Litecoin is extremely similar to Bitcoin. The fact that some of the currency's "fundamental constants" have been tweaked to make it slightly better for certain

Litecoin is extremely similar to Bitcoin. The fact that some of the currency's "fundamental constants" have been tweaked to make it slightly better for certain situations does not change the fundamentals. It's kind of like the multiplicative constants in algorithm complexity theory. And while there are many other alt-coins that claim to have solved the scalability problem while remaining truly decentralized, I have yet to see one actually deliver.