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Litecoin seems to be firmly uncoupled from bitcoin now (if that's not an oxymoron). Doge also falling. Dark days ahead for both?

It was the same in the last BTC runup. First, LTC was falling and falling, LTC doomsday prophecies were filling the air.
"LTC is dead!!!" and so on. Then, the LTC/BTC ratio suddenly jumped from 0.0075 to 0.05 in a matter of 1 week !!!
Same with many of the other alts.

I would never call the end of some alt too early, those little suckers are full of nasty surprises! Grin

Once upon a time, the majority of crypto investors had not experienced the burning side of a p&d. Not true now. Today, to have staying power, at a leading tier marketcap, a coin has to have compelling features. LTC does not. I expect DRK to fail on its snake-oil promises, eventually, but I expect it to outperform LTC by a nautical mile for a long while, perhaps forever.

Yes, LTC has historically lagged BTC and overshot its spikes. I expect most of that positive beta will be embodied by other alts with better distinctives this time. NXT and MRO are obvious candidates (leaving DRK aside for the moment).

A couple of weeks back you were more skeptical about NXT. What changed your mind, if indeed it has changed?

NXT Asset Exchange + BIG community backing it...

Don't go putting all your eggs in the NXT basket, given its origin it has a rather concentrated initial distribution, I may go so far as to relate it to ripple, then there is the Kenzan paradox of thrift, the paradox is managed in fiat with money inflation discouraging saving, NXT rewords Savings and encourages the paradox to the detriment of it as a useful means of exchange and ultimately a store of value. I have yet to see other functionality to counterbalance this but it may exist or emerge.

I am one of the 73...