Whenever we talk about cryptocurrency the first thing that comes into people’s mind is bitcoin. There exist 3 types of people, who think:
- Talking about blockchain or cryptocurrency means talking about Bitcoin(it comes first), Ethereum, Ripple and other cryptocurrencies. (Congrats! You can read the article now)
- Talking about blockchain or cryptocurrency means bitcoin(only).
- Don’t even have a clue about what is happening in tech world. (You need to read about blockchain and bitcoin first in order to understand this article)
So, for those who know bitcoin as only cryptocurrency, there are hundreds of cryptocurrencies that exist in crypto-market. Altcoins are the alternate cryptocurrencies that came into existence after success of bitcoin. Some of them are pretty awesome and have capability to replace even bitcoin.
So, let’s see the top 10 altcoins for higher returns:
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LBC (LBRY credit)
LBC is token for using LBRY platfrom. It is more like library on blockchain. You can share your content and media on LBRY which is a decentralized network and in order to get access to those content and media, user will have to pay in form of LBC. It is much like youtube of blockchain. It has grown a lot in last 3 months as the chart shows. We can expect 2-3x growth in LBC anytime this year.
Initial price: $0.03 | Current price: $0.662
2. Verge
verge is a decentralized cryptocurrency which improves upon original bitcoin blockchain by using multiple anonymity-centric networks such as Tor and i2p. It distributes equal amount of coins to miners. This currency values user privacy. We can expect 2-3x returns in this coin.
Initial price: $0.000029 | Current price is: $0.003393. Growth in last 3 months is as shown below:
3. DigiByte(Dgb)
DigiByte is a 3 yrs. old decentralised global blockchain with a focus on cyber security, payments and secure communications. There are a lot of apps and popular cryptocurrency exchanges built upon this blockchain. It is one of the the fastest growing blockchain, which has the potential to perform extra ordinary in the field of fintech, cyber security and IoT devices.
Initial price: $0.0000002 | Current price is: $0.0256. Growth in the last 3 months is:
4. Siacoin
In future, according to Inc.com, Blockchain Tech company Sia (Siacoin) could replace Dropbox and Amazon. Yeah! Sia a decentralized could storage company which operate upon Sia blockchain. Cloud Storage in Sia is completely private, far more affordable than other clouds and is built on blockchain. In order to use storage, Renters pay using Siacoin which can be mined and traded also.
Initial price: $0.0004 | Current price: $0.01276. Growth in last 3 months is:
5. Ardor
Ardor is a “child-chain” platform which runs on already powerful Nxt Blockchain. Ardor’s decentralized feature will enable to trade assets between the child chains or trade any asset on any of the child chain. It uses Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS). Decentralized governance and voting system will also be built in it. Ardor also support smart and phased transactions.
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.019 | Current price: $0.2417.
6. Steem
Steemit is social media and blogging platform built upon steem blockchain where users are paid everytime they post in steem dollars. According to market capitalization, it is the one of the top 5 cryptocurrencies.
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.07 | current price: $1.83.
7. QRL
Quantum resistant ledger is a future proof highly secured blockchain that uses a quantum computing resistant encryption method. The encryption methods used by today’s blockchain could become weak and insecure in next 10 yrs compared to QRL blockchain. QRL aims to create blockchain with high stability and security. QRL is token of QRL blockchain.
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.7 | Current price: $1.77.
8. AntShares(ANS)
“AntShares is a decentralized and distributed network protocol which is based on blockchain technology. People can use it to digitize assets or shares, and accomplish some financial business through peer-to-peer network such as registration and issuing, make transactions, settlement and payment.” – AntShares
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.13 | Current price: $1.63.
9. BAT
Brave browser knows where users spend their time, and in order to get user’s attention publishers are rewarded with Basic Attention Token. It is much like advertising on blockchain platform. They have a strong team backing the project having people like Founder of JavaScript, Co-founder of Mozilla Firefox and top notch devs.
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.16 | Current Price: $0.164.
10. Lisk
List is a public blockchain platform that enables to develop decentralized blockchain applications. In order to process actions on Lisk platform user will have to use LSK tokens.
Growth in last 3 months is:
Initial price: $0.14 | Current price: $2.64.
All of the cryptocurrencies mentioned above are predicted to have 2-3x growth in anytime this year.
Happy trading!
P.s- This article contains expertise and views by our ItsBlockchain community experts.
Hitesh Malviya is the Founder of ItsBlockchain. He is one of the most early adopters of blockchain & cryptocurrency enthusiast in India. After being into space for a few years, he started IBC in 2016 to help other early adopters learn about the technology.
Before IBC, Hitesh has founded 4 companies in the cyber security & IT space.
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