I thought so too, I can see Litecoin being very much in demand over the next few weeks.

I have 30 something, I usually just treat LTC as just something to trade or a way to get money around without paying high fees, never really saw it as a long-term hold before, now I do.

I always think it will be Bitcoin's little brother, but a lot bigger than it is now, maybe like 0.1 BTC in time.

I always thought the lightning network was a way to solve scalability while avoiding a hardfork. But then I'm more of a trader, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about the tech could explain.

I think if it's accepted by the community it will be added without a hardfork.

Litecoin is based on Bitcoin.

Isn't it?

"The Lightning Labs development team successfully swapped testnet bitcoin for testnet litecoin through a lightning channel this week: ownership of the coins changed hands, while no transaction was recorded on either blockchain.

Oh my apology. I meant to say that it involves lots of other altcoins as well since those are based on bitcoin codebase.

Also the article mentions that "Thus, by the time SegWit activated on Bitcoin last summer, LND was already compatible with both chains.". I think this is a mistake and LTC is just getting ready when BTC network supports it.

That could be one of the reasons but I dont see any reason to make a big deal out of it. 62 to 65 dollar spike? Sorry but I don't see much value going into Litecoin right now. Too much action and price movement going on between BTC and BCH to really notice LTC.

At the time of writing LTC had climbed over 110000 Satoshi in an hour while everything else was falling against BTC.