You cant say that. Even Houbi can have chance against Binance, people love Binance due to their IEOs, activity and a lots of feature that can be used on their platform but we cant ignore Houbi, I read that they are now approved on the FSA on Japan to be used as legal currency or cryptocurrency on their established platforms there. I am a fan of Binance too but I am not closing doors for other platform to utilized too.

Comparing the popularity we cant really compared their level on mass community. Several people really prefer Binance over massive exchanges but I cant blame them they have a perfect and active staff to work on their platform especially the CEO.

For me IEO is a better than simple listing but we cant compare much for these two. In IEO token or project has been display or promoted by the exchange showing its strenght by displaying their tough platform. Simply like Binance completely presenting their project worldwide and the demand is highly appreciated. But for direct listing, we can also see good news with it. See how solana pump even though its not an IEO but only for listing. I can say on other exchange IEOs are not working efficiently but based on my statement on big exchange IEO is much appreciated and highly effective. But its your own opinion to believe me or not.

Yes thats correct. Investors probably learned their greatest lesson that there is no permanent in this world. They probably invest on some ICOs that they would not expect to ruin or wasted their money. Lets agree that msot of them got loss and bounty hunters are dont losing any money while them suffer a huge defeat.

Bounty is not as precise and reliable today compared to previous years. But dont give up on looking for those worthy campaign. Maybe if you been a hunter for a long time you can recognized already which to promote.

That's simply because they are greedy. If they saw an opportunity they will try to jump into it and will fall eventually. These scammers are all wise and they know how to act and make it like a real thing. Some uses some props to their method. For example, they will show you a transactions link of their winnings but the truth is they are the one that still handle those accounts. Many of these are prominent on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. If you are going to earn big from simple task then think twice there are no people giving huge reward for an easy work. Thats why there is a golden statement if the reward is too high that is a scam.

Glad you mentioned but this is always the case to most IEOs. Check all projects that launched their IEOs on Binance, all of them have gone down a lot from their IEO price but some still stick with their 2x to 3x price, but it will depend on the projects and what is their platform about. I see wazirX not going down that much means many users are patronizing their product and also I always hear matic and band protocol always with huge partnership and lots of progress. Meaning it will still depend to that project but perhaps this is rare ocassion and truly all that will launch there will go down after few days of hype trading.

Regulation is not necessary needed. Why you going to risk the fruit of decentralization just to give the benefit of the doubt to those upcoming project. Whitepaper is just a basis of the project, and they can always alter or modify what is necessary for the improvement of their project. Roadmap as well is just a guide but not required to be follow from specifics.

Ive seen many projects that made changes in order to have a good platform.

People taking advantage of this innovation thats why we cant always trust new projects. Real projects are not too showing some progress and using your instinct I think you can feel it if your dealing with a scam one.

Dont expect much developers or management to give a smooth payment terms to bounty participants. Its not that they are required to follow schedule for hunters. Remember bounty is just a promotion and learn to accept fate with whats happening. You did not pay any money to have those valuable tokens. Yes example is cartesi, they will distribute on 3months duration but this is okay at least they are gonna pay you conpared to those other bounty out there. Tachyon protocol made a huge payment on hunters so not everybody can experienced a good payment so be fortunate that you did.

Not true, this is an open source project. I dont think a project can easily gone even they have investors. No active developer on the scene, but someone can make this improve more. I dont see the difference with it from bitcoin. Developers or the creators are not active but they are the top coins on the market. What does it prove then? Decentralized can evolve even without these people watching close by.

Ethereum is on a different level and has so many active staff ob their disposal. I cant compare much because this is a battle of active projects and pioneer coins. Look out also on dogecoin, these are first coins since blockchain has begun and it will stay at the top due to their positioned ever set.

Thats right I think OP forgot this to mentioned and one of the key element of good project. All those social media affair can be done by scammers but they cant fake anything on the open source of github. Regarding the team, even with linkedin users should be able to communicate with the team cause chance that they are using other's identity is possible.

There are so many cases in the past with this method. Always check if they are the real one behind the project. I am pity those profile whom being used for such fraud.

The analysis might not be perfect but thanks for mentionijg those criteria OP.

Also consider the exchange where the IEO is happening. Sometime, the token never really good and investor noticed it. Take for example projects listed on low quality exchange such as p2pb2b or vindax. The project listed here are not comparable to the projects listed on Binance, Kucoin and other top exchange providing IEOs. Use case is important and the quality of project without it they cant experience a pump. With that said, some are increasing price but those are maybe manipulated by the exchange or team itself.

I would stay away from projects like that and only focus on good ones.

Binance Launchpad is the best of all IEO exchange, normally an IEO launches on big platform have return of investment. Why would you waste your time and money on joining on some exchanges that not have a good record on IEO? Many exchanges follow Binance but not all gain a succesful on launching some new projects.

Eversince IEO was introduced it becomes a ground for succesful in adding funds on the marketcap and hopefully it continue but only those big exchange all those medium one should stop cause they not help but increase the scam reports.

Ethereum is for long term investment. While eth 2.0 is not yet completed its safe to assume that this is the right time to buy and fill your sacks. Eth has been known for its smart contract business and now they are migrating to another and new consensus that new to them but not for us. Proof of staking has been observed and seen as good protocol for some coins and I think ethereum is probably made a huge gamble to transfer there. Well not sure if their price could gain more but validators slot has been completely sealed off means many are interested in it.

This is an old project and got so many promotions before, I dont think they can boost their price even they have some promo like that.

Also you cant expect it to be 100x increase in a year. The time people investing on shitcoin are long gone. Also its listed on one of the worse exchange in crypto industry, I never use yobit for a reason anf that will stay as it is. Many tokens listed there are all not good and just been traded there for pump and dump.

Dont listen to OP, dont fall for this token this is probably another shill like other tokens.

This is true during those years tokens are very valuable even a non ICO airdrop have value and easily can be exchange into btc or eth but now, they are all just a bunch of display in our wallets.

For OP, just leave it there nothing you can do to dispose of them unless you really that persuasive and can spend so much for gas. Better thing to do is create new wallet which is much easier than sending those token to eternity.

There are some projects of STO that has succeeded in the past that probably is not documented due to strict regulations. You definitely not heard some of them because maybe they were not listed on popular sites such as coinmarketcap.

Here are some of them:

Blockchain Capital
Nexo
The Art Token
Lottery.com
Hack fund
Spyce Vc
Mt. Pelerin
Neluns
Aspen Coin
Polymath
Provenance

And many more.

Thats not make sense to me. What is the relation of protection of investment through privacy online? The OP is all about expectation for 2020, if you think someone's idea can impact so much to the market then you are on the wrong forum.

2020 improves a lot so I expected more than just simply the market increase. I am way more positive on the halving as price being drive up. As you can noticed it started now and as the halving approaches we will know if on the path of bullish season.

I do hope I can enjoy it but 5% still not enough for me to let myself chilling with enjoyment. As you can see, halving is closer but there are probably other reason of this pump and we can assume it is, but the truth is the whales are just playing their hands again. Do you not noticed how fast the market moving last night? Like what other said, this is just a common scenario and we cant simply say a bull run could trigger anytime. If there is a huge pump you know what happen next and sometime the pump it made is the double of the dump it will have.

So better solution is avoid campaign or any project related with KYC as much as you can. There are always campaign that are good and you can join even without KYC. The purpose of this is for investors qualification and hunters should not participate or even asked to this. Fake IDs are the worst case scenario for everyone, someone could using up your identity without you knowing it all. What would happened next? If those guys using IDs of yours got caught in the middle of something illegal and of course you will be pinned down and hunt even you did not do any crime at all. So think twice for this kyc matter when you are going to share your files and make sure your files are all safe when you give in and only to trusted people. Once it goes to scammers folder then considered yourself in big trouble already.

Well PoS cant fully increase stability of ethereum if you are talking about speed. Yes the lighter consensus mechanism will probably lift the burden to eth's problem but we cant deny how PoW works for the ethereum network capability to handle multiple transactions.

EOS DpoS is really good when I have time to shaken up some dApp and projects under their hood but still their platform is totally not friendly user. I like ethereum usability when it comes to crypto friendly approach.

I also agree with other that PoS could improved more their platform but not all aspect can guarateed. Scalability is not the only problem they must solve but also other conflict with network problematic system.

Any thoughts on being validator? Will it be worth it? 32 eth is really a huge figure for a regular investor.

Never heard that audio money and sounds new term for me. Is it a crypto lingustic term? But I do know that minereum airdrop  that given to users. 32k MNE are locked tokens that dont have value at all since you cant trade that for any major coins.

Its a long time project already and I can see that they make a good move for this year. Perhaps this time they have the guts to move forward but the marketing strategy they did is somehow deceptive. Imagine users will probably get tempt to buy due to their amassing big airdrop money. But unfortunately its just a scheme, that many airdropper fall for.