There are very few of the bounty campaign that are transparent to the bounty hunters about their funding periods and caps. Most of them starts with the statement soft cap already reached.
 Of many bounties I've looked on, only 1% of the bounties were not paid due to not reaching the soft cap and were openly stating that.

Yes, many times. Used Ethereum to fuel thousands of token transfers and purchases, trying similar things with NEO and NEM. Used Tether to minimise losses on trades. Used BNB, KCS and CET to ease trade fees. Used doge to tip users. Now hoping for something like agate take over the general transactions for payments worldwide.

The adverting of a crypto ICO yields when delivered to the specific groups of investors.
Advertising in crypto based websites and forum would gather more attention.
In my personal experience, paid listing on ICO rating sites, banner ads on crypto related site, active social media presence with regular updates and indulging and disruptive bounty would gather better attention of investors.

This is a typical XRP pump. Just happened that a week ago.  When they'll come back to their normal trend, ETH would get back it's position.
It's not that XRP has a dark future, ETH has a brighter one.
For the long term, ETH is in it's most undervalued price and when the price and transactions of alts increase, ETH would strongly hold ahead of XRP and go nearer to BTC.

Ripple has proved itself to be an useful assets for the investors. But we should not undermine Ethereum which introduced a completely different branch and scope for blockchain. Though they were possible hypothetically, ETH is the first one to introduce it officially and whatever new fancy coin may come, it would be harder for any to compete with the legacy this coin have made. I believe ETH would soon topple bitcoin for the 1st rank rather than falling after XRP.

Whatever short history the crypto has, it has already proved it cannot be contained or destroyed. Either the banks and the authorities go along with the flow of crypto and make them friendlier to both the public and the bank, they would continue to exist otherwise people would start looking for alternatives.
The next standard of banks would be based on blockchain and no one can stop that from happening.

Mining was intended to be done by people around the world in their PCs to decentralize the distribution of coins. At least that's what satoshi had thought but with the commercialization of bitcoin, industries started to mining the coins making it impossible for regular PCs to mine anything.
This industrialization is also making the coin distribution centralized so everyone should work towards a different and more efficient and decentralized form of proving the transaction.

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The government crackdown on crypto traders a few years back exponentially increased the number of people knowing about it. Now it's a general topic for news and the government is in indecision about how to handle it. I'm getting asked more and more about bitcoins and altcoins.
I'd say the percentage is well over 50%.

Glad I was there during the first announcement of Biblepay and actually participated through it's success. I'm feeling so stupid to sell off all my biblepay coins that I got in mining for cheap. Biblepay has been successful to distinguish it as a useful coin and have it's mark on the cryptosphere.

The market from February 2018 is in a sideways motion. There are crest and troughs but not a proper rise or fall in the price for most coins. This is the correction period after the price rise in 15, 16 and 17 and coins are getting to their real values as almost every coin had their price boom on that period.

For learning a skill, most of the scientist sums it upto 10K hours of practice/experience but again becoming a pro is an abstract state and no one really becomes a pro, they just learn from theirs and others mistakes and at least tries not to repeat them.

Though I don't see moonforum or any other clones of bitcointalk an immediate competitor of it but if the forum continues to make such decisions without any prior research about the effects it has on it's use. The forum is essentially forcing new users to buy membership and hence moving towards a format of paid forum.

It's all about supply and demand. How many  people are looking to buy or sale and upto how much high or low they may go.
If more of people (amount) wants to sell than the amount wanted to be bought, the price would decrease and vice versa.

I'm too optimistic for Ethereum to come back as a major cryptocurrency but the development speed and direction are not solving the immediate problems in the blockchain. The increased congestion and fees have resulted in halting of previous smart contracts. If smart contracts are not executed than what would be the use of it.

When choosing a currency to invest for long term the first thing I look into is people and companies behind it. Their prior experience and performances.
I don't just invest in a random project but when I do I keep holding them until I get the desired profit. I invested 5K on a coin which is grossing at about 1.2K at the moment but I believe in it's future and will be holding it.

The dumping have ended already. No one would dump when the price is stabler for six months. The last quarter of 2017 and fist quarter of the 2018 was the time for dumping when people were cashing out their profit. The current market price is due to uncertainty and manipulations. The people holding now are determined patient holders who would even hold it for a couple of years to cash out.

Crypto market is relatively unstable than other markets say stocks. Due to its nature, it's not a surprise. It's unregulated and depends mostly on speculation. After the hype of late 17, the market has corrected a lot and has been stabler than ever with low price fluctuations.

I would not call it the number one but it surely is one of the best bet for safe profit. No investors buying Ethereum below $250 would ever be unsatisfied with it's performance. It's time to buy more Ethereum and other alts.