The ones that are discourages are the ones that do not know how the market works. You are supposed to buy now while the market is low and accumulate as much as possible. Then at the top of the market, sell your coins and wait for the next bear season. Buy now and hodl, this is the best advice for everyone

Right now there is a glut of stable coins tied to the USD. GeminiUSD is a trusted stablecoin which has passed the regulations test, and there is the USDT whcih is popular on exchanges. There needs to be other coins tied to different currencies for traders outside of the influence of the US dollar

When diversifying you need to have good quality alts rather than a selection of mediocre ok coins which might do well in a bull run. Majority should be in the top 20 of CMC and some speculative coins further down the rankings. Perhaps a small amount invested in good ICOs until the bull run returns

India is complete mayhem. It is regulated, and then banned. Then it is taxed, then they block bank accounts. Too bad for the Indian people who wish to invest, just go with privacy coins like Monero and then trade via a DEX

It will not do much in the short term, it has gone down and now ripple has overtaken ethereum to the number 2 spot. What will increase demand is good quality ICOs running on the ethereum platform, so far there aren't that many compared to last year

It is difficult to know when ICOs will fail or succeed. Just look at how much tezos earned in their ICO and you will see it is a complete failure. On the other hand, buying NEO would have very profitable. If you're aim is long term with high gains, then just buy and hodl and see what happens in 12 months

There are many contenders to take on ethereum but waves is not one of them. It serves a different purpose which is to host scammy ICOs, professional companies will use something else like EOS and soon Cardano. Some might prefer NEO as it complies more with local laws

Venezuela is a good example as mentioned above, and also paraguay which is building one of the largest bitcoin mining farms  in the world. South America in general will put crypto into their economies as they begin to use to for localised trading

Monero has a fairly low supply compared with most coins. Also most of them have already been produced so there won't be any more in circulation. This is an important factor as an increase in total supply will reduce the price of the coin

DASH has fallen from the top spot due to bad governing and the community giving up on it thereby switching to more promising coins like monero. Dash isn't even used much in the dark markets so it really has limited use. I would switch to zcash and monero instead, they have more potential now than dash

I doubt the meetup event will have any effect on the price, there needs to be bigger news coming from their office. If they can deliver on their main goals then it can pump to high levels e.g. sidechains, an SDK, a DEX for their DAPPS. So far investors are left wanting so it's still a gamble right now, worth hodling some but not going all in

Prices are good right now for accumulators, always useful to hold some XMR bags as it has a real world use albeit a dark one. People have guns at home for protection, it is worth having some monero as well, never know when it might come in useful.

I wouldn't be too confident and staying at number 2. I do prefer to see ethereum above the centralised ripple but i remember the last ripple pump in which it doubled in a matter of weeks and flew past ethereum. Hopefully this constatinople fork will deliver better TPS and bring more useful dapps to the platform

Technology-wise NEO is better than ethereum, but not as popular globally. As it is already a working product we should see future growth as more DAPPS are developed and investors enjoy the benefits of passive income by hodling NEO and gaining free GAS tokens

The market is big enough for both and will continue to grow when we recover from this bear market. If ethereum doesn't sort out it's TPS issue then i can see EOS taking over due to it's superior technology and increasing global support

If there was any bounty paid in that currency then it would get swamped with thousands of participants leaving each to be paid a few dollars each. In almost every bounty you will get their own token which in many cases is worthless

KYC from big projects like tezos or stellar is acceptable as you know the process will be done properly. However, when it is requested by a small unknown ICO it is impossible to know what they will do with it, most likely sell it in the dark markets

Monero is in the news for all the wrong reason. There is this virus going around mining monero, and also there are ransom demands from a kidnapper in Norway asking to be paid millions in monero. This is becoming a dark coin indeed

There are many platforms vying to be the next ethereum but waves will not be one of them. Think of bigger names like NEO, Cardano, or EOS as these are the real competitors. Waves is good, but not professional enough

Every project is different, you need to see how big the community is as they will help to drive the coin forwards. If there are only a handful of people then you should dump quickly as demand will be low, otherwise hodl for better gains