I'm a huge fan of smartcash. It's possible to run a masternode now. Way under-rated. Good community.

Part of the appeal of NEO is the ecosystem that they're building around it with coins running on the NEO Network. NEO will be unstoppable this year. It's still a little centralised to manage scaling so would be good to see how that plays out over 2018

Everything is nicely dipped at the moment so a really good time to pick up higher potential coins. I'd look at privacy (PIVX, DeepOnion, NAV) and the ecosystem coins - VeChain, ICX, Neo, Gas, Apex.

This is just chain-washing.

This play validates the strength of cyypto from mainstream perspective. But it also adds more noise as punters try and work through all these new coins flooding our feeds to pick out decent investments.

PoW isn't going anywhere in the short term. It's such a part of the culture. Even new POS coins are starting as PoW and then flipping.

I think it will be quiet at the start of the year but there are alot of new tokens launching and mainnet releases coming up. Once these coins start being used in real-life business, then the value will increase. It won't happen to all cryptos but there are still profits to be made in some. The challenge will be believing in your coins and HODLing them through these crazy current times.

Dock.io has an airdrop on now
https://dock.io/airdrop

they're looking to replace linkedin

I really like the NEO/GAS ecosystem, including Apex and the Key
Vechain is looking strong with great real life partnerships.
I'm excited for Bytom mainnet and Wanchain when it launches as well.

Thanks for the research. AChain has alot of potential. It seems to be a hybrid POW/POS coin and I'm trying to figure out if it is minable? Does anyone have any info?

Excited to see a coin that's looking to build mainstream use. Need to make things as simple as possible for the mainstream.
Hopefully after email you can look at chatbot/voicebot platforms as well.