Quote from: LogitechMouse on Today at 04:13:59 PM

If Litecoin will become popular again, it will not be because of the fact that the transaction fees of Bitcoin is too expensive because there are many other options as well that's way cheaper than that of Litecoin.

While I haven't seen any coins cheaper than LTC (show me one with fees lower than 0.00001 USD Wink

) I somewhat agree with you here, and partly also with the rest of your post. Litecoin seems to be a bit "off" the "attention game" where altcoins search the spotlight all the time.

Nevertheless, its popularity seems not to be declining - here I disagree. Apocallapse has already shown the transaction chart, and if you go backwards in time, you'll see that the transaction count is in fact increasing every year. Litecoin is the most popular payment coin, and this is in fact something new, because it has surpassed Bitcoin as recently as early 2024. (In 2014 or so when everybody talked about LTC, LTC had in fact ten times less transactions per day than nowadays).

And regarding its ranking per market cap, it's the only altcoin existing in 2011-13 which still ranks in the top 25 (or top 20 if you only count L1s). So the comparison with EOS (launched in 2017 or 2018, declining steadily) is not really convincing. Remember that also Doge is part of Litecoin's ecosystem - it's merged mined so it can't exist without LTC. Together, Doge and LTC would have a firm Top-10 marketcap.

The "problem" however of LTC is that it is not mentioned very frequently when talked about as a an investment. Since MWEB there were also no really interesting upgrades. The "altcoin circus" lives from spectacular news, from the next "Bitcoin killer" and "breakthroughs", and that's not something LTC can provide now, even if these "breakthroughs" are mostly fake (I don't consider Solana, for example, a big tech achievement) and no coin has "killed" Bitcoin.

I think a real problem is also that there are few P2P options to buy LTC directly with fiat, basically only forums and an old P2P exchange I don't even want to link here anymore because of how dead and untrustworthy it looks. If I would give an advise to the LTC community it would be to develop such a service or lobby to include it in other P2P exchanges. I guess even P2P exchanges would profit because of the cheap transaction fees, which would it make easy to buy small quantities of crypto, to enter the crypto space without major risk.