I'm also quite new here. Bought my first Bitcoin in summer last year.
Was always thinking Bitcoin is the only digitial currency. But with time I got more active and have had also a look at Altcoins.
So I bought some Nxt, because I like the client there. It was very easy to install the wallet. Unfortunately the price has dropped since I bought. But at the moment there seems to be a bottom of around 6-7 million market value.

Some of the Nxt developers created a new Crypto-Project, called IOTA. It's a crypto for using in the Internet-of-Things. I think this is a very interesting idea and I invested there in the pre-sale. The official launch will be in some weeks, looking forward to it. Probably this can be an interesting coin for you, I guess it will be listed at the exchanges soon.

You can never be sure, which one will be pushed or dumped next.
If you don't know anything and don't want to research, but want to invest, buy either only BTC or maybe all TOP 30(?) altcoins like stock index does.
Some will plunge, some will grow, but the combination will grow.
That said you should research yourself. The people here will suggest you only coins, they want to dump on you ;-)

I personally sit mostly on BTC, ETH, Factom, NEM, NXT, IOTA, XCR, XMR, XLM. I also had a few DASH before I lost them on the cryptsy platform. Probably will buy some again...

In long term it is hard to say something, because often alt-coins cause loss. For short term you should be well informed about this industry and keep looking around for some good opportunity. People often dont share what they are pretty sure about, because they don't want to throw some of their potential income away. Manipulations are everywhere. Keep learning and analyze for yourself to have the best solution.

+1

Many people trade altcoins for their "short term" potential.
I mean, they make BTC with altcoins and try to keep some BTC to expect a big rise in the next years

Try to get alt coins with potential maybe top 5. Invest some $100 each then wait for one of them to skyrocket. If 3 of those alt coins doubled its price then you're in a gain. There's even a chance that some of them could multiply in 10 like a 10 cent coin could go to $1 each!

If you havent bought ethereum yet you need your head examined.

will this be a geocoin promotion thread?

^self proclaimed genius

Why don't you bring out your coin so we can see how all your grandiose ideas work out in real life?

I'll prefer to see your C++ code if you don't mind