Litecoin Is Back In Bullish Territory Breaking Above $70

It seems that Litecoin is back in bullish territory and it has even surpassed Tether in terms of market cap following a 24-hour surge of 6.5% as we are about to read more in the Litecoin price news.

Litecoin is back in bullish territory trading above the crucial $70 level of resistance which has suppressed the priced action since January 30^th. If the next daily candle closes well above this price resistance, Litecoin will eventually test the $78 price level before targeting the psychological level of $100. After slumping to a really low level of $35 back in December 2019, Litecoin has increased by more than 100 percent with a huge part of the crypto market experiencing a vital reversal.

Litecoin even surged more than 20 percent in the past week alone as the traders attempted to hedge their bets on the smaller market cap altcoins rather than Bitcoin. The Bitcoin halving that will happen in May, should result in a positive rally in the price of cryptocurrencies including the likes of Litecoin and Etheruem since the two previous halving in 2012 and 2016 preceded a series of staggering bull markets that saw the Bitcoin eclipse with a new all-time high on two occasions.

If the number one cryptocurrency can manage to form a new all-time high in 2020, most of the altcoins including Litecoin and Ethereum will eventually follow as profits will be diversified into a higher risk altcoin investment. However, Litecoin still has to form a new high above $142 which was the top during the 2019 June rally. A breakout above the $140 would open the metaphorical floodgates with litecoin entering a new phase of price discovery that will take the cryptocurrency trading at $185. It’s interesting that only a few days ago, Litecoin’s price dropped by more than 0.40 percent despite the altcoin managing to keep its pace with the rest of the market until it became extremely volatile.

Litecoin’s founder Charlie Lee confirmed that the project was now focused on improvements regarding privacy and that the development team is working with the MimbleWimble protocol, specifically the developers behind Grim that will also be working on adding the privacy protocol  as an extension block:

 “We’re working with the Grim++ developers to add an implementation of Mimblewimble. It adds an extension block to the Litecoin main-chain. You can transact between chains to use enhanced privacy.”