So here are my favorite 5 Crypto Currencies, love to hear your thoughts and your top 5 as well.
Ripple - Simple reason it has the best use case so far. With over 100 banks including USB & American Express the company is well run and most likely to grow. This is not a theory but a true business making money. They've added some new names to the team recently, the news has been excellent lately and they appear to be on the right track to grow the market cap.
GAS (NEO)- as China continues to reverse it's stance on the crypto-currency space NEO stands to do very well. As the Asian market moves to NEO it will use GAS to fuel it. I like NEO for the short term, but I'm not here for 30% gains, I'm here for the long haul. Give me GAS!
ZenCash - I feel this is the best of the privacy coins with the greatest upside. I'm a fan of Monero & Dash (hold both) but I like ZenCash for it's upside potential. I could see it pushing DASH like numbers over the next 1-2 years.
These last two are outliers for me... GOLEM. There's just something about their white paper that screams FUTURE to me. One super computer that can be "rented" for simple classroom work to helping send a man to mars... really the possibilities are endless. I think there are uses we can't even imagine right now. Definitely a long term hold but I like it.
Last but not least.... the biggest outlier of them all.... FUNFAIR! I know I know... people will say we need to get out of the realm of illegal uses of crypto's. But that's the beauty of FunFair, its not a gambling crypto, its a platform for legal licensed casinos and gambling sites to use the security and safety of the block chain. I think there will be some push back from the major casinos (they like their big fat margins) but as the masses of online gaming move to the block chain to protect from being scammed, Casinos will have no choice but to come on board or miss out on the huge online gaming market of the future.
So that's it, let me know your thoughts and your FAV 5. I still think Bitcoin and Etherium will see big increases in 2018 but not as fast as some of these. FULL DISCLOSURE - I am NOT a financial expert and I'm NOT giving financial advice. Just my opinion, love to hear yours.