XRP (Ripple) : I feel it is a long term bet since it has the support of banks like Standard Chartered and Merril Lynch.

SIA (siacoin) : After looking at their website I feel that they have made one of the best uses of the technology. Most other coins only market themselves as currency/safe storage/ easier transfers , wheras siacoin is marketed 
 for anonymous data storage. Siacoin has lesser competition in that use of cryptocurrencies. Since the value of the crytocurrency lies in the underlying technology, I believe its a good bet.

And of course, STEEM, which also has less competition in this sphere as of now.

Taas seemed pretty sketchy to me when I looked at it, so I didn't end up contributing. Big question that I couldn't find an answer to: where does the remaining 25% go? They say 50% of trading profits go back to investors, 25% purchase more assets, but never mention the last 25%.

My conclusion, because they didn't offer me any reason to believe otherwise, is that they're going to be effectively charging a 25% management fee.

That, and they have that clause in their ToS that says that the crowdsale isn't open to US citizens - of which I am one. I know that's mostly just a formality, but since I didn't feel good about the project in the first place, it gave me one more reason to step out.

**I'm intrigued by Lunyr,** which has a very well-priced crowdsale happening right now. They haven't hit their minimum yet with just 10 days to go, but their Ethereum smart contract apparently refunds all the money if they don't hit the minimum.

And I'll also almost certainly participate with Gnosis.

Ripple (XRP) for long term, or short time spike to the Moon
Ardor, Stellar and Decred for short term trading. Hoping to get a 100% back in a month or so. No such luck yet. Any opinion on these? 
STEEM and SBD obviously and I bouth a bit od Shadow recently but invested into particl, since they put into big ugly yellow warning on polo. Oh yeah, Belacoin too because of Belacam which doesn't work for some reason :/

I m interested in Zcoin - first implementation of zero protocol with masternodes

I haven't seen anyone mention MaidSafe yet.
safenetforum.org
maidsafe.net
That's my main holding - I think that as long as they stay true to their vision it is the way the future will run.
Also holding Rep and BTC long term.

I am following [wings.ai](http://wings.ai) a new dao process and [grantcoin](http://www.grantcoin.org) because grantcoin will eliminate extreme poverty :)

Qtum? Anyone?

@kevinwong: nice idea :)

Though on pseudo-holidays, I'll try to listen to this one. Thanks for sharing the news, namaste   :)

Excellent!  For me, i just jumped in the Stellar boat and bought quite a few coins.  I work in the logistics and supply chain and i believe in fair trade market for coffee farmers in developing countries.  Currently, coffee farmers have no choice but to accept low prices and delayed payments for their goods.  I'll be a one pissed off farmer if that was me, shame shame shame!

However, Stellar's Blockchain's and with new partnership with bext360, all parties involved in the transaction, farmers and others can access data transparently, and farmers can be paid in real-time, how cool is that?!

The other reason is pure speculation, no not really!  I firmly believe in this crypto, that's my story and I'm sticking to it :)

Happy trading fellow Steemians...

I like projects that listen to the community. Steem and PIVX are good examples. I also have a few that are not public yet.

Steem and BipCoin.

I am starting to store REP. Will also do the same with Storj and also likely with XEM.

About ICOs, I am reserving myself for FundRequest although I am begining to think that they could have problems as their token will work only as a share. But I like their proposal.

Lisk, because I think the familiarity of javascript will make it much easier for developers to work on the platform and create dapps, then will other similar crypto offerings. Whether or not that is true we will see. There are likely more inherent security issues due to it being built with javascript too so that may hold its value back. Nevertheless, I actually like the slow and steady development that has been taking place in that project and I foresee large long-term growth.

And of course I hold a bit of STEEM as well ( I see similar huge long term value here, and by long term I mean on the scale of years ), and BTC.

I work on a project called Maker. The goal of Maker is to create a stable crypto currency called Dai. Dai is not finished yet but the governance token of the system is. This token is called MKR. 

MKR is a unique token because MKR holders get rewarded for making good decisions that keep Dai stable. However the opposite is also true. If MKR holder make bad decisions then there is a penalty. 

You can read more here https://github.com/makerdao/docs/blob/master/Dai.md and I post meeting notes here on steemit every week.

Excellent post!! thank you for sharing

I'm checking out bitconnect at the moment.  The notion that I am guaranteed to get my investment back plus interest has my attention.

https://bitconnect.co/?ref=mctiller