Disregarding faucets and micropayments like that, there is one sustainable way to earn "free" crypto - provide a service and get paid in crypto.
ANy service that you can provide in the traditional economy, but get paid in crypto. It is not "free", because you are selling your time.

Privacy oriented. Censorship prone fields. Everyone that wants to convey a willingness to give up control and work in a fully transparent way.
Projects in rogue countries, rogue governments and rogue corporations.

Long-term HODLing all the way long. The shorter the term, the more edge bots and people with a lot of money for developing proprietary trading algorithms have. You can't comptete against machines. Even if you have the brain of Einstein, you are not even close.

0x is a great project. A lot of the exchanges are powered by it. I am not really sure if the token has any value for anyone else rather than exchanges and financial institutions. How do you expect it to grow? If a 1000 new exchanges are created, then yes, there may be some growth. But we are in a bear market shutting down exchanges.

It does. All crypto prices are correlated pretty well to the BTC and ETH prices, because most of the trading is wash trading and automated bots, who are set up to trigger trades against BTC price. So, if BTC moves, the whole market moves in sync.

ICOs should be regulated and this will put to an end the scams, the not so obvious scams and all the parasites that are feeding from the ecosystem.
This will be beneficial for everybody involved in a decent way.
ICOs as a fundraising mechanism is not bad and shouldn't be marked off as a whole.

This is a generalizing statement. I think governments don't like some specific cryptos and use cases, such as the privacy coins. Governments don't like anything threatening their control and scrutiny.
But I am more than sure, they will develop and enforce coins that are controlled by them.

A bull run will come from a new innovation and development, just like it was with the creation of smart contracts. There will be a new class of tokens that will surge, but past and already existing ICO coins and tokens will not be amongst them, in my opinion.

What I witnessed with myself is that the longer time I have been in crypto, the lesser I am doing it. When I was a complete newbie in the late 2017, I was doing it at least 10 times a day. Now, I am doing it once every 2 days on average.
It depends if you are an investor or a day trader, too.

During time of great volatility you will have problems on pretty much every exchange with spreads and withdrawals. Even the major exchanges like Coinbase and Binance. This is not so much a manipulation issue, but rather simple dynamics of demand and traffic.

Technical analysis can be a powerful tool for everybody. However, I don't think that this is one of the most important things that a beginner needs. And I mean it, by far.
Technical analysis can give you some precision and some percentages gains more here and there. But a beginner has much more crucial information to collect first - how the market works, cycles, manipulation, basics of investment and just after then, starting to optimize his performance.

I don't think the people behind it are trash, nor the ideas, nor the developers. What is trash is the timing. It is way too early for such applications and that's why 99% of ICOs are doomed to fail even before they have thought about starting. Don't blame the founders. They see an opportunity for funding and they act on it.

2018 is not a year in which the price goes up. That is for sure. But making profit doesn't require prices to go up. At least for seasoned and experienced traders, who can short an asset in a heartbeat.
I agree that long-term investing didn't score much profits in 2018.
And yes, it is a great time to invest now, even in early 2019.

Post-ICO marketing is crucial for the image and adoption of the project. However, most ICO founders and entrepreneurs give a shit only about raising a big chunk of money, getting overpriced salaries and that's it.
Serious projects should have constant waves of marketing activity either via bounty campaigns or traditional marketing agencies.

This is how it seems, but I think that this is misleading. A lot of these coins, even most of the top 100 will never recover and surge with the next bull market. They will just be dead by then. While there are some good bargains for sure, we should be careful.

Bitcoin Cash is on a downward spiral of losing momentum and it is headed for a slow death, just like all the other Bitcoin forks (Litecoin inluded) that don't offer anything much better than Bitcoin's features and capabilities.

ICOs are a dying trend. 2020 may be the year of STOs or another form of regulated, more closer to traditional investing form of fundraising.
Utility tokens will continue to generate bad sentiment, until some utility tokens have... proven utility in the future.

Both lines are problematic. Sending real ID documents en masse puts you in a severe systemic risk. Even if only 1 of the ICOs that receive your docs is a scam, your identity will be stolen and used for malicious purposes. And you are going to have much bigger problems than the benefits of the bounty payments.
Sending fake IDs is a problem, too. It falls under the money laundering part of law as using ID mules.
And for larger payouts, you won't be able to declare what is the source of your income in case the tax authorities come to check up on you.

Sticking to no KYC bounties and ICOs is the best play.

Coin supply is absolutely irrelevant to the value and price movement of the coin.
The is no difference between 1 BTC or 10 000 Satoshis. There is also no difference betweet 21M Bitcoin or 21M X 10 000 Satoshis.
Bitcoin can be easily sliced up to even smaller pieces if needed. The increased total supply won't change anything.

The withdrawal fees are somewhat tied to the mining fees, but yeah, heavily overpriced over it. This is one of the steadiest rent-seeking and profit sources for the exchanges. They are acting not much different than banks, so far.