Litecoin's dream is dead, despite its respectable standing among older coins. It never achieved Lindy status, and with bitcoin and Zcash already occupying its positioning, it is unclear what catalysts for Litecoin even exist. x.com
Tulip King
Head of Strategy at CounterpartyTV, Crypto Investor
Litecoin lacks the attention of other crypto assets such as Zcash. It may be a better digital asset to transact with, but it is not a store of value. x.com
Zcash does not deserve the attention it is getting: it is a poor security token that can be controlled and manipulated. x.com
Litecoin should probably do well as the economy finally enters an expansionary phase after five years of contraction, which points to a rebirth of crypto. Its chart has made a third touch of the diagonal, and RSI is back in oversold territory, where each macro bottom was found. Nearly 8.5 years without expansion meant a lot of lost opportunity. x.com
Zcash is running what amounts to an unlimited mint scam, and the timing alongside Mert's move to Dubai is oddly suspicious. x.com
Litecoin is not worth owning after a security failure on its own chain. Per @litecoin, a zero-day bug enabled a DoS attack on major mining pools and invalid MWEB transactions that required a 13-block reorg, during which @AlexAuroraDev says attackers double-spent on cross-chain swap protocols. Litecoin creator Charlie Lee himself told people a few months ago to just buy bitcoin instead. x.com x.com
Litecoin's next bull market will come from usage as digital hard cash, not another crypto-native narrative. It is scarce, decentralized, liquid and fast, and as more major companies accept it as payment, people may hold it alongside cash. Once they notice their cash being diluted while scarce Litecoin can preserve purchasing power, demand could change dramatically. Bitcoin remains the ultimate digital store of value. x.com
Low liquidity could cause sharp downside wicks in altcoins over the coming days. Uniswap at $3-6 and Zcash near $800 are levels of interest for bids. Trader_XO sees Zcash near $800, a call that holds here too; the level is expected before year-end. x.com x.com x.com
Zcash is a shitcoin, and buyers are going to lose their money. Money can only succeed when no central entity controls it, and the world is realizing there is Bitcoin and then everything else, with no second best. ZEC has traded near zero since 2016. x.com
Litecoin has catalysts not yet priced in, and repricing becomes inevitable once ETF flows and LitVM gain visibility. The SEC classifies it as a digital commodity, leaving almost no legal overhang. A Litecoin ETF trades and Grayscale is converting, with about 1 million LTC, 1.2% of supply, accumulated. LitVM's EVM layer-2 testnet is live with mainnet due in 2026, adding DeFi and smart contracts to MWEB privacy. Hashrate is near record highs and about 1.25 million LTC have left exchanges. x.com
Bitcoin's core theses no longer seem real or relevant: it has not worked as digital gold preserving purchasing power and hedging inflation and geopolitical instability, institutional adoption has not strengthened its value, and its asymmetric upside against gold's roughly $15 trillion market cap has not materialized, even though 2026 should be a perfect year for it. That leaves only halving cycles, which makes it look like a silly asset class. x.com