Horizon HZ!
I have to agree. With Qora stuck with developer problems, BURST "hibernating" and virtually all of the other Nxt clones either dead or close to irrelevant, Horizon (HZ) is well in place to be the main Nxt clone. Thanks to the NFD merger, HZ has a dev team that's both good with the basics and much more innovative than, say, Litecoin.
The AT feature that BURST boasts is getting a thorough overhaul and improvement. HZ has a huge number of nodes: only Bitcoin has more.
As a beneficiary of the merger, I got a lot of HZ. I have not sold a single one of them. In fact, I
bought about 300'000 more recently. Call me a bagholder if you like, but the above does show that I'm putting my Bitcoin where my keyboard is. I used to HODL NFD; now, I'm HODLing HZ. I'm stubborn that way.
Nxt itself is well in place to be the Bitcoin of the crypto-2.0 universe. If you want to play the 2.0 trend
long-term, Nxt is the safer choice. I've found that a buy when Nxt is >5000 satoshis [it's there now] puts you in the bargain zone of Nxt's long-term trading range. But HZ will give you a "leverage" kicker because its price is much lower than Nxt's. As I said above, it's well in place to be the #1 alternative to Nxt itself. If Nxt rockets to the proverbial moon, the usual swarm of punters will be looking for a "just as good" lower-priced alternative....
That said, HZ is a long-term dealie. The largest profit I ever made on a penny stock, I got by holding a gold junior that went nowhere for more than a year. The Bitcoiners who got rich are the ones who roared, "I'll
never sell!" and stuck with that. True, they rode the bubble down as well as up...but the ones who got in at <$100 are still sitting on nice gains. The early adopters who got in at <$10...well, you can do the math. The way to play HZ, in my admittedly in-the-tank opinion, is to: buy; HODL; wait; keep HODLing; find something to distract yourself with while you're waiting.
But...you really shouldn't take my word on this. Have a visit to
HZ's official thread and read up on it before deciding.