In the world of crypto there is pretty much one name to the layman - Bitcoin.

To people on these forums, everybody know Bitcoin, Litecoin, Doge, XPM, Dark, Monero, etc.

To the scammy devs this looks like a feast for which newbie should I drain funds from today with a premine:
http://mapofcoins.com/

If you want to gamble bet on one of the lesser known coins.  This forum is called bitcointalk - I would bet mostly on bitcoin.

I would also avoid all mining and cloud mining - it does nothing other than transfer money from your bank account to the company - there's no option for profit really when you do the numbers.