This doesn't mean that all these projects are trustworthy. I mean hunters just do their thing - complete bounties' tasks. And not all of them think about the future of the project, they don't feel themselves responsible for others' investments provided by their advertisement -
But talking about responsibility - if hunter will choose scam bounty he will not receive any reward for spent time. And this important moments regulates the ratio of good and bad projects. A little bit.

In my vision stable coin is something that should be regulated otherwise it will not be stable. We have a perfect example of coin that gained thousands of percents depending on supply and demand model. If such stable coin will have high supply and low demand someone will need to correct the demand with his resources. And this is clear regulation. But how can crypto be regulated - I can't see that co-existing of governments+banks with cryptocurrencies is possible in current state of affairs

To be honest I rad all the story with interest till the end but then I realized that it was just marketing post But you are cool, guys, really. Very cool "investigation".
Promoting your ICO by anti-advertising of ICO ratings is not the best idea(but good, anyway, I should mention). If the topic is true I am surprised with the prices - I thought it would be higher.

Tokens or coins that are distributed(if they really are it is luck ) through airdrop are really free(but sometimes they require payments to cover transaction fees - this is scam, always) but it takes time to fill all these forms to receive something and also it is needed to follow projects because some of them opens withdrawal only for a short period of time.
For real, they are not worth it, ICOs now are even more successful 

It was good year for crypto, yes. But I should say not the best. If we talk about Bitcoin - the price movement wasn't the highest in its history(only x20 in a year) but mass adoption was on high level.
The main success was for tokens in 2017. Any startup with any idea(even without specific vision and roadmap) could collect great amounts. I think this was the best year specifically for them, and there will be no more years like this.
But with Bitcoin there is another situation. I think it will show greater results soon, so 2017 will seem preparation only

The fact that there are new ICOs every day is not an indicator of success. To be honest I saw just a few great projects during the past half of the year. I'm supporting every such project but I think this amount(~10 projects in a year) is not a great result for multi-billion industry. If community will check projects with more attention only good projects will remain, the rest will disappear by themselves.
So make the right decision before you invest. Many ICOs become scam, and scammers begin another scam ICO on collected money. 

If you use centralized exchange than there is nothing to do with it - it may be the hack of the exchange itself, stole of private keys and etc. But at the same time you can got phished. But it is not actually hack - just user's inattentiveness and neglect of elementary safety rules.
Decentralized ones are better in security as I see. How many dexes have got hacked - and how many centralized exchanges

Come on, you know that some people say that it is better to hold, some says that it is better to sell, and you ask the same people what you need to do??
Make your own decision. Look closer on the graph. Read some stories beginning from 2013. Analyze. And if you don't know what to do right now - buy! Buy and hold while learning.
You see the bottom? How far can it be lower? You think it can? You should all answers to these questions to know where to enter and where to sell(no).
So the last question is - what would you do now?

Not exactly, because in my opinion people who like crypto and involved in it for a long time prioritize accumulation of Bitcoin instead of accumulation of dollars. If we talking about assets.
And the same applies to altcoins - many of them will left their owners with less Bitcoin that they had before investing in it. There are some good coins and a few upcoming projects, but you need to be very selective to make the right choice.
Maybe the hint is right in front of you

Everyone thinks that trading is much more profitable than bounty participation. I don't argue but there is one moment that people don't like to think about - trading is not that type of activity that will bring you guaranteed daily profit. It also brings losses. And sometimes one loss takes more than tens of profits. Of course it is very easy to look at the graph in hindsight and think how much you could get.
By the way for persons who have $100 in crypto trading is useless. Better to do bounty and improve themselves as adman in this case

Learning is not only the process of getting clear theoretical information. When you do certain actions you look what is working what - not, what works better, so in simple words - you gain experience what is the part of learning.
But nobody will argue with the fact that the more you learn the better. I didn't saw people here who was uncomfortable because they knew more than others

In my opinion best results will show EOS and XEM. Xem is fundamentally good coin with working team, while Eos is hyped enough to give profit to holders in 2019.
Middle echelon consists of Ether, Ripple and Stellar. Maybe in 2019 Stellar will show something that will make it more interesting for investors than XRP.
Other coins - I don't know if they will show great results in next year. Who knows, maybe we will see another one on their places.

The market showed already many times that news are not the reason of dump or pump. They are just distraction ploy. After those news there were several dumps and pumps, without any news background.
Somebody is playing a game and recovering of prices wasn't in his/their scenario. Only ~10% of media sources related to crypto is worth attention, others are clear rubbish

Honestly I don't understand people who says that the end of time for this or that coin is the moment when it loses price. Come on, coin don't scam, just people sell it to cash out for example. There might be another reasons for coin becoming dead.
For example for ethereum this may be the decision of other coins to switch to another blockchain. Till this moment things go right.

It is great platform with great developers behind it. But there is a little problem(if we can call it a problem) connected with it's features - as you know it is platform for businesses and banking services(in two words). These fields of industry are not as dynamic as we would like them to be. It may take a long time before waves can be used according to its intended purpose. But when it will - price can be even higher.
And I don't even know how to speed up this process because marketing is not the solution in this case

Many things may change in the year but in my opinion bounty reward will not
It was possible only once to got such rewards - in 2017. Or maybe in early 2018. But now a huge quantity of projects don't even reach exchanges, participants sells coins to each other in discord.
To each other because projects don't advertise in right way. Or maybe because people are not interested to invest in ICOs because price decreases almost always in the beginning of trading.
So if you want to earn one Bitcoin with your rank bounty campaigns are not the best way to do it, to be honestly

I got dual thoughts on this topic - ICOs can become just a part of history soon because those companies(teams) who provided ICO right in time collected money from the crowd while huge investors were afraid to invest in such unstable asset and now ICOs can transform to startups supported by business-angels only, not by crowd; on the other hand - maybe crypto is like dotcom story - now everyone uses internet. But in this case I don't know how developers will monetize it, but they will definitely do even if I don't know how

Almost all bounty managers that I had experience with were adequate persons, responsible for what they do. Of course there were some of them that I especially liked. Others just what they need to do - managing bounty campaigns, calculating stakes and tries to eliminate scammers from participation. Just stick to the rules and everything will be ok

The acceptance is most important thing in cryptocurrency as a payment system. People will stack only those assets that they can trade to another. For example you use cash because you know that the owner of your favorite coffee shop will accept it as a payment, he knows that his providers will also do, and so on. Crypto was created by people to people. P2P. Without third parties. So I think it will always be accepted, even if it will not gain giddy success
Of course ICOs will be forgotten. Without acceptance of the industry everything will be forgotten. But in my opinion this will not happen in nearest future, I see cryptocurrencies as the perfect cash system among others existing

I guess there could be more strict KYC procedure for workers(even if they are "part time") than for investors because people who advertise project are more responsible than people who invest money in it. If I am wrong in terms of law correct me please.
But this doesn't mean I support KYC at all, just simple addition.
Imagine how may fake ICOs will launch bounty topics just to receive bounty hunter's id's. And there is no need to wait till bounty campaign end Wrong.


And I really don't understand one thing - why KYC is even required. For governments? What does this mean?