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Im lookin for a long-term investment and have 1000$.
I cant decide if btc or ltc is better?
What would you choose?

First of all, i would choose to diversify the investment into more coins, but if you would like to invest in one, it is ok too.

In one coin out of the two you said, choose Bitcoin. BUT i would choose neither and go for Etherium, i just think this is where the future is. Bitcoin network is quite laggy and it serves only purpose as a payment whereas Etherium has more features.

If you decided to diversify, also check out Stratis, Iconomi, Lisk and other promising coins.

Litecoin is basically a working bitcoin and undervalued... but you decide.

It depends which profit you want to get. LTC is risky coin, but you can get a nice profit from it, if it would grow. BTC is more stabilize one you can just invest in it and wait, it will definitely grow :)

I would probably split them half-half.
Both are fairly stable and have promise in the future.
Aren't Litecoin planning to introduce anonymous transactions some time in the future?

I always prepare BTC because LTC is slowly rising so profit is low.

I suggest you use the majority of the investment for BTC and invest rest for others.

Yes sort of by obfuscating the amount of coins

https://torguard.net/blog/why-vpn-users-should-get-excited-about-litecoin/

If I suggest you have to invest with BTC rather than LTC, because I believe you invest in BTC, you will get big profits in the future, because BTC is very convincing and many people invest in BTC. But if you invest in LTC, I do not guarantee the money you have will increase in LTC investment.

You missed out on the Segwit hype for LTC.

I think Litecoin will see some new developments that build on top of Segwit.

My hope is that the price will eventually decouple from BTC. I'm not holding my breath though.

You are right, everyone is free to choose but I think if you want to invest the money you have, you should choose Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is obviously in the future, and very promising to invest in Bitcoin.

You could diversify based on the market cap. Meaning you would split your $1000 into [a few] top currencies based on their share in the market. You'd have $550 or so in Bitcoin, $200 in Ethereum etc. (I am just guessing the numbers, you'd have to use the calculator to get the proper numbers based on the market cap).

If you are willing to take a little bit of risk then go for ltc as 1000$ can increase the price a bit on some exchanges, which can lead to more buy orders and chamce of getting a profit of 20% within a day. But for this you need little knowledge of trading also. If you don't have time for this or don't know trading invest all in bitcoins or invest 800$ in btc and rest in ltc
You can even try xmr it is also a really good altcoin

i will keep with BTC because even it is safe but risk when hold altcoin is bigger that bitcoin, i am not altcoin holder so i will pick on bitcoin

Why dont you buy half of each?  You spend $500 on LTC and $500 on BTC.  And you also buy yourself an hardware wallet to have them stored safer.

  Will it all depends on you, if you really did you research you can decide on yourself but in my opinion I would diverse it because we don't know the future. What I'm going to do is split it to 4 and invest it in 4 coins including btc and ltc so you won't get regret that you have chosen the wrong one because you invested on them. Of course you will lose some but I'm pretty sure that in the future you will really earn some.  ;)

I think you better invest your money in BTC because BTC rate is better than LTC

I think bitcoin because it has a good value and you earn profit. Bitcoin is a good investment and better to invest in bitcoin because it will become high and most popular in investment. Bitcoin is most trusted currency and fastest it is safe to invest in bitcoin. Many of people and investors are invest in bitcoin likely in Ltc. Invest in bitcoin is have a future.

If your intrest is getting also some profit I woiuld choose LTC.
Think about how much BTC needs to rise for you to double your money? From ~2000 USD to ~4000 USD
And litecoin needs to bounce from 20 to 40 ;)
Imho BTC train is long gone to make profit.
Offcourse it's a bit less riskier than LTC. But your call.
I got my euros in LTC. Bright future ahead for that coin.

This is hard question, and i find myself confused every time i think about this. I not sure we actually need to choose, because they are about good and can be even more successful. Also diversity is needed we can use them no matter which is better or not.
Best would be to have bunch of different currencies which are easy to swap and they then can find their users with their specifications that can compete for different uses..

if you open a chart and look at the whole history i think you can easily get your answer for long term investment.
where bitcoin is always rising up in long term, gaining more than double its value annually, altcoins only rise up for short period of time and then go downwards for the rest of the year until their next pumping phase comes up and they rise again.

so my suggestion is investing in bitcoin for long term and investing in litecoin for short. although some coins that are big and popular such as LTC are a bit different and short term in their cases doesn't necessarily have to be very short such as a week to a month as it is with other altcoins.

What about the ETH rocket?  ???

Bitcoin and Litecoin don’t need to be in contest, and if Bitcoin activates Segwit and the eventual Lightning network, they could work very well together in atomic cross-chain transactions. Yes, sometime in the near future you may buy your coffee by cross chain swapping some BTC for LTC.

Bitcoin LN txns will always be more expensive than Litecoin LN txns. It may make economic sense for a LN txn to go via Litecoin and back to Bitcoin to get the cheapest rate. Lightning makes this possible because it allows the two LN to be interoperable.

With atomic cross-chain transactions via LN two users can trade BTC and LTC instantaneous and without risk. Efficient decentralized exchanges are possible. Or what if a merchant accepts only BTC but you only have LTC. You can now pay LTC and exchange them instantly through a LN exchange node and send BTC to the merchant. Litecoin is better suited for Micropayments.

Both will have Confidential transaction by masking the amount sent at first stage of development then later combining Coinjoin and creating false negatives and pay zero bitcoins to several addresses to obfuscate where the bitcoins really went.

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I choose BTC, because BTC was already establish and famous to all users. However LTC, was already establish and famous but their market value was not like BTC that increased from time to time. Maybe, their value were raised up but not too much high like BTC.

I have made good money from Litecoin over the last few weeks. I have put aside 1 Bitcoin as investment for dark days or pension. Whatever you want can tag this thing but Bitcoin is gaining huge value with every passing year. People shouting for it to be worth of few hundred thousands dollars have their points which can not be thrown away totally. Bitcoin is best and only option if you are looking for long term.

I prefer choose bitcoin because bitcoin is more profitable than litecoin, many people in some country accept bitcoin as their currency.

All coins have a price rise or fall in the long run, sometimes alt coin is priced higher than bitcoin, sometimes also bitcoin higher than alt coin, if it tries me long term investment and safe, I prefer investing into bitcoin because it's The higher the day, yesterday had the price of bitcoin reached its highest price, and many people there who profit because bitcoin rise

Both,I'm for that, or like some other members already said take a look on couple more coins. Bitcoin is perfect for long term investment, price is constantly going up, you can't make mistake if you hold bitcoins for 5 or more years.
Ltc is cheap for now, some other coins rises a lot and I think ltc will climb more, that coin deserves to be higher then now.
Other coins can bring good profit too, so be open minded and check some of them, maybe you can find something that you like.

But why between the two ,both are profitable you just think on how to divide your $1000 between this highly potential coin like make it 70 /30 in favor of Bitcoin if you only thinking between these two coins or allocate 10% to other potential new coin like XAURUM

Maybe from there it is clear how Btc develops from time to time, if you have to compare with Ltc is very different, because Btc in the market is in great demand by many people who want to invest, because Btc its future looks very good.

I will most probably go for bitcoin. This is obvious because of its price and steady increase in the market. I am very afraid of dump and pumps in the altcoin market. It can lead to loss; a lot of it. Also understanding altcoins is very poor for me and I'm not interested in learning them. :-)

BTC has definitely a good advantage than LTC in a most obvious reason. BTC is the origin, and most popular coin out there. It has higher value and of course well used coin nowadays. But on the otherhand, it is always good to try something that has more potential to grow.

Um,,, For long term BTC is good, but LTC is good too with more long term investment. But, i prefer you should try another coin with good reputation and good marketcap like doge, burst, eth, or another.

I can suggest you to invest 60 % to cloud mining for eth or zec or btc + ltc, other money 20 % - btc, 20 % - ltc

its true, but it depend how the market coin, more people buy it, more exspensive will become

I rather buy bitcoin than litecoin. I don't trust litecoin. There's a lot of good altcoins in the market which is a lot better than litecoin. Look for XRP(Ripple), CRBIT(creditbit), WAVES, ETH(etherum), DGB(digibyte) and SC(siacoin). They are very undervalue. But its your money. You decide. Im just giving better option.

Yes, it is so, if many buy the price of a coin will go up, And if many are selling then the price of the coin will also go down.

Bitcoin is the safe bet, litecoin the much more risky one but with potential for greater rewards. Personally I would go for bitcoin cause history has shown you can never lose on bitcoin whereas litecoin has shown you only win during the big pumps and the rest of the time you end up being down.

If you can't decide which you would invest in then I suggest you to divide your $1000 into two. $500 would be invested in btc for long term and $500 would go to LTC. I'm sure you already have an idea on both coins that's why you are asking other peoples objective on which coins would make you more profitable.

ETH has made its move and it is a really risky proposition to enter the coin at this valuation,i would go for litecoin because i do expect that there is a rally left in the coin and since you have a limited budget i would suggest invest in litecoin as that is the under valued coin right now in the market.

Most people here would really choose bitcoin compared on LTC since we are on bitcoin forum anyway but still its your own choice and no one is forcing you or convincing you to buy LTC. Its still a good coin but regardless on moving prices I would really go on Bitcoin checking on its value and price it comes valuable more and more as the days pass by.

60% BTC, 40% LTC.
If you want only one coin, 100% BTC.

invest your money in bitcoin then you will see the result every week. you never lost when you invest in bitcoin. hold your bitcoin for one month it already a good profit.

I prefer the first option. 100% bitcoin will give us nothing

I would still choose bitcoin since it is much reliable and the future of the money that you will invest is secured since it is much more established and the users has been constantly increasing day by day together with the acceptance of countries with strong economic prowess which is backing up the rise of the price of bitcoin.

yes it is your own choice to select your coint for investment. but very honestly i will say that bitcoin is the king of altcoins, the benefit and profit that we can get from btcoin i think no one can even imaging from any other altcoin. but still when the price of altcoin becomes stable then we mostly decide to invest our money in altcoin section.

I think I would go with btc right now if you are looking for a long term investment and I think you will surely gain a profit from it,
But you could always invest in both if you are really confused right now why don't you just invest in them both if you think that they have a great potential.

For right now I would pick BTC as it is more reliable. Long term? We will see

Even if after a several years. BTC is better in LTC. Someone just hype LTC.

I think BTC is easy to use and it is a easy to people accept it and use it.

Btc or ltc have the same results that are very satisfactory for the users, but it goes back to the participants, whether to btc or LTC

All you need to do is look at a BTC-E monthly LTC/BTC chart that goes back to 2012. Every two years litecoin has a pump and dump. Price is likely headed back to 0.005. Past history does not always predict future chart action but you have to give it weight when deciding where to park your money. If you missed this years pump 'n dump litecoin is probably not the best place to park your trading funds. Stick with bitcoin.

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its good to still hold btc than ltc but if we want to invest our money in ltc then its good too like what traders that still holding ltc and they still have btc too. for long term, i think holding ltc is really good because now the price is increase and waiting for next high price soon.

The charts say you will probably have to wait two years for litecoin price to pump again. On the other hand, bitcoin is in a no doubt bull market right now. Would you rather double your money by investing in bitcoin, or probably lose money by investing in litecoin? The smart money left litecoin at the pump last month and went into bitcoin. No trader I know has a long position in litecoin now, they have lost interest.

Yes I can't believe people are holding this shitcoin, I believe it has already pumped and dumped wait for 2 years and sell your coins

For now I choose btc, all transactions easy to use and long term is very good to invest.

although bitcoin is the first choice, but some time when i have limited amount of  money then i choose to invest in altcoins. but mostly my investment is in bitcoin from where i am getting a good profit.

Directly i choose btc. But there is nothing wrong we also invest in LTC because both have different functions. Litecoin is made as a prime alternative to Bitcoin by providing lighter algorithm features to be mined, faster transaction confirmation features, and to serve smaller microtransaction shards of Bitcoin

LTC has basically shown what it's got throughout the years and its price is not going to go crazy either. I don't think it's adopted as currency in too many places which is pretty disappointing considering it's been around since almost as long as BTC. With BTC at least you know for sure you're not going to lose your money.

ETH :)

The traders are interested in flip their money on the ICO project, especially for those whales. Litecoin is not a suitable coin for long-term investment although it depends on the where are you buying your litecoin. I mean about the rate at the same time with your entry to the market.

Some people thought if litecoin can be a long term investment if they can try to follow and buy the litecoin on the cheap price.

Litecoin can be determined as a nonlong-term investment at all.

Just BTC

I would suggest you to invest those amount in trading and try to multiply your coins or find a good initial project and invest in those and multiply your asset,since you are planning to grow your asset that is the best possible way rather than investing all your amount in one or two coins.

OP only 2 option, bitcoin or litecoin, not option etherum(ETH)

i think until now never replace position bitcoin is number one volume transaction crypto curency, bitcoin still the best, so bitcoin or litecoin, bicoin still above litecoin

I would like to divide it into two parts, 50% in bitcoin and 50% in litecoin, both coins are good but btc is more stable at the moment.

50% Litecoin?? No way, that's too much. I'd say 10% at most.
Some other coins have more potential, like ripple, ethereum or dash.

ETH´s  price  is very high now, about LTC it looks a good option, but BTC could be better choise maybe.

Yap i dont mean to judge but as far as i can remember LTC has existed before ETH and eth is now more successful than ltc. i have had investments in ltc hoping for it's increase but i did not have some luck during the phase. Eth as i observed has been making a lot of headlines lately and i gotta say, more in more investors are accumulating eth coins. And i know someone who invested in ETH last year and he now is a millionaire in my country. SO yeah eth is better.

I have remember wayback on last year that i have engaged on ETH faucets which do gives decent amount when it was just starting and decided to leave and focus only to bitcoin and now i do somehow regret and murmuring to myself why i did quit and leave eth behind and now its soaring up high and might give me a million as of these days. Back to topic, Btc or Ltc then we do have a common answer for most people here.

1000$ is not a huge amount if you want to invest the whole in BTC, so I would say diversify the amount in different coins. If you want to invest only in BTC and LTC then its better to divide 75 - 25, 75% in BTC and 25% in LTC. LTC is getting popular these days and if it gets adopted more then obviously the rate will increase.

I think with that amount, choose coin which is lesser than 10k sats to that the movement of a coin has more potential to spike as invetors ascertain that it's worth to invest in. Also, try to invest in a coin which has a huge support so huge dump can be avioded.

Of topic.
This thread is about "BTC or LTC". There are enough threads around where the ETH scam is discused.

BTC or LTC has managed to enable moden advanced tech sooner, still a lot of uncertainty whenn BTC will follow.

I am not recommended btc because the price too high and ltc is sideways. Why you not try another coin, such as xrp, xrm or eth. This 3 coin have significant moving price and you can get some profit from there. But if only have option btc or ltc I'll suggest btc only. There are supply and demand still running and there's an opportunity there. Hope you'll find the best option and good luck.

BTC might have some volatile times ahead but it is hard to imagine BTC failing...and LTC taking over... but real life businesses are starting to use LTC..so LTC has a good future ahead.

Those problems soon will be fixed and then we will see full might of BTC.

This is how ETH got his popularity with great army of supporters (spammers) :D

Both coins BTC and LTC are very good and have a nice future,so if you don't know which is better, than invest in both.

btc top of avobe ltc is not bad for invest. you want long time invest. i suggest for btc because btc demand high and day by day increase her price.

LTC should be better,btc is raise to higer :-*

Ya, you're right about litecoin. On the decision part, I think the OP already has his mind made up. Otherwise he would've included more options to choose from in the mix. However, I can suggest Dogecoin to him if he won't mind. I have been gathering that coin from faucets for a while now. Sadly, faucets don't give out much any more.

Litecoin is one of the most used Altcoin I am using right now. It's not that I am a fan of LTC, it's just I like to use it for its cheap fees transactions as opposed to Bitcoin. But who know, I may like it more in a near future and start to build my empire around Litecoin  :D

Litecoin definetly has the most room to run and is on most exchanges. That is an advantage where people are searching where to put their money in crypto these days.