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As you may heard,
I wanna switch to another crypto-currency. What´s the best looking forwardly in your opinion?
What´s your opinion on their development and which hardware do you recommend for which currency?
Looking forward to hear some elaborated opinions!

Please give a newbie some insight!

Any help appreciated!
THX!

I don't know much about others, but Litecoin seems like it's the only other crypto-currency that's ever talked about. You could look into that.

Two Words: Merged Mining

You don't have to pick one when you can mine them all (except litecoin)

You can only merge mine on alts that have it enabled. You can't merge mine with TRC, FRC, LTC + more. You can, however, merge mine NMC.

Well bitparking pool mines NMC, DVC, IXC, and of course BTC.

Summary of these alt chains:

Not Merge minable
TRC - What made this special again
FRC - 80% to foundation + Demurage = pumped dumped and forgotten in 3 months, miners already jumping ship
LTC - Decent value for an alt, shame no one want to build decent apps for it

Merged minable
NMC - oldest altchain, blockchain intended as store of data (great for .onion and torrent magnet links forget .bit), cheap useful (disclosure I buy these occasionally)
DVC - Worth so little they make you feel rich, a core group buys these on markets to support their value
IXC - See TRC, probably never going to be worth anything
BTC - What 98% of people try to exchange the others for

^Atruk has summed the situation up perfectly. 
TL;DR: Except Bitcoin, Litecoin is the only 'profitable' crypto-coin left. But users exchange Litecoins for Bitcoins anyway so ...

PPC - Any value to this, apart from Proof-of-stake concept? Unclear money-supply inflation algorithm.

PPC- Interesting computer science experiment, why pretend it is a cryptocoin though?


Pretty much. It is hard to see how litecoin continues to trade with such that value even though it is nearly a mining and cashing out only ecosystem.

Also, I like namecoins not because they have value, but because they are fun to play with. If I mined I'd merge mine these. It would be a real shame if these built up some value and stopped being cheap toys to play with. It's really weird that these are some of the least valued cryptocoins.

It's special because it's the most like bitcoin and didn't make the changes the other altcoins made. :)

I was merged mining on BTCguild for sometime. I think it was like 300 nmc was worth .1 btc. I never cashed out the namecoins I mined and I think they are gone now.

I think mintchip has a chance. But there is no real competition at the moment.

ok,
thank so far for giving me a little insight...LTC is what I thought already to be the only real alternative.

If (big IF) merchants accept an alt coin it would be LTC.
Others are too obscure.
Percentage wise, LTC has more upside than BTC.
Like stock option has more upside than stock
but can just as easily go to 0 :-P

But mintchip isn't a cryptocurrency, it is just a canada digital fiat

i'd look into dirt just in case the world floods