Despite the increase in the number of participants, you can still work to have good reward, depending on the type of campaign you are into.
If you find a genuine project and you are able to translate for the project successfully. Then be rest assured that you are getting good reward.

The characteristics inherent in blockchain makes it to be secured.
Cryptocurrency is built on block chain technology and it is transferrable from one person to another, with the consent of the person sending, without a third party.
For the fact that it can be transferred, if there is a security bridge on where I am keeping it, it can be stolen, by transferring out.

The OP has his reasons for choosing ethereum over bitcoin, which might be right, but if we take critical look at it, both have their strong and week points. If we are to talk of the most established coin, then that should be bitcoin and the reason is not far fetched from the fact that, it was the first. Then by virtue of this, it has more mass adoption than ethereum.
Ethereum in my opinion has more potential than bitcoin and has the tendency of gaining more uses

Amazix team has been effective in their management. Although, my reservation is on some of the projects. Some take longer time to payout rewards to bounty participants. The only good thing is that, they eventually get listed.
For bountyhive, not having spreadsheet can help to prevent scammers from stealing the details of others. I have also participated in some of their campaigns. If you follow their rules discreetly, you will not have any issue with them, despite the absence of spreadsheet.

If China decides to invest in block chain, they already understand it is for their benefit, although it will also impact the block chain ecosystem. Notwithstanding, there are also some other countries who are already doing that and this does not in any way make them leaders.
So everyone is operating at a normal level, without placing one over the other.

Just recently, I will reading on the potentials of EOS and my conclusion is that it worth investing in.
It has been able to solve some of the problems being faced by ethereum network, although not totally better than ethereum.
In my opinion, I would say it is next to ETH.

I always like to device a plan B, that, what if BAKKT also delays.
We should not depend on all these bodies, SEC, BAKKT and the likes, to determine what will happen in the space.
They might intensionally delay, for their own gains, because they know that the more they delay, the more the coins plunge and for that, they will be able to buy at cheaper rate.
So immediately they announce, the price will increase and that eventually brings them profit.

One of the wallets I have always craved for are multiple wallets.
On coming across HODL, I was excited because it solves the problem.
In a way, I also thought of the risk attached to having every of my assets in one wallet, because there is no wallet that is 100% secured, unlike hardware wallet.

Masternodes in my opinion are best for newly lunched coins, while those that have been existing for long, might not be that profitable, due to the reduction of ROI.
There are now so many masternode coins in the space and most times, it is good to start with anyone you know is good. Start immediately it is lunched and before there is reduction in the coins minted, you would have made reasonable profit from it.

I cannot just decide to sell my altcoins without any genuine reason. I cannot also dispose them, because I want to convert to BTC.
Sometimes, these altcoins tend to bring more profit than coins that have already been established, such as bitcoin.

XLM is a good coin, but it is also centralized.
So sometimes if I see the coin dumping, I might feel that the team or large holder are dumping their coins.
So if you are going to be investing into it, watch out for the time the price is very low, before buying.

This is just a site that is out to make profit. They are only providing the service of making investors to easily assess information on different coins at the same time.
Although, I understand that they need to be strict to some extent, but these guys still want to make some money.

The fifth part is very vital, because you need to watch out for cheaters. Most times, the spreadsheet is full of bot accounts or those that are trying to tale the reward of what they did not work for.
Sometimes, i just imagine if managers really check the spreadsheet for all these.

Apart from the fact that it is a function of pump and dump, it is also obvious that, it is not a good time to get in, because it has over pump. Such can dump easily and those that are just buying at high price, might later sell cheaply, which means a dump.

There is nothing wrong in envisaging for a better future and we should not settle for less this year.
Even if the market does not get better now, there are so many coins that are doing well and an example of such is the recent one, that i just invested in, which GMB.
Learn and try to choose better coins that have future.
When you even see a coin that will perform well, you would have known and you will not hesitate not to dump.

There are different strategies used by developers, to prevent unnecessary dump in price of their coin. Sometimes, the marketing strategy deployed can prevent dumo in price.
I have a coin, whose team devised a promotional method by trade competition. This made the coin to have good support.

The hardfork start tomorrow. I think this phase will determine if ethereum will rise or dump, since the price has already plummeted right before the fork.
Well, the more the update, the better the prospect of a price increase. I still believe there will be a better uptrend, which might not be during the issuance of the hardfork.

NEO seems to have gone and there is no way such coin can overtake an active coin, that has more mass adoption.
Apart from saying that it can surpass ETH, we should be more emphatic on restoring it back.

OP, that is still a far time or year we are talking about. I think  we should also work on or try to envisage what will happen now.

I believe nothing is able to kill cryptocurrency, not even government.
The only thing I feel might happen is regulating at and that is likely going to make it to survive more than 2050.

Inline with what we already know, the influence of man alone on cryptocurrency can bring about serious volatility.
Take for example, the activities of manipulators, who are ready to do anything to their advantage.
They can peddle the news, called FUD and FOMO sometimes.