you have a grand to spend and then you're off to a desert island with no contact from the outside world for five years.
which coins will still be alive by then and which will be thriving? as i'm on the conservative end of things i'd only go for bitcoin myself. in half a decade an insane amount will have changed.
what about you?
Just the same as I see gold and silver as hedges to traditional FIAT or Stocks, so to do I see BTC and LTC as the gold and silver of the crypto space. I also see XRP being a necessary vehicle for moving smaller market cap alt coins. With $1000 I'd put 60% in BTC, 20% in LTC and 15% in XRP. I see ETH being replaced by a coin that's more innovative for smart contracts. So with my last 5% I'll put that in ADA. I'm sold on ADA for the simple fact that it is designed to withstand the inevitable future of quantum computing which could render traditional blockchains worthless.