[bisq-network/proposals] Remove Litecoin as base currency (#21)

[Manfred Karrer]

Due to very low trade activity with Litecoin as base currency, I would suggest to remove it as base currency.
The latest trade has been at Feb. 7th. 2018. Currently there are 0 offers and beside the seed nodes only 1 peer online.
I run 2 LTC seed nodes and the arbitrator. To maintain and monitor those takes some effort. Even that effort is not big the close to zero activity does not justify it IMO.

The code base for supporting other base currencies will stay intact only the UI element for selecting another base currency would be removed (as we removed DASH and DOGE for the same reason already). 

To have the option for alternative base currency gives Bisq more resilience but practice has shown that bootstrapping another network is difficult and we don't have the resources to focus on multiple markets beside the BTC market. Also it would partition the user base thus making the market bootstrapping on BTC even harder.

Please comment below if you agree or oppose to that proposal. If we get sufficient feedback and if the proposal gets support I might add the removal to the upcoming 0.7.0 release.

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