are there any altcoins that aren't shitcoins?

[talkingleaves]

xaurum and sia sound kind of useful/unique to me but I still don't know if I trust them...my research in altcoins has been slow, boring and frustrating, and I was wondering does anyone have any words to offer on altcoins that actually have useful, unique features and seem to be somewhat trustworthy.

[European Central Bank]

There are coins with solid devs but the problem is that no one really cares about that. They're all out for a pump.

And it's extremely hard to separate the truth from the lies.

I'd say litecoin is the least disgusting coin but it's not going places right now.

Unique features? Nope. But I'm a little skeptical when a dev tells us their coin's gonna change the world.

Something might work fine in a lab and be a total disaster in practise.

[Brybtc]

Unique features? Nope. But I'm a little skeptical when a dev tells us their coin's gonna change the world.

What's your opinion of maidsafe and its safecoin? honest question

[The Sceptical Chymist]

There are coins with solid devs but the problem is that no one really cares about that. They're all out for a pump.

And it's extremely hard to separate the truth from the lies.

I'd say litecoin is the least disgusting coin but it's not going places right now.

Unique features? Nope. But I'm a little skeptical when a dev tells us their coin's gonna change the world.

Something might work fine in a lab and be a total disaster in practise.

Good point, but most of these coins are disasters in the lab and everywhere else.   The older ones like ltc, doge, and dash--I'd say they're not shitcoins, but everyone here is going to have a different opinion,  and there isn't a consensus.   So I don't think OP is really going to get a good answer.   I think he's going to have to figure it out himself.  Most of the altcoin scene is total garbage and I can't see the vast majority of coins lasting more than a few years.

[d@nte]

Only some of them, I suppose.

[European Central Bank]

Good point, but most of these coins are disasters in the lab and everywhere else.   The older ones like ltc, doge, and dash--I'd say they're not shitcoins, but everyone here is going to have a different opinion,  and there isn't a consensus.   So I don't think OP is really going to get a good answer.   I think he's going to have to figure it out himself.  Most of the altcoin scene is total garbage and I can't see the vast majority of coins lasting more than a few years.

Figuring it out yourself is very hard unless you're a coding god and psychic at the same time. It's a real shame the alt scene has so massively screwed itself but I guess it's inevitable.

Maybe there should be a mutually agreed upon weekly alt stress test or something where people do their best to hammer them, but I guess that'll be just as corrupt as everything else.

and this thread's gonna degenerate into a list of everyone's bagholdings so it's probably best to lock it now.

[Sindren]

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[fible1]

I think Dash shows a lot of promise and has a solid feature set both currently and in the works.

Pablo.

[EndTheFed321]

ADZcoin is in my opinion one of the best coins to raise in value check out the project here

www.adzcoindesk.com

[john2231]

Try to  use a free website to see all top 100 altcoin to choose try coinmarketcap and choose top 20 altcoin those altcoin are legit for me.
Just try to choose top 10 or choose what you want in top 20 those are not shitcoins..

[angaper]

If any of these new altcoins has been able to beat the hegemony of bitcoin during all these years of intensive development of advanced cryptocurrencies, I don't know why it would be recommendable to hold them when we can get the strongest one: the Bitcoin.

[john-connor]

I think Dash shows a lot of promise and has a solid feature set both currently and in the works.

Pablo.

They are in tight competition with Vcash.

[densuj]

In my opinion alt coins who has fungtion is ripple and The price is stable, has big volume too. And for altcoins who has innovation is ethereum classic, it has big volume trading too. But they are instrument of Investment so make sure make Investment with you can lost it.

[saaachu]

Yep, I just posted one here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1585215.0

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[Spoetnik]

No.

Why is that my vote ?

Adoption.. which Altcoin has reached parity or exceeded Bitcoins level of real adoption ?

NONE.

[freshman777]

No.

Why is that my vote ?

Adoption.. which Altcoin has reached parity or exceeded Bitcoins level of real adoption ?

NONE.

The reason is people don't care about understanding money while the current fiat system kind of mostly works for them. Bitcoin adoption is a drop in the bucket of trillions of daily financial transactions. Bitcoin absorbed a good part of the geeks of the world who have some understanding of the nature of money. Normal people haven't adopted it and are happy paying $25 fees to wire their money by bank transfers. Geeks who don't have understanding of the nature of money are normal people, paying $25 for bank wires.
Here is the math.
0.01% of all geeks of the world understand the nature of money as it's applied in Bitcoin.
0.001% of normal people understand the nature of money.
Adoption is zilch. Bitcoin, not Bitcoin, regardless.

[dinofelis]

There are coins with solid devs but the problem is that no one really cares about that. They're all out for a pump.

Essentially, how's that different for bitcoin (except maybe that one is expecting the "pump" to be "moon" "in a few years") ?

[dinofelis]

In as much as there are pump-and-dump altcoins, there are a few that try to solve fundamental problems with bitcoin.

For me, the most fundamental problem in bitcoin is the transparency, and hence I think that coins like dash, but especially, monero, have something valuable.  I'm not a monero shill, and it is not monero itself that is important.  It is because it is based on cryptonote, which itself is based upon ring signatures, the technology that is missing from bitcoin.  If I'm reluctant to use bitcoin (although I do, a little bit), it is its traceability.  Bitcoin is essentially like having your bank account and transactions on a public web site.  The pseudo anonymity of addresses which Satoshi proposed, essentially failed because of the networking effect.

As we can see with ethereum, the fork, and the stopping by exchanges of the ETC the "white hats" tried to exchange, we see the problem with this, and the problem with the non-fungible nature of traceable coins.  Even though this is now done "for morality", soon, when states will mix in, the traceability and the colouring of coins will be worse than with banking.  A thieves/fiscal inspection with bitcoin or any other traceable coin will be worse than with banking.  You will even have to justify the $500,- you got from your aunt on your anniversary.   You will have to justify *everything*.  Power over you will be total with traceable crypto.  And if ever you do something "wrong", your coins will be coloured, no merchant or institution will be able to accept them, you won't even be able to buy some bread with it.

Anonymity is the totally overlooked aspect of crypto, and this is why I think that altcoins like dash, and much more so, like monero, are important, even if they are left aside by most gamblers (private and institutional) that pump the market cap of crypto.

[electronicash]

There are just few real legit coins.

but then everyone is trying to own a coin these days, just look at the Announcement section and you'll see the list of ICO from coins of same concept. They're all shit but still get hundreds of investors depositing their BTC. Owning a coin is one of the best business these days.  I could create one later to secure my future.

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OPIAR is the shittest among if there's such word.