If the bitcoin cannot reach consensus on many things, it might die. So it is opportunity for litecoin to be the number one.

Talktalk said no customer credit card information was leaked. The hacker was caught very quickly.

Some coin developers are scammers, they created a coin, pump the coin price to high levels to attract buyers. Then they dump their coins.

Yes. I do not why it is still the second largest digital coin. The market cap is still very high.