Merry Christmas Everyone, here are a couple great projects to consider, and EXACTLY why you should. Zclassic, Aeon, Icon ZCL, AEON, ICX

Here are a couple "new" picks of mine that are actually old picks, as it seems most every coin that has been skyrocketing lately is some old pick of mine. So I did some digging into some of my old recommendations. ie: I recommend Verge VXG before it was even called Verge at 1 sat, and after. Although I sold too early, but that is what I get for listening to traders too much when I am much more of a buy and hold investor.

1 - Zclassic, why? Privacy coins are hot, Zclassic is the first fork of Zcash without the 20% founders. Fundamentals were strong when I first recommended this and people did amazing that held. I sold for profits some time ago, but I think now is the time to get back in.

Here is an old Tweet and one of the reasons I bought in on Zclassic long ago, this is still true however. Zcash is one of the best privacy coins, but some people just hate founder's rewards and Zclassic has none of that, and it is the first fork of one of the best two privacy coins.

The project has been languishing, but Rhett Creighton is now teaming up with the original Zclassic team so things are going to improve. Rhett is one of those young Silicon Valley tech people and has a degree from MIT.

This is where it starts to get really interesting. It appears they are going to rebrand Zclassic to Bitcoin Private, and perhaps somehow distributing coins in some manner to Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash people, still unclear on that. Now, I dislike brand heists, but Bitcoin Cash is now on Coinbase and coming to Bitpay, and will be successful, so there is no doubt they are profitable as can be, and we all want some profits now and then.

2 - Aeon, why? Aeon is also a privacy coin and is run by Smooth, a MONERO developer. Aeon is sort of a mobile version of Monero, with some changes and active development. Monero, along with Zcash, I would consider the two of the very best privacy coins. I don't have any information about if or when Aeon will ever take off, but I know if it does I better be holding some when it happens.

3 - Icon, why? After I posted my last Steemit Blog of picks and shared elsewhere, several people recommended Icon to me (and many others). After checking out their recommendations this was the best one, so I bought it and I am already up quite a bit. Even so, I suspect this one is going much higher and looks like a great long-term hold and investment.