A significant advantage of existing cryptocurrencies is that the key attributes were made fully public up front, held constant,
Arguably the attribute made public was, technically, that litecoin was best mined on CPUs. If I found a bug that let me make additional litecoin out of thin air, would it be immoral for litecoin to fix it? You couldn't really make the same argument to introduce such a bug.
In any case just a thought.
LTC price thus goes much higher. This is what we've seen in BTCs history.
This is the first time I've heard someone suggest that. I thought it was generally accepted that Bitcoin's price in march was primary related to the increased press Bitcoin received from the cyprus default and bank funds confiscation.