I am using MyEtherWallet.com and it's a great online wallet if you are careful about your private keys. Just make sure your private keys and password are stored secured. Bookmark MEW and never click on Google paid ads, always use URL from bookmark manager, check URL padlock before entering your details for the valid certificate.

Pushups44 maybe few investment companies that follow closely market and watch Bitcoin decided to gain more clients using Bitcoin as a tool? I am confident this is because of a recent huge price increase after China try to shake off BTC value from 4K to 3K Bitcoin and BTC quickly price increased again and pass first time 5, 6 and 7.000$ mark? These investment companies may try use this fact and lure clients to invest in Bitcoin. I know about that because one of my colleagues from work point me to one of this companies and he asked me to invest.

Congratulations Viberate Team! That was a nice surprise for me getting listed on Bittrex that quickly, and there was a nice pump in the last 24h, VIB is full of positive surprises so far. I just accumulated a little more coins before we see slight increase in VIB price. 

MyEtherWallet.com is safe as long as you keep your private keys and passwords for wallets in a safe place (off-line, encrypted in separated files with a strong password or store private keys on hardware wallet like Ledger Nano S) Remember you can always check your Token balance in blockchain explorer, no need to login to MyEtherWallet. Keep your Tokens in few wallets, use one for transactions, and other for store your crypto. Remember to bookmark MyEterWallet.com and always check address bar for a certificate (padlock) never open any links to MEW from chats, forum or private message especially Slack - so many fake forks there, and you will be on safe side. VeraCrypt is highly recommended for storing your private keys and passwords, not in WordPad.

I was always very confident about SONM project and still, I am. This is one of this startups you can stop worrying go to bed and check next day without worrying something can happen.  Devs are active on social media and GitHub. SONM is heading right direction and roadmap is without delays. What else can you ask? We all know is a long-term investment, and we don't need to worry what will happen tomorrow. I can't say the same thing about MTH.

Investing in ICO's can be more difficult than trading in my opinion. If you want you can open demo account and try trade crypto on dummy account but it's not the same - there is no emotions involved and believe me your decision can be influenced by emotions when price drops. Because you are newbie I will not recommend day trading for you, and I will not recommend buy Initial Coin Offering - it requires skills and knowledge, experience and patience.
ICO is basically investing in StartUp, things can gowrong at any stage from the beginning.

If you really must decide, try research about ICO's from first top 25 from coinmarketcap.com Make sure read their ANN thread, visit website, watch reviews on YouTube, Search videos witch Ian Balina on YT and watch them all. Make sure to read a road map, white paper, check Reddit what other users say, join Telegram. Some ICO's can take 2-3 years from day one before Tokens are highly profitable. If you don't know which one project to start?
research: Golem and SONM. Both are direct competitors but SONM is younger Project and price is still very attractive - around ICO offer.

If I was you I wi buy Bitcoin 90% and 10% in ICO
max and start learn from there.

Finding ICO project that can refund your investment can be tough, but what you can do is research and find already complete ICO stage project and buy Tokens from the exchange. If you need your invested money back you can always sell Tokens on the exchange, and withdraw Bitcoins in ATM.

Recent ICO's proved that waiting a couple of weeks after Tokens are distributed and available on the exchange can be more profitable that participating in ICO (that should be theoretically cheaper).Each project is different, buying in exchange is less risky and still can be profitable for long-term investment. There is some ICO's out there that was SCAM and investors never received their Tokens.

Good advice is diverse your investment for example 60% investment in BTC and 40% in other alts/tokens.

Bitcoin price may not drop immediately, remember China bad news? It took some time before the drop down, in this situation is up to the majority of investors what they decide, if the sell BTC and start buying alt coins/tokens - other crypto value will increase and thats what it looks like, my portofilio value rose 24.5% in  24h (alts) time will tell, no one can predict but it looks like Bitcoin value will drop to 6800 more likely.

This can be true, I am not sure about value 300$ Million - but I read about Parity dev. that accidentally mess with multi-signature wallets and locked funds. Funds are frozen for now until the solution is found to fix this problem.

I think this Dev. will also be demoted, and work for parity without access wallets and blockchain for sure.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ethereum-user-accidentally-exploits-major-vulnerability-locks-wallets

I was watching this project closely and I really surprised it turned out to be a SCAM. Don't be shy and say this loud they SCAM - now it's a fact. I read about ETHBooks problems in a different thread and check this thread to make sure is true. I wanted invest after ethbook hits Exchanges and price stabilise but it turns out it's finished before that.

I am happy to see my alts start recovering. It was the perfect time to accumulate before the price rise. Let's HOLD and watch nice rise in our portfolio.

I think the biggest lose in value was Monetha from recent ICO's from $0.35 to $0.05. BlackMoonCrypto with "buy back reserve" has reached its limit 28.000+ ETH and now drop down from 0.8$ to 0.4$ I am curious what will happen now with BMC price, when re-buy support stop working.

That's a great news. Looking forward to knowing which exchange will start trading TRKC soon.

Please consider creating Telegram as the main channel for the community, Slack have too much spam going on.

If Banks does not decide take down Bitcoin because is their direct competitor and threat, Bitcoin can reach $ 75.000 mark. I can't think at this moment it could go higher. I heard from few people that are investors on the stock market that if BTC grows too big Banks will do something about it. I find this hard to believe.

Sorry to hear bad news like this. I don't understand why you didn't enable 2-factor authentication? You should enable on any website that supports it for example (Amazon, NiceHash, LocalBitcoins, Gmail and all exchanges that support 2FA) Ebay don't have 2FA but if they do I will enable too.

Next time you will know, it's not safe to keep BTC or ETH or any other crypto on exchange, one day even most trusted exchange can be in troubles (like BTC-e)

We all make mistakes, and it doesn't matter if you the newbie or experienced user. I was in hurry and transferred eth to another exchange into other Token address, theoretically, I lost my Etereum but I contacted this exchange and after mentioning I will leave negative feedback on forum and Trust Review website I had another reply from Tech support that they will check for me and get them back, exchange fixed this for me, even they state Tokes send to wrong address are lost.

Not getting paid is worst can happen, this was the reason I have changed my last job... I didn't get paid on time constantly and my boss failed to pay my last 4 weeks, I remember one question on my Interview after that... "so why do you want to change a place of work and start working for us?" that was the easiest question in my life on Interview to answer.

Participating in Bounty program will be always risky because you start support almost always new project/startup and you don't know it is genuine or scam.

I can recommend you hardware wallet if don't mind spent money for hardware wallet. Two most popular on the market are Trezor and Ledger Nano S. Both have small display that is an extra layer of security when you send bitcoins (creating transaction) There is malware designed to swap your destination wallet address from clipboard memory with another address so if you do not pay attention you will send your bitcoins to different address and lose your money. Have a look on youtube there are some reviews both for Trezon and Nano S wallets.

Trezor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So42CYoQi4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuP90EcFw4


Ledger Nano S:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1OntWB7wc&t=11s

There is new Trojan Malware that has been recently discovered that steals crypto from your wallet replacing destination address from clipboard memory. Targeted currencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monreo and Dash. So far 140.000$ was stolen from users wallets.
Always double check your destination address comparing before sending.

I invested in a couple of ICO's because I can take that risk if something goes wrong I lose my investment and on other side, rewards can be much bigger than if you invest in already established coins/tokens. Startup companies use ICO to raise capital to start, and there is a risk many things can go wrong and also there will be few projects aimed at fraud because initial coin offering is not regulated by law.

I didn't try Forex but I heard a lot of good and bad about it. I have a friend that is active on Forex and invest, he is happy but never disclosure how much he earns, no details but for sure he is making some money otherwise we will quit his full-time job.
Negative is a lot of people says you can lose money rather than gain, it's very difficult and Forex is manipulated market.

Personally, I think Forex is for an experienced trader that work full time, and they know what they doing. I never invested in Forex.
I prefer spending money on crypto - Bitcoin, Ethereum & new ICO's.

UTrust looks promising and ICO is Live now. A direct competitor to Monetha, PayPal and BitPay. Total Token Supply is 1 Billion, but unsold Tokens will be burned. Their community is very active here on Forum. I will say watch closely and if you see their progress is good - buy.
I am in ICO too, but will diverse portfolio with Bitcoin to balance my investments.