ICO??
Most reports point to more than 80-90% scam or failure, why does anyone consider exposing it's investments to such risk? There are a lot of options on crypto-space that do not ask you for your money in advance and offer you a working product backed up by a solid structure and a competent, proven team... you just have to search and search some more...
One of my favourites is Veil, that is aiming at the privacy coin market. They combine two of the most proven privacy techs (Zerocoin and RingCT) into one bullet proof product. No ICO, no premine, and a more than proven team... and these guys don't just put their faces in there, they have updates, news, exchanges, etc always something happening.

I've always loved Monero, but since I've met Veil, I've started to wonder about Monero future...
Besides the Ring CT having flaws concerning anonymity, Monero blockchain is terribly heavy, facing scalibility problems, and there is the issue of the lack of corporate structure on monero, that will turn institutional adoption nearly impossible. Besides all this, there is also the matter of auditability, that will be fundamental for global acceptance and compliancy...
Let's face it, Monero was the giant of it's age, but in the end Veil belongs to a 2nd generation of privacy coins and represents evolution.... 

Maybe there is no "best" altcoin... only if someone would habe a crystal ball 
Besides, alts aim to different markets and different uses, so it depends... also, there is the matter of risk vs reward, in which higher ranking coins offer less risk with less potential reward, and smaller projects offer higher risk with higher reward... need to balance these two
ETH maybe a good bet as it is remaining at a relative low level and it is one of the giants, although there are doubts hanging about it's future
Also like TRON and LTC
but there are a ton of potential great investments on top-50
On the lower caps, I tend to look for solid teams, working products, liquidity, market... in the end looking to reduce the risk and keep the high reward...  VLS with decentralised VPN and Veil, offering a 2nd generation privacy coin are two of the best in my selection.
Veil is especially undervalued in my oppinion as these guys are attacking an established crypto market of high value privacy coins and they are way more solid in terms of tech...

Seems that the Alt season is here... but remember, nothing is certain in life... and also in crypto ...
Most of the main alt coins are recovering and btc seems to be keeping the 5000 level... so we are entering on a good climate for altcoin fluctuations...
There are also a lot of new coins in the market that are showing very promising features. I've almost quit ICOs as these are to prone to scam and failure... lately I've been focusing in POW projects and giving more importance to those with no premine and a product...

Coins like Zelcash, Veles, and of course, one of my favourite, Veil project... these guys offer a product that merges the best in Monero and Zcash in terms of privacy, no ICO, no Premine, lot's of exchanges, a proven team and a great market to conquer...
worth checking!

I have no doubt that digital money will be the future... but which cryptos? the existing ones? maybe....
It will be easy for the fiat system to create governmental cryptos and just put everyone using them... don't believe they'll be giving away control to the btc holders 
Anyway, there are a few new generation privacy coins that are lining on a very good position to mimic the features we need to find on money... mainly fungibility, auditability, privacy, anonimity...

Projects like Veil offer you a bullet proof privacy with no compromise, the hability to choose the privacy level of each transaction, the hability to stake anonimously, a combined Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake, in order to combine security and distribution, fungibility... indeed a 2nd generation coin, one of the projects that represents a significant evolution on the crypto space...
(besides having no hidden premines...well, no premines at all) 

These last few months I've been wondering about the future of ICOs, it looks poor, and I found myself searching for projects with a different model of funding that is not so prone to scam or easy exits...
There are several recent POS/POW coins that are built with a more solid approach and have a very promising potencial based on all experience learnt on the last couple of years.
One of my favourites is Veil, that uses a hybrid POW/POS consensus system combining security and distribution. No ICO. No premine. Already traded on exchanges. With a working use case.
A different kind of investment that allows for a passive income through staking and unlocks all the potencial that a new generation privacy coin offers...
People investing in ICOs offering countless tokens that have almost no use or that are just coying what others have already done, continuously exposing themselves to scammers... these people should definitely consider learning a bit more about this type of project...

A startup de criptomoedas ‘Wuabit’ vai lançar uma carteira de criptoativos para funcionar em aplicativos de bate-papo. De acordo com o diário britânico Express, a primeira fase de desenvolvimento do software está quase completa, incluindo o suporte para o Bitcoin no WhatsApp.

“Os pagamentos com criptomoedas via WhatsApp podem introduzir um número maior de novos usuários que apenas conversam no aplicativo. A usabilidade é fundamental na adoção do usuário e um ótimo facilitador”, disse um porta-voz da empresa à reportagem.

Ele acrescentou:

“Estamos perto de concluir o serviço principal da carteira começando com o Bitcoin”, disse. Uma versão beta da carteira vai estar disponível em abril para dar início à fase de testes.
Via Whatsapp

A carteira Wuabit, homônima à startup espanhola, foi descrito por seus desenvolvedores como um ‘programa agente controlado por Inteligência Artificial (IA)’, o que sugere ser um ‘chatbot’, programa que simula interações humanas.

Manuel Polo, cofundador da empresa, disse, em entrevista ao Cryptonews, que os usuários poderão enviar e receber criptomoedas simplesmente digitando comandos como ‘enviar’, ‘receber’, ‘balanço’, entre outros.

Desta forma, o Wuabit pode ganhar, então, um gigantesco número de usuários, visto que o WhatsApp é um dos aplicativos de comunicação mais utilizados em todo o mundo.

Outra coisa, é que a empresa não está limitada a condicionar seu novo programa somente para a plataforma do WhatsApp, mas também para outros softwares de comunicação, como Messenger, Telegram e até mesmo SMS.

O mesmo vale para os criptoativos. O Wuabit também planeja o suporte para outra criptomoedas, como Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash e Ethereum, DASH, Bitcoin SV e Tron.

Assim, tornando o Wuabit acessível ao grande público, o serviço vai ajudar a impulsionar os pagamentos com criptomoedas e ajudar a valorizar ainda mais o criptomercado.
Popularizar com grandes plataformas

O uso das criptomoedas está crescendo, mas muitos especialistas acreditam que a adoção poderia ser muito maior se houvesse melhor compreensão para o público em geral.

A falta de conhecimento é um dos fatores que impedem pessoas de saber  que o criptomercado é uma forma rápida e segura de movimentar dinheiro.

Até mesmo o Facebook supostamente estaria trabalhando em uma moeda para ser transmitida pelo WhatsApp.

Considerando a popularidade da plataforma, um serviço de pagamentos com criptomoedas permitiria que milhões de usuários realizassem tanto transações locais como internacionais. Isto também alavancaria o criptomercado mundial.

No entanto, mesmo que o projeto ainda não tenha sido confirmado, o Facebook já deu uma pista. O setor de criptomoedas e blockchain da empresa integrou-se à equipe de pesquisa da Chain Space, uma startup especializada em desenvolvimento de contratos inteligentes.

Além disso, o setor de Recursos Humanos do Facebook abriu várias vagas de emprego para profissionais do setor de blockchain.

fonte: https://portaldobitcoin.com/startup-envio-bitcoin-whatsapp/