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Monero has a very welcoming community towards the different projects in the altscene. We might also get an official gui wallet in the coming months!

It is the ethereum, but the price is dropping fast. I hope the price will recover one day. It is a good coin.

At the moment, it's CasinoCoin. In contrast to etherum, CSC price in increasing fast... https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/68

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Roflolmao!

HAaaahahhaahhaaa.

best alt/dev out right now is wbb/1ex

Thanks for the input guys! :) That vaporizing comment was funny lol

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

What can you currently do with ethereum?

Bitcoin is the best for sure.

About altcoins, I see that dogecoin/Litecoin fits with the faucets lovers in which you can earn a few pennies plus it has a larger community.
The others most of them just appears then disappears in few weeks/months...
I think it is better to have for the moment few altcoins than hundreds without a real weight.

For me, its XMR and LTC.+1
of course, alt of alt is always bitcoin ;D :)

For sure haha More than an year ago I was trying to mine and was all about alt coins, then stopped mining and sold my video cards and started buying BTC, every once in a while i keep buying BTC. It's interesting to see some old coins still alive lol if i invest in an alt coin it will be a small amount, everything else bitcoin, oh and I love gambling with bitcoins lol

Hah! Wow some humor around here!

Ahh a newbie account, won't be long before owner is cynical, grumpy and no longer makes jokes :)

In terms of gain and trading value it's clearly Digibyte, 500% rise in the last days at its peak.

lol

Actually when he said 'vaporising', check out BTS' chart...  :D

yes it seems currently the hottest is Bitcoin.

Hottest altcoin is of course BTCitcoin!

Those promising coins now can be hottest but for a limited time only since there are lots of developments needed in order to have a quite high price.

nothing is better than bitcoin at the moment. especially since the price is going up

Bitcoin is not an altcoin its the original coin, persnally I love doge after bitcoins .

What do you guys think about BitcoinXT?

Boolberry!

github db branch developments and new Twitter Boolberry game are two reasons why.

Monero.

The best anonymity ideas keep getting better!

some 100% ico scam with fancy roadmap.
+ privateminer with dev fees.

Dash has continued to impress me with innovation and actual implementation of those innovations rather than empty promises of many altcoins.

Apart from that, Litecoin for stability and the "backup" to bitcoin.

bitcoins only i think no alts

Dash (then Darkcoin) has a long history of empty promises.


...18 Months Later...

So how's the progress towards these previously announced goals?  Were they (after a nice dump of instamined coins) abandoned Because Reasons?

Let's review:

I2P?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

Ring signatures?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

IP obfuscation (AKA masternode blinding)?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

And now, eduffield is announcing a goal to make Evolution succeed where ETH failed.   ::)

With Gridcoin's trading volume and user base growth it will be a top 10 crypto in market cap soon.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gridcoin/#charts
http://www.gridcoin.us/

John Quiggin, Australian Economist and Professor at the University of Queensland:
https://twitter.com/JohnQuiggin/status/655179547378233344

I'd have to say Dash.

The volume of dash is not higher than Eth. It is only 20% of Ethereum. Etherum has more tradings.

Ethereum may have relatively high volume but Ethereum has been heading downwards on that high volume which is not a good sign.

Dash is Darkcoin right?

monero if you care about privacy, anonymity and fungability.

Yes, Dash is the new name for Darkcoin.

Nearly all altcoins are declining as btc's price is heading up. It doesn't mean anything. It is driven by the speculators.

Darkcoin was being developed by vertoe and focused on privacy/anonymity.

Dash threw all that out the window in favor of mass adoption, so vertoe quit.

The planned 'masternode blinding' never happened, along with i2p, etc.

Now their latest thing is copying ETH.   ::)

doge coin or bitcoins right now.

Dash is quite popular among altcoin users  ;) It is hard to say, what is the profit from Dash at the moment  ;D

Most altcoins have holders, not users. ;). 45% of the new coins go to Master node operator. I am not sure if it is profitable for them.

I think Dash is one of hottest altcoins in the market  ;D There are many Dash users around and also mining is popular  ;D

still vcoin for me

As for me, it's NXT and DASH.

The hottest coin right now is DigiCube. Check out my sig for more info.  ;)

If you mean of the past months/year, probably ETH.  If you mean volume/percent rise today, you can just go to coinmarketcap.com and sort by %change or volume.

I believe VNL will be the hottest coin at some point because it's the only one with a developer delivering non-gimmick innovation, but it's not the hottest right now.

Ethereum has done very well this week! I do not own any but still find it interesting to watch.

In cryptopia hottest is Dotcoin now:-)

Altcoins market is down a lot. We cannot appraise their performance based on their price movement. Why not buy the altcoin index like coinoindex which is traded on poloniex.com. So we can invest the top 20 altcoins.

Other than bitcoin (of course) imho ethereum is without a question one of the hotter alt's going currently.

I say currently as there is pretty much blood in the streets in the alt-coin scene with the massive jumps BTC has been taking lately

Dash has been trending toward zero ever since the ill-considered rebrand from Darkcoin.

https://i.imgur.com/sBS8dTA.png

We'll I noticed DROP, faucet coin. I sold one for 60 k satoshis 3 day's ago, 2 day's ago it was 80kk, and yesterday I sold one for 180 k. I'm newbie and this was my first trading (just selling for now), I'm falow few coins, but this one has some nice rise this days.

That certified Dash scam is dying in its arse right now.
Dogecoin is still hot as ever, quality over scam any-day.
https://i.imgur.com/PnnTaAm.png

drop - faucet coin is hot right now

Well, this question rises again and again. i think the best and hottest coins at the moment are NXT, Counterparty and Bitshares at the moment.

Those coins are dead scams; that's why their prices are collapsing.

The only legit alt in the green right now is Monero.

wbb

non. Don't invest in any shitcoins.

I do like Monero, might buy some.

vertoe you mean the dev that showed up later at cache, pumped it dumped it then basically dropped a nuclear bomb on it?
http://cacheco.in/ 502 Bad Gateway

doge is primed for a run up, so my best $million dolla Alt to get hot pick.

ltc outta get pumped to $500M, once the BTC whales look for insurance but looks like 2017 before they move to ltc.

the ETH pump back to $1 is a bit of a surprise, and ETH might be #3 after BTC, LTC ... ripple needs to be taken out back and put out of it's misery ... these premine coins are not taking off ... so XRP, STELLAR, NEU, Byte are no volume toxic waste.

DASH is game for a whale dump and lots of drama.

If you want to be scammed you can trade any shitcoins they don't have to be hot or cold.

But these toxic waste ones (i agree they are waste btw) are the ones that can go really wild and the slightest bit of news, whether real or fake.

darkdogelitecoin

I would say DGB, good dev team and great features. Loving it so far.

DigiCube price is now 0.0017 per cube at c-cex buy it while its cheap !

If 15 of the 3500 masternodes  (just 0.4%) were liquidated, it would crash the Dash price all the way down to 0.0001.

I can't wait for the DashHole drama when that happens.

The fact it hasn't yet, despite the enormous penalty for not being among the first 15 to panic and GTFO, indicates all masternodes are held by whales and True Believers.

It's really cute how they honestly(?) believe Duffield can (magically?) create an Ethereum competitor all on his own and in secret.

I'm tooting my own horn, but my family business started smoked a lot of crypto bacon OTC and this year. 2014 has been a good year for crossing the chasm. 2015 will most likely be well into mainstream territory.

i am currently betting on Boolberry. it is the most promising coin at the moment in my opinion. it offers good tech, privacy and is part of SuperNet.

monero, and it seems that shadowcash is doing well, still pretty new though, then you have the usual doge and litecoin
but i don't see one really shining over another, in my case i'm waiting for more energy efficient coin like burst, but with different algo maybe

Etherum!

I'd say there are two platforms that could in the future become something of worth

ETH: Because of its potential to bring crypto to regular business

And

VNL: Because it is working on making crypto transfer instant and competent for use as a currency.

How does eth cooperate with businesses more than bitcoin does?

and emunie has achieved instant transactions.

However since eth is a fairly new crypto there is a lot of buzz around that at the moment. So in a way you could call that hot at the moment.

Tech wise Boolberry is one of the most advanced CryptoNote coins. It is also ahead in usability because of its GUI and has a pruning solution to prevent blockchain bloat. Its distribution curve is perfect for widespread adoption.

However not many people have heard about it. That may explain why the price is still so low.

Emunie has created instant locked transactions, but VNL has created instant and respendable transactions.  Not the same.  One just shows that there has been a confirmation and locks it so it can't be respent,  the other is instantly transferred.

ETH allows businesses to incorporate block chain tech in whatever fashion suits them.

https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/674580347955363840

And ETH is about to get an IOS Wallet...

Anything below 1USD is a bargain!

It's like an altcoin exhibition here. No seriously, there should be one offline.

The hottest coin is the coin with

- strong focus on research and development
- has a publicly known dev team, capable of fixing problems when necessary and giving reliable feedback and can present a trustwearthy roadmap
- has a community that supports that coin well
- is so feared by lower ranked competition that it is attacked and ridiculed on a daily basis, even in threads that are not specificly about that coin

I will leave it for the OP to find out which coin i'm talking about, we all have to do our own homework when it comes to investing in cryptocurrency......
 

The hottest altcoin in term of hashing power is Ethereum. It has 500GH/s hashing power, equivalent to 25,000 AMD 280X. That is more than any other coins.

I would bet on Magi (XMG). High community activities. Dev always working and giving feedback and new features. Also, its CPU friendly and mineable by normal people.

Hard to tell, but there are a couple out there with some real interesting stuff going on right now.

"Hottest"? Hmm... Let me think.

Wankcoins.

After its recent low at the beginning of November of 6800 sat VNL has been on a steady rise and is now sitting at 12k sat.  This coupled with its new chain blender white paper and constant updates makes it the hottest coin around!!

I'm sorry. I think you mean darkdogelitecoincash

Much more than litecoin for sure. Unless we're agreeing that Litecoin is not an alt.

Is alt mania still a thing? It's been two years since the mania was at its peak and nothing's shaped up to break out of the confines of this forum with the possible exception of Ethereum. If an alt emerges that truly kicks butt I think it'll come from a place far away from here.

Obviously, it's not the common wisdom of Altcoin discussion here on BCT. Troll wars among people not willing to admit the general fail of altcoins as an incubator for the next Bitcoin. Shall we wait a couple more years?

no, you should engage and fix, what you think its wrong, you are welcome,
we  need people with a critical, constructive voice, if you manage to ignore the trolls, you will see clearly the real efforts.

... and visit my thread, there is no trolling at all
only supportive community members and i love each of them
have fun
Matthias :)


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I guess it is not altcoin being hot, I might prefer ETH because ETH has a high enough price, so if the price drops, it could be a good opportunity

Mrai is the best for me i made over 200% profit when i sold and it's only some months old.

At the moment Lisk

like GreenCoin.  ;D

Ahhh, hopefully you had some and held onto it.  I don't know what the price was when you wrote the above but damn.  Sometimes buy and hold is a f-ing good strategy.  And ETH is still a hot coin, though it's cooled down some.

At that time I cannot say anything about that which alt coin is the hottest right now, as the time for bitcoin block halving is near and everyone is busy with bitcoin, so the time for alt coin will come only after people get some time from bitcoin, I think a few months later.

the hottest coin changes each day, so it is sometimes a new coin today and another the next.
so far ETH has been so hot but the heat at this point is more of a risk than heat. also Ripple has been going up and down recently, and soon LISK will be the hottest as soon as it is released.

I am excited to see the influence the bitcoin halving will have.

ethereum is the hottest coin right now since at everywhere I saw people start discussing it. But soon or later another altcoin will replace it. Litecoin maybe will be the next hottest altcoin.

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there. It's idea is brilliant but also easy to understand for people not in crypto before, see for example this thread that was on the frontpage of reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4b4drk/a_currency_minted_by_doing_science/t1_d16hch5

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). This process is decentralized among all nodes, there is no central server issuing all coins like it is for example the case with Curecoin. In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

Setting it all up has been quite complicated in the past, but the pool on pool.gridcoin.co has made alle this easier and already has more than 800 active miners/researchers (http://pool.gridcoin.co/rankings)

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

Lisk

I think Ethereum is the hottest coin for last month, now people are looking for another coin to trade, but fro me Ethereum will be hot again if there   the big developer keep their promised to support Ethereum

ethereum has been hot for a longer time than that. it has started being hot back when it was planning to get pumped by the big bag holders who have been accumulating it at low prices and the hype is still alive to this day while they are dumping their coins

Buy ethereum. Obviously

Ethereum is still the hottest coin as it is most profitable to mine and the market cap is quite big, it is around $800 million.