These coins are definitely a safe investment.

I would also invest a small amount into some random coins and hope for a large return on one of them. 

Are we talking about a sure thing or trying to hit it big? Risk vs reward.

Microsoft is worth $400 billion and Windows 10 alone is running on an estimated 200 million plus devices.  
They employ over 100,000 people not even counting their partners/ etc.  
Bitcoin is still just starting out and is nowhere near as large as some of these Fortune 500 companies.

Possibly.  
But it would take a huge event for the price to double. It could definitely go to $1500 or $2000 in a year.  
But we would need much more adoption by a large retailer etc.

Yeah there are around 80 masternodes right now.  
Price is down a little today but it might be worth a small investment. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1534280
is the new thread

Traders are taking advantage of the recent news to unload some coins
(probably many people trying to get back some of the losses they took buying LTC close to $40)

but the coin might have potential.
Its been under development and has serious support for many years. Definitely worth having some Litecoin in your portfolio for a long-term investment.

Bought some coins on Yobit today.
Keeping an eye on this project, seems like it might have a good future.
Anyone mining currently? Would be know what miner/ gpu etc and the kind of payouts you are getting.

icash has good volume but the price hasn't gone up a lot yet. Might be a sign that someone is about to pump? 
I don't know anything about this project but I will look into it. Thanks for the heads up!

Unless you have an already established faucet that is currently generating ad revenue,
you are probably going to be lucky to break even. If you have the skills to write the code for the site yourself you can make more getting hired as a web developer.
It might be an okay way to make a couple dollars as a hobby if you have the time but you aren't going to get rich from a faucet site these days.

Litecoin has people that still believe in it and continued development.  
It may not be the flavor of the month but I don't think you can say that its dead either.
The next couple months will show if this is just a blip on the radar or the actual comeback of LTC.
I think its worth at least holding some or buying when the price drops a little bit after this recent spike.

Price is probably at the top for now.
Everyone is already reacting to the news so I doubt it will go any higher.
I predict price to dip a bit and then stay flat for a while. Could definitely go higher in the future, though.

Anyone currently using this on Ubuntu 14.04?  
I'm getting an error when I try to compile "nvcc fatal : Path to libdevice library not specified.

I did some editing on the Makefile to add "--dont-use-profile" options and set everything manually but I get a "cicc message not found"
(using "nvcc --dont-use-profile -ldir /usr/local/cuda/lib64/ -I /usr/local/cuda/include/ -L /usr/local/cuda/lib64/" argument)

I can run "nvcc --version" from the command line and it displays Cuda 6.5 installed correctly.
Is CUDA possibly not installed correctly? Hoping someone can help with this.

Anyone with a decent amount of money would be crazy not to invest in crypto.
Even if it was just a few percent of your total investments, the potential upside is too big to be ignored.
If you are going to gamble on the stock market etc you might as well gamble on magic internet money as well.

Apple may not be as popular as it was five years ago, but there are still tons of people who buy every product they release.
Thankfully they have some good competition from Android in the phone market and may actually have to innovate some new products instead of relying on the fact that they are the most popular item to have.

As for Gulden, its nice if you made some money off this project but I wouldn't count on it being viable long-term unless we hear some news soon because once they hype dies down it can be hard for any altcoin to recover.

Yes and the bubble will burst, eventually. 
But it might not be for another twenty, fifty, hundred years.
Eventually Mad Max will become a reality. Roaming gangs fighting over water and gasoline.
It probably won't happen in our lives. But its definitely worth diversifying your assets into things like gold and digital currency if you have some extra money.

Wait until price drops a bit and then make a small investment IMO. 
Price is a bit high right now but in a few years if associated projects like Augur take off the price could actually be much higher than it is right now.
Most altcoins are just a bubble waiting to pop. ETH may have long-term potential.

In a perfect world, yes. But unfortunately most people are not using Bitcoin to help the create a new method of payment and eliminate the need for fiat currency. 
They are using Bitcoin to make a profit. 
A small percentage of people are trying to make a difference. The rest are just trying to line their pockets.

Some of those loons have a pretty decent amount of hashing power and money to take out advertisements. 
I saw some BU ads on Reddit the other day. They are really trying hard to push their agenda.

I would not be surprise at all if Bitcoin hits $1500 by the end of 2017. 
If you have some extra money and can pick up coin anywhere in the $1000 to $1100 range its probably a pretty safe investment. 
Alt-coins were getting hyped up over the last couple months. Now that people realize most of them aren't really going to do anything, money should start to flow back into BTC again.

Appreciate the Tradingview link. 
I've been watching XRP for a while. Its an interesting project but sometimes I'm concerned at their lack of real information.
Every few months they announce that some bank is using Ripple, but don't seem to give many details. 
Hopefully this is a project that is actually seeing growth and development, and not just vaporware.

Is it the beginning of the end?  
Will Roger Vers' FUD cause a price drop?
Will Dash and the other alt-coins absorb the incoming fiat currency and cause the downfall of our beloved Bitcoin?  
Find out on the next episode! Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!