What are your top 5 altcoins - in order?

[beitris.dwlul]

Some of the advice offered was not very good.

[davidsocom]

Some of the advice offered was not very good.

I give you the best advice ever. 

Take your time for doing your own research.

Don't listen to trolls ( you can find them almost everywhere in the altcoin section).

Try your luck with your chosen alternates.

[sgk]

I posted in this thread few months back, but now my selection has changed, so I'll post a new list:

1. NEOS
2. MINT
3. DRK
4. XMR
5. BCN

[DigitalPirateman]

Litecoin - second popular and mining it

Dogecoin - third popular but downfall is too many

Peercoin - i like the style of this coin.

Reddcoin - good payout when invested

Gytecoin - our own coin of course

Bitcoins not first becuase it will all ways be the main coin.

[DigitalPirateman]

1. Darkcoin, because Mario approves...

https://i.imgur.com/fRAI9Gm.gif

This is great +1million

[extrabyte]

1. Darkcoin, because Mario approves...

indeed a good coin and great community

[beitris.dwlul]

1. EXCL 2. LTC 3. NBT 4. NEOS

[Apraksin]

I just bought heavily into CANN, since it seems that they are actually getting somewhere with their real life project.

[Man-aqua]

When I read this thread for the first time I thought we can discuss here about new coins.
Obviously I was wrong. This thread is just created for advertising own coins.

[PoS]

Halcyon, Sync, Cloakcoin and have some small Doge on the loose just for the fun of it

[TheProf]

Neos

[iampingu]

When I read this thread for the first time I thought we can discuss here about new coins.
Obviously I was wrong. This thread is just created for advertising own coins.

you must be new to bitcointalk in that case, any thread where there's an opinion asked for, is seen as an advertisement for coins, and is therefore jumped on by those wanting to do so.

[superresistant]

 
You have to understand that unless an altcoin bring unique and concrete innovations, it is just an other pump&dump and the value will eventually go down to zero.

What is not an unique and concrete innovation :

 - a different algorithm
 - a mix of different algorithm
 - a funny meme
 - a coin mixer
 - a nice looking logo
 - a fair distribution
 - a html5 wallet
 - an Android or iOS client

...

[mczarnek]

1) Nxt
2) BTC

That's about it..  BitShares might be worth looking at and Ethereum might provide something interesting but hard to speculate considering they say they don't think they'll have anything working until Feb.

In my opinion, Nxt is by far the most interesting.  Lots of very good stuff going to be released in the near future.

[LiberyOrDeath]

It's hard to say these days , but I would stick to the old ones like LTC, PPC and NMC, of the new generation BlackCoin and DarkCoin have potential and Monero as well, Vericoin has a big community but these coins are still only 5-6 months old, so it's still more risky than sticking with the coins released in 2011-12.

[tempus]

1) Neoscoin

Neos is my Number one (around 80%). It's still under the radar and the price suffers from the bad mood in Crypto in general, but I'm convinced that many ppl who got scammed will find Neos. And we all now: If all money would flow out of the Scam and Shitcoins, it would be a lot for all the serious and honest projects. And that dynamic will come. The Neos-Team is very skilled, the Main-Dev (Syntaks) is the best Dev I've ever seen. Always working, always there to answer questions or help people, transparent about what they are doing but never hyping, "just" constant delivering what's promised. Neos time will come if this "Crypto-Scam-Shitcoin-Depression" is overcome.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=835131.0

2) BitcoinDark

I was there when they started and James came to BTCD and I liked the idea, so I bought and it was the best profit so far (safed me because of some bad Investments). I think, BTCD is one of a few coins that has longterm-potential if their plans work out. I'm not so sure about SuperNet. My personal view is, that BTCD could suffer if SuperNet should fail. But if not... I will buy SuperNet, too. Watching but waiting.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=684090.0


Than I own a few Stealthcoin, some Shadowcoin, very little Craigscoin (more as a longterm-bet because I like the idea but it looks bad right now), the dead Guerillacoin (huge mess I've never really understood what happened, always hoped there would be a change) and ... oh yes: 80 frozen Litecoins (Vircurex).

I should say: I'm always on the search for longterm-potential, I'm not a trader. Sometimes it turns out very bad (Gue... or Cloak - sold it all), but therefore I'm convinced that Crypto will turn out as a game-changer and become a professional part of financial industry, it won't need much money in the right Projects for huge profit in future. Thats why I always look at the Devs. So far, Neos is the only one (I know) I see all what I want to see and the only Coin I'm not scared about low prices. Quality needs time but it will win in longterm. Nearly all the pumped Hypes are down now and many won't coma back. And the new Projects will face hard times, because all the doubts and fear of getting scammed. That's why I think, the next evolution-step will focus real professionalism instead of scams, hypes, manipulation and failed promises and that will bring some changes.