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Coins Source is going to be starting a major story segment on alternative coins, the number of them launching daily and ultimately what this means for the future of Digital currency and relations towards commerce.



We want to get the community involved! This thread is to express your opinions on the state of alternative coins, your top investment choices and ultimately what it means going forward into 2015.

Keep your choices limited to coins that have been around for a while (preferably 3 months or longer), or coins that've established major ground in the markets or outside in the commerce space. We also want to hear coins that you've made profits on or anything pertaining to the markets. Anything goes really!

My choice here is XMR (Monero), http://monero.cc/ (http://monero.cc/), https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0). This coin has been trading on Poloniex since May 19, 2014 so it meets the three month requirement. https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_xmr (https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_xmr). It is the leading Cryptonote https://cryptonote.org/ (https://cryptonote.org/) coin in both market capitalization and volume. http://coinmarketcap.com/ (http://coinmarketcap.com/).

It is proof of work coin that offers some very attractive features including robust anonymity using ring signatures, and adaptive limits. The latter means it is not constrained by the fixed limits such as the 1 MB blocksize limit in Bitcoin. It also has a very active development team and is generally considered to have a fair launch. Because of its youth it is also very much a "diamond in the rough' in that it requires a fair amount of development work including the back end database and GUI. This can provide an attractive opportunity for an very risk tolerant long term investor that is experienced in the crypto currency markets.

ok 100% not Monero NxT NeM BiTshares whatever ponzi 2.0 scam pumped hyped up by fckng bought / paid accounts like the above guy

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