I'll be honest, there was a long period of time that I considered Litecoin to just be Bitcoin's little insignificant bastard child that no one really cared or talked about. I was wrong and I'm glad I changed my mind about it in time. I have been using Litecoin almost exclusively for the last several months as my "go between" for exchange and cashout. I obviously value steem and if Coinbase had the option to deposit steem I probably wouldn't need Litecoin at all, but even before the segwit activation, I was using Litecoin instead of Bitcoin. I don't like Bitcoin any less, but until I see real changes that matter getting made I don't find it as usable as it once was.
Litecoin has been more stable than either BTC or Ethereum for a while now as far as price goes. The block times of BTC are too high for the number of transactions we are pushing through it. We have a war between miners and the developers that pushes to basically centralize Bitcoin more to one side or the other and I really don't like that. Litecoin is also set to explode from what I can tell. I went to move 10 Litecoin today out of habit, because that was always like 40-50 bucks when I needed to move some money around to play with and I realized, LTC is actually worth way more now than it was a very short time ago. It's not like I haven't watched the price, but it didn't really set in how good of an investment LTC has been for me until today. Maybe this will help get some others to look at LTC as a good store of value. Namaste.