• Especially if the token were to gain a similar acceptance footprint over time (Ether is now accepted on Coinbase’s exchange, to continue the thought experiment — and it is believed by some that Litecoin will eventually be added to Coinbase’s exchange offering as well)…
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• And even with its now “slow” 10 minute block time (Ethereum has an average block time of around 15 seconds; Litecoin has a 2.5 minute block time), Bitcoin has a track record of liquidity, geographical distribution, merchant acceptance, & network uptime that no other cryptocurrency comes close to matching .
• I am not an active day trader of either currency and this post is not intended as financial advice.
• Full disclosure: At time of publication, I hold some bitcoins and ethers in my long term portfolio.

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