Coin 1: Bitcoin
Why:
- Heading towards mainstream adoption
- Lightning network in 2017
- Most advanced coin
- No IPO/ICO 100% fair distribution
Coin 2: Litecoin
Why:
- Development is moving at a very fast pace
- Might go up with bitcoin if it goes up
- No IPO/ICO 100% fair distribution
- Remains strong as ever after more than 5 years of operation
Coin 3: Peercoin
Why:
- Development has picked up a lot with projects such as peerassets, peerticker, V0.6 protocol update etc.
- Running for more than 4 years
- Oldest POS coin
- No IPO/ICO 100% fair distribution
Coin 4: Dogecoin
(Yes im serious)
![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Why:
- Running for almost 3 years
- Strong community
- Gets people used to crypto
- Has some adoption as a tipping currency
Coin 5: Counterparty
Why:
- Running for almost 3 years
- Assets on bitcoin are booming as result counterparty value is rising
- Has real life utility with projects like foldingcoin giving counterparty value