Charlie Lee must be a delighted man. It’s been a fantastic week for Litecoin, and while we all keep talking about other cryptocurrencies and Litecoin slips under everybody’s radar, they are scoring incredible achievements that can take the token’s value all the way up to 100 USD and maybe even beyond.
Just look at this three outstanding achievements and keep in mind that they all happened within a single week:
The Litecoin Foundation acquired a 9.9% stake in Germany’s WEG Bank.
Last July 10th announced a strategic partnership that is nothing short of spectacular. In Charlie Lee’s own words:
“This partnership is a huge win-win for both Litecoin and Tokenpay. I’m looking forward to integrating Litecoin with the WEG Bank AG and all the various services it has to offer, to make it simple for anyone to buy and use Litecoin. I’m also excited about Litecoin’s support in Tokenpay’s decentralized exchange.”
Other announcements for new strategic partnerships announced along the week were:
- Multisignature Transaction Engine
- TPAY Cryptocurrency
- eFin Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
- WEG Bank FinTech Platform
Abra enables purchases of bitcoin, ether, litecoin, digibyte, monero and more using your Visa or Mastercard in over 50 countries. https://t.co/RHUfLJjty3
— Bill Barhydt (@billbarhydt) July 13, 2018
All of the above will be using Litecoin’s blockchain technology to develop their blockchain initiatives. But owning a piece of a bank is the real story here. Litecoin didn’t buy the shares. They were TokenPay’s, and they gave it to the Litecoin foundation against the technology, expertise, and work of the LTC team and founding members.
It’s 9.9% only because that’s as high as you can go to Germany without running into the regulatory red tape. But TokenPay is still positioned to buy up to 70% of the bank, and they will remain a very close partner to Litecoin.
Let’s take a minute to think about what this means. Here we have a cryptocurrency that owns (at least partially) a real-life bank. Let’s face it. Nobody saw this coming; everybody expects banks to buy cryptocurrencies if they get involved in the cryptocurrency game at all. So this alone is a fantastic example of original thinking and bold strategic planning from Charlie Lee.
But that’s the least of it. The hardest obstacle any cryptocurrency has to overcome is to jump from a bunch of esoteric code running on a geek’s hardware into a real-life product that can solve real-life problems for real-life average people with no expertise in cryptography, programming, mathematics or IT. And this is precisely what this event can do for Litecoin.
Just imagine that now the Litecoin foundation can use its brand new bank to issue Litecoin-based credit and debit cards. That would allow all kinds of people from all over the world to rely on Litecoin for their daily financial needs. Without having internet service, without owning a digital wallet at all.
Can you imagine using Litecoin to buy your cigarettes, to pay for your groceries in any place in the world that takes Visa or Mastercard? Well, you can start now, it’s much closer than everybody thought.
If that kind of common financial technology becomes available through Litecoin, that will mean a huge boost in demand and new users who maybe won’t have the faintest idea they’re on a blockchain. And that will translate into market performance for Litecoin.
The Robinhood App adds Litecoin support.
The Robinhood App is a mobile phone application with an emphasis on ease of use and lack of transaction fees for cryptocurrency trading. It’s currently available in seventeen states in the US (with more to come). In this magical Litecoin week, the app announced it would include Litecoin among the coins available to its users. They also listed Bitcoin Cash.
Boom!
Thank you @RobinhoodApp for supporting Litecoin!
https://t.co/FMfCEG7DOE
— Charlie Lee [LTC
] (@SatoshiLite) July 12, 2018
The #PayWithLitecoin campaign keeps advancing, only now it looks real
Litecoin has been encouraging its users to use Litecoin in the real world. The campaign includes a Twitter hashtag. While nothing so revolutionary has happened with that, the fact is that it keeps moving forward and it seems to be working. This more moderate good news is still good news as using a coin begets demand and demand prompts performance.
So now you know. Litecoin has been doing great while we were all just looking the other way. Maybe we should not make that mistake again, especially when they reach the USD 100 mark.
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