The most relevant strategy on the falling market is to close trading terminal and develop in another fields as for me. Or if you got enough money - just buy more if it goes dipper than you expected.
So bying the dip, then, as I mentioned, close terminal again even if it rises, hold, and you will be rewarded in some time. This advice will help you if you are not good at day trading(I guess you are, just because otherwise you will not create such topic). Also you can lear about this kind of trading while the terminal is closed

One good signal that the project is not a scam - all amount collected on ICO is distributed through escrow. This is not the only signal, but it always works - there is no need to scam just because they will not get money, all of them will be rewarded.
And pay attention to such things as team, their experience, their ability to speak in public, look through github. And of course read whitepaper. If wp consist of only promises without any numbers - this may be not the best investment.

$50 is not such a big amount, so it is able to spend it on some high risk coins which can give you everything or nothing. I had such a great experience
Last spring I bought verge just for fun, I got only $15 left after I bought coins I needed, and I just choose xvg by logo And this $15 become more than $1000 in December, just imagine.
So buy some low price coins with low cap. And of course prepare that your investment will become not investment at all but donation

In my opinion there is no such determination as "good time for investing in ICO" or "bad ones". Because I see here just "good ICOs" and "bad ICOs".
If ICO is good, if it has great team with experience, perfect idea or even MVP or product - it will rocket no mater what, this investment will give you profit anyway.
When bad ICO will give you profit just if whales will need to rise the price and you will be lucky to sell high

I think bank account is the last place where I will pull this amount
As for me the best asset is Bitcoin. And I would like to freeze this amount for 5 years or near. Just invest, no diversification, no spending - just because I live without this money right now.
And Bitcoin seems to be not the father of cryptocurrency, but the only crypto that can live whatever happens in the world also. Only global lack of internet can destroy Bitcoin

I don't understand why you guys want to be paid in ethereum.
Why are you participating in bounty campaigns? Is it you job or what?
As for me I am participating in project that I like to support and I understand pros and cons of the project, so I want to be a part of project, and receive a token.
Besides, when you receive tokens you can hold them till it rocket. Also why can't you just sell immediately if you are in crypto not for crypto but for money?? Gain your ether or whatever you want
Crypto gives you freedom, but you decide to barter it for dollar

In my opinion smart money were entering bitcoin since 2014. I entered crypto in early 2017 and that was not smart money at all - the were so much people who entered just to have xxx and leave without understanding the idea of bitcoin at all.
If we take meaning mainstream as when everyone will have bitcoin as asset which they will have full control of - yes, it will be in next few years. Maybe even earlier than we can think

The only responsible person for this situation is only investor in my opinion. Just take a closer look - why so many scam ICOs entered market in 2017?
As for me - just because almost all people invested in project just reading the one pager or watching promo video on youtube, not so many people even open whitepaper, I don't say the read it and especially understand it.
So we are the part of the scam. No money to scammers - no scammers, it will become not profitable. So this kind of "fast" investors making troubles not for themselves by losing money, but for us too, for spending much more time to find something real

First of all you should understand what you want to do with your free tokens. If you decided to hold - there is no need to do something else just forget about them for couple of years
If you want to sell them - you need to send them to exchanges. But for making transactions you need to have some ethereum on your wallet(because you need to pay fees).
So first send eth to your wallet, then you can send your tokens to your exchange wallet to sell.

Very interesting topic which was pleasant to read. I agree with you that SONM is good project with great team, as you mentioned with great partners also.
But can you tell me please why the price should rise and reach x20?
Can you tell me please the economic of this project? In my opinion it is bad for SONM project when the price on token is too high. This will mean that mining(I mean fog calculating, mining is not correct but simple) will become too expensive. How will calculate this perfect balance when customers will get cheap calculation of their data and also workers will get profit higher than from usual mining?

Agree with you, and would like to add that there will always be enough ICOs to participate in Because author was worried about the decreasing of quantity of ICOs. I think there always will be those who decided to turn their business or their idea into the blockchain field.
Another question is would they need such type of advertisement as bounty program? Nobody knows. Maybe all of us will get skill not only in posting on this forum but in photoshop, video making and etc. and this forum will become a base of freelancers instead of crypto-enthusiasts

Oh I think that it is more than possible that many members from bitcointalk have no idea about who Satoshi Nakamoto is Or maybe you know who he is
Everyone knows the name of Satoshi but not many knows the person that stand behind this name. And TC just want to discuss on this theme.
As for me Satoshi is gifted person who made the new economic model by his hands and his mind, decided remaining anonymous for the whole world. Maybe we will know more in few years

There are two types of projects which decided to make airdrop - those projects which have no ICO but airdrop and they need to distribute their token(coin) between participants, and projects which use the word "airdrop" just for additional advertisement.
First ones are almost done, there were some not a long time ago but nobody wants to work for others prosperity. Only second remaining, which distributes only to 5% of coins between all participants so this is that amount which cant affect on price if project had successful ICO.

We all saw what happened with bitcoin in the end of the year in December and as for me this was something like the explosion of the bubble already. But I don't know if this is a bubble in the bubble and it can explode with further power and drop all prices to levels of the beginning of 2017. Crypto is not in bubble phase now in my opinion, so there is nothing to worry about. It will organically develop and spread next 5-10 years

This is the worst decision to sell during the panic sell just to turn to safe mode. If this panic sell has already started, you can sell the dip, but nobody knows will there be second dip.
Only suggestion is to sell during the panic buy. But only if you feel normally when you understand that you did profit, but there was an opportunity to make it 2x higher

Its hard to give advice on such thread. If you are searching for stable price coins than whats the difference to hold these coins instead of bitcoin? Just extra risks if they can go low.
And another important thing - all coins declared to be baked to something is not true you should understand this. They can promote themselves as the only true baked crypto but as for me this is lies.
So my advice will be - buy Bitcoin

The answer on your question depends on your investment strategy and timeframes that you allow yourself for investment.
If you wold like to buy/sell often and make something close to day trading - maybe this is not the greatest moment to buy. But I wish you are here for not that type of advices and you will not create new topic every day
If you prefer long time investment - this is the perfect moment. Buy and hold, and on the long distance - you will be rewarded

Sometimes these tokens got burned at the end of the token sale as you have mentioned. But it happens not always.
If tokens are burned, it may increase the price of every token if the product will get interest from the market. Otherwise it will be coin with miserable trading volume which will never reach coinmarcetcap.
But sometimes unsold tokens being distributed to private offerers. For example the price of token is $1 but these buyers with a lot of money can buy coins for $0.1 and it will be private so nobody sees these actions. And then it is normal to sell till $0.2 for them, they will gain huge profit even if the price is under ICO

I agree, but not totally, this is not that simple. First of all there is no need to make 100 bounties per week. This will be very hard to control and maybe even find such quantity weekly.
Secondly, I think you can quit job if you will take bounty campaigns seriously. So this will be your job from now. But you can gain more only if you are able to hold everything you got as a reward from campaigns for at least one year.

Come oooon!!! What are you talking about?? Person asked your opinion about IOTA and some information about the coin, you gave him nothing but referral link and mislead him telling he can send his IOTA to ERC-20 wallet! Are you serious?

Speaking on thread theme I would recommend to buy now, IOTA is really easy to use, it is really free(it was kinda magic for me after Bitcoin ) and I think this coin will spread widely till 2020. Great team wwith great ideas and experience what is really important in crypto projects.