With hopefully everyone learning a major lesson LTC, (that every coin not named Bitcoin can ever become complacent), I'm just curious as to where everyone will be placing their investments with in the altcoin market. I'm interested in alts, because they can outperform BTC anywhere from 2-10x in the long run. Of course, they can also underperform, but that is why I am creating this thread - to hopefully identify the coins that should outperform BTC in the long run if they continue their development. And because we are also now in the "accumulation phase" of the bubble cycles (which I expect to go on a few more months), now is the time to figure out how and where you'll be placing your investments, trying to set yourself up best for the next big run up.
For me, I hold the following right now
Currently holding
1) BC ($10m cap) - Black Halo (decentralized P2P exchange, smart contracts, etc), CoinKite and PoS 2.0
2) NXT ($60m cap) - Own protocol and asset exchange. Very poor distribution, though very feature rich to the point distribution may be ignored
3) XC ($5m cap) - Great anon development
4) XMR ($3m cap) - Another great anon development, and is using the recent "CryptoNote protocol", which has yet to really see its advantages.
Plan to buy
1) DRK - King of anon but clearly went through a big P&D cycle. Also just too broken still. Waiting for the accumulation phase.
2) VTC - Wild card imo. If scrypt-n proves to remain ASIC resistant, then when the weather cools down I could see people returning to scrypt based mining, with this one being the leader in that category.
Important Note
Of XC, XMR, and DRK - one of these three will drop out. There isn't enough room for 3 coins making anon their selling feature. So I'll have to watch development of these three closely. DRK just has been so broken lately that either of these two can make a run in the future.
Other than that, I don't know what other coins have really major developments (that are positive for crypto as a whole) going on for them. If anyone has any others that have something big going for them, please do post. But do notice how the youngest coin on my list is XC (about 2 months old). So please try to refrain from posting the latest coins that "have a good dev team with a promising future and will be added to Mintpal soon". I'm looking to create myself a "long term" portfolio that I can expect to outperform BTC 100% or more while hopefully BTC itself goes up 100% over the next year.
For me, I hold the following right now
Currently holding
1) BC ($10m cap) - Black Halo (decentralized P2P exchange, smart contracts, etc), CoinKite and PoS 2.0
2) NXT ($60m cap) - Own protocol and asset exchange. Very poor distribution, though very feature rich to the point distribution may be ignored
3) XC ($5m cap) - Great anon development
4) XMR ($3m cap) - Another great anon development, and is using the recent "CryptoNote protocol", which has yet to really see its advantages.
Plan to buy
1) DRK - King of anon but clearly went through a big P&D cycle. Also just too broken still. Waiting for the accumulation phase.
2) VTC - Wild card imo. If scrypt-n proves to remain ASIC resistant, then when the weather cools down I could see people returning to scrypt based mining, with this one being the leader in that category.
Important Note
Of XC, XMR, and DRK - one of these three will drop out. There isn't enough room for 3 coins making anon their selling feature. So I'll have to watch development of these three closely. DRK just has been so broken lately that either of these two can make a run in the future.
Other than that, I don't know what other coins have really major developments (that are positive for crypto as a whole) going on for them. If anyone has any others that have something big going for them, please do post. But do notice how the youngest coin on my list is XC (about 2 months old). So please try to refrain from posting the latest coins that "have a good dev team with a promising future and will be added to Mintpal soon". I'm looking to create myself a "long term" portfolio that I can expect to outperform BTC 100% or more while hopefully BTC itself goes up 100% over the next year.
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