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Over the past two years, Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR) have seen a decline in popularity, with reduced mentions on platforms like X and crypto forums. Litecoin struggles against newer, feature-rich blockchains despite its fast transactions and low fees. Monero’s privacy focus faces regulatory challenges but retains a loyal niche. Market data shows stagnant prices for LTC, while XMR’s privacy features support specific use cases. Both maintain active communities, but their future hinges on market trends and regulations. Investing in them is risky due to volatility and fading hype. Diversification and research are essential. Can they rebound, or are newer coins better?

In the crypto world, things change quickly, so it's important to be able to improve innovation so as not to be left behind by new projects that have more advanced features, are friendlier with lower fees and are more useful.

Like Litecoin (LTC), which is the most reliable and fastest in terms of transactions, but is currently struggling to compete with blockchains that have more features and most importantly have lower costs. While Monero (XMR) although constrained by strict regulations. But for users who place privacy as a top priority, Monero (XMR) is still a very viable option.

So far I don't see any problem with LTC because from what I can see, there are still many traders who believe in it in my opinion, and the marketcap that litecoin has now
is still not lagging behind.

But with XMR, it doesn't seem to be as aggressive compared to Litecoin, this is just my assessment of the two, Although it may be that for others they still have
the same potential now and in the future.

Monero maintains a strong community and real-world use case but faces more external risks (regulatory, network security). It’s still a viable choice for those seeking privacy and willing to accept higher volatility. Bitcoin is better. Dash too.

I noticed ethereum has good trading volume which is very high and next to bitcoin, but it should also be talked about because it is not getting to all-time high since 2021.

Litecoin is also an altcoin. Just know that even if some altcoins are store of value, they will take longer years before they can claim that. Or maybe there would be better coins that will replace them which happened to litecoin.

But know that litecoin marketcap is not small at all. $8.8 billion is not small but just that it is not proving to be a store of value yet.

Everything related to adoption is influenced by innovation, the more frequently innovations appear, the greater the adoption that occurs in a crypto project. Looking at what's happening with Litecoin (LTC) & Monero (XMR), it seems like the attention is no longer strong, there are many more solid projects & favored by VCs who want to make big profits from their investments.

Luckily, Litecoin (LTC) & Monero (XMR) are 2 fully decentralized projects, perhaps we'll see a resurgence of these projects when PoS experiences many problems in the future.

I could remembered back then when I never joined this forum I used to hear about LTC (Litecoin) how it's mostly used for transactions due to its low transaction fees, but after 6 years we never see any hype or further developments towards the above mentioned coins, and I can also sight back to another interesting coin back then, coin like NEO and EOS all these aren't been mentioned any longer due how other coin has taken over the space.

Absolutely, crypto moves at lightning speed, so innovation is everything. Litecoin’s quick transactions and low costs are great, but it’s struggling to keep up with blockchains that offer more features. Monero’s privacy focus still has a dedicated fanbase, even with regulatory challenges. Both have strong communities, but their future depends on adapting to trends and rules. Investors need to be cautious, spread their bets, and watch for newer coins with better functionality.

Litecoin & Monero lost hype as newer crypto projects took over. Litecoin is still used but seen as old tech. Monero stays strong for privacy but faces legal pressure. Both are still around but not top choices anymore. Whether they’re worth investing in depends on your goals but don’t expect big returns like in the early days. Always do your own research.

LTC had some "innovations" and made it better and quicker and cheaper than bitcoin so they worked on the bitcoin and that was terrible and should be a lot better. But we are seeing the thing we are not really putting LTC into top 20 anymore because people just do not want to have anything we want to work on.

If we want to make this work, then we are going to get a lot better. So, when you get better. We are going to get a lot better on Litecoin compared to Monero. Reason is that Litecoin is just a good coin that hasn't seen any attention but it's the same. Whereas, if we are checking Monero, the reason why it is not getting big is because it's being attacked by many, and that is going to be the reason why it is not that big of a dela.

It's still in the top #20, specifically rank #19 with around $9B MC.


Yes, the government doesn't like privacy. Yet, one of the things the community wants from Monero (XMR) is full privacy. It's a shame that many of the big CEXs are delisting Monero (XMR), there's no longer any support for full privacy. But I'm sure there will be a time when these privacy-focused coins will shine again, someday...

Don't invest in something just because of hype, not unless you understand the risks.

Look at the positive side, both LTC and XMR have a strong community. That's what matters. There's no such thing as fading hype there.

Besides, the whole crypto industry in general is volatile from the beginning. Will you play instead on new tokens out there, which increase the risks and are more speculative, instead of keeping up with the momentum of those coins that have already been tested during the bull and bear run? Not wrong though, but up to you to decide.

Exactly and this is what should be done by investors. Also its good that OP ask this kind of question since he provably get some good opinions coming from people who has experience to deal with those coins.

But I think I will drop Monero in this option but that doesn't mean this is a bad coin but I just don't feel like investing on it.

For Litecoin yeah this is still good coin to invest but they need to have long patience and now that they are taking huge risk on investing on it since maybe they can see good result for adding this coin in their portfolio.

In 2018 and 2019, Litecoin gained significant attention and was often considered a potential rival to Bitcoin due to its Proof-of-Work (PoW) protocol. However, following Ethereum's rise, the landscape shifted dramatically. Ethereum has seen extensive development in areas such as DeFi, Layer 2 solutions, meme coins, and other innovations. In contrast, Litecoin's development has lagged significantly behind Ethereum's ecosystem.

I see plenty of potential for Monero as it has unique features for anonymity. However, I would like to see more news and developments there. As far as Litecoin is concerned I don't see a reason for it to exist. Why use Litecoin when you can use Bitcoin's lightning network which is much faster?

You are gravely mistaken, silver is never a rival to gold.

They can because as you've said, they've got still an active community. If I have to invest into other altcoins, these two are my options then. Not the newer ones because I am more prone in losing in choosing them. While these two, established already and although not as quick as the others move but, we know that there's a strong community that still supports these projects. While the hotter take with Monero is that the government is keep on asking to delist it from exchanges because of privacy concerns. But if that's the case, then we all know that XMR has been effective as its task to increase anonymity of transactions and the government is running chasing and concerned on it.

LTC is still worth, as for monero. Well, for investment purpose I don't really think it's worth it with the pressure from government and their scrutiny that exchange decided to delist monero from their platform.
Maybe if you really like privacy you can invest in it, but for profit seeking people that sounds like a bad future for their asset.

Remember, we are strictly talking about investing and the most important thing, return of investment.

Litecoin has only been a legacy coin simply because Charlie lee saw off and never looked back. This cycle, we have seen a new meta called crypto treasury companies. There's been several for a lot of cryptos now. From Bitcoin, to Ethereum to even hyperLiquid but have you seen one for litecoin or Monero? The answer is no. If the goal is to make profits, you'll find more opportunities elsewhere and not with those tokens. I hardly see any "major" upgrades to make both chains better and more enticing for people to use it these days.

Litecoin is losing its status as a silver of crypto. People started to abandon it as it gives no value other than capital gain. You get nothing when holding LTC, i think that's the reason people are not massively using it as investment.

As for Monero, since the regulation is getting stricted to the crypto. It's impacted all of centralized exchange sites, which has become central of liquidity. The order by regulators to ban anon coin from cex is giving massive impact to the monero. It's hard to sell or buy it since it can be done only through p2p.

In conclusion, Both Litecoin and Monero are not worth investing.

Litecoin and Monero are old coins, often overshadowed by newer ones on the market. People usually move into newer coins with the hopes of riding the hype and making a "quick buck". If old projects fail to come up with a viable marketing/PR strategy, investors will simply look elsewhere. Such is the case with LTC and XMR these days. Monero is going to see even "darker days" than Litecoin because it's a privacy coin (which banks and governments hate the most). At least, in terms of market prices. But the community might keep it going, allowing Monero to stand the test of time.

Luckily for Litecoin, institutional firms are considering submitting an ETF application to the SEC. If approved, institutional investors will buy LTC like crazy (therefore, "pumping" market prices all the way to the moon). Same as what happened with BTC and ETH (especially BTC). In some sense, it's good for these coins to remain under the radar of both retail and institutional investors alike. Too much popularity would result in higher network fees and slower confirmation times. At the time of this writing, LTC and XMR are fast and cheap to use. I hope they stay that way forever. Ultimately, you decide which coins to invest into. Just avoid investing more than what you can't afford to lose, and there should be nothing to worry about.

Such threads pop up every now and then. There doesn't seem too much progress with LTC and XMR. But if you look deeper, you see:

- The Monero community has built a lot of tools in the last 2-3 years which allow to trade it P2P (via atomic swaps, for example) and thus you don't need the CEXes anymore.
- LTC has added extension blocks and Mimblewimble (MWEB), so it has optional privacy now. This was already some years ago but I think it isn't used as much as it could, so there's still potential for more adoption in the near to mid-term future.
- LTC's price grew 28% in the last 30 days, making it the third altcoin of the top 30 in terms of price growth behind only ETH and Chainlink. In the last year it grew almost 100% (in August 2024 it was about $65).
- XMR's price grew 75% in the last year, amid massive delistings. It couldn't hold a spike up to $400 but is performing still very well when comparing to most other altcoins.
- LTC is still strong in the "payment coin" market: it has 200k transactions per day (Bitcoin has 400k approximately).

Innovation matters mostly for new altcoins. For old coins, it's more important to strengthen the community and find new use cases. It will be interesting to see if there's a LTC ETF and how the market could react to this. For XMR I don't think an ETF is realistic in the current political landscape, but it seems not to need institutional money.

I agree with Litecoin's assessment although it is less relevant now. Why would is use Litecoin when I can use Lightning Network on Bitcoin? Much faster, cheaper and safer.

For this you are making a mistake. All of the reasons you have provided are reasons for which one should buy Monero, and not reasons against. It can also be seen as factors that suppress market performance but it is not working that well.

Monero always has demand because of its unique and strong features, it does not need artificial utility.

Do you maybe know where this community is the most active? I don't see much of them on this forum here?

I still think an on-chain transaction has qualities which are lacking by current layer-2 solutions. For example, you don't need to be online to receive payments, and you also don't have to monitor your channels constantly for attacks.

A working 100% decentralized sidechain instead could be more the kind of app which could get back market share fore the "payment" use case from altcoins for BTC.

The Monero subreddit is quite active: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/

There are also some other forums/communities, for example:

- https://forum.monero.space/ (not too active but a lot more than here at Bitcointalk I think)
- https://discord.gg/SyGUMWBqvF - Discord (I'm not using it but Discord communities tend to be large in the altcoin space)
- https://www.getmonero.org/community/hangouts/ - Site with some more options

At the moment, Monero is not having it rosy with the heated competition it's having with the Qubic project. From what I read on X, Monero is under attack with Qubic been in control of 51% of its hashrate. This is threatening to destroy confidence in Monero. According to the post, "With its current dominance, Qubic can rewrite the blockchain, enable double-spending, and censor any transaction." That's not good for Monero's image. You can read up the rest of the post from the link below. I can tell, it's not looking good for Monero.

https://x.com/p3b7_/status/1955173413992984988?s=46&t=Tge7wL0CQSIsAr5gGlK3vw

There is conflicting information about this. This forum post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1mod130/psa_qubic_is_lying_they_dont_have_50_hash_rate/) claims they never went over 50% but had a short time with about 40% which enabled them to do some selfish mining with a reorg what enabled them to find 50% of the blocks for some time. Currently however data seems to suggest they have around 30%. According to this site (https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero), ~26% of the hashrate is of unknown origin (which could be Qubic, among others) and the rest are bigger Monero pools.

Edit: also BitMEX wrote that they never reached 51%, see here (https://x.com/bitmexresearch/status/1955254320305217726). Their suspicion is also that the reorg was a small successful "selfish mining" attempt.

Apparently there was a massive social media attack going on to try to convince miners to join Qubic's pool, but they failed at that afaik.

Litecoin community has active members on Reddit,
https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/s/QO0ObrivMa

Hey! Look at what I found as I went deeper to research the subject matter. @C_f_b, the dude behind Qubic, has even made an open offer on his X handle for an independent reviewer to step in and do justice to that instead of the ongoing media war between the Qubic and Monero communities. Someone suggested @DesheShai (X handle), a dev that worked on Kaspa, to him. Let's see how the whole thing works out in days to come.

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/08/14/USLSCC.jpeg

Interestingly, CFB was even active on this forum until 2021. BTT is indeed huge on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. He shared a conversation he had with some dude here...

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/08/14/USLQwH.jpeg

Here's Come-from-Beyond (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=46556)'s profile in case anyone is interested in reading what they were up to in the past. Also, here's the link to that post  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1319681.msg13508913#msg13508913

According to psychologists and their stages of Grief which is classified into five – Denial, Anger, Bargain, Depression and Acceptance.

IMHO, I think the Monero team is going through the second stage of grief now which is Anger.

At first when the whole thing started, it was outright denial that it wasn't going to be possible to even attempt. Now that an attempt has been made, it's the level of attack (percentage) that's the arguement.

Perhaps, it will soon get to stage three or it ends in stage two. Only time will tell.