Of course, as we all should be, we are always investing, either with time or money, I prefer to invest with time making bounties if I don't trust the success of the ICO, but if the project is very solid and they have a good team, good roadmap, achievable goal, and an original and detailed white paper I decide to put some eth or btc in it, depending on what they accept for their tokens.

I have an extra laptop. So now its the laptop wallet lol. I only connect it to a hotspot when syncing wallets and stuff. Its Verizon so they have a strict nat firewall which makes it hard to even get my actual IP. It's a fresh hard drive that's never been to any websites, i only download the wallet files from my other pc and then put them on a USB and take them to the laptop. It seems secure for now. i did order a ledger nano s but it won't be here till September. Kinda cheap way to get a secure wallet if you have a laptop or a old pc laying around

I can testify on my own that the ICO process with NEP-5 tokens is one of the most smooth I have ever experienced! I have invested in a large number of ERC20 tokens and I always have to very diligent and resourceful as it is very easy to get scammed or simply the project to fail. I did my first NEO ICO just a few days ago with Narrative and it only took me just a few minutes of my time. I felt so much safer and relaxed!

There is one idea that will guide crypto investors through this tumultuous time and that’s Diversification. Diversifying your cryptocurrencies will protect your entire portfolio’s value.

Although it is the safest way to earn money, also remember that it is a long-term strategy, if you want to get to the moon in 1 week, it is best to invest all your money in 1 coin that you think is going to explode and so you can ride the rocket x100 to the moon.  

what you have to do is wait for the market to regulate itself. We need several months of sideways price action. Only when prices consolidate for several months has the bottom been confirmed.

After BTC crashed in 2013, it took about 17 MONTHS for BTC to find its low ... and another year for BTC to climb 100% from that low. It behaved like a stock. I would rather dollar cost average when the market is beginning to make slow climbs upward, than dollar cost average in search of the bottom.

And are you prepared to wait 29 MONTHS for this market to recover? This is what it means to HODL. May be less, as we have observed these weeks, but we must always be patient.

I think ICOs are a bit more like "heavily discounted vouchers" that may be redeeemed against future blockchain infrastructure (with risk) and/or might have future intrinsic value where they can be spent as a form of currency.

To a significant extent, network effects drive the value of the coins plus the utility of the related blockchain infrastructure, where as more people provide/use the infrastructure (mining pools / nodes) and as more people hold coins, the probable future value increases.

All of this drives bubble behaviour and attracts scam artists as well as genuine visionary technologists. Money can be made in bubbles but highly volatile currencies must be considered as high risk.

One thing that I have noticed is that ICO’s have become some sort of a Bitcoin FOMO craze. You can hear people investing in different ICO’s, most of them being scams and the investment being wasted since the team basically “run-off”, but the moment you hear about a successful ICO and people actually getting returns, FOMO activates and pushes you into investing in a ICO. No wonder China banned ICO’s in early September 2017, deeming them as “disruptive to economic and financial stability”. To anyone thinking about getting into an ICO, check the whitepaper, the project, invest with the mind of improving something and mostly don’t fall for “bonuses” and “guaranteed return”.

Doge functions very well as a currency. It's fast, cheap, and there's a large volume of it. You can hold a lot of it, but its only use is being liquid. I love doge, I use it to transfer funds because it's listed so many different places. As long as Litecoin is around, doge will be there, too, IMO.

I think you will have much more success making bounties than airdrops, airdrops are not so valuable because most of them will not even reach an exchange, of course as you always mentioned there is the possibility of using our mail for phishing so be very careful who we give our data to and never give more than necessary, I think the most successful bounties are those that last 2 months.

Of course, you simply have to take care of your investments, I don't plan to give away my bitcoins or my ethereum to any ICO that is popping out, and even less knowing that 90% will be scam or not reach the proposed goal, I always do an exhaustive research before investing money in any ICO, if I am going to invest time doing bounties I also look for the basics, but I don't waste so much time because it's practically gambling.

A lot of people feel really down about crypto right now because bitcoin is not 20k But with that being said right now is the time to accumulate more coins or tokens from your favorite project that you believe in. That is the keyword phrase too. Do you believe in your project. If you do then you should not be worried about short-term gains or losses. All you should be worried about is accumulating more coins or tokens.

I recently heard of Enigma and since further investigation, I think atm Enigma is a great buy.

They added a privacy layer will prove vital for big businesses that need to securely transfer data. Whilst ‘secret contracts’ are their main goal, scalability is also an area being targeted. Developing slowly but I have faith in them

Over the last few months, there has been a rush of investors snatching ICOs into the market and the many sought-after ICOs were sold out in less than an hour when opened to the general public.

most have gone under or their prices have corrected significantly during this correction. Personally, I think this is a good opportunity to stock up on good ICO coins especially for those which I have wanted to participate but do not have a chance to enter. In a time of recovery, I am sure good ICOs are going to bounce up faster than BTC and ETH. Personally, I like ICO projects which have a strong development team, moving into beta version and their code is transparent on github.

Of course, it is the norm in this volatile and spontaneous market, as there are no regulations or guidelines anyone who knows how to make a decent website, has a marketing team and can steal several white papers to create their own can make a successful ICO, and when you have enough cobras investors and you disappear, that's why we have to be so vigilant with shady projects to avoid falling into any scam that only damages the reputation of the rest.

I am extremely careful with my information, in order to give my personal information to an ICO it must have an extraordinary potential, because usually that information can be sold and you will start to receive a lot of unwanted mail, in addition to being the opposite of the whole philosophy of anonymity in the blockchain.

I traded some of my Ether for it just because I'm trying to be responsible. Ethereum has pumped a lot, so I'm taking profit. NEO hasn't pumped too much lately so it's pretty likely it will dip less than Ether if it does. Of course, this is just a guess. If you are trading Bitcoin, its not necessarily a bad time to buy, but if Ether dips (which it will unless the flippening happens or Bitcoin randomly goes to the moon), NEO will dip as well. Ether and NEO have a symbiotic relationship due to their goals and infrastructure. Your call.

my question would not be if it is possible, the question is when it is possible? i think the cryptocurrencies are here to stay and for now bitcoin has been the front screen and the most popular, that's why it's expected to be the biggest increase (at least for now), I hope that for this year the increase will be significant, and i would be very happy if it passes the 20k barrier.

What these companies fail to realize is that if they patent their "blockchain tech", it will only cast a spotlight on said tech to be used elsewhere. I mean, what's to stop someone from just copying the software, releasing it anonymously and then, people spinning up nodes to run the companies patented blockchain tech in a decentralized manner. Lol.

These companies are fucking clueless about the fact that they won't be able to stop people from using whatever it is that they are patenting in a more efficient manner (in a decentralized way). Besides, blockchain tech is pretty useless when coupled with centralization anyway. If you're going to be centralized, your better off just using a centralized database with a backup.

Bitcoin needs to become more secure, more decentralized(rid of ASICs), simpler to use(like your credit/debit cards). Let's also not forget that we're still using centralized exchanges to trade decentralized assets so that process is not yet trustless.

a tip I follow regarding crashes is:

Don't sell the dip, sell the rebounce. Buy the dip, don't buy the rebounce. A good tip that can decrease your risks. Usually, there is always a bull trap waiting. Buy selling the dip, you might risk selling at the bottom. Wait for the rebounce. Even if the rebounce at one time is lower than the price point you could have sold it for, in the long run, you will experience more success when you stick to this strategy. Buy not buying into a rebounce, you will also avoid buying into a bull trap or tops of the current movement, which will tie your liquidity into a position if you are not comfortable with selling at a loss and instead, want to wait it out.