I don't see the price of Ethereum at $500 unless BTC reached a figure like $6k and above this year, the whole market is BTC dependent and as long as the trade of Ethereum is against BTC it will continue to dictate its price also remember that the ICO party seems over and BNB tokens is entering into the ICO game which will surely have impact on the growth of Ethereum

I think there should be a clear definition of Working product, I have seen some guys pop up on this forum soliciting for funds and claiming they have a working products, if you have a working product and no one is using it, it is more or less useless for investors to invest into it. What we need in this space is adoption, people are not using these platforms and it is a major concern to me

There was a time I was using IDAX and after depositing into the exchange and done with trading and to withdraw my BTC I was told to first carry out KYC before I can withdraw my tokens, I just feel this doesn't not make any sense because if I won't be able to withdraw my tokens without KYC then I shouldn't be able to deposit without KYC

Things like this is prone to abuse, Decentralise exchanges want to have a slash of the centralise fees collected from trading BTC but since they are mostly built on Ethereum platform they need something to get around this. A lot is said of Tether and most of the stable coins that they are not backed with real USD in ratio 1:1 and I can see this in play with WBTC in future

I will not say they are all useless there are some Dapps that looking it from development side they are sound but what I think is wrong in the space is that most of the team just focus on developing a Dapp without looking at the marketing side, Apple and Samsung spent alot of money to market their product to users and these developers need to start thinking like a business man and not just s developer

BAT is definitely one of the few projects in the space that have real use and working platform with a credible team, but so far they are still struggling on the way to incorporate their tokens with their platform, the team has played with several model but still do not think those model is right for the platform, having said all these the future is bright for the project

There is no doubt that there are some positives about ICOs, I don't know if we would have had projects like Ethereum surviving today without the ICO, but the issue here is abuse of the ICO process and the protection for investors into these project. I have decided that me I am not investing again into a project offering just tokens to the investors,  I want more for my investments that is why I think STOs will certainly lead they way in coming months and year, because the team will need to open up to the investors and clear the air on certain issues and also open up their books for scrutiny 

The issue I have with most of these games on blockchain is that they are having difficulties attracting real users, and what I have observed in the space is that winners takes all, new game just popping up and want to enter into a competitive space without clear marketing strategy is going to be tough to survive

The staking reward is crazy, 12% per month not even per year. One of the main ting that helped Waves tokens is the low reward given out for those staking their coins which help to reduce the inflation rate. ICON was one of the most hyped ICO in 2017, a direct competitor to Ethereum and two years later no real Dapps is running on the platform, until all these platforms start having real users and applications they would end up in Zero value

NEO was the worst performing tokens last year, I can't believe this project was once over $100 and now languishing below $10, this just shows how immature the space is, it was marketed as the China Ethereum and since then nothing of note have been achieved on the platform even those projects running Dapps on it are complaining of lack of upgrade from the team

Hype is just part of the life cycle of a new industry, it happens with the internet and dot.com companies when people believe all they need to do is to put their business on a website and that is all, there are some interesting projects in the space, Augur and DAI are two projects that stand out for me now because they already have working platform and many more projects are coming up with little or no hype because they are just focus on building something great for users. Forget they hype and see the real use case and you would marvel

BAKKT just release their Q4 result and the profit was very impressive without Crypto, I just hope these just indeed bring their institutional friends and money into the space, we don't want a situation where they would be taming the price of BTC, they should allow market forces to decide the price and since we are getting more  people into the space their price should increase which is basic law of demand

It is funny that you bring up this argument of fee up, Fee is serving an important role in the ecosystem, with the reduction in the mining reward what incentives do you have for miners for them to keep securing the next work. Let me tell you, nothing is absolutely free, someone somewhere is paying the price for tat which you think is free

I was very glad to see BTC bounce back from $3300 level if it was allowed to slipped downwards maybe the $3k barrier would have been broken and could have trigger another level of panic sale, because many stop orders would be trigger. I just hope this time around we have hit the bottom of the market

I don't know why people fail to realize that the loyalty of the team is to their project and not to bounty hunters. You said it, if you have people cheating and farming accounts into project, the team can apply their discretion and delay the tokens distribution, as for tokens dumping when it gets to exchanges, investors too are suffering because it is not easy to see you investment drop form $1000 to $25 and it is  also a wrong assumption to think that bounty hunters do not invest in some of these ICO

We are all happy to see the green day but remember this is weekend most of the gains in weekends are not sustainable, It is a plus to have a feedback from SEC top man, that ETF is a matter of when. My advice to people is that they need to positioned themselves now for the coming bull because most people will likely miss out when these money bags enter into the space

I don't know why people only feel the only thing you need to make a project a success is technology, Monero has many competitor including Bitcoin but the team has done a great job to distinguish it out from the crowd. For now, I don't see any privacy coins that come close Monero for now

I don't know why you are trying to justify this, that bounty hunters are not the ones dumping the price after the ICO, there is no way bounty hunters can be make clean of this issue, because when you see someone using different accounts to claim tokens and move it to exchange to sell because he or she got it through a cheat. For me everyone is guilty, the team, VCs and he investors because it does not make sense to me to buy something today and sell at loss a week later, this is even common of ICOs without bounty campaigns

I think I disagree with you, there is no investment in the world where you can get the kind of return you get in Crypto, just forget the 2018 bear market, and look at the true picture, Bittorent ICO did between 5X to 10X for investors, where in the world can you get that, if I get this kind of ROI now, I will be exceedingly glad, one can still get rich quick in Crypto

People will always invest into a project where there is possibilities of making money, the recent Bittorent ICO is a good example, another thing here is that market move in circle, I could remember when I joined the space and people usually refer to those that bought BTC around $200, $100 range, now is another opportunity to buy the dip and people are scared doing so.