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There are currently 1524 coins on Coinmarketcap making up a total cap of $448,449,144,831.00. With this in mind I think that maybe we are in a "bubble". With out a vetting system for ICO's coming on to the market, there will always be coins that are, as far as their project and actual utilization is concerned, maintain an artificial value contributing to the broader crypto market cap.
Now don't get me wrong. I believe that crypto is here to stay in one form or another. But until we find a way of getting these scam coins (Bitconnect etc.) out of the market, then I believe we will not have a true representation of the market. Furthermore, I think this plays a part in the declining price that is conflicting Bitcoin and other great projects out there as the market becomes over saturated.
Once markets begin using vetting services for potential ICO's, I believe this market will truly start to take off. My question is this, once these coins have to start going through a more stringent vetting process to be accepted to market's how many coins do you think will last, and do you think this is something that will gain adoption in the near future?

If crypto survives in the long term, bitcoin is a must have, first of all.

All the new altcoins coming out that has a generalized purpose without a clear pathway for future development will be eliminated sooner or later by new coins. And the new coins will be replaced sooner or later by a newer coin.

I think the only coins that are safe from this is Monero, BTC, and Ether, which all have very large support bases.

Many coins I have,
but I think the safest coin is the top 10 coin in coinmarketcap. And I save Ethereum.
And also some coins from ICO, bounty and Airdrop. most of which come in coinmarkercap

All coins that cannot define there future will all fade off and be replaced with new ones recently some dumped coins have been deleted from coin market cap.

Probably not many.. but still until the hammer comes down from the heaven.. may be 10K.. and once regulated (after 5 years) .. about 500 coins.. just ballpark

we cannot count how many will last, but we can say that those coins with real tech, project and products will eventually become the winner.
Lots of ICO's now a days are scams, after the ICO the roadmap is not being followed, A good team with a large community will have the largest chances of surviving. But still if we found a gem in this ICo's  will definitely give us a good fortune.

To be accepted in in a lot market and the coin must have met any requirements from the market itself. But the majority of altcoin don't have strong development progress i can say only 7%-8% of them will survive.

But not sure about that because the majority of investors are using ico to flip their money.  
It will not happen in near future.

I'm sure most of them will fade away. Only the ones with a good use-case and adoption will survive over the coming years. This is a very high risk market and a lot of the coins/tokens out there should be treated like penny stocks.

Infact i never hold coins other a few that have good support of people and are prominent in the world including Bitcoin, Butcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple. I believe in these coins because if you see there is no coin having such a huge market capitalisation othe than these four i have choose, also newly joining companies initially focus on these major crypto coins to start buying and selling with

I also think that most of the token on coinmarketcap will disappear, because it as the national regulatory policy implemented, so countries did not allow the existence of these tokens, these tokens, looks more like a scam, they are of no value.

My best estimate would be around 100 coins if there will be a regulations concerning making of token or coins. Smart Contract Platforms such as Ethereum, NEO, Stratis and many others should have a high standard requirements to use their platform in order to minimize the scammers.

I think its not possible to figure out exactly how many coins will last but there are some assumptions on the basis of which we can decide which coin will last or not.
1.Vision of project behind the coin should be transparent.
2.Continuous development work should be in process to accommodate more improvements.
3.Profile of the development team
4.Circulation in market
5.Unique Technology
6.Community (Larger community mean its elected by more people & vise versa)

There are many other factors but these are common factors on the basis of which you can analyze how many coins are there in Coin Market cap which possesses these qualities,you will find your answer by yourself.However BTC,ETH,NEO,XPR,ADA,WAVES,ZENCASH, are good coins to be considered for long existent.

Nowadays, many of the cryptocurrencies are doing their best to have a better future. All of them have the same goals which I think is to survive and stay standing for the future.

If there will be a cryptocurrencies will last, I think there would be 25% of the cryptocurrencies now. Without doubt, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin rae belong to that 25% of cryptocurrencies.

around 10-20% will survive in the next 5-7 years. Some of the listed coins are already abandoned.

Whatever anyone will say now regarding the number of coins that will actually last is just speculations, no one can say outrightly what will be the future of most coins.

As a newbie I think that vetting system for ICOs will be very useful. There are really hundreds of ICOs monthly and it's very difficult for newbie to find a good, reliable, promising and profitable ICOs. There are many scams and so called "shitcoins" and it's difficult and takes much time to distinguish between them.

i think just the privacy crypto will survive if governments starts to interfere... regulators and governments cannot control these privacy cryptocurrencies... they are anonymous ...the traders the hodlers are all anonymous... unless internet is banned all over the world....

I think we are in a bubble regarding the high number of existing coins (more than 1500 on coinmarketcap alone, then there are tons
of other coin NOT on coinmarketcap)...so I think this number will continue to grow during 2018 and then there will be a huge disappearing
of many many projects/coin. I don't think the total market cap will be lower, though...so BTC and other main coins (ETH, XMR) will see higher and higher
market caps at the expense of other minor coins

I think only a few coins will survive because in the future, each country will make its own crypto currency

I think many of them will just fade away and few will stay and last.

This. Nail on the head. There's so many shit coins that do the same thing. Those coins are in their own race. One will win. All other coins are in their own race too. The ones that prove themselves will survive. I think 75% coins will vanish in the next few years. Money's gonna move

Well, I think there's no absolute answers for this matter because cryptocurrencies are built to last imo. I see some coins that still has value and I don't think that it will be gone. But if there are some regulations that will be implemented I think the number of coins that will be created will be in control.

Regulation is incoming, yes, certainly. Just look at all the KYC stuff now, sometimes even for bounty campaigns. Crypto has got big enough that governments are now taking notice. Presumably in the medium-term this will mean that some of the scam projects get weeded out.

Every coin is potential fail, even the coins on tge top 100 list. Currently, there were more than thousands of coin in the coinmarketcap. Most of it doesn't move it price already and also ready for tatal dump. Not half of the total coin has really bright future. i woyld beyyer be investing on bitcoim which haa better assurance than any other available coin.

if i say that few then this will also a confusion that how many coins if we look at the present time every coin is in active state and many of the users every currency and coin have there are so many holders of the bitcoin and many of the other crypto coins So for now it is difficult to say that which one will last first but i think the the bitcoin and the crypto market will grow more in this year and this currency will be circulating in the world may this will change the world economic position.

Of course many values of alts are supported by top 5 coins as they are interchangeable between each other, BTC has 30-40% dominance which is a lot already. By nature 90% businesses fail or get consolidated into others, which we might see in the recent year, the coins might not necessary die (to value of 1 sen), but rather i think they would be transform into something bigger, leave those coins with no viable purpose as they would eventually overshadowed but other new and more active projects, coins might die but as long crypto grow you wouldn't see any significant difference in terms of marketcap.

HI!The coins will last longer with no future regulations major happens,if the coins will regulate like in medium says it put out many coins from market what dont have a documents with legality aprociat,however it not happens many coins will survive and scams ico too!Another factors in future inprove to with coins survabilty in markets like securety coins.

Most of the coins on coinmarketcap will become worthless. A coin can be worth millions one day and worthless the next week if the buy support disappears. Maybe 5% of the top 1000 coins will have atleast 50% of their marketcap in 5 years.

Probably lesss than 100 the coins that has some use or has some good working product/services,i agree these shit project should be remove to our market so that there will be less scams in our environment,a lot of people are still scared about these shitcoins that is why most of the new folks are getting scammed by these coins.

I do agree, after a couple of years, I believe every sector will see its "winners", and all the others will probably disappear or be negligible.

Well it's very hard to predict right now how many will stand last but I am for sure those altcoins who had strong fundamentals will stay because people will support their technology and by 2020 those shitcoin that has no used in our world will starting to disappear.

I think an effective crypto portfolio should consist of 5-10 coins/tokens. Otherwise you lack of time to reach all updates and sell or buy instruments in time

I don't think more than 10% of coins will survive past few years. If you look at ICOs from last year than 47% of them failed, which is a high percentage. With that rate only the coins that are continuously innovating are going to survive.

Quite a difficult question. I think that if we are talking directly about the continuation of the development of coins, then I think that such rapid development will cease only after the regulator intervenes, in general, this is exactly what is happening today.

I think that less than 10 percent of coins will survive in about two years time. Even Vitalik himself said that 98 percent of ico that are happening will fail.

From the general trend of this thread we can agree that the vast majority
of the stated 1524 coins well be rendered useless over time and there will
be an accepted few which will survive over time, which ones they will be is
anyones guess other than BTC.

It may very well be BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, DASH, LITECOIN and other old
Coins or it could be new kids on the block.

I think only the coins with a great infrastructure will survive in the future. We are in these times right now where everybody tries to set up its own coin and thats a big problem. A lot of unprofessional guys trying their luck...

The more stringent vetting process will make it such that only legitimate ICOs get funding and are viewed as real projects which will happen, but at the same time you will have numerous amounts of joke projects or launching coins just for the sake of it. Those coins and projects will be known as the "joke" ones and they won't get any funding or be taken seriously. I am okay with both things happening in the market, as long as there is a distinction between the two. The main thing we need from all this is protecting investors, and ridding the industry of scams it is that simple.

10% is still too high of a number for me, I was thinking in between 2-5% of the projects currently. That means my range of projects I think that should exist beyond this year is 30-75, however there will be tons of smaller market coins which means the # of coins will be infinite. The number of projects that are worthwhile will be under 100, but the # of actual coins out there in existence? I believe that number will be ever growing and one day will surpass hundreds of thousands if not a million coins. They won't be for the global economy, but rather there will be coins based off local book groups, and board game clubs, and whatever else. The limits are endless, but the progression will be an interesting one for sure.

I think that only the most persistent coins will survive in the distant future. Most of the coins are created for speculation. Only strong projects with real and popular products will survive. Therefore we must invest in these coins now. Plus I guess crypto money (and smart securities) have much more chances to survive than utility tokens.

In coming days most of the coins will drain off in time, only coins will survive whose have best project, team and good infara. These coin will survive and it will make good profits in future.

The fact is no one can actually tell the exact names and number of the coins which will die off in the future as no one out of us has seen the future actually. However, I do believe that not so many coins will die off in the future as the market of the crypto coins is continuously increasing and more number of investors are investing their money in different sort of crypto coins as they know the worth of investing in crypto coins.