Altcoin Ecosphere TL;DR required... Been Away For 6 Months

[HeadsOrTails]

As the thread title says, I've been away from Altcoins for 6 months... I see XMR is still around, which is great, but anyone wanna give me a TL:DR on what the new trends are, or where to look?

• Still POW/POS?
• Bittrex still King?
• Ninja launches, pre/postmines
• What is/are the most promising Alts now? Darkcoin & Blackcoin?

PS. I would do the research myself, but I get 1 hour Internet privs per month (long story  )