On what basis would they get hacked and why would ETH want to fork to help a competitor?

I think you have really misunderstood everything about the DAO hack.

I believe ETH will rebound in the coming days, weeks or months but ultimately if you are really afraid and can't bear the loss just sell what you have...

As long as you have the private key it isn't going to matter what wallet you use, the only thing you need to be careful of in the event of a chain split is replay attacks which is where they can resend the transaction on the other fork if u send a similar one on the other chain.

Agreed and I will look forward to seeing in particular what kind of TV advertising they get in to. This is potentially great for the whole cryptoworld to bring it more mainstream.

One thing to add about the Stratis dev team is that they always deliver on their promises and on time, waves dev team on the other hand hype up a lot and always under deliver. I think waves is still a great platform just between the two I would always choose Stratis.

2 lovely developments, great work!!!

This is sure to bring more funding and support further development, keep it up please!

A lot of FUD goes on about ethereum on this forum but I've yet to see any users that really complain about blockchain size or syncing time. The number one complaint has always been the same as that for bitcoin, scaling issues especially handling the mass transactions during big ICOs and they are working on fixing it much faster and better than bitcoin is.

There is a bit of a general panic but the thing to understand is altcoins have gone up way too fast. I think it will recover slowly and come out ahead of their highs similarly to bitcoin in the past, but it could dump further first.

People will defend ripple because they have money at stake but your facts are correct. The question then is whether that really matters, is the goal decentralization or is it functionality?

Ripple is supposedly very scale-able so that is a positive but as you say they have many new coins being released which is a big medium to long term negative. The only way they can create value for those coins is if it really gets widely adopted.

The whole banks thing I will also agree with you they are never going to buy ripple even if they are using the blockchain for financial services.

Your dilemma of which ICOs to write about is the same dilemma everyone has about which ICOs to invest in or which ICOs to even research given limited amount of time to gather information.

Any assistance you manage to give in helping to select through the pile which is filled mostly with crap is going to be useful to the average person so thank you for that contribution.

I think its somewhere between a correction and a crash. The alts that lack any real value will fall more than the good ones which will recover slowly but surely.

Well even criminals are exposed to other criminals so having millions of dollars in bitcoin can put off drug cartels knowing that is they don't secure it well they can lose it all without any prospect of finding out who took it.

One thing from your article though that might concern some people is this proposal:

Well I wouldn't read too much into quick pumps but I do think this project looks solid long term. Gambling is one of the things that has proved popular with cryptocurrencies since bitcoin and funfair seems to be the project with the best technology out there currently.

Yep a few other ICOs have had the invested amount double on the last day. Either way I think 10k ETH is not a bad amount to raise and its double their minimum.

First rule of crypto: don't trust anyone
Second rule of crypto: everything is a scam until proven otherwise

I have 2000 EOS, FOMO'ed into it without doing proper research and now I'm a bagholder. I'll wait for a good opportunity to sell them though.

People have been sending bots into various slacks which direct message people to check their coins on myetherwallet to avoid losing them while giving them a fake myetherwallet URL (typically instead of .com its something else). This takes the private key when you enter in your information. Don't fall for the scam and only use the proper MEW site.

I would suggest going in ICOs, they tend to guarantee you get everything at low prices. Other than that you have a great spread of different altcoins.

I would suggest to add more app based tokens too, for this I would suggest funfair (FUN) is a good one they are developing a p2p trustless gambling platform that operators can license to use on their site and avoid paying gas fees on the ethereum blockchain.

I agree its overvalued, I mean it hasn't really delivered anything special in relation to other coins. Its advantage is mainly that it was the first real altcoin...

I can't say I like the obvious manipulation but I'm not ready to call it a scam because I think they will be developing a great platform.