When the altcoin market's a bit bearish (which it is, it may be up a bit today but expect people to convert alts to BTC before the 25th) I like to go hunting among new non-ICO coins looking for diamonds in the rough.

Lately this is where I've been getting my biggest profits, getting them while they're low volume before they hit exchanges and the price goes up. It's riskier but there's a much better chance of you seeing large returns.

One coin I've found that I very much like the look of is XIOS. I downloaded the wallet expecting it to look how a shitcoin wallet looks and was pleasantly surprised to see something which took some real time and effort to create.

This coin has attributes that I like a lot

Firstly, it's a privacy coin, it has a 21 million cap (same as Bitcoin) and it has PoS and PoW. Yes, that's right, it's mineable with a low difficulty right now, so if you're into mining, why are you still reading this? Go mine it!

If like me you'd rather buy it and stake it, there's one exchange for now (that I'm aware of):

https://coinsmarkets.com/trade-BTC-XIOS.htm

This isn't a busy exchange to use but I managed to sign up and buy 218 XIOS on there and start staking them quite quickly, I'm expecting my first payout in 3 days.

It's up 34% (damn, now down for a bit aaaaaaaand it's up again, new coins are volatile with a huge spread lol) for the day and it's one of the busier coins on this exchange.

But as you can see, this exchange is tiny. However, the dev is actively working to get it on another, larger exchange.

With a new, bigger exchange will likely come a 24hr trade volume of at least 10,000 USD, which is the minimum to get listed on CoinMarketCap, once it's on there, well, let's just say a mineable and PoS privacy coin with a 21m cap is likely to be worth much more than it is currently.

I'm not the only one who looks for attributes like this coin has, this will probably have a big appeal for many. But for now it's still a wee 2 day old baby of a coin. I'll be Hodling my meagre 218 XIOS to see how this one goes. It's already gaining a small community of miners

It's surprising to me that an old-school, mineable coin like this flew under the radar a bit, but if it's not an airdrop or ICO it tends to go a bit unnoticed, but word's starting to get around, I hope this coin can do well. Now it's down to the dev and community to get it on exchanges, it's a great coin for newbie miners to look at if they don't want to buy and Hodl and a low priced coin to buy into and get a reasonable amount.