin going as a secondary widespread alternative when the inundation of scamcoins began.  I am not saying Litecoin should replace Bitcoin.

I own more BTC than LTC in current value.

However this flood of FRAUD is ruining the reputation of ALL alts, and it is being done on purpose.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: jackjack on May 13, 2013, 10:12:17 AM
**UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
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Why? Because you have lots of them. That's why.

+1
This


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: jackjack on May 13, 2013, 10:17:12 AM
I know from someone who has seen IPs that the forum has an alt account problem.
I know from someone who has a white coat that you have a paranoia problem.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: cokein on May 13, 2013, 12:33:29 PM

All these ALT-coins make me laught.
People supporting it, also.

MAYBE litecoin will be a good BTC alternative, but, hey.. how can u say that for sure ?!

UNTIL 3 or 4 YEARS, you cannot. So, now, all these FANTASTIC (scam) coins are useless except for mining (to convert in btc for profit) or speculation.

NOBODY can say, how long they will stay alive. As develop, as growing or merchant acceptance..
Nobody knows, how the next hack-ddos-storm hit one of these alt-coins, will be "assimilated", nor if the coins will be usable or will not due to hack/ddoss/whatever

You are talking of NOTHING.
And more, bitcoin is NOT CLOSED. Is still in development and, maybe u don't know, it's possibile to vote for a change and make in on the source!
So, what's the difference with the other "better" alt-coins features?
The difference is that BTC instead of the others have a dev team behind, who is working every day to the project from years now.
So it's reliable, contrary to the other, that NOW exist and tomorrow cold die without a warning..

SHIT coins are only a big mess and an attemp to late-coins-comers to make some easy bucks trying to sell wather for gold.

I don't know if LTC will be the "silver" of digital currency..
What i know for sure is that Bitcoin is the GOLD, so, why mess up with something MUCH MORE RISKY than btc?!!
Only to GAMBLE on it.. but hey.. u know.. u can play at satoshidice.. u'll have the same chance to guess what will be from here to 4 years ahead.



Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: justabitoftime on May 13, 2013, 12:57:50 PM
Market will decide. As for now the only strong and most traded currency are BTC and LTC, all the others will shade and disappear in a week or so (see chinacoin and feathercoin and other ponzi). The only people defending these "coins" are the unlucky/stupid bagholder.

It's fine to have an opinion, but sheesh, educate yourself about the community first.  Feathercoin isn't going anywhere, if you spent anytime on the official forums, you'd know that.  If you haven't, feel free to visit.. you're more than welcome.


I can only imagine the credit card forums:

"zomg, Visa is American Express is umm... so p0wned"

"Visa uses a .01 block adjustment on yz algorithm.. it won't work. STFU you credit card noob, Diners Club serves a different market"

"You are using THAT card? Freaking scamcard"

"Mastercard and Visa are the only options, everyone else that owns something else is a complete newb, fanboy, (insert cute trendy Internet word)"




Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: justabitoftime on May 13, 2013, 12:58:22 PM
Market will decide. As for now the only strong and most traded currency are BTC and LTC, all the others will shade and disappear in a week or so (see chinacoin and feathercoin and other ponzi). The only people defending these "coins" are the unlucky/stupid bagholder.

It's fine to have an opinion, but sheesh, educate yourself about the community first.  Feathercoin isn't going anywhere, if you spent anytime on the official forums, you'd know that.  If you haven't, feel free to visit.. you're more than welcome.


I can only imagine the credit card forums:

"zomg, Visa is American Express is umm... so p0wned"

"Visa uses a .01 block adjustment on yz algorithm.. it won't work. STFU you credit card noob, Diners Club serves a different market"

"Mastercard and Visa are the only options, everyone else that owns something else is a complete newb, fanboy, (insert cute trendy Internet word)"




Note: I own quite a bit of Litecoin, I hope it succeeds. :)


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: digitalindustry on May 13, 2013, 01:34:18 PM
The alt community should focus all its might on getting Litecoin going as a true BTC alternative, and I will share with you why.  Litecoin was gaining major ground against BTC when the flood of scamcoins happened.

I was speculating about recent shenanigans in general on IRC when I was messaged on IRC that from someone who would definitely know that some of the flood of altcoins is being done purposefully by BITCOIN-ONLY adherents in a Machiavellian attempt to discredit Litecoin...as Litecoin was getting close to MAJOR acceptance as *THE* BTC alternative - it was no coincidence that it was at that time the scams hit the alt community like a mack truck!

etc etc etc

{hmmm}

Dude - i know a little bit about politics and policy , i have seen nastier politics at the all girls soccer club. a couple of things:

1. when did you get the email? i thought we all kind of assumed that's what the policy was?, ah , why wouldn't Bitcoin / ASIC owners attack an alternative ? , friend that's a part of the market as well.

2. look to the top of the page - is says "bitcointalk.org" - should i continue..... i mean you get the point i'm making right?

3. My opinion of LTC is that is just flew on the wave on the back of the flawed/compromised and pre-mined Bitcoin. - i don't see anything particularly special about it on the acceptability side of things, it was the first Scrypt design no ? that in its self is revolutionary from a technical stand point , but its ... not going to change the world.

4. This is not TV world , so you know have a cup of tea, breath a little, Bitcoin's market is allegedly its aspects of design based around the "freedom" and "etc etc" as soon as it steps away from that its a Donkey. in fact its probably a Donkey anyhow.

5. if BTC goes to TV land that's fine , about 15 alternatives will appear , and be accepted , 5 guys dont decide that , you or i don't , government institutions don’t , the market does.

6. Spam coins are funny and irrelevant in all except , driving the innovation off the Bitcointalk  Forum, especially since they decided to not organize them, so if these "Master Chess players" {lol} wanted to drive all the Alternative innovation to a different place , well,  ah ok,  none of this really matches up to a big win anywhere?

7. just because someone told you something that was already pretty apparent , does not mean that it is A ) totally true or B) even a problem.

8 Gox is just an exchange – exchanges are not exempt from the principals of the market and supply and demand. – Many more exchanges will pop up, come go, so what.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: TheDarKnight on May 17, 2013, 02:48:14 AM
They're fucking ruining a perfectly magnificent currency (LiteCoin) and don't deserve the investment, because they are all massively deflationary, and scammy scamcoins to boot. You will eventually get ripped off on each and every one of them and the only defenders are the miners wishing to cash-in on them and screw your ass to a fine profit. They aren't proper currencies, anyone can make them, and they should be more controlled, like on lesser well-known exchanges, than being place alongside the monoliths of LTC and BTCTC, it's just garbage too much investment in them, why bother!


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: justabitoftime on May 17, 2013, 06:24:31 AM
They're fucking ruining a perfectly magnificent currency (LiteCoin) and don't deserve the investment, because they are all massively deflationary, and scammy scamcoins to boot. You will eventually get ripped off on each and every one of them and the only defenders are the miners wishing to cash-in on them and screw your ass to a fine profit. They aren't proper currencies, anyone can make them, and they should be more controlled, like on lesser well-known exchanges, than being place alongside the monoliths of LTC and BTCTC, it's just garbage too much investment in them, why bother!

Zomg, it's all crumbling.. coins should be centrally managed and controlled. Oh wait.. that's the opposite idea around open source software.  It's the same BS we heard in the Linux community forever... zomg, it's another Linux copy, it's all crumbling down.


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: TheDarKnight on May 17, 2013, 11:19:39 PM
They're fucking ruining a perfectly magnificent currency (LiteCoin) and don't deserve the investment, because they are all massively deflationary, and scammy scamcoins to boot. You will eventually get ripped off on each and every one of them and the only defenders are the miners wishing to cash-in on them and screw your ass to a fine profit. They aren't proper currencies, anyone can make them, and they should be more controlled, like on lesser well-known exchanges, than being place alongside the monoliths of LTC and BTCTC, it's just garbage too much investment in them, why bother!

Zomg, it's all crumbling.. coins should be centrally managed and controlled. Oh wait.. that's the opposite idea around open source software.  It's the same BS we heard in the Linux community forever... zomg, it's another Linux copy, it's all crumbling down.

Zoinks! Can't see a basic point.  :(


Title: Re: **UNITE BEHIND LITECOIN** (Why?)
Post by: cryptoanarchist on May 21, 2013, 01:40:57 AM
This thread confirms my suspicions that the same old gang of dickheads is trying to make bitcoin the "One World Currency" that they control.

The piling on the OP with ad hominems and other logical fallacies is exactly what I expect out of them - its their main tool.

Let's see, you have Charlie Shrem, who has admitted to be related to Rothschilds, as the ONE guy who has magically been able to "navigate regulations" and "get the right licensing" to be the main transmitter between fiat and btc - that should raise red flags right there.

You have Gavin, who got invited to speak to the CIA and calls people "conspiracy theorists" when they question him about it.

You got Garzik, who's called for regulation from day 1.

All 3 of these assclowns have gotten mainstream media attention - the same MSM that is state controlled and lies to us daily and creates staged events weekly.


Now you have a bunch of newly created accounts on turd throwing patrol bad mouthing LTC. Go figure.