I think 2018 is just the starting of ICOs. ICOs till date were limited to fewer people and company and as it turned out to be one of the most effective way for fundraising. Every new startups and established companies in every sector are being attracted to it. It's more efficient to issues an ICO than to issue an IPO or FPO.

You don't have a website, whitepaper, roadmap or a product. But you have a ERC20 token whose value would be fixed and will keep rising only.
Market price always depends on supply and demand. Even the USD, Gold and Oil has a fluctuation in price.
If you insist on fixing the rising price, it would act like a ponzi where older investors will get profited by the newer one.
And when there would be no one to buy more the coins would be useless.
This would be just another Yobit with relatively lower success.

Facebook are banning paid ads about cryptocurrency and ICO on it's platform.
There would be no ban for people posting and sharing news and links.
Though they may also restrict posting ICO based links but there can be many ways through it by using short links or landing pages.

It would be too early to claim those three to be a scam. They do have some responsive community here.
But what I should too point out is the three are a lot similar in the way they gives out unprofessional news and updates.

There are a few requisite for me to invest in an ICO.
1. It should have media coverage, participates in different real event around the globe.
2. Should have a clear and profitable working model or a feasible concept of making one.
3. Should be from a team that consist of professionals rather than newbies.

I don't think doge would be a x5 or x10 a year.
It's designed to have the constant and unlimited flow and is intended for a tipping meme coin.

If you want a sure shot rise, invest in an ICO of a good project. We have higher competition for the mining coin section.

People should use safer browsing habit and along with that should diversify their bitcoin and altcoin holdings in as many places as possible.
Exchanges, online wallets and hot wallets in gambling sites.
If you are not using it regularly, you can just export the private key in encrypted form and remove every trace of its existence.

Yovi is just a huge ponzi by yobit. Though it's price seems high on yobit, it's nearly impossible to get the same resell value for the coin. As, the coin reselling is highly restricted by the exchange and the same coin is being traded on cryptopia for 1000 satoshis a piece.

It should.
We need to use as less energy as possible while making our transactions.
Energy is costly and energy hungry process of confirming a transaction by mining is getting more industrialized that also undermines the decentralized nature of crypto currencies. 

I was an early investor of vechain. Bought it about $0.25 and sold it when it was $6. Quite a profit.
Vechain is indeed a good project and has good future in long term. If you can hold it over 5 years, you'll have a good profit.
But for short term profit, I don't think Vechain will gain any huge momentum in next couple of years.

They are still low in price and could be a good investment for some profit. But I don't believe they have a very clear vision about their roadmap or what they are. There are a lot of coins that claim to be the coin of cannabis industry.

If you have a healthy browsing habit, go with myetherwallet, you have the full control over your eth and tokens with large support of various API, if you are more into Ethereum than tokens, Metamask is a better option.

As cryptocurrency now is a wider range of coins that holds virtual value.
We may accept it or not but it has grown larger in the private side than the other concepts.
We are loosing anonymity but the characters like transparency and auditability still exist.
Individuals and hedge funds are surely attracted towards the currencies.
Banks and other government oriented funds are still cautions about the anonymous and decentralised concept so they are coming up with more traceable (even more than fiat) by focusing on KYC tokens and will go with that version of cryptocurrency.

It's all upto the Ethereum team and they should quickly make some decision to make the network efficient. I believe it needs a complete hard fork or a swap to start from scratch for everything it want to support. The original blockchain is so blotted, patches went solve the problem permanently.

My top 4 for February are

1. Celcius.network - This type of project do have a future. We've seen relative success of ethlend and Celcius is way better.

2. Tutellus.io - It's already a successful business model since 2013 and now is going tokenized for global reach.

3. WePower.network - They are a serious team with serious influence in European energy market.

4. Experty.io - They are expert of what they are doing. Though I still didn't get what they are doing, they are getting a huge attention.

There are a total of 21,000,000 bitcoin supply.
Out of which at current time, 16,820,025 are already mined.



That lefts us with 4,179,975 Bitcoins roughly 19.9% of bitcoins.

Every one has the right to make an opinion and wall street is historically one of the most unpredictable financial instrument for years.
Though they traded shares of real companies whose returns are much more predictable, they mostly go through bubble and correction times where rich investors gets profit on the expense of small ones. And rhetoric has been one of the major weapon.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fraud-or-the-future-how-bitcoin-is-being-described-by-billionaires-and-wall-street-ceos-2017-10-05

Not including payment ID along with the Public ID might be the reason for your loss.
Cryptopia is having some problems with the system. Multiple users have reported about the issue and many of their wallets are in maintenance.
Hope the problem would be solved quickly.

Creating a coin or a token is a technical issue.
It's operation and usability defines it's future.
The crypto world is getting more and more competitive and diverse and it's getting harder for a small team or community to operate a coin.
One of the reason for it is cryptos are not being received as currencies but as assets.

KCS is really a great investment opportunity. I bought them when low and they are providing a constant reward as POS not only in KCS but also as bits of many other coins which again has a possibility of going to moon.