Waves is still unknown despite it is a great blockchain with solid ecosystem, because all the eyes are on Ethereum. All the development happens there. If you see the statistics, 95% of ICOs are built on Ethereum. Even NEO with the non-stopping shilling for it is not much better than Waves.

"Cheap Cryptocurrencies Under $1". Under 1$. Despite all the teaching and educational materials, these kind of questions seems to never stop.
The price of the coin has zero connection to the value of the coin. Price and value are different things.

Bitcoin and Ethereum have one majeor difference right now - everyone expects a Bitcoin ETF to be approved sooner or later, and no one expects that for Ethereum.
As this is largely believed to be a main market catalyst, you have the answer.

There is no airdrop or campaign that justifies giving your personal information for 25$. It is simple math. Every time you give your ID, you win 25$.
If one of the ICOs is a scam and steals your identity, what will be the $ amount and time you will lose? Now divide that by 25$ and see how many rewards you should get to break even.

Forever is a strong word. But 50 years will mean it will most probably have gone mainstream. Crypto is here to stay. Fiat seems obsolete and ancient, especially in the scandinavian countries where 90%+ of the payments are done cashless.

I am not sure airdrops are an option. What does it mean a good airdrop? One that pays 10$ instead of 2$? Will it change your life as a normal user? No, it won't. And if you are looking at it as a business and you have hundreds of bots abusing the airdrops campaigns, then you don't have to choose. You just play them all.

By being a first time investor on any kind of markets. I didn't recognize the massive bubble and I didn't got rid of all the overhyped coins and tokens. Bitcoin and Ethereum included. Now I am fully prepared for the next big wave.

There is not an universal best wallet. It depends on your needs, use cases and level of expertise. An advanced tech geek will be using different wallet than a newbie merchant.
The best wallet will have very different features in their mind.

I can understand the vast amount of information a newcomer has to digest when he sees 2000+ coins on coinmarketcap.
This is not hurting the market as much as the fact that most of them are trash and people are getting burned and disappointed.

Both crowdfunding models will continue to exist and operate. The question is more where the public sentiment will go, and I believe the STOs will be getting much more attention in the future. ICOs won't be extinct, though.

The freedom to participate and contribute to projects, coins and ideas without having a boss. I think the world is going that way and the freelancing will skyrocket as an activity taking market share from working in cube desk in grey corporate offices.

There are a lot of tools depending on your level. Beginners may use one kind of tools such as an ordinary spreadsheet or cryptocompare, and advanced traders will be using much more complicated accounts, graphs and bars.
For long-term HODLing a spreadsheet is enough.

There is one way to stop this - by implementing KYC. This will weed out the bots, because for every payment there will be an ID. But bounty hunters don't like KYC, too. Because this is even the more dangerous organised crime - some fake ICOs that collect personal data and steal identities through whitelists.

It is easy - by not constructing a greedy token sale structure rewarding super early investors with 500% (irony number) discounts. Also, by not doing secret deals with ICO pools that are not disclosed to the public. Also, by creating vesting periods for both investors and team members. Not a difficult task, nor rocket science. But getting the money raised is more important, right?

The Initial Coin Offering is and will be a viable crowdfunding method. However, the demand for ICO tokens is much lower now and investing in ICOs should be done much more carefully. I continue to invest and work for ICOs, but I am much much more picky now, because the chances of an unsuccessful fund raise are very high. 

Sadly, but fact. Most of the teams have run out of money and even a big establish platform like steemit is laying 70% of its staff off. This could have been expected given the fact that most projects raised their capital in the bubble period of late 2017-2018 and their holdings got severely depreciated. 

As a beginner, the chances you make a mistake with a lesser known coin are huge. As a beginner, you should focus on understanding the basics of crypto, before you are able to make informed judgement calls on newer and niche coins and applications. Basics means Bitcoin and Ethereum.

If you are gonna start, now is the time. Or at least, the risks of keep going down are pretty low, compared to the upsides of a next crypto bull wave that can be really massive.
Bitcoin is trading lower than the pre-2017 boom. What can be better than that?

There is some coordinated influx of positive news in the last week. All the events that were anticipated failed and I think we reached the bottom. The institutions got loaded with crypto and now they will start the shilling through the media. Just a prediction.

They do nothing for now. There are so many cryptocurrencies, because the crypto ecosystem created an infrastructure for fundraising. So, 99% of the coins were created just for the sole purpose of founders raising funds and they don't give a shit about the coin or the investors after the crowdfunding period.