The holding you have:

TenX and Qtum are both very powerful projects, good picks! But 25 Tenx is kinda low, don't you think? It really depends on how much money you have available to invest, but in general the higher your investment the higher the potential return (and potential loss), but either way, invest in what you are willing to lose.

TenX is cool and you should increase your stake in it, because it's one of the few projects with a working service and real world application. You can already use their debit card and phone app and make various purchases, that's quite rare in the crypto world (a working prototype)

Qtum is quite cool as well because it focuses on the Asian market, which is huge, and it might be much more valuable that it is currently if there will be high adoption rates. It's as well a good hedge against other platforms such as Ethereum itself as it integrates a smart layering system.

Both of your holdings get the "OK" from me

Waves can't be the next ethereum. Yes they do try to make things easier for the end user, but they still lack customization that Ether offers. With Ether you can do whatever you want, while with Waves you are kinda restricted. The good things about waves is that its network is kinda more efficient, which means it can process more transaction and people don't have to wait long for their transaction to process. But experienced projects and developers usually go for Ethereum because they can program it according to their preferences and they are not set-back by already applied rules that Waves has. It doesn't mean that there is no market out there for Waves, it just means that it will be much smaller than what Ethereum has.

There are other alternatives to SiaCoin (storage and decentralized networks). If I would invest 1000 dollars into a project I would try to find something unique that doesn't have a lot of competition. Siacoin is against some serious projects which are much more likely to succeed, due to better funding and more experienced teams. If you follow Sia closely and keep up with their updates/upgrades, and you see some innovative patterns emerging when compared to other projects, then by all means invest your money in them. But you should understand the technology behind Sia and what differentiates them from competition, because if they can't differentiate their service from competitors, then that means that they are not offering anything new to the market, and the value of the project and respective coin will eventually dip. Just to remind you that Filecoin had one of the biggest ICO's in history and they are competing on the same domain.

8000 is a very low estimate, after the fork though I believe that BTC will kinda sink, but within a couple of months it will reach 10k minimum. That is due to the many announcements that have been made from institutions to integrate BTC into their markets. CME for example wants to trade BTC as though it's a commodity, they even said they want to "tame" BTC which is funny, because they can't do that. But it will be traded just like gold and oil, as  future, which means people will be able to short it (gain profit if the price falls) as well as go long (profit when the price appreciates). Either way you'll be good being well invested in the coin and make sure to invest in some other top 10 coins just for good measure.

This 88coin doesn't look any different than the myriad other coins out there offering virtually the same thing. Where is the innovation? Why do you think that 88coin is better than any other coin out there? Give us some info why you think it's the biggest ICO so we can get an idea of what you're on about. In my opinion it's just another shitcoin that has nothing new to offer, there are far better projects out there that are honestly building great things (product and services) and are not focused on just the transactional part of the blockchain.

Every project has a different strategy regarding the time of the ICO.

What many do is the following: They use a very limited duration (couple of hours/days) which has the effect of creating a lot of demand (they are reducing the time frame, supply, from the equation, which makes the very limited time frame that someone has to offer in demand). That's frowned upon by many but it really depends on how you look at it.

Other projects again last for months or in some cases even years (EOS) which is another interesting strategy, as you let investors learn about the project and have always the door open for new investors to rush in. It's quite convenient for most investors and some don't like it.

You shouldn't worry it much how long it will be, just because a project decided to go to one of the two ways doesn't mean they are less reliable.

It really sucks what is happening to Altcoins right now, but it shows you and teaches you a very important lesson. It's called hedging. Whenever you invest in something you have to make sure that you are adequately hedged, which means you should buy things, that move in contrast to your main investment. For example, when stocks go down, Gold is going usually up, and vice versa. Gold is acting as hedge therefore and kinda balances out your losses. The same is with Bitcoin, you should have a portion of your funds invested in Bitcoin, because it's hedging you in case it increases or decreases in value. As you might have noticed, when BTC is up, altcoins are down and vice versa, it makes sense therefore to be invested not only in Altcoins but in BTC itself in order to reduce the effects of a potential downfall that you are experiencing right now.

be careful with all the suggestion you get here. Make sure to always do your own due dilligence before investing in an ICO. What the team is, what they are offering, what problem it solves and whether the market needs it at the first place. There are so many investors who are getting busted and come a few minutes later on the forum whinning about it. Just invest what you can afford to lose and be sure to read up anything that might be relevant to the project. Even if the project does look great, there is still pontential that something will go completely wrong (Tezos). And that's something you can't predict unfortunately, therefore it will be a good idea, whatever people recommend you on this thread to buy/join - to do that for several projects. Make sure you're invested in more than one project, because that way you'll reduce your chances of getting busted and losing a significant amount of money. The more projects you're invested in the better it will be for your portfolio, in the long term you are very likely to make up that money and multiply it, so have some faith and invest in what you believe in.

As Neblio is not a very well known coins, you are less likely to find a wallet that supports it. Whether a wallet supports a currency depends on the wallet creators, the wallet creators decide whether to integrate a new coin in their wallet and that again will depend on the potential and popularity of the token itself. Have you thought about investing that 600 into some better known coins, like BTC or ETH? Your options that way are much more wide and you can choose from various wallets out there. And there is something I noticed.. you said you have 600 and decided to go for Neblio. Did you first have the 600 and then decided to invest in Neblio, or did you find out Neblio and thought the project is so good that you have to invest 600 in it? There is a big difference, because you shouldn't just invest in something, just because you have the money to do so, you should invest in something that has "triggered' your attention in such a degree that you are absolutely sure about the future appreciation of the coin.

BTC has gone quite far.. from 1k a couple of months ago to 6k today.. that's a 500% increase, which is insane for traditional investment alternatives out there right now. If you don't have a lot of capital to invest, you're best chance is to go for Altcoins as you've already mentioned, and Ethereum is definitely a good pick from all other alternatives. The current implementation of Ethereum and all the adoption from developers makes it a very attractive altcoin, and it might even surpass BTC at some point in the future. It's such as good coin because it differentiates from the main coin (BTC) and offers a completely new "window" of oportunities. These are starting to be implemented nowadays in forms of projects (all these ICO's you're seeing going around) and some of them will eventually be very successful, once the median consumer gets their hands on it. In these terms, Ethereum is definitely a good investment if you're looking for higher returns than BTC (I believe it will perform better in the future due to it's many problem solving abilities, which BTC is kinda limited unfortunately).

we're more likely to see some sort of digitilized currency. Paper money might disappear one day but it will be replaced 1:1 by digital currencies, that's very likely. That way the governments who issue the paper money will still have the control over these currencies, which means they can adjust the supply of the digital currency depending on the current economic performance of a specific country. It's actually a win-win situation because most governments want to have control over their currency, and the reason they ban and regulate the crypto market is to keep that control and not lose it. If they issue a digital currency which they have control over, all that will change, all of the sudden the issuance of new money will be much easier, and they even might automate the various activties or "obligations" the citizens have towards the government, such as taxes, insurances, updating various documents (passports, ID's etc.). It will definitely take long, not sure if that will be achieved by 2023.

that's a good strategy

-Buy when everyone is selling
-Sell when everyone is buying

But then again you might be in a long term cycle and it might be that you keep on losing/gaining, so it's kinda tricky. The best solution is my case is to reduce trading overal as much as possible, when you have decided to buy e.g. BTC, stick with it for a couple of years and don't consider selling just because a new update is realeased or an upcoming fork is about to lauch. Everyone is tryint to "time" the market but that's not possible, there are so many unexpected things that can happen (China banning ICO's etc.) that it's not possible to predict the price movement. You can only predict what idea might have an impact in the future and invest based on that, don't let short term profits take the focuse and goal out of your eyes. Invest in what you believe in and stick with it.

there is definitely a crowed effect and market psychology involved into trading. Things are usually not as bad as they really are, but the fact that people react in a certain way when these "news" are releasesd, makes the issue multiply even though it shouldn't. There is a market pschology or "sheep" mentality going on, where everyone is following gain/profits, so it's enough for 2-3 big players to dump e.g. a coin, and the rest is most likely to follow. That is why pump and dump is so common in the crypto space, a few players can change the mentality of most traders by offloading or buying big stacks in certain coins, and before the people know about it, they already take the profits and let the rest of the people who invested in it to go flop. So a good leason is not to follow the market, but to follow and be loyal to the project you support.

we have to keep in mind that times and techonology has changed, gold has always been a descent performer and good "balancer" for when equities were not performing good, but you have to consider that BTC is fairly new and has more potential, while gold has been around for a while and has reached maturity in the markets long time ago. That means that you are unlikely to make any descent returns out of gold now, because everyone is already invested in it. Just by comparing the returns of both gold and BTC, you'll see that BTC's return can hardly be compared with any other traditional investment currently available on the market, nontheless gold itself. If you're looking for high returns, I'd recommend that you invest in BTC, as the chances of getting a better return are much higher.

Try training on a simulator before you enter the "real market", some recommendations are:

https://www.forex.com/en-us/open-forextrader-demo-account
https://www.fxcm.com/uk/forex-trading-demo/

these brokers offer virutal money for you to train and try different techniques out. Once you have trained on these platforms for a couple of months, you'll be able to go into the real market and feel comfortable enough placing real bets. Don't directly invest your real money into trading! It's like jumping into the sea without having learned first how to swim (spoiler - you'll drown).

And remember that even though FX markets share some characteristics with crypto markets, crypto markets are still the most dangerous one's (unstable).

Alts are definitely offering a better alternative to BTC if you're new in the crypto space and have virtually no BTC. At the moment with some research, you might land on a real diamond project and get a 1-3k return on your initial investment, which in the short term, is almost impossible for BTC to happen. Alt's are just offering a different ecosystem and I don't think this is a bad thing, many are saying that anything beyond bitcoin is worthless, but there are so many projects out there that offer so many solutions to today's problems, that some of them are meant to survive. The tricky part is finding which one's will, but if your analysis is correct and that project really becomes what it's meant to be, it will very likely make you rich, or at least offer you an income that was beyong any other expectation you would have in the traditional investment securities. Keep BTC as a hedge and buy into altcoins to increase your potential return, my suggestion is.

in the long term there has been so much pushback from the Spanish government that you can tell they are unlikely to completely give independence to Catalonia, at the same time, Catalonias have tried by far their best to gain independence and have the right to do so. Considering that this has been going on for decades, I think they'll come each year closer to independence, they are always pushing a little bit further and this time, it seems, Spain will have to grant them at least a bit more independence than they are comfortable to give them. In that trends continues sonner or later Catalonia might become really independet, but Europe itself will play hard on it, as Europe wants in general more integration and not less of it. So even if they do become independent, I think they'll be worsed off than before.

to start with I believe that rape is one of the worst things a human can do. Having said that, I don't believe the death penalty is justified for such action, I don't even believe the death penalty should be used for someone who has killed another person, or a thousand of them (I'm against the death penalty in general). Having said that, governments that are presented with such cases, or the authorities need to take this kind of incident much more serious, the have to find ways to make these perpetradors to "learn from their mistakes". Public shaming is one way to do it, if you combine this with a hefty find and prison sentence it might deter the perpertrador from doing something like this in the future. It's sad that in some countries this is not taken seriously, but it is due to the fact that women don't have the same "status" as men in many countries, which makes this incidents less severe in the eyes of the people. We have to give women equal rights and in this way we'll slowly see the landscape and laws change in regard to such cases.

well, yeah it can be fun if you don't put too much money in it, or if the money you've put in it is not much to you! But the mistake many people are doing is that they trade more than they can afford. Always invest what you are willing to lose, and never invest trying to make a living out of this (unless you already have). Trading is difficult and it requires a lot of nerves, sleepless nights and anxiety attacks (if your income depends on it). Best case scenario is to have a full time job and trade once in a while whever you feel like, maybe on the weekends or when big events happen, depending on how much time you have or depending on your schedule.

the start is always the most difficult part of anything, and that's exactly the same when trading. Especially in trading, starting small is difficult because the fees are absolutely killing you (in many cases you pay 3% of your stack just to go through a couple of transactions / deposits / withdraws etc.). What you can do is of course leverage your small stack, or trade on a margin, which is: you're borrowing money from the exchange and trade it in order to increase your profit. The problem with that is that if the market goes the other way as you've predicted, that your entire stack will go to zero, it's very very easy to losse a lot of money while margin trading as it is to win. Since you aren't experienced with it, I'd recommend to start trading without a margin, just put there the small amounts you already have, and slowly start margin trading as you get better (try to bet about 2% of your entire stack in each trade, to increase your chances of succeeding by multiplying your transactions).