Best Alt coin to invest in 2014

[superresistant]

!.  Bitcoin:  cause is still works like a charm and is the original, long confirmation time kinda sucks
2.  Dogecoin:  community, inflationary which sucks IMO, and the meme fad might wear off
3.  Digitalcoin:  very professional, capped supply, designed for the long haul and coffee buying usage
I like the idea of NXT, but the release was so fkn shady its not funny.

Why do you keep DogeCoin when you know it is deflationary ? Obviously the price will go down on the long term.

Nxt release was not shady at all, it is just that no one invested in it while the IPO lasted for 2 fucking months.

I didn't invest myself and I am not bitching about it. Don't listen to the losers.

[pandher]

Coin2- No explanations mood right now. Will talk after 2 months

[zackclark70]

ADT 

[bramvnl]

Mintcoin en reddcoin

[crypto33]

Leprocoin. I think with its characteristics and community this coin has large potential. A couple of exchanges have already added it swisscex.com and that new exchange which looks quite impressive comkort.com. Price is very low at the moment and they are soon to become rare Apart from that of course theres always that good old trusty dogecoin

[flounderella]

!.  Bitcoin:  cause is still works like a charm and is the original, long confirmation time kinda sucks
2.  Dogecoin:  community, inflationary which sucks IMO, and the meme fad might wear off
3.  Digitalcoin:  very professional, capped supply, designed for the long haul and coffee buying usage
I like the idea of NXT, but the release was so fkn shady its not funny.

Why do you keep DogeCoin when you know it is deflationary ? Obviously the price will go down on the long term.

Nxt release was not shady at all, it is just that no one invested in it while the IPO lasted for 2 fucking months.

I didn't invest myself and I am not bitching about it. Don't listen to the losers.

I've slowly come around to the idea of NXT and bought some though I know it will never forge but I like the fact its a very motivated community and they have a good roadmap of where to take NXT

[vtbean79]

Thanks everyone for their reply.  Some good info here and I see some FUD as well.  But overall, it helped a lot.  Feel free to add to the topic if you have more coins to recommend.  Hopefully in 2014, we'll see all alts take off together! 

[gaza1512]

Definitely DigiBytes! They have got the best potential and an amazing dev team.

Buy some DGB at http://www.digibytestore.co/

[hoertest]

Grain, great pow/pos design , since version 1.5 first coin with truly random superblocks, devs put alot of energy into the code not so much  marketing yet, so extremely under the radar right now.

[fair-cointeam]

FairCoin going to be the next AuroraCoin,Its launch tomorrow, and you can write your wallet address on the website and get your fair share for free

check out:
http://fair-coin.info/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=487212.0

[alani123]

I like the concept behind myriadcoin. I'd like to see if more coins will be developed based on the same idea in the future and if any of them is going to be more successful.

[Djinou94]

Maza
Nxt
CounterP
Litecoin
Gridcoin
Darkcoin

[johnfkennedy]

No launch date yet, but you should keep an eye on JFK right here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=500246

[Beef Supreme]

This has turned into a "What bag are you holding?" thread.

[qbd1313]

Check Particle;D
the new wallet

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0

[italovers]

NXT
zerocoin

welcome to  nxtchina.org

[bramvnl]

Maza
Nxt
CounterP
Litecoin
Gridcoin
Darkcoin

scam coins

litecoin +1

[neuroMode]

I like the concept behind myriadcoin. I'd like to see if more coins will be developed based on the same idea in the future and if any of them is going to be more successful.

Holy shit, I didn't think Myriad was going to be represented here because most people don't know about it yet.

[Djinou94]

Maza
Nxt
CounterP
Litecoin
Gridcoin
Darkcoin

scam coins

litecoin +1

One month before yea fucking maza

[markm]

With BTC taking hit with bad news lately and free falling in price, I wanted to see people's opinion on which coin is going to take off in 2014.  I need your advise to diversify my portfolio.  Thanks in advance for your help!

The coins that enjoy at least partially the security (hashing power) that, if they did not exist, bitcoin alone would be paying for.

Either that, or anything that does not depend upon proof of work.

The reasoning here is that proof of work is an insanely, exorbitantly expensive means of securing a distributed ledger, but merged mining permits that vast massive cost to be shared among many chains, thus the chains merged alongside bitcoin save a fortune in overhead expense of securing themselves and also bitcoin itself gets possibly at least some small help toward paying the massive cost of proof of work due to its miners being able to be at least partially subsidised by the transaction fees and/or block rewards they obtain in the secondary chains they merge alongside bitcoin.

Thus bitcoin and the coins merged alongside it have a security advantage over chains that cannot be merged mined along with them and/or an expenses advantage in having access to less expensive security to secure themselves.

By investing in coins merged mined alongside bitcoin you are not financing the fragmenting of the hashing power that secures bitcoin but, rather, might actually still be at least partially financing bitcoin's own security even while diversifying into other coins.

Furthermore in the longer term as bitcoin's block rewards shrink, subsidising its miners by means of merged mining could help motivate miners to secure the bitcoin blockchain aka to mine bitcoins, so helping to ensure the success of the members of its merged mined family of coins could be long term beneficial for bitcoin.

-MarkM-