DASH has the advantage of market penetration, it's already a Top 5 coin. Monero isn't doing too bad though.

As to privacy, that is double-edged sword in the long term. We can expect a lot of potentially illegal activity in the most private coins, so those are also most likely to be outlawed and kicked off major exchanges - meaning a price drop.

On the other hand, in the unlikely event that ALL cryptos are outlawed by major countries like the US and EU, then the most private coins are likely to survive better. Though in that case, the setback for all cryptos would be enormous, at least for a while.

Some people think that even a ban on cryptos won't work, similar to how pirating hasn't been stopped. But it would slow down mass adoption for sure, unless the whole fiat currency system breaks down and nobody cares if it's technically not legal to hold coins after a ban.

The biggest coins are less risky, but may offer less profit than smaller coins. So for a long term secure investment, choose the big names like BTC and ETH. The Top 10 below those two are already more risky, but may also offer somewhat higher gains, eg. LTC, XRP (don't like that one), DASH.

Basically, the more risk you take, the higher the potential returns can be. But risk means you are also more likely to lose, while with a secure coin you will most likely not lose, but also not gain as much as with some other coin.

And be sure to distinguish between long term INVESTMENT and short-term trading. It's usually recommended to keep 70% of your coins no matter what (investment) and trade only with the rest.

Like I said in the thread title, no response from Bittrex support for over two weeks now.

And yes, logging in from different computers or IP's doesn't help. It's some bug in their server software apparently, which my account triggered for some reason.

It seems to be a bigger issue, since they have an article on how to solve it. The problem is that those solutions do not work.

Basically, I get a "Something went wrong" message or a "500 Error: Don't worry, it's not you, it's us". It started after I logged in for the first time. After that the session expired and I could not login again. Did anyone have the same issue?

They actually have an article for that problem, but the suggested solutions don't work (clearing cookies, trying VPN, different device/browser)

I already have some money in that account and it's ridiculous not being able to access it for two weeks already.