Greetings dear friend @knircky.

Being launched in October 2011 Litecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies. We must not forget that Litecoin is a fork or “fork” of BTC, so they are very similar although it has a shorter block generation time (Approx 2.5 min) so the transactions are approved faster.
We cannot forget that Litecoin also has lower transaction fees than Bitcoin.

Your friend, Juan.