I think we should be aware that this thread is going to be visited by speculators and sock puppets from other coins threatened by the the advances Litecoin is about to make.

When I read posts like those 'newbie' BDO_44 has made, I question what the purpose really is. It seems to be to spread FUD to push the LTC price down. Why would he want to do that? He seems to know about whale strategy. Buy big when you've got a good idea something is going to rise - the minnows follow on a rising price; at the apex sell big (realising profit), followed by FUD spreading - the minnows sell on a falling price; the whales buy back big at a cheaper price ... and the cycle repeats itself.

For the next two weeks there will be a lull while Litecoin fully implements SegWit. BDO_44 knows this. The price rose on SegWit speculation. The next spikes will probably happen when SegWit is finally implemented and also when Litecoin joins Bitcoin and Ethereum on Coinbase ... with Lightning Networks, Confidential Transactions, Blockchain merging with Bitcoin as a solution to Bitcoin's scalability issue etc. etc. - all to follow.

Andreas Antonopoulus recently pulled a Chinese proverb out of the bag to illustrate a point. I think it is particularly appropriate here:

"When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger"

The finger is the price; the moon is Litecoin's advancing potential.