i don't know why the ltc ppl always refer to bitcoin. when the ASIC discussion started, everyone @ ltc just said: it helped bitcoin, it will help us. what they seem to forget is, that bitcoin had no "big brother". while scrypt ASICs are mainly used to dump the coins to get btc, this was not possible with btc ASICS, there was no "main coin", btc itself is the main coin. of course some ppl cashed out for money, but that resulted in new fresh cash flowing into btc. the history of btc was and is, completely different to the current alt coin landscape.