{"id":9989,"date":"2025-09-06T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/litecoin-trades-technicals-for-taunts-as-feud-with-crypto-influencer-escalates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:04:10","slug":"litecoin-trades-technicals-for-taunts-as-feud-with-crypto-influencer-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/litecoin-trades-technicals-for-taunts-as-feud-with-crypto-influencer-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Litecoin trades technicals for taunts as feud with crypto influencer escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">What started as a chart debate between Litecoin and analyst Benjamin Cowen spiraled into a meme war of market caps and a receding hairline joke\u2014with even rival Dash jumping in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_118741e6fe811b4f2c997cf727cccfaf\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Litecoin feuded with analyst Benjamin Cowen after he posted a bearish LTC chart.<\/li>\n<li>The debate shifted from market talk to hairline insults and meme comparisons.<\/li>\n<li>Dash joined the spat before Cowen mocked its 99% decline against Litecoin.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>The confrontation began when Litecoin (LTC) posted: \u201cI say the quiet parts out loud but we all should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This prompted Cowen, CEO of ITC Crypto, to respond with a price chart showing LTC\u2019s declining performance.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation then descended into personal discussion when Litecoin shared a picture of Cowen\u2019s receding hairline with the description, \u201cthe quiet part.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The quiet part <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/geXhcDtu90\">pic.twitter.com\/geXhcDtu90<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin Cowen (@intocryptoverse) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intocryptoverse\/status\/1963696007121957348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal attacks replace Litecoin technical analysis<\/h3>\n<p>The conversation took a turn when Litecoin dropped market-based arguments and attacked Cowen\u2019s physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Cowen responded with humor and claimed he \u201clost all my hair trying to convince Litecoiners to convert to Bitcoin. A small price to pay for the greater good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exchange continued with increasingly absurd comparisons. Litecoin commented that \u201cYour head reminds me of the great recession,\u201d prompting Cowen to counter that \u201cYour marketcap reminds me of the great recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth concluded with Litecoin suggesting Cowen \u201ccould use a cap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dash (DASH) cryptocurrency\u2019s official account joined the back-and-forth, posting: \u201cPrice chart instantly means you\u2019ve lost the argument.\u201d In other words, market performance trumps rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst fired back at Dash, noting the cryptocurrency is \u201cdown 99% against Litecoin\u201d and suggesting they \u201csit this one out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Price chart instantly means you&#8217;ve lost the argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dash (@Dashpay) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dashpay\/status\/1963974476971864158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Litecoin\u2019s history of Twitter\/X feuds<\/h3>\n<p>This incident occurred following a wave of aggressive social media behavior from cryptocurrency projects. Litecoin also recently engaged in a confrontation with XRP (XRP) communities.<\/p>\n<p>That began with a post comparing the token to comet smells and escalated to mockery of Ripple\u2019s institutional adoption claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 29 post that sparked the XRP feud described comets as smelling like \u201crotten eggs, urine, burning matches, and almonds\u201d before comparing this to XRP being sold to retail investors.<\/p>\n<p>The post referred to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse as \u201cBrad Garlicmouse\u201d and dismissed XRP\u2019s banking narrative as an unfulfilled illusion.<\/p>\n<p>These feuds suggest cryptocurrency projects are adopting increasingly controversial marketing strategies to maintain relevance in a crowded market.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a chart debate between Litecoin and analyst Benjamin Cowen spiraled into a meme war of market caps and a receding hairline joke\u2014with even rival Dash jumping in.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}