What is the hottest alt coin right now?

[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