Mining LTC instead of BTC?

[thebigjc]

Reading through the Mining forums, I see more and more people talking about mining LTC instead of BTC on their GPUs. I assume this is because they are concerned BTC will be swamped with ASICs as the Avalons (and others) of the world roll their chips out, but I haven't read a good summary of why anyone would expect LTC to be more profitable than BTC to mine anytime soon.

Can anyone explain (or point to) the upside on LTC vs. BTC? It seems like liquidity alone would make this a bad idea.

[thebigjc]

Looking around more I found my own answer:

http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1bbfdc/will_mining_litecoins_make_me_more_money_than/

[triciam]

The higher difficulty on BTC, makes mining LTC more profitable right now. At least it does for me at my hash rates.

This site helps you see the profitability: http://dustcoin.com/mining

For LTC market data, check out: http://cryptochart.com

[angelafairie]

BTC is getting harder to mine. If you have a general computer, it maybe better to mine ltc and trade it for btc.

[Abo Adamson]

Reading through the Mining forums, I see more and more people talking about mining LTC instead of BTC on their GPUs. I assume this is because they are concerned BTC will be swamped with ASICs as the Avalons (and others) of the world roll their chips out, but I haven't read a good summary of why anyone would expect LTC to be more profitable than BTC to mine anytime soon.

Can anyone explain (or point to) the upside on LTC vs. BTC? It seems like liquidity alone would make this a bad idea.

It's better to use 75% BTC and 25% LTC