I am going to wait until the ETF proposal decision deadline in late February, because I am expecting a higher chance of denial than approval. This will bring the prices down in a market capitulation and lowest prices for the whole 2019. Just an opinion.

Don't think that there will not be scams in the STO space, too. There will be, and there will be a lot. Not blatant scams, though, because more regulation is forced upon. Think of more sophisticated and veiled scams. ICO examples - EOS, Steemit.

STOs as a fundraising model is just starting and it seems it will stay for a while before a next evolution comes. It may even be decades. There will be some hurdles and early stage flaws and mistakes of the development, but STO will be much better structured than the ICOs.

My latest investments have been Holochain and STO platforms tokens. Going along with the STO hype. These platforms may create new ecosystems, just like Ethereum did and IMO this may be the market catalyst to bring the next bull run.

I keep seeing FUD about YOBIT, but I have never had any problems there with deposits, trading or withdrawals. I have to mention that I have exchanged small sums there, so I don't know what is the situations when you need liquidity.

There should be some gradual vesting periods not only for team members and advisors, but for the early pre-sale imvestors, too.
Bounty and airdrop holders dump their tokens, too.
And there is a lack of post-ICO marketing efforts to promote the coin.

Do you prefer Ether over what is the question?
Over another dapp platforms? Sure.
Over Bitcoin? No, Bitcoin has more attention and news catalysts coming.
Over USD? Sure, but I have to pay bills and ETH is not suitable for that yet.

In a bear market it seems logical. But you don't know if this will be a possibility once the market starts moving up and the bulls arive.
As a matter of fact, ICOs were opening at 5x+ in January 2018 on exchanges.

BOOOOM - my Skycoin is gone. I was hearing some bad words about Cryptopia for a long time, but nothing more than the usual exchange FUD and complaints by a few but vocal dissatisfied customers. I am really surprised to see that exchange fail. It seemed one of the good ones.

As a former poker player, I will tell you that nothing beats hard work and persistence. Yes, it is not fancy, it is not fun, and it may be tough and boring. But that is what makes millionares and winners.
Luck? Let the luck be for gamblers. They are not here now.

99% of the leadership in the ethereum ecosystem depends on this guy. Ethereum is his child. He is a loyal and decent man. He is not Dan Larimer. Buterin will stay and make Ethereum one of the greatest projects of our century. Stop the FUD.

This is normal. A listing on a large exchange was a news catalyst in 2017 and early 2018. Now there are so many exchanges and the tops ones like Coinbase added so many tokens, that a listing news is distorted and not making any significant importance.

I think a large 90%+ of both investors and bounty holders are dumping the moment they can. So, it depends how the distribution is done. Usually, the investors get their tokens first and have advantage of days or weeks to dump, before bounty hunters receive their tokens.

XRP is getting a lot of momentum and use cases, but they are only by institutions and banks. I haven't heard of normal businneses accepting payments in XRP.
Even DASH is doing better. So, XRP may overtake Bitcoin for a while, but it will remain a narrow niche coin in the long-term in my opinion.

I really can't imagine another bigger dump after the one that happened in 2018. My prediction is we will be trading sideways and 2019 will be uneventful. 2020 is more likely to bring some price movements with the Bitcoin halving and events around it.

I am witnessing some hybrid models and merging between the two. What I mean is that some airdrops require sufficient amount of subcribing, following, upvoting and clapping for paying tokens. The tasks are fast, easy and simple, which cannot be clasified as a bounty, but requires more efforts than an airdrop, too.

I am too witnessing increase in the BTC bull opinions amongst industry leaders and news pundits. There are some positive sentiments about the altcoin market gaining pace here in the forum, too. I hope that an ETF rejection won't get us even lower, though.

I have no idea why there should be a pump prior the fork in the first place. This fork is an upgrade and there will be no free coins.
The logic of past such forks would be that there should be a surge after the fork. We will see.

All of this sounds good, but the rules are made by the regulators. Given the nature of cryptocurrencies and automated bot and spam activities in the rewards campaigns, a sufficient amount of money can be moved even partially with transfers of a few thousand dollars, so KYC should be reasonable even for payments of 500$ and above.

This is the first time we are seeing a top cryptocurrency being 51% attacked succesfully, I think.
I didn't think it was possible in practice. Not good news.