lol at all the ltc hate

You wanted your free market in currencies...now choke on it.

lol at all the ltc hate

Its very obvious at this point that BTC is back in a upwards trend.

Indeed.  I find the anti-LTC FUD to be most odd.  The differences in architecture are important and more than enough to justify its existence alongside BTC.  Scrypt may prove a wiser choice than SHA-256 in the longterm; it may not.  Point being none of us really know right now and ruling LTC out as just another 'also-ran' would be quite unwise IMHO.

just a few months ago, LTC was trading at 6 cents per litecoin.. while BTC was 100+. LTC has exponentially multiplied, probably based on speculation.. but still. i was going to buy $100 worth but got too lazy to make a purchase.. i really, really regret it now. but what can i do? life goes on. argh, i would have 1666 coins now.

LTC is the largest threat to crypto. If it wins, everyone loses.  Not even jokin' mang. It needs to crash. Not I want but we need.

If you want to see how irrational people who claim to be "rational" can be, just find yourself a litecoin user. They gain no benefit from using litecoin except providing some funding to BTC-E in ways of fees and give the public and investors a reason to be skeptical.
It used to me that we could laugh off queries about why someone couldn't just make up a new coin that would make theirs worth less. We'd laugh and say "because people aren't so stupid as to actively ruin their own investments!" Our laughter is a lot more nervous now. Turns out people are so stupid.
The only possible goal of litecoin is to make all cryptocurrency worth nothing in the long term.

Maybe one of the reasons people are so keen for mBTC to be adopted as the "industry standard" is that they're scared Litecoin is too attractively priced.

I keep seeing tards asking "when will 4 LTC = 1 BTC" thinking it's inevitable because there are 4 times as many LTC. Well, what they don't seem to realize is that if this happens both LTC and BTC will be worthless because long before this becomes a reality it will be clear to everyone that bitcoin can be inflated thus invalidating the limited supply and paving way for unlimited other currencies to be included (and unlimited inflation).

I don't think this will happen though, there is very little support for LTC and other alternative currencies beyond wild speculation. Also if anything new significant comes out, bitcoiners have vested interest in adopting those features into bitcoin.

I think most people missed the boat on LTC. The smart investors realized that LTC would grow, because currencies that are new can have the most gains in the shortest amount of time, so they bought in early (not to mention that LTC is marketed as BTC's silver). Just look at BTC. A 5000% growth in one year time. BTC will never achieve that performance again in the coming years. Perhaps a 20x growth, but the growth in percentages will keep going down over time.

Because of this enormous growth in the early stages, people will be incentivized to buy coins that are still in the cents or 1 dollar range. Those coins have the possibility of achieving growth gains that are in the thousands of percentages. But right now, LTC is 20 dollars. I think its max market cap will be 500 dollars, because it doesn't give any real advantages over BTC and will thus remain a speculative instrument mostly. Those growth gains can be easily achievable with BTC, since I'm positive that we are in between the innovator phase and the early adopter phase.

It might still be worth a shot, because there are rumors that Mt. Gox will implement LTC, which will greatly increase its legitimacy. But it's up to merchants to adopt LTC besides BTC. As long as they don't do that, LTC's market cap will be limited and it's growth will only depend on speculative interest.

Right now, it might be worth looking for the next candidate after LTC, the one that has the best chance after LTC and that's still in the cents stage. If it can be ascertained for sure which is the best third coin, it would almost be a given that growth percentages of above 1000% and more will be achievable due to sheer speculative greed.