I found this for you https://sia.tech/ 

Decentralised storage, aka private cloud, aka hold your data on someone elses server.  I like the concept, and this project is more delivery and less grandiose claims than some others.

What do you think Tron offers that other decentalised web offerings dont?  Where is the evidence such a thing has a large market potential?  And is it even technically deliverable - you still have to go over the existing Internet infrastructure and nodes likely hosted in existing DC.

It certainly does feel like the dotcom bubble. 

You only highlight how poor this project is, people are throw money are pure speculation that something might be good in the future, if the tech is any good and people actually use it (there's half a dozen competitors in an unproven market).  This is not an investment, its a gamble.

Wow such research, great coins. 

Coinvest ICO is closed. 
Dragonchain is not drgtoken 
Bitfincoin flags as insecure and phishing 

Did you read why he chose to sell?  He cited to remove accusation of conflict of interest.  All developers should do similar.  People criticise other coins where a substantial holding by developers. rightly so. 

For those that have heard of individual stories of blocked accounts, do you also hear of wholesale blocking?  i.e. all accounts blocked by a specific bank (so its there policy) or country (so local legislation)?  If not, we should conclude this is individual incidence likely due to transactions deemed as suspicious.  If you suddenly pull $10k from a foreign source, bank might be suspicious.

Maybe because Chinese are clever and can see this coin is trash, basic errors on their sales pitch, no one would do research and think this is promising, I wouldn't be surprised if the the team dont exist, if they do they've a lot to live up to now.  No one talked about it because there's nothing to talk about, and someone or group has pumped this.

Getting into the LN thing, every answer opens up a new question... so you have to tie an amount (from single address) to a establish a channel.  Sort of staking?  I can see how this can work for regular large payments, say with an exchange, however its a big ask to expect people to do this for small payments.  It seems like putting up a credit tab with the shop/bar and you have to hit a minimum spend to make it worthwhile.

   So back to square 1, we need to pay fees to open the channel each transaction?  Or we keep our own channel open (tieing wallet balance) hope our recipient is on LN with an open channel? 

Like the idea of running a node though, have my old machine for mining that i keep meaning to give a new project.

They probably don't.  They call themselves investors or speculators.  They are responsible for most the value increase in Bitcoin the past months.

Really?  What in your research pointed to being worthwhile, what makes it better than other data sharing coins, like say Siacoin?

Why is this a good coin?  What does it really offer that you couldn't do without it, yet another coin claiming to reinvent the internet (which you cant do when using the internet ...  )

From their website:
This is a project worth $12bn?  Typos, and basic concept incorrect, WWW is not the Internet!!

So many see centralisation as a problem.  Perhaps many people coming into cryptocurrencies now dont mind? 

To start, lets be rational about something, we should not expect 2018 to see similar growth to 2017.  One can hope, and it may happen, but there's no fundamental reason to ensure a repeat performance. Prices may go up a lot, a little, sideways or fall.

So, with this in mind what is likely to be the best hedge for Bitcoin: an altcoin that is likely to follow upward trends but also be resilient to falls, even perform better than Bitcoin should it suffer some significant correction?  I'm thinking this will come from the older established coins, Litecoin, Etherum, Dash, etc that have been around and have a bit of solid core usage independent of Bitcoin value or speculation.

Vaporware is strong for something in testing.  As you say though it needs adopting, something that apparently hasn't occured for Segwit.  I'm growing concerned LN is not going to address real usage problems.

Thus conflicting one the foundations of Bitcoin, decentalisation?  After 10 years, we've reinvented the Bank.      

If there's a fee to open/close the channel, and I only make a single transaction with the other party, how is that different to the existing fee structure?  If i make regular transfers, do i simply keep the channel open for all future payments (say with exchange)?  As far as i can see, LN makes it cheap for bulk tx but not really helping the user with individual tx.  I hope i'm missing something.

I fear that the technical deficiencies in Bitcoin will not be addressed.  So much faith is placed in Segwit and Lightning Network, if they do not deliver and have widespread adoption, the reality of Bitcoin becomes incompatible with the ideals of low cost, immediate transactions.  Ironcially these issues are keeping alot of value in Bitcoin.

I am now cycling onto other coins, as i take profits its not going back to Bitcoin. How many others are doing likewise?  At some point a critical mass of value will have moved to other coins, the demand for Bitcoin could collapse and along with it the price. 

Can anyone mine this coin or only the company building, deploying and supporting the containers.  Doesn't sound very decentalised if theres only one owner of the mining.

Sharkcoin is a terrible name for a lending business. So many errors in the write up, cant work out if this is a spoof or a scam.