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The number of altcoins increasing. There are tens of altcoins. All offer their specs. However, The altcoin users will think what the best altcoin to invest or to buy. In trading they can exchange anytime but my question is. What the best altcoin to be kept hoping that the price will sky rocket like bitcoin. When we keep the coin we will gain a lot of profit due to the rising or the price. What do you think and why ?

Annother blind investor, your question is irrelevant to the altcoins world.
Altcoins aren't P&D schemes, they are projects with objectives, these projects needs funds to realise their objectives, this is what we call an ico, or a premine. Even if a lot of them are just scam, at least a limited number are legit, and these aren't to be compared to each other.

Can you compare NXS and SafeNet ? Maybe Eth and Etc ? why not XMR and DASH ?

You can't compare them, they are altcoins, and they are different, now if you want to hold shitcoins, it is your problem, they can be easily found here.
The only advise i can give you is to stick to most famous coins, as they are legit, their value isn't due to a price manipulation (most of the time).
Or you can try to order the coins by adoption, as they will have higher chanes to survive.

If you want to trade/invest in Altcoins, you shouldn't select a single one, as it is a non sence. Pick at least 10 of them, if a coin have an interesting project, just hold it and you will get your valued satoshis.

Even though the number of altcoins is increasing, the number of good coins is a constant :D

Sadly, yes.

Well you want make investments into altcoins for long time investments, personality I made investments in ethereum for long time investments the reasons are ethereum has big capitalization, we can check on coinmarketcap.com and ethereum has good fundamental is like many projects related ethereum's blockchain.

Your first argument is good, while the second is irrelevant.
Anyone can create an asset/smartContract, and things like that in Ethereum because it is made like that. A good argument regarding ethereum for now is his popularity, but it is not an element who should be considered for long term holding.
Something important is the adoption, i must say that recently i found a lot of projects using ethereum and accepting it. I talk about merchant adoption.
The more a coin is adopted by merchants, the more it will be valued on the long term.

Yes, ETHereum is one of the altcoins that is worthy to keep for a long term goal. It is second only to BTC, besides there are many good projects under its wings being develop under the ETH contract.It has a great potential.

I think so, ethereum have solid development team right now. more good news about the ethereum platform itself. I think ethereum should be better than litecoin.

I think Iconomi, Darcrus and Komodo are good coins, to keep for the long run.

research bitbay ...then research bitbay again. Then research other coins. Then compare their market caps. Then choose wisely.

Ethereum, but you'd be well advised to diversify beyond that. XRP, XMR, ZEC, PIVX, Maid, ICN, and Strat all seem good to me.

Alright, the first conclusion is that we should see the market cap and the project related to the altcoins. CMIIW

The best alt to BE KEPT ...

1.  Core Wallet needs to be easy to load, and leave open = 'light'
2.  ElectrumWallet = BONUS!
3.  Daily trade volume
4.  Multiple EX listings
5.  Active thread

Question is which coins are all 5-points?

If you are a safe investor you could go to the top 5,if you are a whales then you can further stretch to the top 50 in the coinmarketcap,you can also invest in ico the risk is high but the profit is huge.

many altcoin created , possibly also altcoin will take $ from bitcoin in this year, but does not affect the price of bitcoin to go down. there are several projects altcoin very legit, and has a good technology, not hurt to follow and buy altcoin and ico at the beginning of this year, possibly in 2018 will be a lot of businesses use cryptocurrency

Well, I think it is not fully true. Three years ago we could say that the only fine coins are btc and ltc. Now we may add eth, byteball and probably monero to this list. The number is increasing and coins ought to become better not to lose on the market. I believe some very nice coin which is protected from inflation, has usefull wallet, fast transactions, smart contracts, able to resist attacks will appear some day and be added to this list.

Sad to say but no one would really able to answer this question and all things have been said here is just pure speculation but still there are possibilities and we dont really like to get behind again just like missing the tradin with bitcoin back in the past.If someone could able to predict which coin would be next upon bitcoin then there are lots of people would invest to it. Im just basing on top altcoin on marketcap which i considered do have potentials.

you should keep only coins which you have chosen, so no one will be guilty in your success or failure. 

I doubt there will be any alt coin to keep for a long term, all of the alt coin seems like giving a big promises but in the end all of them can't be stable and usually become stagnant, like Litecoin or Eth which was claimed as the rival of bitcoin but in the end the result is not too good, keeping alt coin for long term is very risky, I suggest to just hold for short term

There are no "safe" word in trading even you're really carefully choose coins you would like to trade. Because anything could happened like dump and pump bot anytime.

Yes, but it needs really huge capital to reach that. If you only have 1 BTC and become whales, that's useless.

This one has high risk compared with trade in exchange, however with invest in promising road map also reputable escrow are the ways to filter those ICO right now or you might get scammed.

I can only tell which I am supporting or investing in,
Ripple
Stratis
ZCash
Decred

Apart from these, Eth and LTC may also prove to be good for long term.

as mention Eth already showing big potential to have good value in the long run if you can wait for every development that they are doing possibility to increase the value is not too long, i also looking for ltc and xrp as they are also in some deal with integration with businesses but like everyone said we should review every aspect of which coin we do desire to keep.

i can't believe this thread is posted by a senior member. as for myself, I have held blackcoin for years because I see its long-term value, though I just registered here recently.

For you're looking for an altcoin that is profitable in the future you need to check each altcoins available and what they offer, its hard to predict which altcoins are good and bad. Fluctuation is always a part on the cryptocurrency but if you want to invest on something thats worth something. Try Eth if you want a long term investment and if you want to earn short term and bit by bits you can try XRB. Still you need to check every altcoin and keep updated if you want to invest.  :) I hope it helps,  ;)

How about dogecoin. The price is still low , I keep doge a lot hope the price at least reach $1 so I can make a lot of profit.

no it's actually decreasing lol, some good coin are dying because they were not that good, now i see for good coin only ETH, Zcash, lbry, monero, vertcoin maybe, those are the big one, other need to do something if they want to be called good, and the best to keep for me is spreadcoin now, after the swap, 0.01 is possible

To me the best altcoin to be kept is Ethereum. The PoS switch at the end of the year sounds to me like a great investment opportunity.

Iconomi is the best way to keep, iconomy has good prospects, many of my friends still keep their iconomi

If you ask me, just invest in the coins you truly believe in. Don't invest in a coin just because somebody tells you to do it

The majority of my crypto investments is in Dash, the main reason for it is because I think Evolution will make it easier for non-nerds to use crypto, and they have constant development.
I also hold a good amount of NAVcoin, because they are working on some nice projects, the names of developers are publicly known, and they also focus on user experience (just like Dash).

The names of developers are well known. Ok that's one of the good reason why I should keep an altcoin. It makes sense, because  well known developers will hold their reputation.

WBB (new name coming soon) by a mile  8)

Yeah, lets take Pivx for example. The reason I don't trust this coin is because the founders call themselves "s3v3n h4cks" and "Coin Server", their real names are unknown. This is one of the many things I look at before I invest my money in a cryptocurrency.

I too hold bitcoin as my best bet but if we are talking about altcoins I guess the big bags are still out there doing the big work. Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, hell even Doge, doge has almost infinite amount of coins but still rises in price time to time. I think these are the coins you should focus on instead of finding new coins and hope they will rise in price. That is a riskier way of making Money if at all.

I think if you want to be most sure to not to loose your investment over a longer term, ripple would be the choice. My opinion.