This. I expect the world of crypto to grow this year, but most of the grow with be absorbed by btc. BTC's market dominance is already increasing on coinmarketcap and is currently above 40%. A few weeks ago, it was at 29%. The downside is that bitcoin can absorb a lot of inflow without a really significant movement in price (I'm talking of more than 400% increase). That's because it is already so massive. In order to make some real profit this year, you really need to invest in the right project. Most likely those that are still at the startup stage.

My top recommendation is marinecoin. And here are my reasons for recommending it:

You can get a shitload of marine coins for free, due to the current airdrop. In this instance, shitload = 450,000 coins! So no need to speculate with your own cash. It is risk free.

Marinecoin has been around for years, unlike most of the current coins that are being airdropped, which have no history. In fact, at a certain point in time, marinecoin was bitcoin's main rival. That's some good history there.

Marinecoin's current market cap is less than 1mUSD. SO there is so much room to grow. For it to increase 100x (that's 10,000%, something that bitcoin is not going to be able to do in the near future), it only has to grow to a marketcap of 100mUSD. That is not unheard of in the cryptocoin world. In fact more than 130 coins have marketcaps of more than 100mUSD

I could go on and on, but the last thing i'll say is, go to marineco.in and find out how you can qualify for 450k coins.

Invest in marinecoin. Your time, that is, not your money. With less than 30 minutes of your time, you could qualify for 450k MTC which you can hold and watch it grow. But only if you are among the first 20,000 applications.

It's risk free
The coin will surely rise in value once it begins to trade on major exchanges
It is the first coin that is truly decentralized - i.e. it is not dependent on a core of dedicated developers or miners to make it work.

Why waste money when you can get this for free? At the very least, it is something to add to your portfolio.

Go to marineco.in/ico for more details on this, and make sure to join the telegram and discord channels and contribute to the community

Yes. It is definitely a project worth keeping an eye on. There are a lot of people here who have doubts about marinecoin, but my response to them is, what do you have to lose? If you qualify for the free airdrop, you get 450k MTC without investing a dime of your own money. Even though the coin has been around for some time, it was delisted and presumed dead. It is now being revived, and there is new start-up feel about it. This is the time to get in on it, not in a few years time when its price would definitely have increased. During NEO's ICO, it was being offered for 3 cents, now you can't get one for 100 bucks. Marinecoin is being offered for free right now. Who knows how much you'll have to pay to get one in a few months/years time?

Keep your $5,000 until you understand how the crypto market and exchanges work. Look for free coins and airdrops where you have nothing to lose. Play around with the free coins. You can get 450,000 MTC for free by going to marineco.in . Click on their free ico and follow the instructions. Once you qualify, you'll be airdropped 450k MTC. Use that to build your crypto portfolio. It's risk free. What's the point of investing USD5,000 in a highly volatile and risky market when you can get soo many coins from such a good project for free?