Ask HN: Which is the best cryptocurrency to invest in right now, and why?

Don't consider as investment advice, just my own thoughts:

1st of all, investing in crypto is 100% speculation, 0% investing. I still do it though just for fun, for now, it has been working but all could be 0 tomorrow.

Coins to watch for:

NEO coin: it's the chinese ethereum, there's some talks in ICOs getting regulated there and its looked upon on being the "regulated ICO coin" sometime soon, speculation, but definitely performing well.

Bitcoin: just invest in the most stable one, why not?

Ethereum: smart contracts, the most stable also. Much better than bitcoin, just not as popular.

Monero: bitcoin, but fully anonymised. It's not so hard to trace bitcoin tx, but monero makes it sort of impossible.

Ripple: wants to kill SWIFT and partner up with a lot of banks, basically the "playing in the side of the banks" coin

Also, do your own research. Don't trust anyone. Avoid small coins if you aren't the person doing the pump and dump.

The only thing I would invest in is the IDEA. Blockchain is there to replace tons of industries, we just don't know yet how much time it's going to take, or who'll be the winner. It's very likely that the winner doesn't even exist.

None, it's speculation at best, incompetence most of the time, fraud quite often.

Ethereum or Bitcoin for investing. They have real intrinsic value. Most the other currencies are just spin offs of the original deal or overly ambitious white papers with nothing implemented. Stay away from NEO.

Starting your own blockchain and raising Bitcoin to distribute your new tokens seems to be the quickest way to big bucks.