top cryptocurrencies August 2017, May 2017, June 2017 , July 2017, 2016’s

[Tanic]

Bitcoin is the only relevant answer.

And I know there are other currencies, but when are they ever accepted as currency with businesses? If "alternatives" exist, they need to be accepted and transacted as currency. Period.

There are many other crypto currencies besides bitcoin, but bitcoin with no doubt is the most popular among it. I heard that Litecoin and Ethereum are also attracting many attention from the side of investors today.

[Xester]

Yeah Monero is on the rise!

It's a really cool coin, I bought some few months ago. Fact is that anonimity is an important aspect of cryptos... But BTC hardly answers to this precise point and that's really something missing.
Especially when dealing withn the less legal part of the web

Aside from Monero, I will nominate for Ethereum since they have shown great price and the number of users are indeed increasing, they are my favorites aside from bitcoin. Though there are many coins that are on top such as ripple and many more but I will nominate Monero and Ethereum since I have hold of that coins and made some profit. This 2017 the coins that has high potentials will be Trump, Putin, Bill, and Pesobit. But dont ever forget bitcoins its the unbeatable crypcocurrency.

[Vikingr]

According to my views in 2016 bitcoin was the No.1 crypto currency while in your provided list bitcoin is kept at 10 number. I have a doubt on that list. In 2016 I am sure that bitcoin got a great success due to the adoption in that year.

[ChrisPop]

Bitcoin is obviously the king of the crypto-currencies,but monero has proved to be a reliable crypto-currency over the years as well. They provide one of the highest anonymity in transactions and they still have room to expand. It is surely on my watch list for 2017. There are a few more recent launched crypto coins that catched my eye for 2017. For example Stratis which made a lot of new developments and I see it explode this year. There are some more but I don't want to promote them here.

[MWesterweele]

In 2017 I expect to see the rise of new competitors to Bitcoin. There are many reasons for that: 1. mass adoption; 2. transaction speed; 3. popularity among businesses; 4. user friendly and very secure apps to use. I'm looking at Byteball, Monero and Dash very closely. 

I agree with you Sir. Monero is gonna go big this 1st part of the year. One of the few altcoins that if you would look from the time of launch, that there is enticing development in terms of price. Unlike other coins that start big, then go down.

I think it gonna do about the same as bitcoin. Not identical, but with lots of similarities.

[Karpeles]

the ranking is based on ROI, and of course of factors are more important in the long term, like how serious the developers are, the scalability and the innovation.

But 2769.02% of ROI in a year is not something that can be overlooked

[Edraket31]

Why bitcoin not became number one, maybe because it is really expensive compare to other coins.
Anyway, thank you for this information I have been searching for this for about 2 days since I am planning to start to invest the next month. And now I know which coin will I put my investment aside from bitcoin. Of course, even if bitcoin did not hit the number 1 I still believe that bitcoin is the number one.

[jack1111]

Of course these altcoins were profitable investment, but Monero seems to be outstanding. I think some coins and Ethereum based tokens has good chance to achieve the same success until the next year, people are recognising the profitability of the blockchain projects.

[bitbunnny]

Many cryptocurrencies appear all the time trying to compete Bitcoin, usualy with not much success. I would maybe put accent on Monero which is on the way up and to become more popular. The main reason is perfect anon at th moment and Bitcoin has lost a great deal of anonimity and that is the reason why some users have abandoned it.

[danherbias07]

And it became an altcoin discussion. 

Hell! Bitcoin did a good at the year of 2016. Before it ended it made a good jump and also after. From where? $300? $350? Look at where it is now. Tripled the amount it was. And you say other crypto's besides that. How cruel is that to bitcoin? 

[RealBitcoin]

I would just go with the volume sorted in descending order:

1    Bitcoin     $14,923,705,720    $925.74    16,120,787 BTC    $86,743,200    2.03%    sparkline
2    Ethereum     $950,260,548    $10.78    88,177,322 ETH    $7,289,660    0.95%    sparkline
4    Litecoin     $189,925,010    $3.84    49,466,981 LTC    $2,427,200    -0.11%    sparkline
7    Dash     $107,532,214    $15.26    7,045,887 DASH    $1,844,320    0.40%    sparkline
5    Monero     $168,796,832    $12.23    13,807,060 XMR    $1,817,870    2.49%    sparkline
28    E-Dinar Coin     $8,293,219    $0.608827    13,621,634 EDR    $1,595,990    9.82%    sparkline
22    Tether     $14,951,740    $1.00    14,951,591 USDT *    $1,426,540    -0.00%    sparkline
13    Factom     $29,113,644    $3.33    8,753,219 FCT *    $1,157,920    10.29%    sparkline
6    Ethereum Classic     $121,955,844    $1.38    88,138,763 ETC    $825,106    0.44%    sparkline
16    Zcash     $21,795,697    $43.18    504,781 ZEC    $772,752    -1.26%    sparkline
https://coinmarketcap.com/

They are the top 10 in my opinion, and interestingly, not all of them are in top 10 by market cap.

Zcash Coin must be interesting, and also Tether which is a very classic old coin.

[eternalgloom]

Bitcoin is the only relevant answer.

And I know there are other currencies, but when are they ever accepted as currency with businesses? If "alternatives" exist, they need to be accepted and transacted as currency. Period.

You forgot to mention that not all altcoins have the goal of being used as a currency in the first place, just look at Ripple for example, RIpple provides blockchain solutions to banks.

And there are many other altcoins that do not have 'becoming a widely used internet currency' as a primary goal.

[Rahar02]

Bitcoin is the only relevant answer.

And I know there are other currencies, but when are they ever accepted as currency with businesses? If "alternatives" exist, they need to be accepted and transacted as currency. Period.

If we judge from the percent increase in the market based on investors funds, another coin may be number one but they are still far far away from bitcoin, ini value or usability as an alternative payment. Bitcoin value grow more than a hundred percent in a year is more amazing than 2769% but the value only $0.4807. I'm not underestimate it, and looks like it has pretty fast growth as now reach $12.
Overall, anything can happen in cryptocurrency world but the number one still bitcoin.

[virasog]

Nothing else but bitcoin itself. We cannot deny the fact of being the best crypto and that makes it on top cryptocurrencies.
The demand of bitcoin in 2016 rises up much and those who trusted to invest there. So I guess, this year will be good year again for bitcoin as 2016 hits it on top.

[Zisove28]

Nothing else but bitcoin itself. We cannot deny the fact of being the best crypto and that makes it on top cryptocurrencies.
The demand of bitcoin in 2016 rises up much and those who trusted to invest there. So I guess, this year will be good year again for bitcoin as 2016 hits it on top.

I am also sure. Bitcoin It was the best currency in 2016. And in 2017 this trend of growth of its price and the popularity will continue

[densuj]

Bitcoin is number one in 2016, ethereum is number two
and the other cryptocurrencies we can check on https://coinmarketcap.com
Bitcoin and ethereum are not jus become 2016's top cryptocurrencies
I think they will become 2017's top cryptocurrencies too, i guess.

[CyberKuro]

Bitcoin is number one in 2016, ethereum is number two
and the other cryptocurrencies we can check on https://coinmarketcap.com
Bitcoin and ethereum are not jus become 2016's top cryptocurrencies
I think they will become 2017's top cryptocurrencies too, i guess.

No doubt that bitcoin will always be the best crypto currency for 2016 and for the upcoming years. And yes ethereum is on its 2nd place. I don't rely on my own opinion with alt coins as long as it can surpass the coin market cap and a lot of investors will take a look for that coin and manage to invest thousands and millions of dollars.

Different point of view makes a different result, Op stated the best cryptocurrencies from percent of gain in a year, and you seen it from market cap which bitcoin as the first one is the highest of course. But, ethereum impressed me as second rank with $9,3 Billion market cap. But, as a digital currency, common people see the highest price at the first time.

[gabmen]

I don't think there are other cryptocurrencies that comes close to bitcoin. So there's really one answer here. There may be a lot out there but everything pales when compared to bitcoin when it comes to relevance

[usefrees]

I don't think there are other cryptocurrencies that comes close to bitcoin. So there's really one answer here. There may be a lot out there but everything pales when compared to bitcoin when it comes to relevance

Yes you are right. Bitcoin has taken a leading position in the world cryptocurrency. I also think that everyone else cryptocurrency never achieved such popularity.

[FlyingAtom]

At the beginning of February will be a statement for January.