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.

At current times, crypto is not just a thing, its a whole new field of technology.
There are and there will be all sort of cryptocoins ranging from underground anonymous to regulated or even government controlled/fiat cryptos.
And they'll have different use and preferences.

I too would recommend Binance and Kucoin. They holds for the maximum amount of trading and holding for me. Both provides GAS for NEO, Most of the popular forked coins and holding KCS on Kucoin will make you earn a constant flow of multiple currencies for free.

Yes, ACHAIN had been on my watch-list since it got into the Kucoin exchange. And now they are getting a better attention and with their recent announcement, I believe KYLE LU from ACHAIN is attending The North American Bitcoin Conference - BTC Miami as a speaker alongside with the likes of Brock Pierce, Craig Sellers and Ryan Taylor.

This mode does have a lot of real world competition.
There are indeed many such gamers/gamblers meetups in real world and there are plenty more online platforms that provides offline gaming-online gambling or online gaming-online gambling models.

I second this.
Though religion is one of the sectors that receives the most donations worldwide, they are mostly fiat based.
And you need to have some real work done and it's proof to convince like minded people for the donation.

ICO's with soft and hard caps are generally preferable than the ICOs that would take any amount of money from investors.
A real business would want to raise a minimum fund to achieve particular progress which is defined by soft cap. The raised fund would be useless if they won't be able to achieve soft cap. That's why they return in the case.
A hard cap defines upto what capital does the business is able to utilize the fund. Not even the best business would take every money they get as capital is not the only limiting factor.

Buying ETH is a great idea but It's not already the time to get rid of bitcoins.
As bitcoin is still the leader and most valuable crypto, it is also a much more stable option for investing.
But I suggest everyone to narrow down their bitcoin holding below 50% of total investment as the era of bitcoin is collapsing slowly.

Interested on your project but there's a lag in information between the team and the investors.
I sent some bitcoins to my deposit address and was credited with 60 tokens. Thought the coins were to be distributed after 20th of January.
But yet I don't know what's the price of a token was and most of the site is not functional.

Proof of stake is not that popular, it came as a hype and a rewarding way but it does not solve anything. Masternodes are much more popular as they are an alternative to power hungry mining process.

Vechain's business model offers a long term positive gain. But the most gain you get is by trading in the market crest and trough.
I too used to hold vechain bought it around $0.2 and sold all of them when the market was around $6 gaining some quick profit.

It's one of the best time to invest.
The entire world is embracing cryptocurrencies.
The price is relatively lower now.
And we've seen a basic trend of increase in price of coins (useful ones not every scams) every year for last few years.