I haven't followed Litecoin, but I'm interested to know if this would be considered the top contender to btc in crypto-currencies?
Well, if crypto-currencies don't go all to shit, they'll run out of Bitcoins to mine. Yeah, they can do that service-charge shuffle. But that's gonna get old. So they'll mine sumthin else.
Try PM'ing one of the mods for the InternetPoker forum, mebbe start a dialogue. I've never heard anything about paying to keep an "official" thread up.