Hi again. I hope you did well in your trades. I'm sorry I forgot to mention Komodo which made killer gains. I recommended it to a friend some hours ago and he still could have made a bunch on it.
Anyways I think there will be great demand for privacy coins too. STEEM is perfectly transparent. With clever analyzing a person could figure out even your period cycle if you start using STEEM as a currency. We need fungibility to our lives.
My favorites are:
Dash for trust-less mixing with perfect unbroken privacy to date with AirShows, Television shows, upcoming documentaries and a whole bunch of things with its massive self funded budget.
PIVX: A Dash ripoff with Zerocion protocol (A trusted setup)
Verge: 5 second Tx and McAfee recommends this coin. It's a Good community too.
Honorable mentions: Zcash (snowden recommends), ZenCash (Dash is too strong of an opponent) Komodo (decentralized ICOs and Atomic Swaps. The only platform capable of this + DEX + recycles Bitcoin's Hashpower)
A great list of alternative coins that we should consider in our diversified digital portfolio.
As you say, steem is transparent, so it is not for those seeking maximum secrecy.
I was having talks with some people about a free but invite only community for investments. People tend to use all the public info and then go on to bash the contributors in very disgusting ways. I've been defending some great people(especially @haejin) who have helped me do better as a noob investor for the last 3 days and I've seen my greatest fears about the community come to life. I wasn't even slightly surprised but certainly disappointed.
Let's see how things would turn out. This is a great time to BTFD. Unfortunately I'm out of USD. It'll take a few days for things to get profitable again.
Did you hear about Smart Cash? It is also privacy coin, Zcash fork. Look on them, reward for 1k+ hold, and cost low atm.
I took a brief look about a month ago. It seemed like it was good project. I haven't done enough research on it. At the time it gave me the vibes of ZENcash which had some great percentage gains. I don't think it'll be as massive as Dash. But if you feel good about the project, go for it. It certainly has a lot of upside. Since we had a major dip in the market you can double your money with practically Zero risk. I prefer PIVX. But Smartcash can have a lot of growth too.