What are at the Moment the Best 5 Coins?

[PilotofBTC]

BTC and LTC

These would be the top two. Why? Because they have the most momentum. There is a large infrastructure of merchant APIs, wallets, exchanges. BTC is basically the US$ of Crypto because most alt-coins are priced in units of BTC just like US$ is how most world commodities are priced.


Nautilus Coin - NAUT (was using PHI ticker but changed to not confuse it with PHICoin)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=591114.0
The unique aspect of this coin is their stabilization fund. The fund is composed of 1% pre-mine which buy/sells on it's exchange to try to keep to volume up and the market liquid. They also use Digishield which adjusts to block rate based on the current network has rate to prevent multi-pool mining problems.


ShareCoin - SHARE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587051.0
This one is pretty new. The dev created 100million coin and freely gave it away to 1500 people that applied. This coin is 100% PoS. I'm really liking PoS, it means someone can't go in with 40 MHs machines, mine 100k of them and dump them. The first year interest (PoS reward) is 30%. So you gain coins just by keeping them in your wallet. The wallets maintain the network rather than miners.

Another unique aspect of this is that it is tied to a new exchange. You will be able to buy "stock" in the exchange called FeeShares, meaning you Share in the fees the exchange charges. You can only buy the FeeShares with ShareCoin and each FeeShare gets you a .001% stake in the fees. I think the feeshares will also apply to other things that are planned like a gambling site and perhaps merchant services site.


DogeCoin - DOGE

As much as this started as a joke, it is really becoming very popular. I can't see this one raising in price much though  because there is no limit on the amount of coins that can be mined. Maybe the devs will decide to change that at some point. But, I think there are already billions of these in the market.


So, there's the top 5 I am watching.

[gts476]

Oh 5 coins.... my bad.

BTC: Hold long term. End of story.

C2: FPS being developed. Going to be huge and so undervalued @ 650sat. Hold long term.

BCN: BCN is to Monero/HoneyPenny as BTC is to (insert shitcoin BTC clone here). Could even kill DRK. Hold short/medium term.

HACK: Just released. Great Asian community and hash rate. Hold short/medium term.

CINNI: I called this @ <3k sat, great volume. Day trade the shit out of it and keep an eye out for when they make their own multipool.

Best. G.

[toknormal]

Jackpot coin is going to be the next big "up and coming" IMHO.

New independent POW and POS algos, and the first (I think   ) "true" random jackpot algo + "great dev" etc etc.

One other thing - I know everyone always says this about new coins but the the transaction speed for this coin is ASTONISHING. Withdrawal off the exchange is like 5 seconds exchange-to-wallet unconfirmed status and then another 5 seconds to confirmed. Thats one of the benefits of the dual algo. Has to be seen to be believed.

Still some available for those who want to get in at ground level. Fresh article on it in Cryptoarticles: http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/2014/5/7/jackpotcoin-second-generation-powpos-random-super-blocks-asic-resistant

Others (apart from BTC and LTC):

NXT - superb

DRK - has to be on the list due to trustless anonymous transmission technology. Way undervalued and one of the only coins I've ever seen that might have a chance of rivaling Bitcoin's value (as a complimentary currency that is, not as a replacement)

PPC - I haven't got any right now but I still think it's one of the greats
BC - probably can't discount it due to the manic following it has (although I've sold most of mine)

Disclosure: I'm in BTC, NXT, LTC, DRK and Jackpotcoin (+ a bit of long lost Quark that I must dig out  )

[nextgencoin]

If I could see through all the shit I'd tell you

+1

[kelsey]

If I could see through all the shit I'd tell you

+1

tbh all all the shit is doing now is strengthening btc/ltc position at the top.

[georgem]

1) Dogecoin (most surprising and ameable coin)

2) Namecoin (the first altcoin ever, bitdomains are finally getting some traction)

3) Devcoin (still a very unique and old (in bitcoin - years) altcoin, has active community of writers and devs, incredibly cheap at the moment)

4) Quarkcoin (good community, interesting supporters in media, is in-game money)

5) Darkcoin (very outstanding features, proof of service, masternodes, has "Veni, Vidi, Vici" potential!   )

If I could add more, I would say Goldcoin, and Zetacoin.
Also: my list is not listed in order of priority, I find all those coins equally promising.

[cryptos]

BTC-LTC-DOGE-NMC-PPC

in that order

[MicroGuy]

BTC-LTC-DOGE-NMC-PPC

in that order

That's actually pretty good. But NMC and PPC are not brandable names and I think by 2015 things will shake out more like this:

BTC-GLD-DOGE-LTC-FTC

in that order

[Anotheranonlol]

My list of investment. I believe all have long term merit, also invest in some other shit coins, but only in temporary pump so won't include them.

-Counterparty
Revolutionary concept, non inflationary- non minable & limited supply (huge value in protocol as well as underlying xcp token), Dedicated developers Massive upwards potential. The true dark-horse, yet few years ahead of itself.
-Monero
Innovative new protocol. Mining is relatively non-feasible due to difficulty and no implementation. Larger exchanges  will not readily add because it's not copy paste plug n play installation process like xxx-qt coins. low liquidity, cumbersome to acquire/trade therefore in a price discovery phase.
-Honeypenny
Roughly Same as above
-Cinnicoin
Nothing too revolutionary, but pure POS, free of any major problems, limited supply comparatively- working multipools. undervalued massively on relative basis
-NXT clones
NXT is great concept, but distribution model was flawed too much to ignore. I don't know how it has and still is lasting so long, but market seems to be slowly reaching same conclusion despite it having the network effect. and now the time is ripe for a NXT clone, assuming community backs and devs are competent these can surpass NXT

todays progress update of investments. since 24 hours has passed since posting

CounterParty - -2.77 % (in actual fact +12.84% of Bter)
Monero - no exchange info
HoneyPenny - not trading
Cinnicoin - +53.26 %
Nxt clones- not trading

If you hedged 10btc between all tradable alts in my list at time of post, selling 24 hours later (at this post time) you would have ~16.702 BTC

todays progress update, since further 24 hour passed

CounterParty - +5.33 % % (in actual fact +10.7% on Bter)
Monero - no accurate exchange info
HoneyPenny - not trading
Cinnicoin - +86.19 % (in actual fact more than 100%+ on minty)
Ripple - -3.38 %
Nxt clones- not trading

if you followed & invested in this list 48hours ago by hedging 10btc between all tradable alts. cashing out right now (using conservative coinmarketcap stats) you would have a minimum of 30.89 BTC

[JJqiu1]

Hi guys, to many coins are now in the crypto world. I would like to know from you which in your opinon are the best 5 coins? And why you choose them ?
Please give me some informations like Community is good, alghorithm, NO-/Premine, Image etc.

Thank you and please keep fair and polite with your choice!

I think it's about Sharecoin ITC IFC GAS

[georgem]

That's actually pretty good. But NMC and PPC are not brandable names and I think by 2015 things will shake out more like this:

How is Namecoin not brandable?

It's the Coin for Names for crying out loud. 

[mrsanny]

1.NXT
2.BTC
3.PPC
4.NAS
5.XCP

[Michael POR]

Hi guys, to many coins are now in the crypto world. I would like to know from you which in your opinon are the best 5 coins? And why you choose them ?
Please give me some informations like Community is good, alghorithm, NO-/Premine, Image etc.

Thank you and please keep fair and polite with your choice!

I choose the itc ifc LTC sharecoin.

I think these COINS is one of the most potential market.

[r0ach]

1) Stackcoin
2) Dafuqcoin
3) Cryptoshekel
4) Asiacoin
5) NXT

[Emman]

comm, ITC, sharecoin, and so on,...

comm itc sharecoin I quite agree with you.

Let us witness the growth of.

[JeffK]

SHARECOIN

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587051.0

[Bbeenn]

BTC
LTC
NXT

[Mayuyu48]

BTC
LTC
DRK

1) Stackcoin
2) Dafuqcoin
3) Cryptoshekel
4) Asiacoin
5) NXT

shitcoin and scamcoin
maybe you can add emiratescoin

[Equate]

1.Bitcoin
2.Litecoin
3.Dogecoin
4.Vertcoin
5.Darkcoin

[Joshuar]

1) Bitcoin
2) Darkcoin
3) Unknown
4)Unkown
5)Unkown