It generally does. Coinmarketcap is a free great advertising campaign for new coins. Though the effect can come and go immediately. (Less than 24 hour of rise)
I've found people looking at new entries in coinmarketcap to start investing. Coinmarketcap only lists a coin after it reach certain volume and has a clear info about it's circulation.

Facebook, Google and Amazon, the three top brands have openly admitted about working on blockchain product and researching crypto.
We can safely assume they've already invested in cryptos and are increasing their presence.
Chinese companies too see to be working on blockchain abiding by the law of CCP. Many governments around the world are regulating crypto while some are issuing their own currency.

The main reason for such inactive participants is the length of bounty program. The users can't keep it with the bounty campaign for months.
The campaign to should be selective in taking in the participants and limit the participation. And keep their spreadsheet tidy and updated.

Coinbase was there when no one were.
It was on every good and bad times of bitcoin and is still a good online wallet for most.
Though it got some resistance due to it's supposedly higher fees. But no one gives as confident exchange to bank accounts as coinbase does.

EOS has slowed a bit. With their long ICO, it was speculated a lot before it's mainnet launch and got dumped just after that an no signs of clients to it's dapp paltform. ADA did and does everything quitely and hasn't been pumped for a long time. So I bet for ADA.

So, its quite similar to what EOS did. Number of EOS nodes were 21 while Tron are having 5 more, 27.
And the voting process is going to be as stupid, or more stupider than EOS. And they'll call themselves to be decentralized.

With the issuance of securities token, the similarities are increasing while the differences decreasing.
Most of the difference would lie on the time period and rules of trading.
Stocks are traded in one place through different agents while crypto would have many trading options and even a price difference.

STO comes with legal accordance and hence the team/project/company seems to be more dedicated and the project has larger chances of success which brings larger profit to the investors. People can easily sue STO's for fraud in worst case scenario.

The coin market is down for half a year now. And it won't stay the same forever. The boosting time always have been the last quarter of the year. So, we just have a couple of months to accumulate as much cryptocurrencies we can. Invest now to ripe later.

Though ICO as such may be dead, we would see a huge surge in utility tokens as a payment option. There are already successful implementation of token as payment.
I think bitcoin would still be the marketcap leader as there would be lesser speculative coins.

It's your choice actually. No one would guarantee one would be the best.
You need to do some research and decide whether you are investing in an ICO or a listed coin.
ICOs are generally more profitable but you need to wait longer time.
If you intend to do day trade, you need to invest on listed currencies.

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While when you store your coins in an wallet you control, it's upto you how securely you operate.
When you have coins in exchange, the security of exchange too comes in play.
Though we don't have a large problem with popular exchange since Mt. gox and exchanges have increased their security and it's sometimes more secure to put the coins in exchange(2fa, otp, email verification) than having it on your daily use PC. Still large hodling sums should not be kept on exchange.

I like the projects that have a direct link of their operation to the tokens. i.e. usability of the token and those which are capable of doing such things sooner. i.e. shorter roadmap.
A project with years of development just don't make sense.

Sticking to a single coin can be profitable than diversification, it's not fun at all.
You just would have a single price tab open and refresh it everytime? And what would you use the exchange for? to convert it to Tether and back?

And crypto have no barriers of borders or exchange rates. They are universal everywhere. This promotes free trade of goods and services. This also brings are globe together for collective interest.

And it's slowly crashing now. But with every rise and fall, bitcoin seems to stabilize above the initial mark, so with turbulence, you still have a profit and a permanent rise in the price of bitcoin. I'm hoping for stabilization at the level of  $7K this time.

Bitcoin is know to masses. Even the people who know nothing about crypto has heard about bitcoin.
Hedge funds and similar mutual investing funds too categorize bitcoin as an investment but not other cryptos.

Not just possible, there are a plenty of EThereum ATM Machines already.
There are also multi crypto ATMs that support Ethereum as well.
Localcoinatm, a popular ATM vendor in North America has Ethereum support in most of it's ATMs.