[lawlessone]

Personally i think bitcoin and maybe Eth and LTC will be the only long term survivors.

Every new "coin" that comes along now just becomes a pump and dump.

Bitcoin was around before it had any value and people were just giving it to one another for fun or buying Pizzas for 20,000. It has benefited most from the "network effect" . My only major concerns about it are the environmental effects and transaction throughput.(other coins are allegedly faster for now but will probably buckle if they become as big as the above three.)

LTC is around nearly as long ,, and ETH is a whole new concept, though it has security and programming issues.

I should mention its survival doesn't mean it's value will go up.

[nugga]

I'd add something like Monero, or other coin designed with privacy/fungibility in mind, as a long term survivor. Bitcoin's development bureaucracy is too slow and cumbersome and who knows how much the community is willing to embrace absolute privacy, yet that is exactly what plenty folks in the crypto scene prefer.