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Since yesterday, litecoin and bitcoin cash has been battering for the fourth place in the coinmarketcap. both have been replacing each other at certain interval. whom do you think will maintain the fourth place.
i preferred Litecoin because it is getting more adopted than bitcoin cash.

I still prefer litecoin rather bitcoin because it has more usages compared with BCH. Even litecoin is acted as the experiment for bitcoin protocol and then that's good enough to be placed at the number four of CMC.
I believe litecoin still got its 4th place and BCH will below litecoin.

Ehh. I think both are really irrelevant. Litecoin just a tad bit more useful because of it being the sort of like Bitcoin lab rat. Litecoin's slogan "silver to bitcoins gold" never made sense to me at all. I think Bitcoin Cash will stay at the fourth place though, they have a decent sized community compared to Litecoin.

I think both have potential to reach 4th place, But right now litecoin is maintain the top region. So we are all expect it will stay in 4th place and BCH also have same potential to occupy the more marketcap again in crypto market. Because we are all see competition on ETH and XRP so many of them think LTC was hold the 4th position. Once Bitcoin growing well both the marketcap was raise gradually so anything will possible at future days.

You touched on a point that is very interesting.

This is the Bitcoin Cash Thread:  [ANN] Bitcoin Cash - Pro on-chain scaling - Cheaper fees (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2040221.0)

the thread has 924, There are 924 pages of fights:

BCH Vs BTC

BCH Vs BSV

In my opinion is a joke thread

This is the Litecoin Thread:  [ANN] Litecoin - a lite version of Bitcoin. Launched! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.7560)

there are 379 pages, there are 379 pages where people are still very optimistic in exaggeration

in a few weeks will have Litcoin Halving ( https://www.litecoinblockhalf.com ), and this may create a momentary price pump on the day of the halving, but in my opinion a few days later the price of Litecoin will fall. So in my opinion the winner of this dispute will be Bitcoin Cash

Litecoin might be useful, for now. But after Bitcoin scales through 2nd layer solutions like the Lightning Network or another alternative in the future? What is Litecoin left for? Nothing. It just has a bit of popularity because Charlie Lee is friends with a lot of bitcoiners.

Uh.. Litecoin is also a fork though.

I do not particularly like bitcoin cash but I could care less which coin finishes fourth or fifth. Let their community battle it out like kids and see who will have the bragging rights.

Litecoin was an early bitcoin clone and bitcoin cash is Bitcoin's most furious rival/imposter,due to all the misleading bullshit propaganda saying that BCH is the "real bitcoin" or that BCH is the "real vision of Satoshi".
I say f**k BCH and long live Litecoin,even though I'm not that much into altcoins. ;D

Sooner or later bitcoin cash will be going down on the market cap values and at some poit it may fade away from it as well but the litecoin is considered as one of the best altcoin and will be used for small transaction is the future so this will have a place.

Classification of cryptos based on market capacity "price* Circulation supply" is a misleading indicator and does not mean anything. For example, if Binance Coin rated over BTC in the future, "this will happen". Does that mean anything? Definitely does not represent any standard. [Don’t forget fake volumes]

For more Read ---> Why Market Cap is a Meaningless (https://medium.com/blockchain-review/why-market-cap-is-a-meaningless-dangerous-valuation-metric-in-crypto-markets-8deb78c50995) & why market-cap dominance charts are misleading. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/90vgo2/this_is_why_marketcap_dominance_charts_are/)

? Best in terms of what. It doesn't do anything special.


When the Lightning Network or another 2nd layer technology becomes adopted by most wallets and exchanges, there won't be any use-case left for litecoin.

Couldn't have said it better myself.  Maybe if there were a decent number of businesses that accepted either coin, I'd be more interested since I do buy some stuff with crypto.  The only places I know of that sell anything good for either LTC or BCH are precious metals merchants.  

What I do appreciate about both BCH and LTC is that their networks don't tend to get clogged up like bitcoin's does, and the fees are quite low.  That said, I don't use either of them and only own some BCH dust and zero LTC.

Agree with this as well.  People pay far too much attention to market cap, and that never made much sense to me in terms of importance.

When it comes to Community support even though i hate Bitcoincash but i do admit that it do have much bigger support than with Litecoin.They might be fighting for 4th place on the entire market but this isnt really an important thing to be argue about which neither of them would be on the place,i dont really care at all.

Eh. I think some stores just accept other cryptocurrencies for the "what if customer x prefers to pay with x altcoin" factor. And probably because BitPay accepts BCH anyway so why not.

I don't like BitcoinCash either, but the reason of it's existence makes more sense: a minority for due to a disagreement on how bitcoin should move forward. Litecoin? Forked because what? Initially just so we have a new coin in the cryptocurrency markets?

I'm only thinking that because of the upcoming Litecoin's block halving, the price is really spiking. https://www.litecoinblockhalf.com/. On the other hand, we have BCH, has a full backing of big investors like Ver and Jihan, so most likely they will stay atop the fourth place. But remember, they are both altcoins, they could have purposes for some people, but we all know that they're just being used for some pump-and-dump scheme.

But you can never tell, the last time, BCH was on the top 2 list. And comparing these two, they have both competing not only on the rank but also with the popularity, with both highest market cap and  also fights along with electronic cash thing. I believe the rank depends on the transaction volume itself. How many people do patronize and use either litecoin and bch? That actually reflects the rank.

You do realize that bitcoin cash is used by mostly the owners (miners) and also the auto traders right? Litecoin is there because it is actually liked by the public and people really want to keep trading it or even have it on their portfolio, nobody buys bitcoin cash because they want to invest in it, they buy it so they can sell, it is auto traders that use bots to trade and use bitcoincash, the other big player is people like jihan wu and roger ver to actually make a difference and instead of selling and dropping the price they are just buying with the money they have to make it look like they are big, there is no end game in bitcoin cash, it will fail because it can't sustain couple of miners having 90% of all coins, eventually they have to sell it to make a difference.

  I think they both have been in a contest so far and nothing is changed. Bitcoincash and Litecoin both have good future and for that reason, Bitcoincash and Litecoin are demanded in the market which is visible from the statistics given on the coin market cap site. I think Bitcoincash is superior because its price is pretty above than what LTC stays which means that the demand for Bitcoincash is more than that for LTC.

That is actually true, I did not really take note of that, I can see through coinmarketcap that the total marketcap of Litecoin, is almost very close to that of bitcoincash, and if care is not taking by bitcoincash, Litecoin will really give it a very wide gap, now that we have few weeks to its halving, and I believe this having to have very big impact on its value positively.

Anyway, bitcoincash has always been manipulated and I don’t see any much use for it, I think it is currently occupying the wrong place, and the rightful place would be somewhere below 10th position, the coin that should have been the main occupant is Litecoin, and I know that with time, when things finally takes shape with Litecoin, it will occupy its space back, which is the third ranked coin.

i also have this in mind. i believed that litecoin have more future than bitcoin cash. the continue forking of bitcoin to produce bitcoin cash and the rest reduces the potential aspects of bitcoin cash. there is every possibility that we will see another fork taking place.

With bitcoin having a decentralized consensus model, forks will happen whether you like it or not. With a leaderless project, disagreements and variations in ideas is inevitable; hence why we have forks right now.

Oh, and also, litecoin is also a fork. It has no future either.

I hope the most decentralized coin and coin with the most active users takes over long-term.
Both cryptocurrencies have a long way to go though in order to qualify to be at the top.

Does it really matter?

There is already ETH out there and I would rather pick that if there is a heavy traffic with the bitcoin transactions.
Faster and way cheaper than any transaction fees that is being given out there by those two.

They should have just focused on bitcoin all of those investments rather than dividing it in 3 or 4.
But if forced to choose then, I would gladly pick litecoin out of the two.

If this "FIGHT" you are saying is between their market cap, I don't care with both of them. Comparing 2 altcoins in terms of market cap is wrong. Compare it in terms of technology, community and what they can do to make the life of the people better. I'm not a fan of either Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash so I'm neutral with both of them.

Litecoin have pros and cons and at the same time Bitcoin cash have also pros and cons. There are some of them:

Litecoin pros
-Speedy transaction time
-Low Transaction Fees
-Reliability

Bitcoin Cash Pros
-Block Size & Speed
-BCH Is Listed on Major Crypto Exchanges
-Mining Difficulty Adjustments

Source
https://cryptorunner.com/bitcoin-cash-vs-litecoin/

It is difficult to know, right now there seems to be some interest going in litecoin since the block reward will be halved in 19 days, but once that passes I see the interest in litecoin going down and BCH could take the spot as the fourth coin with the highest market cap, however I have never believed in BCH, I do not mind competition and all of that but the fact that during some time the devs of BCH claimed it was the real bitcoin is something that bothers me and I will never invest my money long term in such coin since it could crash at any moment.

Nah, BCH is not it at all, the reason why they are just growing is because they are fork of bitcoin, and that is still the main attachment between it and the investors, everyone wants to associate with anything that has to do with bitcoin, but Litecoin that would have proven itself strong is really dulling for my liken, Litecoin has everything to grow, but I guess that the team of Litecoin are just too lazy to push their product, and now they are trying to hide under the umbrella of halving.

My brother Litecoin will fail woefully if they don’t come up with another strategy that will really make people to see them for who they are, I dint see any effect of halving on them at all, halving will just come and then pass without noticing if it ever happened. So they better wake up into the reality of more hard work.

I don’t have any confidence in Bitcoin counterparts and Litcoin.  I used them only temporarily, as long as it was profitable.  After the recent events in the cryptocurrency market, I prefer to invest in specific coins that do not force you to risk your capital.  This is primarily Bitcoin and ethereum, as well as those projects that have already confirmed their prospects.

And that is the only thing that holding LTC, it's block halving. And I'm sure that once investors had gotten their money of out LTC dump will be incoming and that is the time that BCH might go up to 4th place as we all know that as much as we don't want to admit it, they have a big community of supporters as well.

With that said, I won't be surprised to see them reclaiming the 4th spot and LTC going back to 5th to 10th place.

Litecoin has been in existence ever since 2011, while Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is only two years old (in its current form). So it's not surprising that LTC has a larger acceptability when compared to BCH. Also, from 2011 to 2015 LTC held the position as the number two altcoin, something which BCH could never achieve (its best ranking was #3, if I am not wrong).

I am not sure whether LTC is having more acceptability compared to BCH right now. IMO, the latter may be having an advantage. I am someone who uses a lot of gambling sites and pre-paid cards. From what I have seen, after BTC and ETH, BCH may be having the maximum coverage.

Also, don't get fooled by the recent spike in the Litecoin exchange rates. A lot of that resulted from the hype in anticipation to the upcoming block reward halving. Let's see what happens after that event (05 Aug 2019).

Its always a good idea to split your investments in times of uncertainty. Crypto is in an interesting place now, with many unknowns in the near future.
I personally hold both with a higher percentage in LTC.
Whatever you do, hold your investments for the long term and don’t sell on the drops. The progress of this can be seen on exchange graph.So you can be positive about buy litecoin (https://coinswitch.co/coins/bitcoin/bitcoin-to-litecoin) . Also due to Litecoin halving we can see the price  incerse in LTC. If you can see the LTC graph In Dec 2018 the price was $30.99 but after the halving the today's market value is $90.51 which is drastically increase.Curretly it is holding the 4th rank in coinmarket cap as well.

Source: https://coinswitch.co/news/litecoin-price-prediction-2019-ltc-price-may-touch-230-usd-in-2019

Both coin has been very helpful in one way or the other to a lot of users and investors in the cryptocurrency space and I think they all deserve an award for the service they are both rendering to people, but I think Litecoin has upper hand, because first, they have been in the crypto space before bitcoincash, and what made bitcoincash suddenly shoot was because it is a hard fork of bitcoin, and you know that people tend to respect and pay attention more to anything that is closely related to the proper Bitcoin.

If we consider technology, Litecoin has the technology more and I think they deserve to be on that third rank, but I am not a biased person, I will give my full support to whoever team that is more active in developing their project and making people happy more.

All the fights started with try and alter the original BitCoin - specced up by the Satoshi White Paper.

BitCoin did not start with a ticker - think about.

Bitcoincash is just a copy of already existing system of bitcoin and I dint see any special features that they have brought to the crypto world other than just to duplicate bitcoin technology and claim to be fork of it. Litecoin has a different technology entirely, and I would not really blame bitcoin cash, I blame Litecoin for outing itself in such position where they have to be comparing this new fork that Litecoin seniors to it.

I am happy that the halving of Litecoin is just like 5 days to go, and I am so sure that this halving will have some great effect in the market of Litecoin and will add enough value that may make it to outrun bitcoincash temporarily, so forward ever, backward never, Litecoin will always be senior to bitcoin cash in all ramification.

Ever since coinmarket was deemed unreliable for displaying incorrect information I have not been looking at the charts for quite a while.

And tell you what am surprised that bitcoin cash dropped to fourth because the last time I checked it should have been battering with ethereum but forth damn, things happen so fast.

both the currencies oi having great expectation from the people but there is nothing to clash between them because each and every currencies had the unique way to develop so the development of one currency will not affect the other this is that fact I think

1 vote for Litecoin because i'm holding on.  ;)

Currently, Bitcoin cash is occupying the spot but that won't last long. The difference isn't that much so I won't be surprised if the battle continues for the next couple of weeks although, I pick Litecoin to over throne Bitcoin cash and stays that way for the next couple of months since the hype towards the Litecoin halving event is still flowing around in the community. Bitcoin cash don't have any positive news associated with it, instead it's benefiting off the success of Bitcoin. Maybe after the event has been successful and they hype dies down then Bitvoincash will regain it's throne as the fourth largest and populous coin based on market capitalization.

Bitcoin cash has no reason to be on the top of the list so definitely Litecoin should take that place.Earlier bitcoin cash nearly reaches the value of ripple but now it went deep down which shows that this coin keep losing its value when other coin maintains it even at the worst.Learn the lesson as soon as possible or BCH holders will have nothing.