Litecoin price is down 4% on the day amid rumors about upcoming Litecoin Cash fork

After recovering to $159.16 on Wednesday, the Litecoin price slipped back towards $142.00 and then settled in the vicinity of $144.00. On the daily chart, LTC/USD is still safely above 200-day moving average, but the upside has stalled. The price failed to settle above $150.00 resistance and entered the consolidation phase. The short-term support is at $138.00, it is followed by 114.42 (Monday’s low) and $112.00 (200-SMA)

To fork or not to fork?

The Litecoin community is buzzing about upcoming Litecoin hardfork that will produce a new digital asset - Litecoin cash.

According to the announcement on the bitcointalk forum on February 3, Litecoin developers team is preparing a fork that will take place on Sunday, February 18 (at first it was scheduled on February 19). Anyone holding Litecoin will get ten times that amount of Litecoin Cash.  

Litecoin fans are puzzled as they do not see any clear reason for this branching out. Unlike Bitcoin, it has never experienced issues either with transaction time or with high fees. While fork does not solve any practical problems encountered by cryptocurrency users, it will be convenient for legacy Bitcoin SHA256 mining hardware users.  

The team behind the fork is anonymous: no full names, no links to social media accounts are provided, which is also rather suspicious.

Charlie Lee, famous cryptocurrency enthusiast and Litecoin creator, advises steering clear from the fork.
 
Since on the topic of scams, any fork of Litecoin, calling itself Litecoin something or other, is a scam IMO. Litecoin Cash, Litecoin Plus, Litecoin *... all scams trying to confuse users into thinking they are Litecoin. - he writes on his Twitter account.

LTC/USD, daily chart