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Hi fellas!

We have witnessed a tremendous ICO trend in 2017-18. I am sure a lot of you would have participated in many ICOs. If not, you would have received altcoins as a payment mode from bounties. So, what have you done to them? If you haven't sold them, what is your plan with them?

I had participated in more than a dozen of ICOs and I am still holding their coins. They include:

1. Wanchain (WAN)
2. ICON (ICX)
3. Elastos (ELA)
4. Ren Protocol (REN)
5. Project Pai (PAI)
6. Walimai (WABI)
7. Request Network (REQ)
8. Quantstamp protocol (QSP)
9. Ripio Credit Network (RCN)
10. Apex (CPX → PHX)
11. Nash Exchange (NEX)
12. Lympo (LYM)
13. Experty (EXY)
14. Cardstack (CARD)
15. Insights Network (INSTAR)
16. Remme Protocol (REMME)
17. Atonomi (ATMI)
and a few more...

It's not that I lost a huge sum as a very few of them had returned back invested amount. But I am not sure now what to do with these. So, if you are holding any of these of such ICO tokens, what are you planning to do with 'em.

I still recognized wanchain, ICON, Nash exchanges, if you are still holding then this might be a good time to sell them for good money, I'm talking about this altcoin season though, I believe that very soon all altcoins will surge higher, though I don't know if all these altcoins are still active or not but if development is still ongoing then it's a good thing

If I am the owner of those tokens, I will sell them all and convert it to BTC or eth .then I will start daily trading so I can earn money using that capital daily. It's only depend if how much money you can get in that tokens in today's price the higher the capital the better since it's easy to earn money in trading if you know how to play it with less risk than holding any altcoin.

I guess it's just two things:

(a) Hold and 'believe' that will have some value in the future, giving you so much profits specially that we are somewhat in the altcoin bull run

(b) Sell them and switch to other coins that will give you profits in such short time without waiting for your tokens to be push thru pump and dump scheme.

So it's really your choice, hard to give financial advise so I do hope that you make the right decision.

Don't get me wrong, but most of them are shitcoin anyways, so why not dump them this early and switch to a better altcoin like Ethereum or go all in  Bitcoin?

I have a couple of tokens from the ICO in 2018, unfortunately, I can't dump them right now because the project eventhough it has been listed on exchanges are not allowing any one to trade with it. So I'm stuck, you are lucky that some of your tokens are already tradeable so If I'm in your shoes, I will liquidate all of them and stick to more promising altcoins, specially in the top 10.

Sorry, but how could you participate in many of these projects since this is only your second forum post? Or is this your alt account?
In that case, why are you posting from a new account and not from the main account? Makes no sense.


BTW, What happened to your Bittreo project?

Every bubble has to have its paradigm. 2017 bitcoin bubble paradigm was - new global money that will replace fiats. After bitcoin hit 20k, network was so spammed that transaction cost 200$ (paradigm failed). Than every investor start to search for "new bitcoin", faster, better that could replace bitcoin as new world currency. Market was also full of retail investors with very low experience in trading/investing. That's why money flooded into altcoins creating alt season with 100% daily gains.

Will such thing repeat? I strongly daubt. If we will see next bitcoin/crypto bubble it will be institutions/professional investors/professional traders money with paradigm - 5% of every well balanced portfolio. They will not invest in link - oracle ... worth $ 5 bln without any documented profit, they will not invest in promise of something worth $500 mln, they are too smart to do that . What I'm trying to say ... most likely, during this crypto bubble, we will not see good gains on alts. Current ALT/BTC price might not repeat ... ever.

I would start to dump them all. Slowly ... not everything in one day, not everythign today. Just try to find tops and dump few% of investment. Find another top and dump again. Try to get rid of them but slowly. Maybe some of them will pump but it will be pump and dump, use pump and dumps like smart money, to dump.

If i would be holding all these coins i will wait more, as market is constantly improving i think in a year prices will grow well, so that would be ideal time to sell and take profit so i would suggest you to do the same but its your money so you have to decide yourself.

Wow, don't tell me you have kept all these coins since 2017 and haven't sold any?
If that was the case, then you missed an opportunity to become rich. It's unfortunate that the altcoins of 2017 are either dead now or the team is no longer active. Only valuable coins such as Wanchain, ICON, Elastos and Quanstamp remain. All cash flow is only being poured into Defi, top coin and Bitcoin projects.
So I recommend that you spend about 1-2 days analyzing the remaining altcoins to see if the team is still active or not. Otherwise, sell all of them and use that money to invest in the top coin, it makes more sense, especially XRP and ETH. The profits you bring will definitely be higher than the altcoins because XRP and ETH's communities are fomo very strong in their coin.

It's always a bad idea to keep holding altcoins even when there is a big chance to sell them, I guess you've missed the chance to make biggest ROI in January 2018, majority of these altcoins aren't so active anymore and some are even dead, altcoins that aren't top 10 are always better for short term hold, you could have sell for Ethereum and bitcoin instead.

How come you loss on this coin, your list is a good coin that pump during 2017 bull run? Holding while you have sure profit during the bull run is a very bad decision that many traders always do. It's been 2 to 3 years and very late to cut loss. Just hold and watch closely on this coin for this upcoming altcoin bull run. You should sell it if ever the price reach 70 to 80 percentage of your purchase price. Chasing the original price is very dangerous.

why do you still hold your token, why don't you sell it if it can be sold.  I participated in many ICOs and I have sold all of my work, some I did not sell because the ICO failed and was not listed on the exchange.  what is the reason you don't sell your token, don't you need money.  just sell it and make BTC better my friend.

I followed your first point and fucked up myself. Lol! Considering second option and waiting for alt increments.

Everyone need money, especially myself. But the thing is my mind is not letting them sold because of getting nothing as compared to what I invested. For example, 1 ETH = 5000 REQ was ICO price. Now just have a look at the current price. Even if I convert it to BTC, I will get no more than a few bucks. Instead, I wanted to bet on its increment during big bull run like if when XRP reaches to $1, I think these alts (strong ones) will further improve as well and I may find a good selling point.

I'm holding some of the coins that you have listed but it's a good thing that I have sold most of it while it still has a value. Some altcoins aren't worth holding because they usually lose their value in the long run. I think the best thing that we can do is to sell some of it and just convert it with high potential coins which are really worth holding just like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Most ICO projects from 2017 are dead and I doubt if anyone still holds them like you are doing presently, after the bull market of 2017 many ICO projects exit scam, some got abandoned, if any of these coins are still trading do not miss this bullrun season, let go of them and invest in better altcoins even if you don't get your actual invested amount back

My current holdings of tokens during that year is still in my wallet. The reason is that they don't have any exchange, it also means that they don't have any value, in short, useless tokens. I don't have any plans right now since there is no current use for them, I just set aside those altcoins and thinking like they are inside my wallet at all.

The only best thing that you can do to sell them all when they are still worh some bucks. I have sold all of my coin from the bounties.
You can't sure if your coins will be going to the moon. You are still having bunch of coins in your wallet and then just check it. If there are some still worth a few bucks and sell them all.
Your coins will not bring you to be the next millionaire.

What could have done shouldn't be the point as it has passed. I was getting 15x on WABI. I had applied via 2 accounts. I sold half of them at $4 and never sold the rest of them. Greed played very well, maybe.

Ohh, man! I still remember WABI. They were allowing probably 1.2 or 1.5 ETH investment per account, remember? Well, I too had invested via a total of 3 accounts and I sold all of them at $3.13. It was the best investment of my life. I think greed played you this time. Don't you think the same?

I also participated in a couple of ICOs wayback, and on the list dropped by OP, I participated in WABI ICO now TAEL. WABI and a few others gave me huge profit, but I lost in some after holding long term. BDG (Bitdegree) and NAGA are two coins I lost heavily on, I can't forget. I could have made 50 to 100%+ profit assuming I sold early, but decided to hold long term due to the hype around them. I'm still holding those two and they lost value over time, no update from the projects. It's best to take out capital atleast after an ICO when in profit, this reduces risk of losing a lot.

I will write for my coins. I sold almost everything for a long time, but what I did not sell costs nothing. From the future incomes I will sell everything at once because I do not believe that something will cost more...

I had some and followed the rule to sell them whenever I can, once the trading is open.

I got rid of everything just like I did with my BCH and turned it all into BTC. I could have waited for the best price but it wasn't worth my time because even 2x or 3x pumps weren't making me a lot of money. It was like waiting and hoping to get another $10 next month.

This is what I recommend to altcoin bagholders who still have shitcoins that lost more than 80% of their ATH value. Get rid of them and buy bitcoin.

If a altcoin failed to show it's potential in a year or two do not rely on such project, many ICO projects are dead and those that are still trading have lose over 90% of their value so why should someone still be holding such projects? Top altcoins are top on coinmarketcap list because they earn it, I as a person have no respect for any project that's under top 50 on coinmarketcap

Never underestimate some crypto projects, it can take a altcoin more than two years to start showing it's true potential, some projects are gems but they won't have a very good start but as time goes by they start seeing huge adoption rate, I've seen this happened, there are also new coins that start creating Hypes in a year of released but as time goes by they fade away

If you are a bounty hunter better convert the tokens you receive from bounty into ethereum or bitcoin as soon as possible because mostly the value will get depericated over time.

Well if you are holding tokens which got some value then its worth to hold until end of the bull run.

I have been started doing bounties since midterm of 2017 and it was a good year for bounties. After that bull run period, I did many bounties and got many social tokens but most of them became useless and still, I have these tokens but they don't have any value. So in those years because of the constant failures in bounty campaigns, I had stopped participating in bounty campaigns at the beginning of this year but after a certain time later many good projects came into the market, and again I started to do participate in it in hope of getting good projects.  

It is hard to have a faith that altcoin price can touch or even pass its all time high for the second time. As you may already know, bitcoin has been successful to achieve its all time high a few days ago, but do you see in the altcoin?

I guess not, most altcoin price especially in the 100 top rank on market haven't been able to achieve its all time high. All of them are good coin and have known by most people like ETH or ripple, but I doubt they will touch the all time high. Moreover with new coin/token, they are not popular in the market. I can't believe if I still hold the altcoij I'll get a profit so I'll decide to sell all of them.

I sold my experty tokens months ago, many ICO projects are struggling to stay alive, many are now worthless in my wallet, some in cents and some are under cents, I've learn a lesson never to hold on to altcoins for a very long time without selling for better altcoins, watch them very closely and monitor their roadmaps and development, if they aren't that good anymore it's a good sign to opt out 

It is too risky to hold ICO tokens for too long because we don't know how the market conditions, and also the development of the ICO project in the future so it is better for us, especially I personally, to immediately sell them if the ICO token already has a market, investing in an ICO has a very high risk and bigger than investing in altcoins in the market because we don't know whether the project will develop or even die after their sale is complete because from 2018 until now there has been many ICO projects that have died and the impact of their tokens has just become trash and have no value at all in the market

So OP, since you are still holding all these tokens from various ICOs, would you be in profit if you sell them all now? And how long are you going to hold them? I think you should have set yourself an price-target where you sell your share and move your profits/leftovers to another safer haven, like BTC or ETH. I doubt that every token you hold their will have a bright future ...

Among the list of ICO token/coin holdings, few are good in the market and have good trading volume. I don't have any of the mentioned coins in my wallet. Few of the ICO tokens got through bounties were still idle on the wallet, because of its reduced price from the initial value. Have patience, surely we'll encounter altcoin bull trend. Selling by the time could be profitable.

The problem with most of these 2017 and 2018 ICOs is that there are many bagholders and want to sell at the price they bought them and with this keep suppressing the price when the price want to pump. Remember some of these coin did like 50X and those that bought at the top and bagholding will not let the price pump

As long as I am familiar with crypto investing, I have participated in several ICO, but not in the coins you mentioned in thread, I also still hold several ICO coins such as helbiz, moneytoken, swissborg and several other ICO tokens that do not have current prices , and in my opinion many old project projects have been abandoned by the team so that many of the ICO projects have died and have no development at all and as a result, the ICO tokens have no  price in market and only become trash in the personal wallets of investors and traders.

I have let go of many of them, that is, sold them, and those I couldn't sell are still there with little to no value. Seriously, the ICO era taught many people a lesson and that lesson is, not all coins and tokens are worth holding for long, and thus, once you see a good price just sell because you might not see such price again; although it depends on the project.
Now, looking at your list, some of those coins are trading, such as ICX, INSTAR, REMME, I also remember CARD, but don't know if it is still trading or not. I suggest you visit coinmarketcap or Coingecko and search for some of those coins to see the exchanges they are listed on if possible. If some aren't listed, you can visit their telegram group to search for answers or to ask questions.

The OP's list is long. Yes, what he can do is check these coins where they are being traded with, if they are still in the market. And if there is still development going on. Because if there's activity going on, better discard it by selling even if it has low value. Because if the team already abandoned the project, there's no way, it will miraculously rise its value. And for the others that don't have market, just let it sit in your wallet. You can't do anything about them anymore. I had invested in ICO myself, and lost. I haven't sold it while it was still listed and now totally gone in the market. Even the website of the project was long gone. So if the OP can get a lil bit out of it, sell it while you can.

Well, if I sold them now, I won't be in profit in terms of ETH. REN alone is worth more than $1k but it has a good 24h volume and development. That's why I am holding them. As others are not giving me profits or providing my invested amount, I am planning to hold them till I can get my investment out.

That is what I am holding to. Many of listed coins have fairly good daily volume so I can't think of them becoming no value coins.

Yeah, I am thinking about the same. But coins with more than 500K daily volume has to have some development activity. So, I am thinking to hold them and planning get rid of 50K-100K volume coins.

The ICO coins that I got from the bounty since 2017 have become shitcoin. they have no value. some projects have become scam coin. until now there is no market to trade. I have sold ICO tokens that have a high value. The ICO coin that I still hold and have value is YOUC token. I got it from the bounty reward and will likely sell it when it enters the Binance DEX market.

Is YOUC officially going to binance DEX? That will be so cool, this ICO project is full of surprises, the reason why many ICO projects are dead today is lack of continues development, team probably already achieved their goals, Money of cos so they decide to abandon the project or let it bleed out, this is why is very important to follow whichever coin you are holding, sell once there is no good updates anymore

Holding altcoins for long term are very risky, you need to keep monitoring the projects very closely, unlike top altcoins and bitcoin, once you buy them and locked them away that it is, you can come back four years later to take a peek at your portfolio but not new altcoins, you will get burnt pretty fast, ICO projects of 2017 and 2018 are a good example, majority of them are all dead

Sold almost all of them without a single hesitance. I mean not because they made me any money, most of them failed to deliver any type of profit to me at all, they were really horrible and I am someone who fails to find a decent new project to put money into, I know that now.

However I declined to hold them for too long because I do not find making money this way possible if the chance is gone at the earliest days. If a project looks to be a promising one, it will go up as soon as possible, even if it fails to go up in the first weeks, it will go up inside 6 months and after 6 months if it is still a low level coin that is still going down and have very low volume, there is no way to make it go up, hence why I think it will definitely worth more to sell and get rid of than keep looking at it every day for a hope that it will go up.

I also received a huge number of different tokens since 2018, and recently I received AVAX tokens for a bounty. I keep all of them in my wallets and will only sell them on strong pumps.

For the moment all my ICO coins are still below what I invested so I'm not in a hurry to dispose of them I bought them as a long term investment for the future so proIably selling is not one of my option now so i hodl and watch out for updates.

Personally, I exchange all my coins for BTC or altcoins from the top ten.  I think that there are more prospects than holding coins of little-known projects.  Or when I need money for everyday expenses, I sell half.

The coins that have a good value will always have good volume in all markets, but in this case you should also be able to distinguish between fake volume and real volume on each coin and token for now, because scammers are always exploiting any loopholes. to fool everyone.

yes, they said on telegram that they will enter the Binance DEX exchange this December, or January at the latest. I do not know why I believe that YOUC tokens will increase in price when their product is launched and can be downloaded by everyone.

Yeah i remember the big days. But as you mention those coins/tokens, i didn't participated any single ico. I participated 2018 all time of my favorite ico digitex futures & earned 20x profit.

For now，compared to the original ICO price，many ico coins are already fall several times，so i think if we still hold those icos，there are no good options.If it was me ，i would keep hold.

I have participated in some bounties in 2017 and get a good number of profit from it. Today, The price of the tokens that I sold before for bitcoin is under its ICO price and there are even tokens that aren't listed on an active exchange. It's a good move for me to sell most of my coins but there are still a handful of tokens in my wallet and their value from before to now is just on rock bottom and never hit its ICO price. I can consider them as scam projects.

I don't believe in some altcoins today, There are a handful of altcoins that I traded and those are the ones that I put my efforts into doing some research on them.

Keeping ICO tokens since 2018 will surely brings massive loss because they aren't valuable like before, to me any new project that failed to make it into top 100 don't deserve sleeping in my portfolio, bad projects will always lack behind, upon all the hacks and scams in ICO days some ICO projects still outshine till date .

^ I sold almost all the ICO coins that I got from the bounty to invest in several popular cryptocurrencies. But only about 60-70% of the tokens that I have sold, the rest I hold in case the price of the coin can soar - have learned from experience  :D

But if you look at a bright side, I dropped believing in long term investment in any kind of tokens. BTC and ETH are here for long term investment. ICO tokens which had more than $3K has now become mere $250. Among ICOs I've listed, there are many good ones like WAN, ICX, ELA etc. But just compare its price on a long duration, they are wastage of funds and time, I believe.

You are giving a good suggestion. I don't even know these coins, only wanchain. There is no need asking, you just have to switch to promising coins as it is clear many are shit and may not give you up to $5 when you sell each.

I would have dealt with new coins that died. We invest believe in miracles. But I personally choose the wrong projects. I would like to become a lucky person who can get more than $ 50 for my work)

I sold 1-2 of the coins that I got from bounties and the rest, either it ended up being a dead coin, scam coin or a shit coin.

I'm still holding some of the coins that I got from bounties and I'm not moving them whatsoever. I just hold them and I don't have any plans on selling them as of now. There are some of them who has value already lucky for me because it is 100% profit on my part but most of them ended up being a dead coin unfortunately.

I also think this is a good idea although I do know some of the coins on his list have a not bad past. It's hard to get them back into ATH, many teams don't have the energy to work hard. Switch to BTC, ETH is the best way to increase profitability.

I have participated in many ICO in 2017 and 2018 which leads to loss, most of the ICO with the active developments are showing their values very low in the current situation and this makes many community members are not showing any interest towards new ICO, people are showing interest towards IEO's.

Just like you, I also hold hundreds of coins but my 90%+ coin not listed that I am holding even there are some coins that are dirt cheap that I can not cover up the gas fee if I sell it. Greediness leads to this situation honestly speaking If I sold it in 2018 I must have good backup money with me for future investment but things are totally opposite. I don't have any of the coins you hold at the moment and my planning is to hold my coins till they give me a good profit.

I have received various tokens since my first time participated in the bounty campaign. I have sold them all at good prices. I didn't aware if there's avax campaign before or I were missing something about that?
It looks like some people have participated in the avax campaign
Im only holding a few tokens from the bounty right now. what happens with all of your old tokens. Do they worth something or nothing right now?

I have not participated in ICOs for a long time, and when I participated in ICOs, I usually immediately sold my cryptocurrencies as soon as they was listed on the cryptocurrency exchange, but there were times when I was hold some cryptocurrencies and now it is too dangerous to participate in ICOs, therefore I only participate in IEO sometimes.

Sell, I am poor and I need money to buy needs. Of course the basic need should be the priority and that keeping the coins is not necessary especially if it can be converted to btc or fiat currency. However, if it is all about savings then the coins being earn in bounty hunting in my own opinion should be traded to bitcoin and keep it over a period of time. In that way, one can get it having profit over from those coins earn from bounty hunting.

One good decision i think i hae made correctly has been not to invest in any ICO whatsoever; no matter how enticing or inspiring or full of potentials; i have not for once bought an ICO; same applies for an IEO; i have not for once bought or been a part of it. One thing i do is be smart; i simply note down the ieo or ico price; note down the exchange listing price; watch the token trade and note down the prices, all time high; One thing is certain in crypto currency; no matter how high a token pumps; there will always be a price correction and it will dump.

My skill is to pick a convenient low buy order; wait for the dump and once my order picks; i place a sell order of 5x-20x and simply wait for it to get picked. I obviously do more researches than highlighted above, and i implore you to do your own research. i am not liable for any mistakes; i merely stated my tactics summarily.

actually i didnt participate in many ICO's since 2017 , i only invested in an ICO called sovrano coin but with my money and the bad thing in that is the coin took too much to entered exchanges so my money got stuck in it for a while , i sold it later to recover my loses

if we have no reserve fund to cover our daily needs  we should not participate in any ICO's . cryptocurrency market provide many ways to earn money or collect bitcoin. for example we could join in any bounty campaign to earn token that could converted in bitcoin or other major coins.


that's good if your investment could recovered, many investors lost their money in ICO's.  next time we must have  a plan about our investment especially in which project we will take part  and how loss or profit that be our goal.

I sold it already btw, but I also lost some momentum in the middle of 2018 due to the bearish high. now I also still have some tokens from 2017, but almost all of them are worthless, and maybe I'll just leave them there, lol. What I learned is, if you are in crypto and the token has hit ath or at least the price is good, just sell it and don't wait, because you will lose the opportunity of a lifetime.

I have some yeah,,, but sitting in my ETH wallet forever, not even tempted to go to any DEX to offload them until they are worth more than a few dollars. Maybe I will end up never selling them to make sure I learn the lessons never to trust any ICO again unless they have a real product that I actually can and love using:)

I'll go straight to this, I'm going to sell it immediately once it gets a favorable value in the market because that is only a way to save my money. We can't expect that some of these coins will give us a return, not for sure, some were dead already and that consider a loss end to our part.
If we think that holding will work, that it looks impossible. We are already in the bullish season but somehow, ICO coins aren't giving such inclines instead of seeing them still at a low price.

You can't even expect that you can get your capital from that investment hoping it for long time to recover is the most difficult part as investors . You should sell it when you have time or you've seen that it already gone and became a  shit coins . You already lost a lot do your self a favor and sell it and invest in good project that you can recover all that lost .

Like you said some of us got the altcoin from bounty campaigns and since 2017/2018 that I have participated in airdrop and bounty. I sold some out of it then but the other one I am still keeping in my portfolio. For now, what I am doing with it is saving them up for the future.

I agree with Greediness part. I would have billed bags if sold on time. But a very good lesson learned indeed.

Yep, I also experienced this myself. even though I have gotten a pretty good profit, but still my greed makes me go through a situation where my tokens are worthless. I plan to save it if the price goes up, and the crypto crash makes me unlucky, but it's what it's all happening and the experience is expensive

if project still alive we should not worry about its price although now its price decrease alot, but as long as they still regurly communicate with us its indicated they still trying to developt and deliver product for us. and we have to understand it will take long time , and in its journey it have possibility be scam project too.

sell them immediately i've invested to ICOs before multiple times and i can guarantee that if you don't know what you are doing or if you don't know what will happen on the next few years it would be worthless i invested around $500 in some coins and after a year well the price drops dramatically and my total coin worth is just $80-$100.

When someone HODLs a token/coin one does not expect it to rise overnight he had many tokens according to him and the truth must be told not all of it would see the brightness of the day but maybe just maybe one could, that's the essence of keeping worthless tokens just for the sake of MAYBE. People who hodl worthless bitcoins 13 years ago are millionares today so taking risk is part of life.

I have never invested in an ICO, every time I get an ICO coin generated from a bounty campaign and if I think the project is good then I will keep it and vice versa. it all depends on the project itself. but every time I get a bounty coin if the project is good then I will save it, and if the project doesn't develop, sell it immediately while there is still a price.

If I have these in my wallet for sure I'll gonna sell and will convert easier to btc and eth. We do have our own ways on how we can grow our funds and on how we can take the opportunity to earn profit. I learned my lesson from the past, after I invest on such project the price is dump. So you have to be careful before we invest.

Mostly the ICO coins that I have earned way back 2017 from ICO projects I have joined are already been sold for I have manage to clean out my portfolio and see to it that I properly organized and see for myself the worthy coins from those that have already no potential but still have a value and sold those just to be able to give myself even a small income coming from those and make use of it on purchasing other worthy crypto coins in the market. Well, no one have expected that after the prosperous and peak year of Altcoins and ICO project the next years will be the outbreak of projects failing and coins come to be under valued or having no value at all in short worthless. I have sold those that I see after observation that have no chance for improvement and just left those worthy and hopeful ones in my account.

I try to do this:
- after ICO, on the first high, I drain the volume that I spent on the ICO, as a rule, after the release of the coin, they make a slight increase (x2-x3-x5), this is to return the investment and reach the break-even point. Accordingly, 20% -50% are sold
- the rest, if the project has potential, I leave it for the medium-long term.
In this scheme, not everything is perfect, but it turns out to minimize risks.

I don't do much other than sell when I see the coins I invested in are at a high price point, where I can determine a good target return on the initial investment capital. In investing you must have a target to determine profitability and also choose real coins that are on the market. simple examples such as Bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, LTC etc.

Whatever happened to ETN though and a lot of other coins I am presently holding, what the hell happened to experty, they got short on ideas and execution??

Most ico coins or altcoins I have received from bounty from that year was already sold. There are still altcoins that remain in my wallet but some of them are just shitcoin or most likely being abandoned by the developers. They do not have the value since the day they were sent to my wallet.

I am doing the same as you. I have more than 10 ICO coins. I already sold 4-5 coins, but after selling those I have mixed reactions as they are going better than the previous situation. So, If I can hold them, then they can be more profitable. I don't know that decision was good or not, but in this current coin market situation, I decided to hold my existing coins.

what i do is :
1. if the token has a price and has given me a profit, then I will sell it and invest in another token;
2. if the token has no price, then of course I will hold and hope that in the future the token will have a price and give me profit.
because I believe if the project we invest is good then the price will definitely increase (although sometimes we need a long time) and an example is SwissBorg (CHSB), I participated in ICO SwissBorg (CHSB) and when the ICO finished, then the price of CHSB continued to fall and the lowest price was $0.004770, but I still hold my CHSB and now the price of CHSB increase very high, so of course I made a big profit from investing in CHSB (even though I had to hold over 1 year) and I am selling CHSB at $0.3.

In my opinion, if you regret what decisions we did in the past, of course it will only be a waste of time and only waste energy,
better decisions in the past we make a lesson to look to a better future

This is a good strategy indeed. I realized making such kinds of strategies in ICO listings a bit later which saved my seed investment. If I would have applied this strategy, I think I would have a good position!

I can't sell most of them because they are too worthless, I have to keep holding and hoping that one day they will appreciate in value, what I've learnt so far is every ICO and IEO projects will lose value at one point in time and may never recover, if you are not ready to hold for long term always take profit after ICO or crowdfunding is over

Highly likely most of them sold everything they had once the hype was over and the price of the tokens were tanking really bad. Those who are still holding them are probably regretting and in a stage of denial. They think the prices will rise back again. Unfortunately it won't rise back. Those were shit tokens that people invested like sheep when there was  the ICO hype.
Don't ask for peoples opinion. Doesn't matter what they are doing with those tokens. If the tokens you are holding are worthless, then just sell them and invest in bitcoin or other well known altcoins. You will be getting better profits.

Yeah, rather than having a few bucks and getting almost nothing in terms of BTC or ETH, it is somewhat good to hold them for a little bit long time. I did that for a few of my ICO tokens. If these tokens are having volumes on exchanges, I think holding won't be a major problem.