That's one of the reason why I don't prefer DEX nowadays. The problem with DEX is they give the ticker to whoever adds their coin first.
And with that what happens is same ticker is provided by different exchanges to different coins creating confusion.
Many people have complained about sending/buying one coin assuming other. The problem also exist while coin swapping. There could be a swaped token trading in one DEX while a preswap coin in other.

I do it as often as I remember between my browsing and gaming session. And now I've concentrated most of my coins in a single exchange and I too check that often to find my coins worth. CoinMarketCap has really redefined crypto reference, though they sometimes have error displaying exact price on one place or another, they are still the best tool around.

I'd not call 2018 a failed year for ICO rather call it a realization of the importance of ICOs.
There are ICO this year that raised over 20 million and many reaching their targets.
Unlike 2017 investors surely were selective when investing in an ICO as they realised not every of them would yield them a profit and lot of them were just scams.

I'm really frustrated with the waves wallet.
I thought holding the private key of a wallet would be enough for me to access my tokens but unlike every other wallet, waves doesn't let you access your wallet with just your private key. Anyone please update if we are now able to do that.

If you are sure about the price going down, converting your coins to a fiat based token would save the value of your coins. And you'd be able to increase the number of your coin holding by buying the coins in cheaper value. This way, you'd profit in both rising and falling market. But be cautious, where's there's good profit, there's good risk too.

I too find current dex not too worth of the hassle to try.
Did got used to etherdelta and likes in the past but they are making these things much more difficult than in the past.
There's an exchange called ddex, good gui and good list of coins but I misled a token and some eth and I'm not being able to get them back.

More than 1K of ICOs in 9 months and 200 of them being funded. The number 200 is even huge for a 9 month period.
It's not that ICOs are not raising money, good ICO project had proved themselves even in current situation of price depression.
It's time to rethink before jumping in to start an ICO.

There's seems to be various reasons for the ICO issuer asking for a KYC of their investors.
The most prominent of them being able to provide info when asked on by authorities.
Crypto is a good place for money laundering and suspicious investment without source of income would get the issuers in trouble.

I found deadcoins interesting. They are better than what I thought. Listing both unusable and unworthy coins with a proper explanation.

The problem with the coin supply after ICO is largely the data are totally depended on what the team provides. Exact data are only available if the total ICO was a smart contract based otherwise, the team may falsely claim the token they holding to be on circulation or disguise themselves as fake investors.

I love blockchain based games. Though Ethereum dapps were frustrating to play with, newer dedicated blockchains for games are making the gaming experience better. Crypto is bridging the gap between in game credits and real life credits creating an environment where players can play to earn for paying the subscription of the game.
Currently I'm playing a single blockchain based game Cryptogalaxy but the slow development, less users and adoption has turned me down.

I'm investing only on those ICOs that I find are worth of believing in. For that I look for an established names after them.
And when it comes to the investing, I don't have a proper rule to define my amount of investment. Mostly, its how much I afford to invest at the time of sale. I have only invested in about 8 ICOs in 2018 and more than half of them are in profit.

The statement should be "Scammers are being lazy".
Scamming used to be a difficult task, it used to be a very difficult task to fool normal people. Only stupid people did fall for email scams.
With the emergence of crypto currency, it's being easier for scammers to scam out people. As lazy scammer as one making a one page website are being able to lure people to send them money. Active and dedicated scammers are making fortune out of cryptocurrency.

There are many fluid analysts who predicts death everytime the crypto decreases in price and boom on every increase, they actually make the situations difficult. Crypto is still a new economic market and a fluctuation of upto 20% a day should be considered normal as its unregulated and the market works 24/7, it would have greater fluctuation than stocks.

As of now. Yes.
ICOs as of current time are mostly populated by either a scam, just an absurd idea on someones mind, a impractical idea from a team without experience.
ICOs need to have some works done before investors would believe on them. Just bringing up an website and whitepaper is not going to yield anything for now.

I was closely watching their ICO on coinex. I knew it would be a total success. The minimum investment at that time was over 400 USD and I was holding only CET in the exchange which again is a great value utility token of the Coinex exchange, a subsidiary of Viabtc itself. I'd still be interested to buy the token in smaller amount if it went below the ICO price.

There has been a lot of FUD recently regarding Ethereum, i.e. Vitalik Buterin leaving Ethereum and Vitalik Buterin says the death of Ethereum is imminent.
People not looking for the actual source but citing FUD articles in panic. But what everyone should realize is even if both of the above statement were true, that would not have any large effect on Ethereum. It does not depend on a single person or how a single person thinks.

There are a lot of scammers everywhere anyway. And ICOs are still one of the most profitable investment opportunity available when chosen with a little research and wit.
In every business and every fields there are scammers. The only difference between real world and crypto scammers is that it is difficult to identify the scammer if they don't provide their identity.

2014 was bad, 15 was better, 16 much more better and 17 was excellent bringing us back to bad year 18.
If we believe it to be a cycle of 4 years like mostly crypto analyst talk, 2021 would be the best year for crypto holders.
And again they are just analysis and should not be taken seriously.

Scams are getting cheaper, that's all.
Scammers used to getting a lot of money fall for their scam in past so they could afford better construction of Whitepaper. With the rise of number of people and projects scamming and a general awareness in investors about a good and bad project, scams are getting really cheaper.

Yes the fall of ethereum is unavoidable but the article is all FUD. Ethereum is just a project on development is already an integral part of the crypto society, it would take other coins hundred of years to replace ethereu. Vitalik Buterin surely had imagined the fall of Ethereum but he would not have mentioned it to occur this year or anytime soon.