It's Litecoin vs Altcoins in 2015
By the end of year 2013, Litecoin looked like the only alternative to its popular counterpart Bitcoin. Traders, who missed the chance of boarding the latter's quick-buck train, hugely looked upon its next-best to repeat the $13-to-$1,100 magic. Everything was working in Litecoin's favor - from favorable media coverage to booming merchant and user adoption. 2014 was indeed supposed to be a smoother ride for the silver coin. But as soon as this year is approaching its end, it is leaving behind quite a daunted version of Litecoin - a complete opposite of what we encountered in 2013. Take the....
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Welcome to the CryptoCoinsNews weekly altcoin news update, where we examine important altcoin stories that have gone under-the-radar. This week's article examines Litecoin's recent price struggles, Darkcoin's recent progress toward anonymity, and QuarkBar's introduction of adaptive coin creation. Litecoin Price Struggles. Since its release in 2011, Litecoin has consistently remained cryptocurrency's silver standard. However, hundreds of new altcoins have followed in Litecoin's shadow over the past several years. While most of these altcoins are essentially worthless, more and more are....
The crypto market is a confusing space. Not only do investors need to pay careful attention to Bitcoin market cycles driving the overall sentiment, but also to the relationship between BTC and altcoins like Ethereum and Litecoin. As two of the top altcoins with the most longevity in the market, Ethereum and Litecoin can be […]
So which altcoins performed the best last week? We've been so caught up with bitcoin's rising price following its big headline in The Wall Street Journal and the third (and possibly final) US Marshals Service bitcoin auction, which saw to another 50,000 bitcoins once belonging to alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht being desired and ogled at by a bunch of crypto-enthusiasts waiting to place their bids. Sometimes bitcoin just takes up so much time and space that we forget about the "little guys" on the side; guys like litecoin, darkcoin, dogecoin and other altcoins that operate....
It is indeed hard to pin down the best altcoins among the lot of over 500, so please don't mind if we missed out your favorite cryptocurrency. Meanwhile in our opinion, the following are the best altcoins to trade in the year 2015, a list based on their price stability, future projects and mining profitability. We have left out famous cryptocurrencies like Litecoin, Dogecoin, Peercoin and Ripple deliberately to make some space for new altcoins. Dogecoin Dark. Dogecoin Dark is presumably a full-anonymous version of Dogecoin, which is further backed by a decently populated community. The....
Litecoin bears have been smoked by the massive 27% rally in the past 24 hours following a high volume breakout from the range I discussed in my previous analysis, New Range. The surreal rise in Litecoin price has also pushed it to the highest level of 2015. Litecoin is currently trading at $3.871, a strong advance from yesterday's $3.047. Litecoin's jump to a fresh 2015-high closely follows Bitcoin's leap to a new June high, as the Greece crisis comes to its D-day. A technical look at the 240-minute LTC-USD price chart above tells that Litecoin has entered the "no-buy" zone due to its....