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In your opinion, what is the best coin to seriously invest in long term?

(example: DOGE, DRK, XRP, Ethereum, BC, etc...)

Now that's a toughie...I'd have to suggest DOGE, because its community is unkillable. The remarks about it being a "cult" just shows you its staying power and grit.

But whatever coin you pick...I seriously suggest a monthly dollar-cost-averaging plan. It's the only way you can reasonably cope with price volatility.

Yeah, I just do not know if DOGE will really rise in value...I just believe that while blockchain will continue to live, Bitcoin may not, and no one wants to miss the next wave of wealth distribution lol

doge doesn't bring anything, don't invest in a meme ffs

hahaha I know, I have been having this dilemma for a very long time, but the community and acceptance is somewhat undeniable...

It is possible that in the long future, people will slowly forget about the meme, and the coin itself will prevail, then it will be just a funny story of how it got its name

Okay. I've got another one for you if you're more of a tech-head: Nxt. It's "the" Crypto 2.0 altcoin. Rapid innovations, huge development team, lots of services built on it. Not much in terms of revenue streams for these services, as yet, but if crypto takes off again Nxt will rise hugely.

The trouble is, you specified "one year" and Nxt may still be grinding away in its long-term trading range a year from now. If you're willing to lengthen your time horizon to (say) two or three years, Nxt is the way to go.

If there's any downside to Nxt, its the drawbacks of its tech-centered culture. They've put marketing and evangelizing on the back burner, it seems. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does imply that Nxt will take a long time before it really takes off. 

That's one of the points I hinted at. It's kind-of funny seeing the crew around here repeat the mantra that "cryptocurrency is for use" and then turn around and sneer at the shibe community. If Dogecoin has one compelling feature, it's the fact that DOGE is already a "cryptocurrency for use."

bitshares or syscoin

I have been involved in cryptos for a while (you can see my twitter), I've ran my own trading group, worked with devs etc. I think the sentiment in the altcoin market is shot, so now I would like to not deal with all of the BS and focus on 3-4 coins that deserve my money for the long haul. NXT is super cool, so is NHZ, but NXT is bigger. I will consider it more.

And yes, I do not mean 1 year to the dot, 2 years is fine, even 3. I mean 1+ years

bitcoin 2.0 version coins

Define 'they' for me in this sentence  :D You've been around long enough to know how Nxt works  ;D

Go to nxtforum and see what freebieservers is doing for gamers. That is the marketing we like, help out where you can  ;)

NXT!

Is at the moment the best price to buy (because Supernet will go online in the next days).... in a few weeks the price will take off.
And if the Cryptos will go, up one day again, so NXT will rise extremly.

My own opinion: 1NXT=1$ in up to 2 years (Now 1NXT=0,0128$)

If you can strike a private deal for some Ethers, that surely won't be too bad. As long as you keep your fingers away from Ethercoin. I would also start looking at Storj and Filecoin.

and check this out..  http://dogecointimeline.com

doge has done a lot more good than most cryptocurrencies out there. not bad for a 'meme' currency. 

the beauty of NXT is it is anyone can pitch in in marketing the platform. the core devs just keep working on the code and other devs can build apps on top of it.  it's a good set up imo.  all the NXT core devs need to do is speed up transactions and it's perfect (almost). 

i wish NXT was using a flavor of POW tho, like proof of capacity like what burstcoin is doing.  although i support a couple of POS projects, i still have my reservations regarding POS.

My bet is on AppleByte, launched on May 1, 2014.The digital currency supporting the arts.

A real user community, 11,200+ on Twitter & 11,300+ on FB.
Currently rated number 5, on CoinGecko in terms of user community size and support.

Through the Twitter tipping app, launched two months ago, over 280 artists have been tipped more than 85,000 AppleBytes by their fans.

For success longterm a coin must have a real, growing user community, not just traders on an exchange.




AppleByte Details:
Announce Thread:  Announce Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=503131.0)
Website: AppleByte.me (http://AppleByte.me)
Facebook: AppleByteMe FB Page (https://www.facebook.com/applebyteme)
Twitter: AppleByteMe Twitter (https://twitter.com/AppleByteMe)

AppleByte (ABY) is traded on  Poloniex (https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_aby) and Bittrex (https://www.bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-ABY)

no volume in the market.  sorry.

i would like to point out for all newbie traders is never ever buy into a coin that has low volume.  when shit hits the fan, you wouldn't be able to get out without moving the price down drastically resulting in big losses.  pretty sure you would feel that you took it up the ass later on.   so be careful. 

That's the perfect set-up for now. When Nxt's code is "mature", Nxt will be a professional marketer's dream crypto. Right now, because of the overhang of Mt. Gox et. al, there's really not much point in widespread evangelizing. Best to consolidate and quietly build, which is where Nxt is at right now.

But as I said, Nxt is going to take more than a year before ends up being a killer speculation. Myself, I'm thinking of a three-to-five year time horizon.

Vericoin  vrc

http://www.vericoin.info/ (http://www.vericoin.info/)

Fair distribution and Proof of Stake is the future! 
Look into other proof of stake coins too..

UNO is the best longterm coin. Period.

Primecoin.

my only long term coin right now is monero.  :)

+1 for NXT
there's no shame in buying in,a little bumpy in the short term but long term looks fantastic

Maidsafecoins +1

proxy coins for Safecoin when the network is launched

This should give you a better understanding of the project, its really huge in terms of sheer monstrous size of the codebase.

http://docs.safenetwork.io/ (http://docs.safenetwork.io/)

More specifically for double spending. long thread...

https://www.maidsafe.org/t/how-does-maidsafe-solve-double-spending/257 (https://www.maidsafe.org/t/how-does-maidsafe-solve-double-spending/257)

Chances are I will most likely go with (BTC of course) and DOGE/NXT .... 90% BTC though haha

AppleByte... meh, volume isn't enough for me, for long term

1 year?

Bitcoin

dont think to hard
just Buy and HLOD
Bitcoin :)

I'm surprised no one mentioned Monero.
Has the community fallen out of favour with this one?

Please read up on monero, lots of drama and running of with funds sadly ;)

I say for max profit, don't laugh, DOGED, it's now valued @ 1 or 2 satoshi's, yet the dev and the tech is exellent. Truly anonymous. I'm going for that :)

 Digibyte and Energycoin... Both have very good futures with active devs

Have a look at Magi

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735170.0

Interesting concept, honest dev and definitely a coin you don't want to miss.

i would keep CLAM for a year


but what do i know, i made my first million at 24

Bitcoin, Maidsafe

How about Viacoin?

Neoscoin (http://www.neoscoin.com) and Bitshares (http://www.bitshares.org)

Swiss Franc, backed by gold this currency means something

Otherwise perhaps Sterling, British government is intent on deficit reduction. Might even see some reduction in supply now

Both of these have made big gains so far this year and you can buy just about anything you want with them.

I have to say, I cannot believe no one here has been arguing, it's pretty great lol.

I am going to just go all in on BTC, it's somewhat of a no-brainer atm.

Still open to simply chat about coins.

If you want a coin tweeted out lmk :)

Also, I used to have a trading group, no longer together, but we just chat about trades and cryptos and anything.

Totally free.

If anyone wants in, just message me, its a skype group.

I would still say LTC, even though it has taken a bit of a beating lately - the general public want what they know and feel secure in, that's the most established coins like BTC & LTC (DOGE also, but it's not that established in time frame, but is in popularity and use).

I don't think that when things go mainstream that the majority of people will care about algorithms and all that, they'll just want functionality and ease of use.

just my thoughts :)

K.

EFL
MYR
GREE
BOOM
CAM
VPN
DGB

What is this garbage

Monero.

Edit: Disclosure I have a position in Monero

My picks are Urocoin, Mazacoin, Shadowcash, Maidsafe, Ripple, Stellar.

Naturally BTC is the one to hold but unless you are a whale I think you've missed your chance to make obscene profits off any rise.

CANN buddy !

Don't forget the US law about weed, very very important factor for CANN success. ===> Banks are refusing cash from weed sells because it's not completly legal ======> Dispensers   N E E D   Cannabiscoins.
Because weed is not completly legal at a federal range, feds can shut down any "growfarm" they don't like for some random personnal reasons, this is very sad. =====> This is why D9 isn't giving anyone pictures about the weed growing, like everyone in this business in US.

Cann seems actually dead, but is in fact not at all. The Herbal Wellness Center is still using it in real world and there are pleeeeeeeeeeeeenty of events coming with a great future. Do like you want but i'm definetly in it ;)

YES WE CANN

Thanks for the responses, I also really like namecoin

I hold several coins. The only one that went up in value is Ripple (Xrp). Just sayin.

should've been HODLing MaidSafe coins!

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight ;D

NEM & Monero

Bitcoin would be my only coin I would hold for more than 3.6 seconds. Litecoin would probably be one of my picks but nothing else.

Syscoin

None. Buy and hold long term is a losing strategy in crypto.

https://i.imgur.com/Z1SnM6v.png

https://cryptrader.com/charts/cryptsy/uno/btc

UNO has worked out as a 1+ year hold.  The question is - will it continue to do so for +years to come?

shadow, cann, xbs.

The coins in my sig  :D

Honestly though, a year is a looooooooong time in alts. You really can't look away for a year on any coin, random destructive shit can and will happen at the blink of an eye.

Just look for coins with marketcaps which are ridiculously lower than they should be for what they offer or will offer. For example, Geocoin has a marketcap right now around $20,000. You can buy 1% of the current supply for ~$200. This coin has already integrated GIS- you can put money in any location on earth and people can go and get it (check out geocoin.cash)- the dev is great, more tech is on the way, and there's an entirely new user base which this coin has the potential to tap into and bring into crypto (the geocaching community).  When you consider all the useless crap with market caps of $200,000 or even more, it's pretty safe to to say this coin deserves and will likely achieve a significantly higher market cap than it currently has.

NXT and Slimcoin.

NXT, because it's still in its development stage and has the potential to get a high adoption when a really stable wallet is deployed.
Slimcoin, because it's seriously undervalued and the first (and only) coin with the innovative Proof-of-burn algorithm. Proof-of-burn is a seriously interesting concept with many advantages, proposed by a Bitcoin veteran (see http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_burn) , but only Slimcoin uses it until now.

What do you think about bitcoin :)? As I heard it's quite cheap now but has some good growth potential, credible devs and some serious investors as well :D.

NXT can be a good alternative too.

Only a few altcoins have decent tech though.  Most seem to offer nothing.

neucoin.org

I think it is NXT, Burst, VPN etc

It'd be stupid to invest only in one coin. It's better to build a portfolio. i think BTC+DASH+some Cryptonote coin, probably Monero+Stellar/Ripple/Bitshares+something interesting, Counterparty or NEM, f e.

NXT, Dash and may be neucoin (new entrant)

NEM has introduced some really interesting new tech that makes it very secure and security is something badly needed in crypto.

Its foundation has been built in a way that 3rd party devs will really be able to build some pretty amazing things on top of NEM and have full security.

personally I believe in NXT in long run

Btc.

As far as crypto goes, none of them. You have to expand beyond a 24 hour cycle but keep it within a predictable range in order to guarantee positive results IMO.

BitShares

https://bitsharestalk.org
https://bitshares.org

To be honest I'd say none.. buy Bitcoin maybe.
No Altcoin I seen comes anywhere close to being as valuable as BTC is or will be most likely in a year.
And current market prices show this right now and I doubt any random alt that already exists is going to come close price wise.
So unless a new coin is made that beats the crap out of BTC ? ..save your money !

I believe it too. NXT is very cheap right now, this is the best time to buy.

Bitcoin is no doubt the No. 1, while I think the dogecoin is not bad.

Mintcoin, but longer than a year. The mintings compound and payoff more the longer you hold.