What happened? Are they orphaned?

I have 5300khash. 13LTC / 24hours. Payment up front.

Great one! 

Hmm... 730MH/s, in which case 27 sound just about right (2.5 minutes per block) (though it will go to 47 first?). I miss the days when litecoin's diff was < 30 .

I want to see diff back to 0.27, not 27. If I helped this would not happen.

I was fantasizing about doing something like this.... I guess someone beat me to it.... though these people could have done this more professionally.

They could have launched it like FTC and CNC, and pump and dump the new coin as if it were real, while the trojaned client does the stealing. If the user encrypted the wallet, chances are that that's the same passphrase to all their other wallets. Give the new coin a real blockchain, and encode the captured passphrases and perhaps even the wallets in the transaction the user broadcast. The client could patch all the other cryptocurrency clients found on the system so when the user authorises a transaction in any of these clients, it will always be encoded to the same address for the full amount in the wallet, no matter how much and what address the user specified. That way, there will be no need for passphrase logging and wallet capture in the other clients, and the damage continues even after the new coin's cover has been blown.

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Thanks. Yea I was panicking quite a bit. This passphrase is very different from all the other ones because it was chosen around the time btc-e, ltcmine.ru and coinotron were compromised. I have started writing passphrases down. 

I was going to sell my FTC for 0.006, but I forgot the wallet passphrase. It wasn't a good feeling at all watching the price fall and there was nothing you can do.  By the time I guessed my passphrase it was only 0.004... Finally sold at 0.00361. 

I am glad I sold at 0.00236. 

Mining CNC was the most profitable altcoin adventure, even better than FTC.

8 hours on CNC, end profit: 4.5 BTC. 30 hours on FTC, end profit: 15.8 BTC.

Because of these two, my rig has paid for itself.  3 months ahead of schedule! 

I wonder if it has to do with my "large" LTC withdraw.  It was stuck processing for about an hour before coming through.

Because people want choices.
Because they broaden the money supply and is one of the solutions the market came up with to the limited supply problem.

Exchange rate is already 1 bitcoin for 30 litecoins.

The block chain says.... at least 0.13751. 

If it cheers you up, you also get free heating.  Can't wait till next winter comes....

Ouch... sorry to hear.

I do feel that LTC is somehow pegged to BTC at 0.022, perhaps a little too solidly.  The value should be higher IMO  .

But then... at this price it is still not unprofitable for me to mine. I pay ~$0.16 (~£0.10)  per kWh. I use 2.7kWh per hour and make 0.57 LTC per hour. At $3 each I am still making ~$1.12/hr. (6 days of this and one of my 6950s pays for itself)

There are people paying less per kWh.

So, for some it is not cheaper to buy instead of mine just yet.

With our hashing power there should be a block every 0.8 hour or so....

This is how I start my xfx 7950 in a mixed card machine. May be you can give it a try. The low core clock and memclock is for keeping it cool, so feel free to up them if that works or you.

The pool found 2 blocks this morning, half an hour apart, and that was it... what happened there?

I just voted too expensive on the basis that the 1 LTC denomination costs 6 times that of the LTC itself. The 50LTC version isn't so bad. But what I would really be interested in is if the actual coins are made of fine silver as well.
Somehow I think fine silver holds value better than unknown silvery metal.  That way you can still persuade someone the coin is worth its weight in silver even after someone decided to redeem the ltc.

Also, it has probably been suggested before, how about putting larger denominations on heavier coins? E.g. 10LTC on 10 Oz silver coin, 50LTC on 50 Oz, etc.

Why would you go first? 

In my opinion buyer should always go first, if seller is advertising.