There are many exchanges,
you can look it from https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/ for some clue,
Best exchange can be considered by low fee transaction and fee withdraw, high volume transaction, and unverified member can withdraw.

I have never fallen and hopefully not. Because i mostly join the bounty rather than invest on ICO.

I think there is nothing we can do as a member here to punish a scammers, because there is no regulator that regulates that.

Maybe what need we do is to be more careful when joining an ICO. And if we fall in scam project dont forget to post in this thread to warn the other.

Our success against scammers depends on how we can remind each other.

Trust is main key that bounty campaigns is good or not for their member.
And to be trusted the most important things is communication, so you can do research about:
-The community, have a good and active community.
-The dev team, have good reputation and capable to do this project. And the dev must be active to their community.
-The website, clear information, profesional and promising.
If you feel good you can try to join their bounty campaigns.

Dont worry if you have done some research about the good bounty, most of them will give the bounty reward.
Just make sure you already do all the requirement rules about the bounty that created by the dev or bounty manager.
But the often is the result obtained from the bounty turns out to be a little when sold in the market. So we often feel what we get is less than what we have done.

I think not because from the beginning cryptocurrency was created because of distrust of government and regulators so that the cyrpto itself was decentralized and transparent.

But somehow the regulators in crypto is also needed to protect the investors and avoid the risk of ico scam.

Until now, investors have to decide for themselves the ICO was good or not.

I think it all depends on you, what is your motivation when starting in this forum ?

Is it to searching second income, to learn bitcoin, to share knowledge about bitcoin to the wider community or something else maybe.

Because when you become jr.member, you have more opportunities to join a good program than when you are newbie.

So its back to yourself.
But make sure, you keep reading, keep learning, and make contribution for this forum and community.

Thank you sir for the good advice,

maybe i just want to add:

- you can bookmark several sites that you consider important to avoid phishing.

- always try to use a your own internet connection or a trusted connection rather than public connection like wifi.

I haven't got it either, but i try to keep making good posts just don't be too fixated on merit, just keep making constructive and informative posts.
The point is how we can contribute to the forum and merit will come by itself later.

The advantage you can go to higher rank of course, so the opportunity to join a good project is bigger.

Manything can be considering in a good project, such as:
- their whitepaper, clear and detail whitepaper.
- their website, having profesional website.
- their vision and mission or roadmap, make sure they have short term target and long term target.
- their team, don't trust an inexperienced team. make sure their have well known reputation and capable doing their project.
- the coin use. If their is no function behind the coin, there really is no need for it. make sure many will be interested about their project later.
- their community, their support and everything behind the frontpage. how dev keep comunicated with their community and being transparent with them.
- their ability to enter in a good exchange list and when they will enter the exchange.
- etc

I think the price will stag or continue to down until SEC announced ETF decision in 30th September.
So if you go for long term investment, you can hold until ETF. Because if SEC had announced ETF decision, most likely the price will rise. Then you can decide whether you want to sell or want to hold again later.
Good luck for you buddy.

Like other says, post or activity can be decrease if:
1.the thread that you are posted in or quoted in was deleted by moderator or the thread owner it self. (for this you will not get notification message)
just say if the thread deleted by moderator because many reason such as the threads are not in the correct category, thread not informative or thread has already been discussed, and etc.

2.your posted was deleted by moderator (for this you will get notification message usually)
im sure you already know how to make the good, positive, informative and not spam post since you are already rank member in here.

so if you dont get notification message and your number activity decrease, maybe the biggest posibility why your activity decrease is reason number 1.

im wonder, you are already a rank member, but why do you think 3 posts are important, because just say if you want to level up you just need to get merit and not number post because you already have 190 post.

Activity is based on the posts you make.
So if your activity getting less, its because:
- if the thread that you are posting is deleted by the moderator or by the owner of the thread itself.
- if your post was deleted because it is not relevant and may be considered spam by the moderator (but for this we will usually receive a notification message).
So make sure your posts are positive, informative, and relevant.

Yes, bitcoin is the most suitable for first time investors than another altcoin, and the reason you already know it in your underline sentences.
So if you are the first time investor,
- first you should study how to allocate your assets based on your risk tolerance. Set a stop-loss level to avoid financial collapses. A stop-loss is the level of loss where the trade will get closed.
- second, use your only second capital, not your main capital, because in any investment there always have a risk, and if you loss you still can continue your life.
- third, and maybe the most important,, always study and follow the news about bitcoin it self. because knowledge is very important, like proverb you cannot buying a cat in a sack. or buying without knowing.
Hope this can help you, good luck.

A scam is a situation where we are deceived.
there is a characteristic scam cryptocurrency that can be seen at the beginning, such as
-No whitepaper or no clear whitepaper
-No web or low quality web
-No vision mission or short term target and long term target
-No roadmap
-the dev profile is hidden
-Passive community with the dev team
-etc

but there are also those who can not see until the end, even from the beginning it looked promising but finally we got a scam too.
this type is very difficult to detect a scam or not.

CIO ? maybe you mean ICO,
You can buy it directly when ICO event or
You can join bounty campaign (Social Media, Translation, Signature, Airdrop, etc) which is usually also held by the dev during the ICO.
Hope this can help you.

If you want for long term investment, i suggest you invest in Bitcoin, but if you want short term investment i suggest you to look for another alt coin.
because Bitcoin more stable and safer for long term investment, but maybe with small amounts of money then the profits in Bitcoin will also be smaller than if you invest in alt coin.

avoid getting banned in forum ?
Make a good contribution to the forum, such as:
-You have to build constructive and not spammy posting/content.
-Have a good attitude and grammar when posting, so it can be easily understood by the others.
-Post something relevant and informative content for the others.

or avoid getting banned when signature campaign ?
just follow the rules of campaing signature giver.

sory to ask, approximately how much token we hold to join requirements in AD11 ?

dalam beberapa bulan ini harga bitcoin cenderung stabil di angka 80-130 juta dan ini merupakan trend positif menurut saya karena sepertinya bitcoin sedang berusaha naik perlahan-lahan setelah sempat drop di akhir tahun yang dari 290 juta menjadi 80 juta an, semoga trend kenaikan bitcoin semakin baik meski di tengah perekonomian nasional yang sedang lesu saat ini tertekan oleh dollar AS

kalau menurut saya, dapat dilihat dari banyak hal gan, bisa dari keaktifan devnya dalam memberi informasi dan update-update rutin pada anggota-anggotanya, semakin aktif dan update devnya berarti devnya serius dalam project tersebut, bisa juga dilihat dari segi teknis seperti whitepaper, roadmap, anggota-anggota adminnya, websitenya profesional atau tidak, dll. Semakin jelas dan rinci dalam segi teknis, semakin serius juga dev terhadap project tersebut.
Tapi balik lagi, scam itu dari niatnya, kalau awal-awal dev serius, tapi tiba-tiba di akhir-akhir devnya memutuskan scam, ya tetap scam, meskipun kita mencoba untuk sehati-hati mungkin dalam mengikuti sebuah project.

Saya tertarik jadi kemungkinan pemerintah bakal memperhitungkan bitcoin menjadi alat pembayaran yang sah dan lebih baik kedepannya. Tidak hanya itu, harapannya ada undang-undang yang jelas mengenai bitcoin, sehingga kita para bitcoiner lebih aman dalam bertransaksi. Ini juga menguntungkan untuk kita, karena bitcoin bakal lebih dikenal masyarakat luas sehingga harga bitcoin otomatis akan semakin meningkat.