Holy Cow...

And on Christmas day 2013...  Litecoin eclipsed Bitcoin in trade volume.

Here is a visualization of all cryptocurrencies in play and how their trade volume compares (as of a few minutes ago):

If this is a sign of things to come, 2014 might be the year of Litecoin and derivatives.  A move away from SHA based coins and towards Scrypt based coins.

Oh, and in other news, I'm assembling a Pearltree of cryptocurrency tools and information located here:

http://pear.ly/cB_Vn

Check it out, its got a few goodies in there already.