What is the hottest alt coin right now?

[Radi777]

What are your opinions?

[moneroisbest]

What are your opinions?

Monero has a very welcoming community towards the different projects in the altscene. We might also get an official gui wallet in the coming months!

[RyanX]

It is the ethereum, but the price is dropping fast. I hope the price will recover one day. It is a good coin.

[Marec4]

At the moment, it's CasinoCoin. In contrast to etherum, CSC price in increasing fast... https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/68

[CryptoSporidium]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

[tokeweed]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Roflolmao!

[TrueAnon]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Roflolmao!

HAaaahahhaahhaaa.

best alt/dev out right now is wbb/1ex

[Radi777]

Thanks for the input guys! That vaporizing comment was funny lol

[tokeweed]

What are your opinions?

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

[Hayneplane38]

It is the ethereum, but the price is dropping fast.

What can you currently do with ethereum?

[snipie]

What are your opinions?

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the best for sure.

About altcoins, I see that dogecoin/Litecoin fits with the faucets lovers in which you can earn a few pennies plus it has a larger community.
The others most of them just appears then disappears in few weeks/months...
I think it is better to have for the moment few altcoins than hundreds without a real weight.

[Next BillGates]

For me, its XMR and LTC.

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

+1
of course, alt of alt is always bitcoin

[Radi777]

What are your opinions?

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

For sure haha More than an year ago I was trying to mine and was all about alt coins, then stopped mining and sold my video cards and started buying BTC, every once in a while i keep buying BTC. It's interesting to see some old coins still alive lol if i invest in an alt coin it will be a small amount, everything else bitcoin, oh and I love gambling with bitcoins lol

[Fuserleer]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Hah! Wow some humor around here!

Ahh a newbie account, won't be long before owner is cynical, grumpy and no longer makes jokes

[mtnsaa]

In terms of gain and trading value it's clearly Digibyte, 500% rise in the last days at its peak.

[Radi777]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Hah! Wow some humor around here!

Ahh a newbie account, won't be long before owner is cynical, grumpy and no longer makes jokes

lol

[tokeweed]

Bitshares is so hot it's vaporising before our eyes

Hah! Wow some humor around here!

Ahh a newbie account, won't be long before owner is cynical, grumpy and no longer makes jokes

Actually when he said 'vaporising', check out BTS' chart... 

[Febo]

What are your opinions?

I'm choosing the alt of altcoins.  Bitcoin.

yes it seems currently the hottest is Bitcoin.

[chaser15]

Hottest altcoin is of course BTCitcoin!

Those promising coins now can be hottest but for a limited time only since there are lots of developments needed in order to have a quite high price.

[BitcoinHodler]

nothing is better than bitcoin at the moment. especially since the price is going up

[confirmation120]

nothing is better than bitcoin at the moment. especially since the price is going up

Bitcoin is not an altcoin its the original coin, persnally I love doge after bitcoins .

[Radi777]

What do you guys think about BitcoinXT?

[languagehasmeaning]

Boolberry!

github db branch developments and new Twitter Boolberry game are two reasons why.

[iCEBREAKER]

Monero.

Updated paper on Ring Confidential Transactions (CT) for Monero -> https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/raw/master/RingCT0.3.pdf

Here is the version I was originally waiting to post with tag linkability sketched out reasonably completely.

ELI5: Next to hidden origins and destinations that are inherent to the Monero protocol, this will also hide amounts, while viewkeys will still work, and of course it will still be auditable. (credits ShenNoether)

[LucyLovesCrypto]

Monero.

Updated paper on Ring Confidential Transactions (CT) for Monero -> https://github.com/ShenNoether/MiniNero/raw/master/RingCT0.3.pdf

Here is the version I was originally waiting to post with tag linkability sketched out reasonably completely.

ELI5: Next to hidden origins and destinations that are inherent to the Monero protocol, this will also hide amounts, while viewkeys will still work, and of course it will still be auditable. (credits ShenNoether)

The best anonymity ideas keep getting better!

[cisahasa]

some 100% ico scam with fancy roadmap.
+ privateminer with dev fees.

[TreasureSeeker]

Dash has continued to impress me with innovation and actual implementation of those innovations rather than empty promises of many altcoins.

Apart from that, Litecoin for stability and the "backup" to bitcoin.

[confirmation120]

bitcoins only i think no alts

[iCEBREAKER]

Dash has continued to impress me with innovation and actual implementation of those innovations rather than empty promises of many altcoins.

Dash (then Darkcoin) has a long history of empty promises.

Monero? Apart from being pumped by the poloniex trollbox by reference to darkcoin, it looks ok.

Some teething problems, but nothing major at the moment. Still some work to do, but one of their key USPs is ring signatures. So far, Evan has indicated they will be coming to Darkcoin.

* I2P:

I'm implementing I2P into the masternodes. We're going to have our own private network just for DarkSend.

eduffield, 10 May 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6643662#msg6643662

* Ring signatures are going to be implemented in V2.

I will begin development immediately after I opensource V1.

eduffield, 12 May 2014. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6686819#msg6686819

*IP obfuscation 12 May 2014
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg6694377#msg6694377

So the main issue for any anonymity coin, IMO, is one of market positioning - can it catch Darkcoin's lead? If you read around, you'll find the anonymity competitors are all using darkcoin as a point of reference. MRO on Poloniex sort of supports this - they are using Darkcoin to pump MRO - that is both good and bad for MRO.

...18 Months Later...

So how's the progress towards these previously announced goals?  Were they (after a nice dump of instamined coins) abandoned Because Reasons?

Let's review:

I2P?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

Ring signatures?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

IP obfuscation (AKA masternode blinding)?  previously announced goal abandoned Because Reasons

And now, eduffield is announcing a goal to make Evolution succeed where ETH failed.   

[A L I E N]

With Gridcoin's trading volume and user base growth it will be a top 10 crypto in market cap soon.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gridcoin/#charts
http://www.gridcoin.us/

John Quiggin, Australian Economist and Professor at the University of Queensland:
https://twitter.com/JohnQuiggin/status/655179547378233344

[MotaCoin]

I'd have to say Dash.

[RyanX]

I'd have to say Dash.

The volume of dash is not higher than Eth. It is only 20% of Ethereum. Etherum has more tradings.

[TreasureSeeker]

I'd have to say Dash.

The volume of dash is not higher than Eth. It is only 20% of Ethereum.

Ethereum may have relatively high volume but Ethereum has been heading downwards on that high volume which is not a good sign.

[Radi777]

Dash is Darkcoin right?

[owm123]

monero if you care about privacy, anonymity and fungability.

[TreasureSeeker]

Dash is Darkcoin right?

Yes, Dash is the new name for Darkcoin.

[lemoncoolers]

I'd have to say Dash.

The volume of dash is not higher than Eth. It is only 20% of Ethereum.

Ethereum may have relatively high volume but Ethereum has been heading downwards on that high volume which is not a good sign.

Nearly all altcoins are declining as btc's price is heading up. It doesn't mean anything. It is driven by the speculators.

[iCEBREAKER]

Dash is Darkcoin right?

Yes, Dash is the new name for Darkcoin.

Darkcoin was being developed by vertoe and focused on privacy/anonymity.

Dash threw all that out the window in favor of mass adoption, so vertoe quit.

The planned 'masternode blinding' never happened, along with i2p, etc.

Now their latest thing is copying ETH.   

i left because i disagree darkcoin or however it will be called next year is not a decentralized entity. it never was but i ignored it as long as darkcoin was following the same path i was following.

this currency is lead by a single person. darkcoin is like an old conservative company with strong hierarchical comamnd structures and a single person on the top of the pyramid. evan duffield. the rebranding using a detergent name was just a step forward in creating something like apple or paypal.

fuck this i tell you. what we need is a trustless, decentralized and anonymous currency. darkcoin is not decentralized as it still relies on a single person. and this reaches deep into the code base.

the core devs were just a bunch of volunteers exploited for the big thing.

the extended darkcoin team was the same with even a lower place to sit on that pyramid. and what was the darkcoin foundation again? right, something to reserve some rights on some names and collect money. who nominated and voted for the foundation board? who does even know who are these guys? how did we learn about the foundation? from local news papers!

the team listings kept counting names of people nobody ever noticed before. and they never committed anything visible to the community or the repository. and i was spending 25 hours a day monitory everything that happened in the darkcoin community for more than a year.

the things going on here are fishy, intransparent and rely on a single entity.

i will get out and and will contribute to something decentralized and anonymous. i always hoped darkcoin could fill that void. i cant blame anyone to stay with this project. you are probably investors trying to win a gold donkey. or you are simply trying to exploit every possible vector of profit in the coins space. whatever. you are not here because darkcoin is something it claims to be.

if you disagree with my statement above, i dont care, but answer that simple question: what if evan duffield suddenly announces he quits the project tomorrow morning?

[MikeCoin]

doge coin or bitcoins right now.

[HeroCat]

Dash is quite popular among altcoin users  It is hard to say, what is the profit from Dash at the moment 

[RyanX]

Dash is quite popular among altcoin users  It is hard to say, what is the profit from Dash at the moment 

Most altcoins have holders, not users. . 45% of the new coins go to Master node operator. I am not sure if it is profitable for them.

[HeroCat]

I think Dash is one of hottest altcoins in the market  There are many Dash users around and also mining is popular 

[disamsal]

still vcoin for me

[marcus1986]

As for me, it's NXT and DASH.

[skeet]

The hottest coin right now is DigiCube. Check out my sig for more info. 

[pseudonymdude]

If you mean of the past months/year, probably ETH.  If you mean volume/percent rise today, you can just go to coinmarketcap.com and sort by %change or volume.

I believe VNL will be the hottest coin at some point because it's the only one with a developer delivering non-gimmick innovation, but it's not the hottest right now.

[newb4now]

Ethereum has done very well this week! I do not own any but still find it interesting to watch.

[Faradey100]

In cryptopia hottest is Dotcoin now:-)

[Undermood]

Altcoins market is down a lot. We cannot appraise their performance based on their price movement. Why not buy the altcoin index like coinoindex which is traded on poloniex.com. So we can invest the top 20 altcoins.

[nwfella]

Other than bitcoin (of course) imho ethereum is without a question one of the hotter alt's going currently.

I say currently as there is pretty much blood in the streets in the alt-coin scene with the massive jumps BTC has been taking lately

[iCEBREAKER]

I think Dash is one of hottest altcoins in the market

Dash has been trending toward zero ever since the ill-considered rebrand from Darkcoin.

[iv4n]

We'll I noticed DROP, faucet coin. I sold one for 60 k satoshis 3 day's ago, 2 day's ago it was 80kk, and yesterday I sold one for 180 k. I'm newbie and this was my first trading (just selling for now), I'm falow few coins, but this one has some nice rise this days.

[PoS]

Suggest a look at DASH, official website here with plenty of resources:

https://www.dashpay.io/


Do your research and i think you'll find the future.

Cheers

That certified Dash scam is dying in its arse right now.
Dogecoin is still hot as ever, quality over scam any-day.

[disamsal]

drop - faucet coin is hot right now

[coinyoo]

Well, this question rises again and again. i think the best and hottest coins at the moment are NXT, Counterparty and Bitshares at the moment.

[iCEBREAKER]

Well, this question rises again and again. i think the best and hottest coins at the moment are NXT, Counterparty and Bitshares at the moment.

Those coins are dead scams; that's why their prices are collapsing.

The only legit alt in the green right now is Monero.

[Piston Honda]

wbb

[TReano]

non. Don't invest in any shitcoins.

[Radi777]

Well, this question rises again and again. i think the best and hottest coins at the moment are NXT, Counterparty and Bitshares at the moment.

Those coins are dead scams; that's why their prices are collapsing.

The only legit alt in the green right now is Monero.

I do like Monero, might buy some.

[BitcoinNational]

vertoe you mean the dev that showed up later at cache, pumped it dumped it then basically dropped a nuclear bomb on it?
http://cacheco.in/ 502 Bad Gateway

doge is primed for a run up, so my best $million dolla Alt to get hot pick.

ltc outta get pumped to $500M, once the BTC whales look for insurance but looks like 2017 before they move to ltc.

the ETH pump back to $1 is a bit of a surprise, and ETH might be #3 after BTC, LTC ... ripple needs to be taken out back and put out of it's misery ... these premine coins are not taking off ... so XRP, STELLAR, NEU, Byte are no volume toxic waste.

DASH is game for a whale dump and lots of drama.

[TReano]

If you want to be scammed you can trade any shitcoins they don't have to be hot or cold.

[UFCkid]

vertoe you mean the dev that showed up later at cache, pumped it dumped it then basically dropped a nuclear bomb on it?
http://cacheco.in/ 502 Bad Gateway

doge is primed for a run up, so my best $million dolla Alt to get hot pick.

ltc outta get pumped to $500M, once the BTC whales look for insurance but looks like 2017 before they move to ltc.

the ETH pump back to $1 is a bit of a surprise, and ETH might be #3 after BTC, LTC ... ripple needs to be taken out back and put out of it's misery ... these premine coins are not taking off ... so XRP, STELLAR, NEU, Byte are no volume toxic waste.

DASH is game for a whale dump and lots of drama.

But these toxic waste ones (i agree they are waste btw) are the ones that can go really wild and the slightest bit of news, whether real or fake.

[themerkle]

darkdogelitecoin

[Haoss]

I would say DGB, good dev team and great features. Loving it so far.

[Nobitcoin]

DigiCube price is now 0.0017 per cube at c-cex buy it while its cheap !

[iCEBREAKER]

DASH is game for a whale dump and lots of drama.

If 15 of the 3500 masternodes  (just 0.4%) were liquidated, it would crash the Dash price all the way down to 0.0001.

I can't wait for the DashHole drama when that happens.

The fact it hasn't yet, despite the enormous penalty for not being among the first 15 to panic and GTFO, indicates all masternodes are held by whales and True Believers.

It's really cute how they honestly(?) believe Duffield can (magically?) create an Ethereum competitor all on his own and in secret.

[sulfurtank]

If you want to be scammed you can trade any shitcoins they don't have to be hot or cold.

I'm tooting my own horn, but my family business started smoked a lot of crypto bacon OTC and this year. 2014 has been a good year for crossing the chasm. 2015 will most likely be well into mainstream territory.

[coinyoo]

i am currently betting on Boolberry. it is the most promising coin at the moment in my opinion. it offers good tech, privacy and is part of SuperNet.

[Ayers]

monero, and it seems that shadowcash is doing well, still pretty new though, then you have the usual doge and litecoin
but i don't see one really shining over another, in my case i'm waiting for more energy efficient coin like burst, but with different algo maybe

[Szaja1990]

Etherum!

[bitcoin carpenter]

I'd say there are two platforms that could in the future become something of worth

ETH: Because of its potential to bring crypto to regular business

And

VNL: Because it is working on making crypto transfer instant and competent for use as a currency.

[USB-S]

I'd say there are two platforms that could in the future become something of worth

ETH: Because of its potential to bring crypto to regular business

And

VNL: Because it is working on making crypto transfer instant and competent for use as a currency.

How does eth cooperate with businesses more than bitcoin does?

and emunie has achieved instant transactions.

However since eth is a fairly new crypto there is a lot of buzz around that at the moment. So in a way you could call that hot at the moment.

[funnyman21]

i am currently betting on Boolberry. it is the most promising coin at the moment in my opinion. it offers good tech, privacy and is part of SuperNet.

Tech wise Boolberry is one of the most advanced CryptoNote coins. It is also ahead in usability because of its GUI and has a pruning solution to prevent blockchain bloat. Its distribution curve is perfect for widespread adoption.

However not many people have heard about it. That may explain why the price is still so low.

[bitcoin carpenter]

I'd say there are two platforms that could in the future become something of worth

ETH: Because of its potential to bring crypto to regular business

And

VNL: Because it is working on making crypto transfer instant and competent for use as a currency.

How does eth cooperate with businesses more than bitcoin does?

and emunie has achieved instant transactions.

However since eth is a fairly new crypto there is a lot of buzz around that at the moment. So in a way you could call that hot at the moment.

Emunie has created instant locked transactions, but VNL has created instant and respendable transactions.  Not the same.  One just shows that there has been a confirmation and locks it so it can't be respent,  the other is instantly transferred.

ETH allows businesses to incorporate block chain tech in whatever fashion suits them.

[Rikim4ru]

https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/674580347955363840

And ETH is about to get an IOS Wallet...

Anything below 1USD is a bargain!

[Rias]

It's like an altcoin exhibition here. No seriously, there should be one offline.

[qwizzie]

The hottest coin is the coin with

- strong focus on research and development
- has a publicly known dev team, capable of fixing problems when necessary and giving reliable feedback and can present a trustwearthy roadmap
- has a community that supports that coin well
- is so feared by lower ranked competition that it is attacked and ridiculed on a daily basis, even in threads that are not specificly about that coin

I will leave it for the OP to find out which coin i'm talking about, we all have to do our own homework when it comes to investing in cryptocurrency......
 

[Next BillG]

The hottest altcoin in term of hashing power is Ethereum. It has 500GH/s hashing power, equivalent to 25,000 AMD 280X. That is more than any other coins.

[Ubertroco]

I would bet on Magi (XMG). High community activities. Dev always working and giving feedback and new features. Also, its CPU friendly and mineable by normal people.

[bob.the.builder]

Hard to tell, but there are a couple out there with some real interesting stuff going on right now.

[Graphics]

"Hottest"? Hmm... Let me think.

Wankcoins.

[bitcoin carpenter]

After its recent low at the beginning of November of 6800 sat VNL has been on a steady rise and is now sitting at 12k sat.  This coupled with its new chain blender white paper and constant updates makes it the hottest coin around!!

[anon_giraffe]

darkdogelitecoin

I'm sorry. I think you mean darkdogelitecoincash

[NattyLiteCoin]

The hottest altcoin in term of hashing power is Ethereum. It has 500GH/s hashing power, equivalent to 25,000 AMD 280X. That is more than any other coins.

Much more than litecoin for sure. Unless we're agreeing that Litecoin is not an alt.

[gentlemand]

Is alt mania still a thing? It's been two years since the mania was at its peak and nothing's shaped up to break out of the confines of this forum with the possible exception of Ethereum. If an alt emerges that truly kicks butt I think it'll come from a place far away from here.

[Rias]

Is alt mania still a thing? It's been two years since the mania was at its peak and nothing's shaped up to break out of the confines of this forum with the possible exception of Ethereum. If an alt emerges that truly kicks butt I think it'll come from a place far away from here.

Obviously, it's not the common wisdom of Altcoin discussion here on BCT. Troll wars among people not willing to admit the general fail of altcoins as an incubator for the next Bitcoin. Shall we wait a couple more years?

[szenekonzept]

Is alt mania still a thing? It's been two years since the mania was at its peak and nothing's shaped up to break out of the confines of this forum with the possible exception of Ethereum. If an alt emerges that truly kicks butt I think it'll come from a place far away from here.

Obviously, it's not the common wisdom of Altcoin discussion here on BCT. Troll wars among people not willing to admit the general fail of altcoins as an incubator for the next Bitcoin. Shall we wait a couple more years?

no, you should engage and fix, what you think its wrong, you are welcome,
we  need people with a critical, constructive voice, if you manage to ignore the trolls, you will see clearly the real efforts.

... and visit my thread, there is no trolling at all
only supportive community members and i love each of them
have fun
Matthias


.

[Farma]

darkdogelitecoin

I'm sorry. I think you mean darkdogelitecoincash

I guess it is not altcoin being hot, I might prefer ETH because ETH has a high enough price, so if the price drops, it could be a good opportunity

[skeletonbit]

Mrai is the best for me i made over 200% profit when i sold and it's only some months old.

[Alondre]

At the moment Lisk

[biodieselchris]

Hard to tell, but there are a couple out there with some real interesting stuff going on right now.

like GreenCoin. 

[The Sceptical Chymist]

It is the ethereum, but the price is dropping fast. I hope the price will recover one day. It is a good coin.

Ahhh, hopefully you had some and held onto it.  I don't know what the price was when you wrote the above but damn.  Sometimes buy and hold is a f-ing good strategy.  And ETH is still a hot coin, though it's cooled down some.

[gtglener]

At that time I cannot say anything about that which alt coin is the hottest right now, as the time for bitcoin block halving is near and everyone is busy with bitcoin, so the time for alt coin will come only after people get some time from bitcoin, I think a few months later.

[BTCLovingDude]

the hottest coin changes each day, so it is sometimes a new coin today and another the next.
so far ETH has been so hot but the heat at this point is more of a risk than heat. also Ripple has been going up and down recently, and soon LISK will be the hottest as soon as it is released.

[Radi777]

At that time I cannot say anything about that which alt coin is the hottest right now, as the time for bitcoin block halving is near and everyone is busy with bitcoin, so the time for alt coin will come only after people get some time from bitcoin, I think a few months later.

I am excited to see the influence the bitcoin halving will have.

[emberbekas]

ethereum is the hottest coin right now since at everywhere I saw people start discussing it. But soon or later another altcoin will replace it. Litecoin maybe will be the next hottest altcoin.

[spassbold]

I would pick Gridcoin (GRC), as it is one of the more interesting coins out there. It's idea is brilliant but also easy to understand for people not in crypto before, see for example this thread that was on the frontpage of reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4b4drk/a_currency_minted_by_doing_science/t1_d16hch5

Gridcoin (GRC) replaces mining with doing research for scientific projects, for example to cure Ebola (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/oet1/overview.do), fold proteins (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/) or find aliens (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

From a user's point of view, he simply has to run simulations from the different projects using the BOINC software (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/). Then the network comes to a consensus, who has contributed how much computing power to BOINC, which can bee seen for example here (http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/gridcoin/?result&t=CPID_Leaderboard). This process is decentralized among all nodes, there is no central server issuing all coins like it is for example the case with Curecoin. In some blocks this consenus is saved in the blockchain and the reward one gets when staking a block is proportional to how much research was recently done for BOINC by this researcher.

Setting it all up has been quite complicated in the past, but the pool on pool.gridcoin.co has made alle this easier and already has more than 800 active miners/researchers (http://pool.gridcoin.co/rankings)

I also has very active development, here is the main forum: https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/464-gridcoin-grc/
More information and tutorial to set it up here: www.gridcoin.us
 If you are interested visit our IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net:6667/#gridcoin

[redcow]

Lisk

[xuan87]

ethereum is the hottest coin right now since at everywhere I saw people start discussing it. But soon or later another altcoin will replace it. Litecoin maybe will be the next hottest altcoin.

I think Ethereum is the hottest coin for last month, now people are looking for another coin to trade, but fro me Ethereum will be hot again if there   the big developer keep their promised to support Ethereum

[BitcoinHodler]

ethereum is the hottest coin right now since at everywhere I saw people start discussing it. But soon or later another altcoin will replace it. Litecoin maybe will be the next hottest altcoin.

I think Ethereum is the hottest coin for last month, now people are looking for another coin to trade, but fro me Ethereum will be hot again if there   the big developer keep their promised to support Ethereum

ethereum has been hot for a longer time than that. it has started being hot back when it was planning to get pumped by the big bag holders who have been accumulating it at low prices and the hype is still alive to this day while they are dumping their coins

[stoat]

Buy ethereum. Obviously

[Next BillG]

Ethereum is still the hottest coin as it is most profitable to mine and the market cap is quite big, it is around $800 million.