Quote from: mops34422 on October 19, 2013, 03:52:11 PM

litecoin dead ?

I see Litecoin as silver. Gold being bitcoin. And naturally it'll carry a tenth, if not less, the value of a bitcoin. But in bulk there's lots to look forward to.

No one on this forum knows where to buy LTC in vast quantities because I asked and no one had an answer.

Furthermore:

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Alpha Technology Announces ASIC Miners for Litecoin are Coming Soon

Manchester, UK-based Alpha Technology has announced it will start developing the first purpose-built ASIC mining hardware for litecoin, signing a partnership deal with Indian designer and manufacturer Dexcel Designs.

The company announced it would begin taking pre-orders for affordable and efficient litecoin ASICs in December, for shipping in early 2014.

Alpha Technology is providing its mining and cryptocurrency expertise while Dexcel Designs will handle hardware development, production, and quality assurance.

It would represent a significant increase in computing power backing the litecoin network. At present, most mining of the worlds second most popular cryptocurrency still takes place on regular graphics cards/GPUs (as did bitcoin previously).

Alpha Technology has been working with Bangalore-based Dexcel Designs for about six months, beginning with it FPGA (field-programmable gate array) conceptualization of litecoins primary Scrypt hashing algorithm before designing dedicated ASIC hardware.

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http://www.coindesk.com/asic-miners-litecoin-soon/