The situation will continue for a long time, I do not think that it is worth waiting for a miracle in the near future, although everyone is waiting. Bakkt will not be able to quickly influence the market price, while it is not yet ready, but on the news about this traders will earn.

This strategy is followed by all investors throughout 2018. Every month they believe that they are buying coins at the bottom of the price, and then the price continues to fall.
If you want to invest in crypto currency, invest in parts, gradually watching the market, or there is another option that I use myself, wait until the situation with cryptocurrencies becomes more favorable, otherwise the risks are too high.

The current market forces us to do this. Many projects that were paid back at the beginning of the year now have no activity at all, their coins are getting less and less every day. In such conditions, rationality of the hold is extremely low.

Be careful, now the price of Ethereum may start to grow, because quite a few people will want to make money on hard fork and buy Ethereum before starting a short-term pump,
but it may happen that before the hard fork the price will collapse.

In my opinion, the fact is that you cannot always precisely determine how legitimate the project is, which means that by going through the KYC procedure you put your personal data at risk.
There are many ways to weed out bots and multi-accounts without resorting to the KYC.

The market has taught me to be ready for any outcome of events. I do not expect a bull run in the near future. I prefer, first of all, the development of technology this year, which will entail attracting new investors and the development of a crypto market.

The current market situation can look completely different for people who have invested now \ invested in 2017 \ invested until 2017. For some, the market continues to have positive dynamics, for others it is negative. For me, the market looks more than normal, what I don’t like is the opportunity to manipulate the whole market.

Crypto is very similar to the early financial markets, when interest in something or strongly raised the price. Most of the people came to the crypt in the hope of enriching themselves as other people did before them, but none of them expected a correction to begin.

At the same time, if they were fraudsters, they would have done everything in as much detail as possible, they would have written attractive white paper and put the admin in a chat to answer questions, but all this is not there, it seems that they don’t care if the project attracts attention or not.

And all these shittokens will never go to the  exchange as their projects have closed or disappeared into the shadows. Unfortunately, these are the trends of 2018, the year of popularity of ICO.

At the same time, if they were fraudsters, they would have done everything in as much detail as possible, they would have written attractive white paper and put the admin in a chat to answer questions, but all this is not there, it seems that they don’t care if the project attracts attention or not.

I doubt that this is even possible if we compare the two projects, we see that in technical terms, Ethereum is superior to Cordano, and the team and community of Ethereum are much more active. Of course, time will tell if Cordano is a really good project.

Something paid, though very little. For example, such a project as Atlant ICO Network, but immediately after the listing the price collapsed so much that investors began to write a collective complaint about the project.

Personally, I do not see the point of participating in airdrop, especially in those that require the passage of the KCS procedure. The reasons are simple, now there are no payments even from bounty, why risk your personal data almost for free.

To protect your wallets, the following will suffice:

1. Make sure that only you have access to your private keys.
2. If you use third-party applications, make sure that their open source code is on the github.
3. Create complex passwords and do not store them on your work device.
4. Create an encrypted container and store all the data in it.

If you look at the ICO trackers, we will see that even now a lot of ICOs are being conducted, there are fewer of them than before, but they exist. Consequently, 5% of them may well be successful, which means the market is still breathing.

Even if 2 unofficial forks fail and turn out to be scam, it will have a very positive effect on the price of Ethereum itself, because once again it will attract a lot of attention to the project while the official hard fork will be the last.

I would say that more than 150 coins not only from the top of the list can serve as a good tool during future events. All of them are based on Ethereum and has prospects.

Вот только надо понимать что золото это физический референт, а биткоин нет. Золото вы можете подержать в руках, а биткоин нет. Цена биткоина как и цена золото формируется исскуственно (впрочем как почти любая цена), однако ценность золото более определенна, нежели ценность биткоина не имеющего физического референта.

Рост уже идет, и будет сопровождать каждый форк. Однако у меня есть предположения что вначале цену будут дампить, а затем... посмотрим