Investopedia: 5 Most Important Virtual Currencies Other Than Bitcoin

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Quote from: pawel7777 on December 11, 2014, 06:16:37 PM

Fresh article (yesterday) from Ivestopedia. Author seems to be extremely out of date, but thought it's worth sharing since the Investopedia is considered somewhat reliable/serious investment dictionary.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121014/5-most-important-virtual-currencies-other-bitcoin.asp

So the top 5 is:

Litecoin
Darkcoin
Peercoin
Dogecoin
Primecoin

Interesting, investopedia put out on article on alternate currencies.
Well I'm not in disagreement on the coins put on this list that said there are some other coins out there that are also interesting.

The title might be a bit off though since it considers coins only separate from Bitcoin, but not coins like Mastercoin maidsafe etherum etc.

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Quote from: kyma on December 13, 2014, 02:38:16 PM

lol this list is so 2013

Things move so fast in the alt coin scene that you are out of date if you don't look at it for a few weeks.

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Quote from: kyma on December 13, 2014, 02:38:16 PM

lol this list is so 2013

I think the author is in Stage 3.

Stage 1 - Denial - Bitcoin is a joke, ponzi scheme, etc
Stage 2 - Believer - Bitcoin is real!!
Stage 3 - Discovery - WHAT? There's altcoins??

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lol this list is so 2013

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Quote from: junglist.massive on December 11, 2014, 09:04:43 PM

maybe 6months ago

I think that 2.0 coins will explode in '15. Coins like ripple, storj, gems

This could be true, aiming simplicity in an innovative way i would bet on. I also think we will see less successful scams in 2015

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Quote from: junglist.massive on December 11, 2014, 09:04:43 PM

maybe 6months ago

I think that 2.0 coins will explode in '15. Coins like ripple, storj, gems

I would point out CounterParty, Ethereum, Node and probably Monero.

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Quote from: Coincoin256 on December 12, 2014, 04:53:29 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

a little out of date? he must have had his head buried in the sand for the last 6-12 months... Roll Eyes

That is what I thought after reading it.

yeah, seems the author has just viewed a few months old web.archive.org link of coinmarketcap.com and taken the top 10 alts by market capitilzation with a ***coin suffix.

At least investopedia is starting to initiate more coverage on crypto 2.0, e.g http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121014/medici-blockchain-stock-exchange.asp

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Quote from: ?? on ??

a little out of date? he must have had his head buried in the sand for the last 6-12 months... Roll Eyes

That is what I thought after reading it.

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Quote from: digicoin on December 12, 2014, 09:15:34 AM

That article should be revised next year. I know that XMR will be listed there. No XPM, no Dark

This article should have been revised before it got published.

I sense the author wrote it months ago and she just updated price and market cap figures.

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Quote from: digicoin on December 12, 2014, 09:15:34 AM

That article should be revised next year. I know that XMR will be listed there. No XPM, no Dark

+1, I like XMR too

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That article should be revised next year. I know that XMR will be listed there. No XPM, no Dark

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XPM is a ***coin. Sunny King created it for fun

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when xpm is so important why is it so worthless?

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1st year doge moon then btc 200 but drk masternodes 5$ then peercoin moon, then litecoin new features, you can predict the future, ripple ain't bubble which means nxt no real world purposes beacuse of fud but eqx coin is the future making it same dev as blocknet because bob making bay 2 which collect 435874385btc ico so dominican gross domestic product +5% drinkin 420 coin sativa money $ made like 2013 moon year. That's what's gonna happen. Cool

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Dogecoin will hit 100 or even more next year. Dont invest in crypto simply looking at short term gains, play long 1 year + and youll be minted off your face like quite a number of people on this forum

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Quote from: tokeweed on December 11, 2014, 10:17:57 PM

Quote from: junglist.massive on December 11, 2014, 09:04:43 PM

maybe 6months ago

I think that 2.0 coins will explode in '15. Coins like ripple, storj, gems

i don't doubt that. but some among the 1.0 coins will be going up as well. maybe the ones with the higher hashrates will be the ones shooting up...?

anyone know a site where we can see the top hashrates of mineable coins listed from top to bottom? couldn't find one at google...

shure that BTC will be always on top but most important thing that add value of money is practicality. You have to be able to use this coins and now most of altcoins is only for trading

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Dogecoin, which has a Shibu Inus (a bread of a Japanese dog) as its logo

Didn't make sense until I figured she must had meant breed. Actually I have used investopedia as sources and some of their articles are rather good, but this one is downright atrocious. They also repeated Zetacoin twice in a single sentence (what coin is that again?).

As for thinking Primecoin is still relevant at its' $hitcoin capitalization.

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Quote from: junglist.massive on December 11, 2014, 09:04:43 PM

maybe 6months ago

I think that 2.0 coins will explode in '15. Coins like ripple, storj, gems

i don't doubt that. but some among the 1.0 coins will be going up as well. maybe the ones with the higher hashrates will be the ones shooting up...?

anyone know a site where we can see the top hashrates of mineable coins listed from top to bottom? couldn't find one at google...

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Quote from: junglist.massive on December 11, 2014, 09:04:43 PM

maybe 6months ago

I think that 2.0 coins will explode in '15. Coins like ripple, storj, gems

Don't forget about FlappyCoin! lol Tongue

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