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I have 30k to invest. My goal is to 10x my initial investment and get to 300k.

I plan on splitting up my portfolio as such:
60% Ethereum/Bitcoin
40% Altcoins

I have spent nearly 50 hours researching Altcoins and have come up with a list of 26 that I am interested in. Ideally, I would be able to bring this list down to the 10-20 that I am most confident in.  My plan is to hodl for the medium-long term. I am not looking to day-trade. I am looking for companies that have established technology, established teams, and are here to stay & grow in marketcap/value.  

I have  done my due diligence of reading whitepapers, following relevant information on social media, analyzing the charts, etc. I am here to ask about these specific Altcoins.

I would like to hear your top 5 and your bottom 5 from my list, and more importantly, I want to know why. Why do you think they are good investments?  Why do you think they are bad investments?

I also would like to ask this question on relevant social media groups, telegram groups, forums, or whatever other places you think would be a good place to ask this question.  I'm looking for any leads that will help me set up the best possible, current, diversified Altcoin portfolio.

LIST OF POTENTIAL FUTURE INVESTMENTS
1) Siacoin (SC) $0.008091
2) Status (SNT) $0.055677
3) Basic Attention Token (BAT) $0.101029
4) NEM (XEM) $0.165084
5) Civic (CVC) $0.161452
6) MaidSafeCoin (MAID) $0.306977
7) Ardor (ARDR) $0.106853
8 ) IOTA (MIOTA) $0.252145
9) OmiseGo (OMG) $1.21
10) Lisk (LSK) $1.86
11) Iconomi (ICN) $3.18
12) Stratis (STRAT) $5.06
13) NEO (ANS) $7.29
14) Factom (FCT) $17.00
15) Ripple (XRP) $0.168716
16) Humaniq (HMQ) $0.161263
17) BitShares (BTS) $0.125496
18) LBRY Credits (LBC) $0.424406
19) GameCredits (GAME) $1.99
20) BitBay (BAY) $0.021566
21) Golem (GNT) $0.235156
22) SysCoin (SYS) $0.101012
23) Steem (STEEM) $1.20
24) DigiByte (DGB) $0.016340
25) PIVX (PIVX) $1.87
26) Stellar Lumens (XLM) $0.016144

-TheCryptoNephilim

Pretty good list, they all seem like reputable projects so you've done your due diligence.  If i had to pick a top 5 besides Btc/eth it would be some combination of Bitbay, Neo/Qtum, Blocknet, LTC, Byteball.   

Thank you for replying.  I spend more time researching your top 5.  Do you have a bottom 5 for the list that I made?

After all this euphoria, I will not invest on any altcoins which have they easy way. I think I will only invest my money on ico. No one doubt, ico is a good way to multiple your money in only 1 or 2 months. And now the best place to put money is on ethereum tokens or waves tokens. Imo

No bottom 5, they're all legit projects in some form or another.  I would probably replace Stellar and maidsafe as I feel those projects are somewhat stagnant.  I would just include some byteball as it has the same kind of tech as IOTA.  Also NEO/QTUM are neck in neck i feel as far as their position in the Chinese market.  I think Bitbay is the most undervalued on that list in terms of having solid development, community, and potential.  Blocknet I feel will be big and is something that will definitely be very important in the space.

Also i'm curious how will you split your btc/eth holdings in the 60%? are you 50/50

Steem, Lisk, Gamecredits, Dash, Monero, Gridcoin, zcash, Litecoin are all good.

Do some research on Ark

I would say go for 40% BTC, 10% ETH and 50% ALT's as you will get amount invested in BTC and ETH doubled pretty quick with huge pump after all this fork dirt is gone.

For ALT I would advice :
1) Stratis (STRAT) $5.06
2) NEO (ANS) $7.29
3) LBRY Credits (LBC) $0.424406
4) Golem (GNT) $0.235156
5) NEM (XEM) $0.165084
6) Ardor (ARDR) $0.106853
7) Waves(WAVES) $2.75
8) Ark (ARK) 0.4934

I agree with the 60/40 split.  The coins I strongly support are in RED and the coins I support are in PURPLE.

FYI, I like ARK alot as well.  

EDIT:  I'm surprised to see two others mentioned ARK.  I'm not coordinating or pumping anything, I just like the coin in a REDISH/PURPLISH type of way, lol.  Apparently others do to...

If I were you I will go for 40% Bitcoin/Ethereum
                                  60% Altcoins
I will only have these coins in my portfolio based on potential for growth

1) Siacoin (SC) $0.008091
2) Status (SNT) $0.055677
3) Basic Attention Token (BAT) $0.101029 
4) Civic (CVC) $0.161452
5) MaidSafeCoin (MAID) $0.306977
6 ) IOTA (MIOTA) $0.252145
7) OmiseGo (OMG) $1.21
8) Iconomi (ICN) $3.18
9) Stratis (STRAT) $5.06
10) Factom (FCT) $17.00
11) Humaniq (HMQ) $0.161263
12) LBRY Credits (LBC) $0.424406
13) Golem (GNT) $0.235156
14) SysCoin (SYS) $0.101012
15) SONM
16) RLC
17) Rialto

Look up Matchpool (GUP) too :)
https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/guppy/#markets

I was leaning more towards Ethereum because I am under the impression that Ethereum will continue to grow faster than Bitcoin. Something along the lines of 80% Ethereum to 20% Bitcoin. I have heard stagnation in Maidsafe and Stellar and will look into it deeper. 

So far i have never invested. I have no huge money for that.

You can also invest in few good ICO's i think.

thats the ones im in , besides BTC and ETH

ad some good measure of LTC in that and you got something cooking ;)

glad to see bitbay there this has a huge potential for future growth/usage
blocknet isn;t there but then although it has huge potential does have more risk - still i would add some

iota I would switch out of go 50/50 with byteball then make sure to claim in future rounds.

The top 5 altcoin a n which i would like to invest will be CIVIC, SIA, STRAITS, DIGIBYTE and IOTA. Rest of the projects are also very good so i would not pick bottom 5.

Pay attention to coins with cap lower than 1M usd. They have the highest growth potential. So, invest 10-15% of your money to them.
Such coins as KURT, CXT, CREA , 1337, MOIN, KAYI and etc.

You haven't included litecoin. Interesting.

Lbry, golem, lisk, digibyte and ripple are best, the rest is normal for me but all of the coins in top 30 investable.

I think you should invest in IOTA, ICONOMI, CIVIC, SIACOIN and DIYO BYTE for sure. You can also invest in the rest of projects as all the projects you have listed are very very good.

I think you enter in crypto in a good time, last months were not a good time. Here are my advices:

1) DO NOT invest in ICO, there is about 1-2 new ICO project per day, so even if one few of them can gain you 2X, all other will not and you will lose (lot of scam).

2) 60% in BTC/ETH is ok, but don't expect a huge grow fast at this point. BTC is near is ATH and ETH is so unpredictable. In 1-2 years later they surelly can be higher than now nevertheless.

3) Your list is WAY too big. You did the right thing to read a lot, now make a decision based on YOUR feelings and choose 5. If you follow suggestion here, all you will receive is suggestion of what people hold, and what they want you to buy, in other word they promote their own bag.

ark is a sleeping giant monster which should already be a #10 or #20 at this point

SIA, LBRY, CIVIC, STATUS, BLACK COIN, SONM

PIVX (PIVX) and MaidSafeCoin (MAID)  are to pretty solid choices .Just avoid yobit coinst and you should do fine to many pump and dumps there  ;D.ICO again  stay away from then since i say 90% of then drop in value when they hit the exchanges .Spectre coin is a nice under the radar coin with some good features still cheap .

Also a shameless plug for fupoof coin could be a option for a small fraction of it   ;D

I hope you got in on time because everything is up 30%

Waves should be in your list.

XRP, BLOCK, XZC, ARDR, NXT

FootyCash (FOOT) would be the best choice besides the 26 altcoins you are considering.

1. The market has fallen slightly because of the BIP148 activation to take place on August 1st; prices are cheap now so buy before the BIP148 activation.

2. FootyCash developers are getting ready to relaunch and release a new version with Masternodes and Privacy Send like DASH and PIVX. Once that happens the price should rise dramatically.  Now would be a good time to invest and make a good short-term profit.

Other reasons to buy FootyCash:

Footy Cash (FOOT) has seen a meteoric rise in valuation for the past month; with a price increase of more than 5000%+ on multiple exchanges.

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=FOOT_BTC#

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1374929.0

I think the reason being is that:

1. Footy has Rarity - Only 4 million coins total can exist.  There is a small POS inflation rate - about 3% annually (for staked coins only).
How many of you can say like the Winklevoss twins - that you own whole percentages of a cryptocurrency.  
Looking the current price of FootyCash you actually might be able to!

2. Footy is the first Fantasy Sports Crypotocurrency ever made. - Footy is the Bitcoin of Fantasy Sports!

3. Fantasy Sports is a multi-billion dollar industry - with tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue just for Fantasy Football alone!  If you count all the illegal gambling the figure goes much higher - maybe hundreds of billions? (not that I am condoning illegal gambling - but it's a fact of reality that must be considered anyway).

4. Coinmarketcap list just under 900 altcoins; of those listed only a  small percentage of altcoins have a cap of less than 4 million total coin.  Every coin on coinmarketcap with a rarity of less than 7 million total coins produced are all worth more than $2.00 USD - with the exception of Dreamcoin (because of YOBIT) and FOOTY CASH (which is currently undergoing a price correction: 5000% increase in the past month alone.)

5. The coin was greatly undervalued because of unawareness of the Footy cryptocurrency and Fantasy Sports as well.  As more and more people become aware of its value the price will continue to rise. The price may go higher than $10.00 USD per coin before the end of the year!

6. FootyCash has a great developer, active development, and the best community support!

7. FootyCash has a promising roadmap and is currently developing Masternodes and Anonymous Send like DASH and PIVX for the next release.

8.  The name FootyCash may sound funny but "Footy Cash" is an actual English term (apparently):  

     https://www.power100.com.au/news/local-news/81959-footy-cash-to-go-to-good-friday-appeal
     and
     http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/california-club-brothel-sues-in-footy-cash-feud/news-story/bd77f7d397a34a067342a113b5bfa5d8

9. DraftKings, FanDuel, and other Fantasy Sports companies are getting the legislative green light to operate in most U.S States and other countries as well.  

https://www.law360.com/articles/944544/draftkings-fanduel-can-focus-on-dfs-legalization-post-deal



    When these companies decide to follow the trend of most corporations and switch to blockchain technology - I guarantee you that they will take a hard look at FootyCash first!


FootyCash (FOOT) is the first cryptocurrency designed for Fantasy Sports and there are only 4 million total coins ever; as good as those reasons are, what makes FootyCash a better choice over Bitcoin for DraftKings and Fanduel customer deposits/withdrawals are the following reasons:

FootyCash's roadmap and ongoing development will make FootyCash far better for Fantasy Sports than the other more popular coins such as Bitcoin, etc.

FootyCash will have features that are specifically designed for Fantasy Sports and gambling as a whole.

One example is an Anonymous Send feature like DASH and PIVX.  Bitcoin does not have Masternodes nor an Anonymous Send feature but FootyCash is currently developing these features.

The legality of Fantasy Sports in every country is not clear, most being ambiguous at best. Even though most U.S states are legalizing Fantasy Sports gambling there are some people who would feel more comfortable with a coin designed to protect them in the area where the law may not be clear.

Both Draftkings and Fanduel also would want a coin that can cater to the Fantasy Sports industry as a whole, with features designed for Fantasy Sports - i.e fantasy sidechains, etc...  

Bitcoin can't do that, but FootyCash can.

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FootyCash (FOOT) dev just confirmed Anonymous Send feature like DASH and PIVX to be added along with masternodes in the new release of FootyCash:

From:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1374929.400

I'm surprised no one mentions EOS.
I have a solid portion of that in my portfolio.

I think this is a strong list of coins, here are the top 5:

1) Status (SNT) $0.055677
2) Stratis (STRAT) $5.06
3) NEO (ANS) $7.29
4) Steem (STEEM) $1.20
5) GameCredits (GAME) $1.99

Honorable Mention:

6) LBRY Credits (LBC) $0.424406
7) Siacoin (SC) $0.008091


I will not list the bottom 5 because they are all solid coins. However, I would suggest looking into SHIFT also...

My choice of top 5 from your list

1) Siacoin (SC) $0.008091
4) NEM (XEM) $0.165084
13) NEO (ANS) $7.29
21) Golem (GNT) $0.235156
24) DigiByte (DGB) $0.016340

Good luck

Well, 30k is a lot of money to invest in coins. It´s a good decision to invest a good % in bitcoins to keep your money and get some profit. I can recommend you to invest in waves too, very good coin.

well I got my favourites on the bottom but to highlite some points

Blocknet one of a kind, first one to connect blockhains in this way. It functions like a router for blockchains. Best tech for decentralized exchange (trading from your wallet) and multiple other things ( I own waves also but blocknets tech is imo superior) waves is further in development though but collered coin approach isnt as decentralized as this allthough I believe waves also has lots of room to grow.

Maidsafe has the biggest upside potential by far imo its like everthing in 1, imutable data storrage, browsing and webhosting , building dapps, private instant free transactions, literally everything is possible on the network once its completed. Its the most ambitious project out there although most people dont folow it anymore since its taking many years to develop and lots of people dont understand to progress they make but alpha 2 is to be released in the coming weeks.

neo (antshares old name) smart contract in all program languages. they have a good team and vision. the tech is written from scretch still lots of upside to this coin

factom is one of the few with real world use, that solve a already existing problem and haa already other companies using the tech. homeland security is ging to use the tech also. Factom feels the same for me as ripple in terms of real word use and potential upside.

decred is see as the ultimate coin. written from scratch in GO. Real governace, hardfork voting so it can do a hardfork without creating 2 coins so big improvemts can be made all choosen by the comunity. Funding from blockhain. Smart contract possibilities already in the code lots of things in the pipeline like lightning network and anon features and many more. Devs are solid they are the old btcsuite devs.

I suggest that you should do your homework very well. In other hands, look into some good ICOs, I will recommed only one ongoing ICO with masternode for you www.obsidianplatform.com

I had 9k and I splitted it in buying 13 alts with good potential of hitting high in market (it took me 4 months of buying). If you ask me, I would tell you it is a good investment than investing in coins that are already pumped to high heaven waiting for a parachute to land.

I would prefer holding a bunch of Tezos than EOS....

I am not a big fan of ERC20 tokens

These are from the list you provided, none of what you wrote here would be in my personal top 5.

Top 5 :
-IOTA (because of hype)
-Stratis
-Civic
-Siacoin (because of ASIC)
-Lisk

Bottom 5 :

-NEO (because of hype)
-NEM (never understood what it is)
-Ripple (bank shit)
-DigiByte ( do not what it is)
-Iconomi (is that even an use ?)

My favs from your list are BAT, CVC, STEEM, GAME, SC because they have a more tangible use in the real world as opposed to a virtual currency that isn't accepted anywhere yet. Bitcoin and maybe Litecoin will be the currencies used for transactions, the rest of the currencies are marginally useful at best.

I hope you bought ark

People say Monero is the best ANNON coin
but in reality it is SPECTRE

"All for Monero, but less so subsequent to the Spectre update. At the end of the day, ask 2 questions:

1. What can Spectre do which Monero cannot?
- POSv3 Staking Rewards and full supply is in circulation.
- OBFS4 security layer.
- Encrypted Chat

2. What can Monero do which Spectre Cannot?
- Mine/POW"

Just facts here. No bias."  (c) sirsplashalot

If you still don't believe checkout the comparison pic
http://SBinfo.ru/1502705496

As with any investment decision, the devil is in the detail. You are mentioning medium to long term ... what is medium / long for you, how much risk are you willing to take and what type of risk are you willing to take?

If you can take a little more risk, I suggest you look at some of the lesser known names which have unique technical specifications, which are not easily replicable and fulfil a fundamental need. Ideally it should be a coin which has proven feasibility, but did not surface yet into the limelight of the crypto-stage.

There are a couple of those around, one of which, XSPEC / SpectreCoin,  seems to be a hidden gem. It has unique privacy and anonymity features (TOR, OBSF4, Ring Signatures, Zero Proof Knowledge) beyond what other security focused coins can offer. It is thus appealing to everyone who does value internet freedom, in all its shapes and forms. It also uses the newest Proof-of-Stake model (v3), which means it is appealing to environmentally conscious people, or those with limited equipment. Aside from this, they are working on an Android Wallet and a remittance system which will mimic the Hawalla form of remittances (particularly prevalent in rural, unbanked areas and used by millions of people). And lastly, given that they have so far focused on getting the technology right, but have not yet kicked off a broad marketing campaign, they are massively undervalued.

Iota now almost to 1$. That would have been a mistake.

remember me? the guy that told u to buy ark when it was 0.5$

Spectrecoin but it is a long term hold not a get rich quick altcoin.

DYOR.

I read about from btctalk and reddit, and I am looking at coinmarketcap,
I think IOTA, Lisk, Golem, Stratis are great coins. Status and Ardor have potential.