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What alts do you see making it in the next year?

Litecoin - the "backup" to Bitcoin and first choice to use if and when the Bitcoin network gets too busy.  Also the top traded altcoin and first choice for scrypt miners.

Dash - for enhanced privacy and other new developments like Decentralized Governance by Blockchain

Peercoin - the first Proof of Stake Coin for people who like Proof of Stake

Long-term, doubt it. It's a clone that adds little to the ecosystem once the novelty has worn off (may take another few years - people can be thick).



Um, no. Bad tech & instamine....yikes.



Maybe. This genuinely did add something new and potentially interesting to the crypto-ecosystem. Though PoS has a number of theoretic problems that *probably* make it unfit to be considered a censorship-resistant trustless asset.

Depends what types of alts you look at.

I have great faith in vTorrent, not invested in it, but i`m going to if dev keeps his promises.

I also think Monero has great support nowadays and tries to correct BTC fault.

I also think that Bitshare or its gold counterpart whatever its called, can increase as the Gold itself will increase probably soon!

IMHO Nxt is much undervalued. Will rise a lot with the upcoming 1.6 release.

The altcoin that's going to spank litecoin isn't even actively discussed on the forum.  I would suggest you do your research beyond the walls of this den of villains & thieves all trying to be better at stealing from each other.

Cryptonote is the most interesting development to come out that has any presence in the forum.   It's worth reading up on - bitcoin devs are consistently actively interested in the technology & one or two of the conis.  

nxt is about to get blown by.  Interesting 2.0 project but premine held by a few dozen people?  It can't keep up dev wise with other projects on it's heels.  


95% of the activity on this forum can be classified as active scammers or trolls trying to entertain each other during this lull of boredom between now & the time their magic internet beans make them wealthy enough to afford blow, hookers & moving out of the basement.

Nxt. It's slowly becoming noticed in the outside world. I can't say that its price will go "to da moon", but it's definitely going places as a cryptocurrency. More to the point, it's slowly emerging from Bitcoin's shadow.

(To be honest, Nxt's relative price stability in Bitcoin terms is a blessing in disguise. Not much gains if you buy smart, but not much loss either.)

If you're doing anything other then pump and dump on coins with the potential, like GLOBE and START, then you are just wasting your time and money. Alt coins arnt even an asset, unlike Bitcoin which is an asset and is traded on the general market and can be shorted against actual currencies.

My advice is look at the charts for each Alt coin. If you see any with drastic repetitive spikes and drops, buy at a low and sell at a high, then transfer back to BTC. If you're in the US, hold USD until the buy is capable, transfer to BTC, transfer to ALT, then at the spike sell off back to USD. Otherwise your Altcoin value is volatile by BTC price drops. If you're hoping to invest in LTC and take the cake if BTC price plumets, well I don't see how you're coming out of top since all ALT coins are pegged in the market to BTC anyhow. Your order of value and investing in ALT coins should be looked at in terms of, what is the currency value which is pegged to BTC, what is the value of the ALT coin pegged to BTC. If you did like me and invested in START before Max Keisers 48 hour STARTcoin fund on BankToTheFuture when START was like 0.00012 and BTC was like $235, then you did pretty good a week or two ago if you sold when START reached 0.0008 and BTC was up at about $300.

Read the news, watch the charts, don't marry your investment.

guldencoin! not scam not p&d really good projects, and it is no spam like monero

i liked how litecoin worked out but i think that is over now!

this is what I think. I think people only choose it because it's seen as second best but when bitcoin has taken off into the mainstream in the next few years Litecoin will likely get left behind.

Try Monero or Diamond coin. Diamond is a proof of stake crypto with 50% interest per year. Plus, it has a supply of 4.38 million (less than Bitcoin) making it a rare crypto currency. So, eventually the price would increase as it gets closer to 4.38 million.  :D

Also, I recommend Monero as right now it is a coin with great potential. It has Cryptonote algorithm and as of now the price is cheap so it's recommended to invest in this coin.  8)

Looks like nobody said it yet. So my vote goes to doge, great community which may manage to keep it going for a long time.

I don't see any good altcoins around.
Most exist just to scam people of their btc through pumping and dumping.

Monero
Bitshares
NXT

These 3 are where most of the innovation is occurring and the only real competition that I see on the horizon is whatever Blockstream can do with Sidechains. That seems to be awhile off though without any real impact in the next 18 months.

i think crevacoin worth to watch.
crevacoin is very populula in korea.
and in korea have many affiliate. over 60 thousand, and used cash in korea !

i have totally forgotten about Doge , maybe it is because i haven not been to /r/Dogecoin for sometime i miss it ;)

how to find best coins :
- a friendly dev team with realist projects
- a friendly community who really use the coin

If you mean by "making it" as making money for traders and investors, I like the following:

-- Litecoin, always in bitcoin's shadow, can be a good play if you buy in low and hold for the next crazy unpredictable pump

-- The "legacy" alt coins, like Peercoin, Namecoin, Primecoin are always nice coins to trade and play with. Good devs and community and fairly distributed.

-- Digitalcoin, aka DGC,  is another legacy alt, a hidden gem that's fun to trade with low entry price point,  1 to 2 cent range

-- The other coins at the top of the coinmarket cap list, like Doge, Dash, Monero, BTS, Maidsafe haven't proven themselves to me to be trading worthy. Maybe as long term buys they might have potential?

-- I never trade/invest in any coin that has premine/instamine. Being a bagholder sucks. And by supporting a fairly distributed coin, it makes alt coins better in the long run.

H.

Bitshares
Neoscoin (ridiculously undervalued)

Old coins, no inovation at all.

Risk/reward ascending:

LTC
NXT
VPNcoin
HBN
DOGE
MYRIAD
VTC
Opal


of course I  do believe in PPC and XPM, but I barely have any.

NINJA, Equinox, Pharma, Tron

I see NXT and Monero on the top of the Alts for the upcoming year. And, of course, most of the superNET coins like BitcoinDark, Vericoin and VPNCoin.

Are you joking or is there a new Equinox coin?

The last one was an ICO scam that burned a lot of people here. This is what the dev changed the first page of the announcement thread to after he had pulled his scam, although the mods have now removed it and the thread has been locked.

http://s4.postimg.org/z5tjh7adp/equinox.jpg

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=746191.msg9462939#msg9462939

This is what the dev changed the topic title to after his scam. You notice it still says "Don't invest in ICO shit, idiots...".

http://s16.postimg.org/3pw2t3f0l/equinox2.jpg



The dev didn't only scam people, he continued to post in his scam coin's thread afterwards, constantly ridiculing people for falling for his scam and boasting about what he was blowing their money on.

DigitalNote is the easiest coin I've used.  The developers have done an excellent job.  You can even mine right from the wallet, so it's super easy to download, mine a few coins, and test its features; like secure messages and deposits.

Been pushing CannabisCoin.  I like what they're trying to achieve.  Needs a good team behind it tho...

LTC, XMR, NMC

The only alts I hold and care for are BitShares & NXT. I don't see much potential in other coins

MAID, CLAM and BTS  ;)

GetGems ofcourse, why? Because aside from rapidly innovating, it's the only project with potential of succeeding in adoption outside of the dark crypto scene.

Check here their latest work of introducing 65 million users to Coinbase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3e37qd/introducing_julia_your_personal_bitcoin_teller/

https://www.coinbase.com/apps/55aeb83f69702d2db5000056 and they just starting, GG is the real deal peeps.

i suggest to invest into Qora. it is one of the most promising and undervalued coins at the moment.

Crypto Circuits.
CIRC.

Only Qora has shown promising innovation till now (decentralized web hosting, blog posts, social capabilities etc http://qora.co.in:9090), so i'd go with Qora.

I am holding clams. I am hoping the price remains stable around the 0.01 btc mark. A few months ago, i never would have thought it would hit these dizzying heights. When it rose, i felt it would be a quick P & D, but clam seems to have surprised me! I know there is no real practical use for them besides playing with them on JD, but that's just it. JD has a cult following and a community that is willing to go ahead and push the coin higher and hence i am staying invested in it for a year! I am smartly selling my profits off investing after it crosses a certain threshold, so that i don't lose these profits in case it comes crashing down!

But it's also a clone.

No: it was coded from scratch.

Axiom shows promiss. With an excellent dev and small but growing community
 8)

NXT (Has the most potential)
Monero (XMR) (for anonymous needs...like deepweds)

Anything else will die out, and is obsolete. I see people saying BTS, please learn economics, that is a scam and highly inflationary.

Same as Dogecoin is a hyperinflated crap.

The good ones to I may add BURST, it is similar to NXT but it is hard-disk mined, which is very innovative and enviroment friendly, might wanna check out that, i`m keeping it in watchlist if anything exciting happens over there. Although i havent invested in BURST yet:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.0

Also VTR has some nice innovation too, it offers paid torrenting, i`ll invest in that soon:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=889481.0

Franko is for sure the best alt around :)

In the VNL fan club here.  It's not a direct Bitcoin clone, it has a good develop behind it, there's been a lot of work going in to the technology, it's compatible with Bitcoin RPC to aid development, zero-confirmation transactions imminently and it just got picked up on Chinese exchanges and has seen 50% boost in exchange in last couple of days.  POS and iOS/Android staking wallets.

Look at the viral buy book @trex, it's dead

Nxt was already noticed in outside world. I think that nxt should have even more poularity. It one of the most brilliant coins ever made :D

I start to think that Ethereum will work out, but definitely I would not invest in it just yet.

If i would have only 1 BTC to invest then I would do this:

20% NXT (Most innovative cryptocurrency so far)
15% Litecoin (It may be a clone but you cannot doubt the social media support and the active forumers)
10% Dash (not the best anonymous coin but it is easier to market and promote)
10% Monero (best anon coin but harder to market)
10% Unity (SUPERNET looks innovative, decentralized poker and all that good stuff is appealing)
5% Ethereum (after i see the full client come out and waiting until the sellof of the bears finish)
5% Banx (it is a good dividends coin)
5% Bitshares (same as Banx, but I`d not put in the BitUSD, i think USD is about to get devalued in QE4)
5% XCP (similar to NXT but better corporate support)
5% GEMZ (money making & advertising platform phone chat app is very innovative)
5% Storjcoin X (decentralized storage, innovative but it's hard to accomplish so i`d not invest alot in it)
5% HYPER (a gaming coin, gaming is 180b$ industry, so if they can get some gamers to use that and get paid in that it can grow really big)

BUT THIS IS NOT AN INVESTMENT ADVICE, ITS JUST MY OPINION!

forgot shadowcash lol

I`m not sure about that, it looks very shady, and besides that, even the technicals are problematic.

I saw many posts here telling that it's not that safe and anonymous, and there are still exploits there, so i would personally not use it nor invest in it.

haha get me the info get me the truth let me see? all i have seen is steady price no p&d shit

Start here for example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=818939.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=843604.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=847952.0

And many more negative threads, not dont get me wrong, I didn't researched it deeply, so it could be a good coin, but I just don't feel like investing in it.

IMO best alts are:

NXT (Most advanced crypto plattform)
XMR (Best anancoin)

Wow just wow!

Let me help you a bit because when I look at your altcoin portfolio you are either a fish waiting to be eaten by pump and dump group sharks or an ATM-krill for the whales.
(just joking no offence but let me help you in how to pick an altcoin)

1. You do not want to invest in a coin where the devs are anonymous, 99% of the time it is either a scam or a pump and dump. The only coin to have and you do not know who the dev is that is Bitcoin.
2. Community/Dev must be strong and being able to back up their claims regarding innovation and expanding the ecosystem. If they only promise and do not deliver it is bound to go wrong.
3. The coin must have an value, not just the value on the exchange but in real life and online. You must be able to buy goods with the coin: food, clothes, gifts, gold, silver etc
4. A coin must be really undervalued for you to be interesting. You do not want to buy a coin at it's peak.
5. Focus on a select group of coins, diversity in your portfolio is good but in you case that is a lot of coins.  What you are doing is basicly gambling instead of picking winners.


My altcoin portfolio? (max 5 coins)

1Bitcoin (save haven just like ''gold'')
2Guldencoin
3Digibyte
4Startcoin
5-This place is still open-

I recommend to do good research before picking a coin!

If one is looking for a sleeper then Monero. Monero is being very actively developed as per the Git master https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero (https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero) while the official tagged binaries are over eight months old! https://getmonero.org/downloads/ (https://getmonero.org/downloads/)

Here is what I suggest:
1) Download and compile the latest source
2) Download the "official" binaries
3) Benchmark 1 vs 2. The RAM needed to run a node with the "official" binaries is around 7 GB vs around 50.5 MB for the latest compiled source, just for starters.

Hahahaha that is very funny, but no, when I put that list together I thought of long term holdings, not weekly pump & dump schemes.

You also have to consider the capitalization of the fund, the more money it has the better established it is, and it also carries a risk of divesting, but an established on has smaller risk of that than a smaller one.

I havent even heard of Guldencoin, with 200k market cap and a long term downtrend it more likely looks a pump & dump scheme, but I can be wrong.
Also the name makes it more funny so its hard to take it seriously.


Like i imagine you go into the store and buy some food and the shop owner says "that will be 20 GULDENCOIN please pay", it sounds so funny that its surreal to believe this coin becomes even a local currency, hardly a global one.

Digibyte also sounds funny and i dont see innovation there, just a few small modifications.

STARTCOIN is ok.

I'm not interested in guldencoin as an investment, but I've read that it's popular in the netherlands:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/guldencoin-gains-widespread-acceptance-netherlands/ (https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/guldencoin-gains-widespread-acceptance-netherlands/)

Excellent point. With all open source software the ability to track progress in github prior to a tagged release is really nice.

On a related note I would recommend avoiding all alt coins that are cold source for both security reasons and for the inability to verify claims of the developer.

NEM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=654845.msg12161462#msg12161462

One of the developers just went public and he is a neuroscientist and a really smart guy.

I like the  NEM wallet, unfortunately, that's about all there is to say. I fail to see innovation in this coin

 ;D It was a joke but if you have really thought about your portfolio and you have a good strategy go for it.

Regarding Guldencoin, there are a some shops recently that accepted Guldencoin too but are not updated on the list
http://timeline.guldencoin.com/
You can walk in a shop in the Netherlands and get you hair cut, buy a coffee, buy a sub at subways, go to a bar and have a beer, buy clothes with in a shop, eat in a restaurant, etc just check the timeline.
Also you can buy drones, gold, silver, mining equipment etc etc also check the timeline.
The main focus is the Netherlands but eventually they will expand across Europe and further.

What Guldencoin is doing in the Netherlands Digibyte will do to the world in my mindset.

Just buy VNL right now before it's too late dude..

It may be a good idea but with that percentages (>5%) i`d like to invest in established coins. It may or may not come true, with 200k$ market cap it can be owned by 5 people who eagerly wait to dump, or it may not be that good for the people.

After all the people have to like it and if the demand is small and its not that likeable then people won't use it especially if there are better alternatives.

We will see as it progresses, i might put 1-2% in it.

A good alt coin right now is Burst. I like the fact that you can mine them with your spare HDD space. It's so much easier than mining with a ASIC miner. Just my opinion  :D

I don't really think there is any good alts at the moment though I'm a little out of touch with them, these days.


How does that work exactly?

You just download the Burst wallet and the miner. At first start, your miner will detect plot size (usually your HDD space) So the bigger space you have, the more coins you can mine.

Official site: http://burstcoin.info (http://burstcoin.info)

Mining calculator: http://burstcoin.biz/calculator (http://burstcoin.biz/calculator)

Right now the network difficulty for Burst has lowered. So now is the best time to mine them. Depending on the difficulty, you're current HDD space will determine how many coins you will earn. The bigger the difficulty, the harder it is to mine them with your current space. In that case, you're going to need more HDD space. I usually mine with one 2TB HDD (internal) and another 2TB HDD (external) That makes 4TB of free space in total. I think I'm going to get another HDD soon.

Hope this helps  :D