There are a lot of different factors. I usually look at the community stats, the whitepaper, product development, rating websites. The most useful information you can get from the token sale progress and from the developers of a particular ICO. Just talk to them and you will see it.

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You should get a higher rank and participate in bounties to earn some money. Unfortunately you did not heard your friend and missed the train of getting reach earlier. But now, according to the market conditions you have a second chance! Take it

This coin is centralised. Put your fingers away from XRP. If you want just to trade Ripple and earn some money, you are free to do so. But do not make a long term investment in Ripple. This coin is very strange and has nothing to do with the idea of crypto currencies.

Just create an EXEL document to track all your activities. You will never remember all your projects, that you have participated in. So just write down ongoing and finished campaigns and make an extra column for Twitter and Facebook. Best of luck, it usually takes much time.

I hope, you did not invested these 500 USD at the beginning of the year, as you public this topic  . If so, than now is a great time to buy some coins. The prices are pretty cheap. And if you invested them, just do not worry and buy more to be safe.

Great news! I am glad, that celebrities are taking part in the blockchain industry. This will draw a lot of new attention to the crypto currencies market. Btw. Rodrigues is not the first soccer player, that join blockchain. Michael Owen already supported CGOX ICO.

Just try to focus on campaigns, where there are not so many participants, like signature or content. You will not get much, when you will do only Facebook or Twitter. Be helpful on this forum and you will get a higher rank to participate in Signatures.

The best and the most comfortable to use is still the Myetherwallet. If you want to be completely safe, you can buy the ledger nano S and chill. I do not know any analogs to MEW and I am using only MEW and I am also totally happy with this wallet.

It depends on a coin you select. To buy a coin from the top 100 without any research have the same risks, as you would buy any other coin from top 1000. Just investigate the project and decide for yourself, if you believe in this coin. And only than buy this alt. Without investigation, you will lose your money.

Nobody can change this factor. It is logical, that at the current market, the bounty hunters are trying to sell their coins, right after the ICO is going live on exchanges, to have at least something. Bounties are getting worse, and people are underpaid. If you are participating for 20 weeks in one campaign and get 30 USD at the end, I would also sell them right here and right now.

It all depends on the market conditions. We need this December bull run to track more new investors to the crypto currencies market. If the market will be still red in 2019, this year will be even worse for the ICOs than the whole 2018. We need to believe that the green market is near.

The time is bad for ICOs Bounties. The market was red, during the last 9 months and investors are simply losing their hope. According to the last stats, the ICOs investments reduced by 50 percent in September. We need a new wave of hype, to see the green market again.

Litecoin is a great altcoin, but mining is going to be difficult. According to the current market situation, and the price of LTC, it will not be profitable. Or you can find a very cheap source of power. Cloud mining contracts are being stopped nowadays, because of the high electricity fees.

It is also very hard to see your portfolio reducing every day. But if you stuck in altcoins, you can search for another opportunity to earn crypto or just make something else. Hodling is the only policy and we all hope, that the bearish market will end soon.

You should investigate the projects by your own. Firstly, decide for yourself, if you were ready to invest in this ICO. Than search for a bounty, that this ICO provides. You can also check the bounty manager, for his works in the past.

Ripple is a good coin, but unfortunately without any features of a crypto currency. Tron is also great, at least, it stands for the ideals of crypto currencies. Ripple is centralised banks try to catch the train of crypto currencies. Invest in Tron.

I would hodl all my coins, until the BTC will cost at least 20k USD. I understand that this could take a while and maybe touch 2020. But it makes no sense to sell your altcoins or BTC now. It is hard to see that the market is falling everyday but the market has to recover one day.

A good investigation of an ICO makes me trust in them. It is a must for everybody, who do not want to lose all their savings, to investigate the project very well. To read their whitepaper, to look at the community stats, to check the team members and to follow the product development. If everything is great, I would invest in such an ICO.

It would be very comfortable feature, for those who have a lot of different altcoins. I wish I could swap 50 percent of my alts with just a few clicks, instead of searching for an exchange where this particular altcoin is traded on and than swap them into ETH or BTC. I would save a lot of time.