XEM
Lisk
Pivx
LTC
There's a few other smaller ones too.. forget their names and I'm at work. I focus on coins that don't promote anonymity.. for the block chain to attract commercial interest you want transparency.
I'd take LTC before BTC, ETH, and Ripple at this point but XEM before any of these. Best tech. Basically I'd put money in XEM and LTC for "storage" when I'm not in the smaller altcoins... Best relative percentage appreciation potential, though really XEMs tech is 10 steps ahead of LTC.
I'm still researching so keep posting coins.
. I'll take em all and make a big poll for voting.
Can you please expand on your liking for XEM?
It's a much better currency than a lot of the others. It has proof of stake/importance, lightning fast transaction times, the ability to handle 3000 transactions per second, fast block times, with (relatively) low fixed fees that remove the guesswork. Also, you can attach messages to the transactions for a small cost, which other coins have copied recently. For trading purposes I'd much rather use NEM as a storage medium than BTC because the fees are getting excessive and the delay in the transactions if you don't pay a good fee is a hindrance to profit. It solves a lot of the problems bitcoin has. There won't be 50,000+ unverified transactions if NEM is the major coin in use. There won't be any. Also the next revision should see lower fees, as the fees were devised when NEM was trading for much less.
An evolution to the blockchain called "catapult" is coming and will be the basis of what is known as the private blockchain known as Mijin, which is gaining popularity in Japan among banks.
Here's a detailed (somewhat long winded) video that goes through some of the features. Basically it's designed to be attractive for business, with high scalability along with transparency and tracability and security. As much as I respect bitcoin, solutions like this are the future of the blockchain. Also another video on his 6 favorite. This one was one of the more useful I've come across for researching currencies. Now I'm researching more into service coins at the present, with focus on coins that promise to be "decentralized exchanges" to see what I come up with and how viable this tech might be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJERtsnDa8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLXzZa40GwI have begun selling a bit of my stake as prudent investing to not keep all eggs in one basket, but part of me regrets it because of the tech present here. Only about 5-10% so far. Assuming the bubble doesn't pop, I see XEM hitting $2B market cap and going head to head with litecoin. I am retarded though, so don't trust my analysis. Do your own DD. Most of the interest currently comes from Japan, where Mijin is focused. It's relative popularity and hype here on this forum is relatively low, though in voting polls there's clearly a silent audience here who thinks it has potential.
If you're not going to buy XEM, then buy LTC or ETH, or transfer your BTC to LTC or ETH, in my opinion. Segwit is a step in the right direction, though to me seems like more of a patch to old technology than something revoluationary. You'll get better relative return for your money in LTC and ETH than BTC, in my opinion, though I have no plans to buy ETH when there's XEM at a fraction of the market cap. I kind of like that we've stablized here around 52 billion.. it can stay parked right here for all I care.. it's good for the economy to not have a massive bubble run that continues to accelerate and to have consolidation without a crash. Looking at the charts though, it's likely this is just a cup and handle consolidation pattern and the runup will continue in a day or four.
Again, do your own DD. I am retarded and do have a vested interest in XEM aside from what I think about the tech. This is dumbass, signing off.
