Quote from: tucksmcgucks on July 06, 2013, 05:25:33 AM

1) Which alt-coin currently has a high SHORT TERM value (over 6 months from now) and why?

2) Conversely, which alt-coin has a high LONG TERM value (over 1 year from now) and why?

3) How can I use guiminer-scrypt for P2P mining? Am I just dumb..?

Thank you all in advance!

EDIT:

Also, does anyone have any ideas as to why Bitcoin's value is down to $ 65 USD Huh

1 & 2 - IMO Value would depend on if you plan to mine the coin or buy into the coin as an investment.

I believe Litecoin is easily the best alt coin to buy as an investment DEPENDING on MT Gox accepting it on their exchange or not. (If you're a gambler you could buy into the coin before their announcement...). I think Litecoin has a bright future as a legit crypto currency.

Mining Litecoins is a different story though. The difficulty is already too high for a standard GPU card to mine it (unless you mine at a loss (investment in hardware + electricity) and hope the coin will be worth more in the future). And really if you think the coin will be worth something in the future you might as well just buy them since they're WAY cheaper than even the most inexpensive hardware ($300 will get you one graphics card that will mine 2 cents worth of Litecoins for you every 4 hours, or just buy 125 Litecoins). Basically if you want to mine LTC wait till specialized hardware is available.

3 - No idea man. Every "tutorial" I've seen says "type this" (ok.. where?!), "then save it" (save it as what, and WHERE?!). Finding a noob friendly script mining tutorial (to mine BTC or LTC) has been harder than getting a straight answer from BFL about shipment timings.