The impossible has been reached: LTC has 100% SW support! Can BTC ever do it?

[Chef Ramsay]

Litecoin surging after Coinbase offers support for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L4YrGaR8E4

[cellard]

And you all keep missing the point that lightning network can be implemented (albeit in a reduced functionality form) even WITHOUT segwit. As this is a recurring complaint about segwit, it shows how strong the FUD is when it's actually a non-argument.

Time to wake up and smell the coffee: Lightning network without segwit SUCKS. Gmaxwell admited it in a recent video, he basically said working on script stuff without segwit is a waste of time.

He also said he will be happy to help in Litecoin.

You are not facing reality: Litecoin is now a better tool to work with than Bitcoin, and we can thank the miners for that.

In 2 days, Litecoin will activate segwit, and it will be the first coin to have real Lightning Network transactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGiMu4V7ns

[-ck]

He also said he will be happy to help in Litecoin.

You are not facing reality: Litecoin is now a better tool to work with than Bitcoin, and we can thank the miners for that.

In 2 days, Litecoin will activate segwit, and it will be the first coin to have real Lightning Network transactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGiMu4V7ns

This is great because litecoin is finally doing what altcoins were originally incarnated for - as a playground for experimental features that eventually may or may not be used in bitcoin; not as another attempt at getting rich by being first in with the new coin (though people have all forgotten that.) Ironically this time they're providing a testing ground for a bitcoin feature and not trying out something new. Testing segwit on testnet apparently had no value with some entities... well I guess those bigger miners against segwit actually have significant litecoin investment and have seen the publicity/social effect segwit has had on it. There's no doubt gmax is willing to work on litecoin because he acknowledges the social effect of it working on litecoin adds overwhelming pressure to bitcoin.