There are not so many people who can take short position right way, also passive income from such coins(with POS or delegated POS which uses nodes) is much more higher when market is going up
So only good way to gain profit from falling market is participating in ICOs as for me

Come on, what are you expecting from cryptocurrency market if you want to see Litecoin hit $5000? And how much Bitcoin should be in this case. I agree this is a good coin and I like to use it, but this feelings don't cost $5k

You don't need some extra browser extension if you type needed link manually - for example exchange, no need to go to google every time, it is safer. And of course 2fa. But not by sms

You know,spending money in risky activity that can get you zero back - it is not named "brave", there is another word to describe it
It is good decision to invest in ICOs but it requires high level of responsibility - you need to make a research before giving your money

Main part of usage of Ethereum for me is ICO - here I spend approximately 80% of all eth that I have. Next thing - if I need to make transfer to somebody in fiat equivalent by crypto(for example $100 in btc, eth or bch). I don't like to hold eth - I prefer to hold bitcoin, ethereum is more like instrument for me, like operating tool

Not whales rise the price of Bitcoin. I mean maybe they are, but not by buying Bitcoin from the market by the current price. They make it invisible for others, and when the price is rising - this is the moment whales sell their assets to newbies who want to join this rocket. This rises are done by exchanges in my opinion

If po would be a good trader he will not open such discussion If seriously, I think traders are that type of person who can earn money even on downtrend market. Their mindset is correcting every minute depending on situation and they have short strategy. Investors are those who make research and invest money in coin to get maximum reward with minimum excess movements. Their mindset is strong and they have long strategy.
Crypto investors are people with mindset of investor and very short strategy that depends on situation at the market This is not normal, there should be easier way to success while remain calm. I mean hodl

I have the same story as op but it was that time when holding turns this story with unhappy end There was a coin that cost $0.1 on ICO, I got some from signature, but most part I bought on exchange for little more than 0.1. Some time later this coin cost $1 and I was expecting it will cost $40. And hold. Now this coin is $0.01 Hold they said, moon soon they said

As I understood op said about those areas that can be easily replaced with use of blockchain. For example banks can already be replaced, the new electronic cash system provides us ability to send any amount of money to any point in the world in few minutes. Of course there are some fields of our life where blockchain is not so useful and they can't be replaced, but maybe they can be reorganized with use of it.

There were already some great advices(like BNB even if its not crypto, anyway it is an asset) or some top coins but if you need the highest return on your investment you need to find good ICO.
The best I know is the project that I support now. Take a closer look on Yumeriym - gaming platform where you can earn tokens playing games. Also developers earn them depending on interest to their game.
Yumerium also develops Virtual Reality games and this format will explode the game market one day. And you can join this revolution now

No ethereum got zero chances to replace bitcoin and become number one coin and the lead of cryptocurrency. I mean maybe it can overtake Bitcoin in capitalization and it will not last for a long, and then things go back again.
But to become representative of the whole cryptocurrency market and community - it will not

If there is no reason for such dipping of my token, I better hold it till I got information about this price movement. Because such can happen just before large news to decrease the price by fomoed holders who panic sold.
If there are bad news then it may be better to sell and save something. But in most cases price recovers even if the coin is clear scam. Take a look on bitconnect

No, at all. Come on, Bitcoin is Bitcoin, it is self-dependent, and it is the beginning of all crypto. Ethereum is another story, another features, and so on. I mean maybe Ethereun is second generation crypto, but it is not second generation Bitcoin.
Also all second generation is threatened because the third one will be faster and smarter, it will not be able to replace the first, but second can be forgotten imo

May disagree, because there are some universal methods exactly. As you said that photos can be stolen - it is really easy checkable information, also team members provide their personal information like LinkedIn account, FaceBook, Twitter and others, and if they are real, there is less chance to be scammed. Also check information about the website, recheck if team had mentioned participation in previous projects, see github, and so on.
I prefer to go another way - I don't need to prove that ICO is scam because they all are scam for me I prove that ICO is NOT a scam, spot good ICO that use escrow for example. If I found good(not "not bad") I can invest

The best thing for holding is Bitcoin(best in total of risk and reward). You also can hold altcoins because there can be higher reward but risks are much more higher.
To trade altcoins are better in my opinion. They can give you profit in btc while btc is in flat.
And for ICO investing best is Ethereum if we talk about eth-based tokens. So that's it

The best way to regulate crypto - is not to regulate it at all This thing was created not for regulation, and it can't be controlled by anybody. And till you don't understand it all community will have troubles with this.
Crypto is transparent. We all can see how much coins received the recipient and from where. The only thing that we don't know - who is sender and who received.
Yes, there are some coins that hide even this information - just close it the way to big market and thats the solution. What to regulate on crypto? This is bullshit, someone just don't want to lose his authority

There is no news, it is just assumption that Google can launch it. And it possibly can. Every company nowadays can launch their own token.
But seriously I can hardly understand how users will use this token and for what purposes. Paying for advertising campaign in google addwords? Or for some other services? But we perfectly use PayPal or credit card for these actions
So I don't see any reasons for Google to run their token

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Nice topic, totally agree with you about bounties that are managed not by professional(or at least experienced) person but newbie or copper member. When I see such programs I have a question - what are doing team members? They need to develop the project, but they try to figure out how to spot cheaters and count the stakes instead.

But if it becomes unsuccessful how it can be successful on preICO and fail in ICO? I see same risks but in presale you can have token for lower price, and even if it will enter market lower than it was on ICO you will get profit anyway. Same risk, but higher profit, I think the choice is evident