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1st Position = Bitcoin
2nd Position = Litecoin
3rd Position = ?

What is the 3rd coin?

NVC is the 2nd coin at price. 3rd LTC

3rd coin = NMC

1st Position = Bitcoin
2nd Position = Litecoin
3rd Position = Namecoin

4th will be Primecoin.

i think so or some other coin that has constructive proof of work.

Wonder why NMC and NVC are going so well.

I suppose that the 3rd coin won't really be established for some years now.

at the rate IFC is going at it will be 3rd in no time :)

One of these: NMC / DVC / PPC / XPM

According to the poll running in parallel, it's Primecoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273370.80

(re NVC: not everything is about price, even though Primecoin isn't doing too bad there either)

FTC will be the 3rd successful coin.

YACoin, what else?  ;)

Primecoin!

cryptogenic bullion  ;D

Shhh don't tell em yet, leave it as a surprise!  :-X  :D

sexcoin, they are doing a lot of good work to get it into the industry.

Also sex sells :P

PXC is a candidate.Trolls tried hard to kill it. But failed badly. :P

BBQ or FTC

cpucoin3

i`ll go with this ranking. 1st BTC 2nd NVC 3rd LTC ;)

Florin

Define succesful.

If things go as planned, and Megacoin is the first to properly implement Zerocoin, my bet would be on Megacoin. It's definitely too early to make any predictions right now, however. Without something significant happening, I don't think it's possible to predict a clear-cut #3. NVC, NMC, and FTC have been around for a while and are consistently mined which is why their market cap is as high as it is...but none of them really bring anything significant to the table that makes me think there is a chance they truly go mainstream. The same could be said about LTC and BTC, I suppose, but they are simply so well established that they're cemented at the top for the foreseeable future.

I'm not sold on Primecoin nor NMC, despite their innovation, as said innovation does not bring additional value to the coin itself in my opinion. It's like backing money with dirt -- it's backed by something, sure, but is it really better than nothing? Eh...

Agreed, I saw that thread as well!

This is a pretty dumb thread. Everyone will say "nameofcointhatIsupport" without anything real to back it up.
Define sucessful? The coin with the biggest market cap?
LTC, NVC, PXC and so on, will not suceed.

Primecoin I believe is the number 3 spot. Especially since its not going to be mined with Asics any time soon.

Successful to me means has long term viability, regardless of what someone defines as its value thru greed, ie market cap, price point etc.. A successful currency is one that becomes accepted across a wide range of industries, and can be used for something other than trading on Cryptsy. I don't even think Litecoin has achieved that yet. But then that's my opinion.

XPM is different from most alt coins, which makes it somewhat unique.

If crap like IFC becomes sucessful you get all of my coins and I quit.
IFC2 has potentional due to it's upgrades, but still..

ROOOOOOFFFFFFFFLLLL NVC! All it takes is like a 100 BTC sell-off to send the price down to .0001X :D

It won't be PrimeCoin (the prime crunching is just a gimmick)...
But it will be a new Alt launched in the 2nd half of 2013.

My guess for 3 is PPC (actually I think it will switch places and be #2 with LTC being #3).  Primecoin will be up there too, as will Yacoin, and FTC for the top 6.  But then again, I could be totally wrong.

+1 for Megacoin

Megacoin

First of all, the number one coin is the coin that will make me money today.


Therefore the number one coin is a relative matter.

The third coin will be the one with the next biggest community

One of the main reasons BTC grew in popularity besides original

Then when other altcoins came out
One of the main reasons LTC grew in popularity - community

my 2 cents

Well you can make or lose money on any coin today. CGB has outpaced BTC gains by roughly 75% over the past few weeks. This doesn't mean it's a threat to BTC...but I certainly made more money with it today (literally) than I did BTC.

I guess maybe we're now debating the correct interpretation of the initial question; I thought it was pretty clear.

Primecoin, obviously

Namecoin, as its been there for a while and you see in volumes daily of turn over.

Digital Coin  ;)

BitShares...  it is the only one that actually innovates on Bitcoin and provides new value such as BitUSD and BitGold assets that track the value of USD and Gold with no counter party risk or issuer.   Unfortunately, it is still a couple of months from launch... but based upon VC investment already has a market cap in the top 5.  

Okay...this thread is officially ridiculous; I'm embarrassed for even participating. Guess I should have realized what it would rapidly deteriorate into.

Digitalcoin, and it will supplant Litecoin.

I'd like to see Primecoin succeed (and derivatives, etc), break from the current design of coins attempting to eek value out of energy being spent. It's wasteful and doesn't have any long term merit.

Community, honesty and innovation. We have yet to see a 3rd coin that will make it.

I think Primecoin will overtake Litecoin, though maybe something better will come along and replace them both!

Namecoin

cosmoscoin

NVC

I've got an idea: everybody should just post whatever currency they're most invested in for the next 50 pages or so. That will convince everyone your chosen coin is the best and the value will shoot through the roof!

Sacajawea dollars

CGB

quark or prime - cpu only is good for everyone - shame it's better for the botnets and vps clusters though
anon or cosmos - good idea, cosmos seems to have a good design and always keeps profitable to mine.

Namecoin:

Oldest (1st Altcoin)
Most Secure (65% Bitcoin Difficulty)
Merge Mined means no extra energy needed when mining bitcoin..
100+ uses
Satoshi Himself had a lot of input :- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28696#msg28696

+

Chronokings (maybe :) )
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262599.0

Let me leave this on this page too.

It must be Novacoin.

Novacoin

I absolutely agree, it will be YACoin.

CPR is worth more for 1 full coin

Primecoin with a little time. It just broke two more world records this week. Note that EFF has $150,000 and $250,000 reward for certain primes, not to mention the national attention when(not if) this happens.

WDC is real winner and success!!!!!

 Zimbabwean dollar , its kinda like alt coin anyways.

are we finding new primes?

Redcoin imo...has the best Dev and will be accepted currency on 5,000 pron sites shortly  ;D

Yup. We have broke 4 world records so far I believe.

We have broken 20 world records but not for finding new primes.  We are finding cunningham chains and bi-twin chains.

This coin should be called Cunningham Chain Coin or Bi Twin Coin instead of Primecoin.

It finds chains of prime numbers and helps advance prime number theory and cryptography.  Besides, Primecoin such a snazzy name.

The ridiculous part about Primecoin is that it's built to cripple GPU mining - if somebody launched a similar currency that wasn't restricted it would blow Primecoin away when it comes to advancing prime number theory. Beyond that, dedicated single-purpose machines could leapfrog anything Primecoin has uncovered in a matter of hours. The entire concept is nothing more than a gimmick, in my opinion.

The dev team went out of their way to make Primecoin less efficient.

It was not built to be GPU inefficient.  It just turns out their plenty of prime # code available already optimized for CPUs which they used to make the reference miner.  Making the GPU miner from scratch is difficult.  There is one now actually made by mtrlt but it is inefficient and requires much more optimization.
Why do haters gotta hate?

Ferretcoin

PPCoin of course.
First one with a proof stake and proof of work.
Currently the third (or fourth) highest market cap.

I'm not hating -- as a currency, I don't have any issues with it. I'm just saying that, in its current form, Primecoin is a pretty inefficient way to discover prime numbers...so while the "prime" aspect of it makes it different...it's really more of a gimmick than anything. I'm not suggesting nobody mine it...but it's not really the dual-purpose knockout punch many would like people to believe.

I welcome anything different...but I think the hype has gone a bit far on Primecoin. In my opinion, it's being billed as something more than it truly is.

I think Sunny pulled a rabbit out of a hat with this one myself.  One of the key things about his approach is that it is something has has not been worked on much and therefore there is no pre-completed work that someone could figure out how to insert into the program.  I wondered early on if his work could be used on other distributed computing projects, but the problem with a lot of them is that so much work has been done that it's hard to establish proof of work.  It'd be too easy for someone to just copy already completed work and submit it for instant credit.

 CGB (cryptogenicbulion)...though it will move to 2end successful coin;)

It's not very hard to tell, just go to BTC-e and click on each coin pair to see which has the best daily trade volume, do that for a week or two and you have your answer.

If you want to pick the winner in the next tier, then do the same procedure on Cryptsy.

I'll try one last rebuttle.
Primecoin miner was never meant to find new prime #s (it theoretically could but highly improbable).  It is meant to find cunningham chains and bi-twin chains.  Why are these useful?
1. It helps to advance prime number theory
2. Has uses in cryptography
*3. Much like Bitcoin has led to the creation of ASICs for SHA256 and more efficient ways to solve SHA256, if primecoin were to become popular, then effort would be put into making hardware optimized for find prime numbers and chains of prime numbers. Creating more efficient circuit designs for numbers research has scientific merit far beyond just finding chains of prime numbers.  Primecoin provides a motivation for such research.

There may very well be more useful PoWs, just noone has come up with one which meets the dual criteria of being difficult to compute but easy to verify which is required for a bitcoin-like coin.

This is a good method to find out the current flavor of the week, but it is not a good method for finding long term cryptocoin investment opportunities. Use your own brain and do your own research on all these ALT cryptocoins, otherwise you are nothing more than sheeple.

To the OP: I can guarantee you every single person that posted ITT has a special interest in the coin they suggested. Do not ask to be spoon fed investment advice, otherwise you will be fed whatever suits the adviser best. This does not mean that their advice is right or wrong, but you need to take it with a grain of salt.

I think finding primes requires a cpu.
CPUs are meant for more complex calculations, whereas gpus are meant for parallel simple calculations, like pixels or bruteforce.
Otherwise a computer would only have a gpu.

I think you might be right.  I think the ultimate primecoin miner may be a parallella.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/547314

;D

DVC - Devcoin will rise!

CGB by @elambert!