>>4738249
>will not capitulate as the bashers and crashers work to discredit and crush the price (so they can buy-in)
I believe this is happening also.
>LTC may = daily transactions {silver/currency}
I do not like this analogy except this point about gold/silver. And it doesn't just apply to LTC as the "silver". When BTC goes up, all of the altcoins with any kind of market cap also go up. If gold were to "moon", silver would "moon" to as it becomes the only "accessible" PM for most people. What you should watch is the gold/silver ratio (currently at a high - related to silver's undervaluation). Similarly, you should watch the BTC/LTC, BTC/ETH, BTC/BCH, BTC/X, etc ratios. You can see that when BTC "mooned", the more popular altcoins also mooned and their BTC/X ratios plummeted by an order of magnitude. This means that you could, for example, buy more BTC with your LTC after the moon than before. On the other hand, right now you can buy quite a bit more of altcoins with BTC even though BTC is at a multi-year low. That's the role I see the altcoins as being; I don't see them as the silver to BTC's gold in practical terms. But I do in terms of diversification and leveraging the volatility right now to profit - but the goal (at least for me) is always to accumulate more and more BTC.