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I have been in this space for a few months now and would like to share my crypto picks for the coming year.

The theme for 2017 has been use case, scalability, and/or privacy

I think 2018 will be much of the same, with perhaps a bump for 2nd and 3rd Gen cryptocurrencies.

Nexus(NXS): Mkc: 300M -- Price: $5.44
 - Why? : - Next level encryption (SHA3),
               - No reward halving for miners (exponential decay curve),
               - Core LLP and LLP : protocol templates to create new protocols with less programming. (simpler smart contracts)
               - 3 ways to mine/mint - CPU/GPU/POS
               - Upcoming feature: Trust Network will allow for a sync-less wallet
               - many more features coming including eventual satellite launches to maintain the blockchain in space away from governments or
                  nefarious human beings.

Trezar Coin(TZC): Mkc: 13M -- Price: $0.14
 - Why? : - NeoScrypt PoW - BLAKE2 for hashing (MultiAlgo)
              - 0% Proof of Stake, instead of giving a fixed annual return your hashing power is determined by your coin weight        
                (max weight is total Coins x 15)
              - Orbitcoin Super Shield, retargets mining difficulty to protect from multi pool mining.
              - fast transactions
              - fast blockchain syncing

Intense Coin(ITNS) Mkc: 12M -- Price: $0.03
 - Why? : - attempting to produce a VPN network powered by the blockchain: "the Intense wallet will allow any network user to act as a VPN exit
                 node in exchange for ITNS" (more in WP) --> excellent use case
              - PoW/PoS - staking will be required to act as an exit node.
              - Anon transactions + VPN network in one coin
              - Devs are super responsive and of high caliber (currently switching to Monero Code base)

ByteBall(GBYTE) Mkc: 430M -- Price: $665
 - Why? : - DAG tech (iota, xrb anyone?), super fast transactions (one Tx cost me $0.00037) cheap
              - smart contract feature (ahead of Iota on this one) + KYC Compliant ICO's (no more scammy BS)
              - Blackbytes (as of right now the only anonymous DAG coin)
              - Working oracles (betting, flight insurance)
              - In wallet atomic swaps for 0.75% fee
              - Many more features and updates coming this year DYOR
              - IMO this is a Sleeping Giant ::)

This is it for now, I may Add some more later - Let me know your thoughts

Update Jan 24th 2018

Elastic(XEL) Mkc: 45M -- Price: $0.51
- Why? : - Cloud super computing demand is growing
             - XEL has underperformed due to small team and Anon team.
             - New website and Main Net due to launch in due time
             - Has own programing language (both a pro and a con)
             - Has many more exciting features

Interesting choices. I never heard intense coin. Byteball and Nexus is good :) Good luck for your picks ;)

I maintain more than 30 coins in my portfolio...i have none of your picks.

I am familiar with NXS...good project but way too ambitious that I am afraid they are more likely to fail than succeed.  Will be a great coin if they pull it off though.  For now, I wait and jump in once they show results...let my money multiply in other coins.  ;)

Good luck!

I have a few more coins as well, these are just my recently acquired ones :) High Risk high reward right?

Byteball is probably going to be one of the best ones of this year. Nexus is good, but not good enough to be a directly competitor to Byteball..
Anyway, i still believe in that Elix will be a very good coin during this year

I'm very exited about Intense coin (potential rebranding Q1) - White paper is what sold me https://intensecoin.com/whitepaper.pdf

I see Nexus as a fail safe in case SHA2 encryption becomes obsolete (just hedging my bets)

Byteball is definitely a better pick overall - Price is scaring people away though :(

Been Hodling Elix for a couple months now  ;D

IntenseCoin sounds interesting... a blockchain powered VPN would be a unique concept.

Byteball have added to your list, but why you did not add IOTA ? if i'm not wrong, both have same tech behind
and you should think about waves  ;)

already have it :) - i have been meaning to get some waves, it just keeps slipping my mind