Hacking is the most profitable thing for sophisticated programmers. They know how to break security systems of web resources, platforms or even wallets. And they know very well how to do it without being traced and caught. So why shouldn't they use it for their own benefit? It doesn't require any investments or spending of their own assets. They get everything for free. This is, I suppose, is the main reason why they do that. We all like to get something for free.

I am not excited by the situation because it only proves that the current situation with the market is not healthy and that it is now in full control of "whales" and other influential persons who can easily manipulate the market and cryptocurrencies' prices. At the same time, I am not frustrated because I know after the rain always shows the sun. Similarly, after a huge wave of dump follows a wave of the growth. So, I think, current low prices of Bitcoin and other altcoins is a great opportunity to buy more assets and hold until the next growth.

I think in a year from now cryptocurrency issue will be more actively discussed by the international community on international intergovernmental forms and summits. I hope till that time governments will come to a common agreement about the legal nature and status of crypto assets. Hope the legalization of cryptocurrencies will stabilize market towards huge and reasonless dumps and manipulations.

The experienced investors are mostly right. 80% or even more of ICOs today are complete long-term scams and amateurs in crypto-world and blockchain who followed the trend aiming to make a fortune from nothing. It is a very beneficial model to prepare some project with no guarantees that it'll succeed, make beautiful pictures of it to attract naive investors (beginners), make bright promises, and collect their money in return for nothing. Then, after ICO, the team of the project starts to make obscure and shady moves to make even more profit for themselves, stop answering on contributor's questions and demands, start postponing events, feeding them with empty promises, and list their tokens on the worst exchanges that nobody knows or uses. They dump their token's price so hard that it will reach the ICO price maybe in a year or three, or even never.
For that reason, I am sure that investing and buying project's tokens during ICO, today is a very bad idea. I prefer to find a very decent project in which you strongly believe, wait until its ICO is over, wait until panic sellers and bounty hunters dump the price of the token by 60-90% and buy it for almost nothing if you still believe in that project. That's what experienced investors do.

I am glad that I didn't start trading in December 2017 when the price of Bitcoin was 15000-20000$. Those people who entered the market then faced huuuge losses of their investments. That is really very sad. They lose 60-70% of their investments. Although nowadays we also don't know where its price goes in the upcoming months. Every day the market fluctuation and continuous corrections "squeeze" more and more people. Not only newcomers to this market but also experienced traders and investors get frustrated and leave this market in losses. Taking into account current situation on the market, people stop believing in cryptocurrencies, stop investing, start spreading negative forecasts about the market, and consequently, the market goes down again and again. It is hard now to predict when it will recover again. We should be very careful trading today.

Considering how bad and poorly current ICOs are managed today by multiple amateur projects teams, I would advise selling bounty tokens among the first sellers while its price is at least half of the ICO price. I can see now that all the projects dump by 60-95% from the ICO price as soon as they hit the exchange. This is crazy but that's the truth. So, I would advise selling on the first day of trading while the price has something from the ICO price, then wait while all the bounty hunters dump the price even harder up to 70-90% of the ICO price. And then you can buy 10 times more tokens than you'd earned in the bounty. After a huge dump, the team and the community frustrated from such a huge loss will take steps to pump the price. And in the nearest days, the price will go up and you will be able to double, triple or even quadruple it just like that. But don't do that more than twice because the pump won't last long.

Personally, I would say that taking into account the first half of this year, neither Bitcoin nor Ethereum are winning so far. I think fiat is winning at the moment. Strong manipulations of the market and huge dump of BTC price from 15k-20k dollars to 6-7k$ proves that the cryptocurrency itself has problems that must be solved as soon as possible to make this market to recover and become at list stable. With each huge correction, more and more people get "squeezed" and stop investing in cryptos losing faith in it. People stop investing in ICOs, 'cause it is hard to find decent ones among the big number of them. The majority of them are just projects that want to make a quick fortune out of nothing. So, in the first half of 2018, I think, cryptocurrency is not a winner at all. Will see what happens next. Hope, autumn will be more preferable for cryptos as it was the previous year.

No wonder! Those "experts" are only experts when they guess right. Those figures that they predict are taken from the sky in order to speculate on the market and people's involvement. Nobody knows for sure what Bitcoin's price will be, we only have to adjust to market's behavior and situation. Then we can predict something for short- or mid-term investment or trading. Nobody knows for sure how the market will behave a month or two from now, especially taking into account that crypto-whales now take control of the market trends.

That is the bitter truth of nowadays in crypto-world. Everybody finds sophisticated ways to earn big money from nothing. I think the majority of ICO rating resources do the same. Although I think that the majority of ratings there are true but there are some that are advertised by these platforms according to private agreements with the heads of particular projects. At the same time, the rating of some projects that are not that good advertised is underappreciated. They put rating 2 just because nobody made any reviews of such projects.

I started trading with 10$  But actually, I just started to learn crypto then. That's why I deposited such a low amount. I just wanted to follow how the trading will go, how it's working. Now, I think that the best price to start trading is 1000$ but 500$ also will do. Especially today you can buy 1 ETH for 490-500$ and play on its price, 'cause it has a huge potential for a further growth up to 600-700$ when the bullish trend returns.

Yesterday I heard from the news that some of Russian banks already suggest or prepare to suggest their clients an option of holdings or investments in cryptocurrency. It is just a matter of time. A lot of other countries that strongly support crypto-assets deal with such deposits.

I think the reason for such sudden falls of Bitcoin price and other coins is manipulations and moves of the "whales" of the crypto market. They want to "squeeze" weak investors and traders, as well as those who just entered the market with hope to make fortune on undervalued BTC. The "whales" now have privileges. They have enough money to make BTC go up or down. And they do that for their own profit and in order to ensure that nobody else on this market can become reach in the same way as they did.

At the moment, for me, Binance is the best cryptocurrency exchange with reliable security measures and attitude of the company towards its clients. Only once had an issue and it was solved very fast, and as it turned out later it wasn't on Binance but was some coin's wallet suspension. All the experience I have with this exchange is a good one. No problems with withdrawal and depositing funds, the lowest trading fees at the market, easy-to-navigate design and technical tools for analysis. Everything a trader needs is available at this exchange.

The "whales" want to "squeeze" weak "players" and newbies of the market. And at the same time, they want to rebuy cryptocurrencies for a very cheap price and multiply their money. They have the benefits, as they made a fortune in cryptos when nobody believed in it. Now they can manipulate the market and ensure that nobody makes fortune on crypto like they did and at the same time regularly increase their savings.

True. But also there is one more factor that has the impact on earnings. The number of people taking part in the bounty. It is hard to earn a significant amount of tokens from a trusted and very popular ICO project because too many people participate in it. Personally, I prefer spending my time on the good projects, according to my view, which are underestimated and not many people involved in it. There you can earn good amount of tokens.

Pal. I think we got chances to fall even lower. In my opinion, buying BTC for 6000-6200$ would be s better idea. We got all the chances to see this price at the moment. Although buying for 6700$ is also a good idea. Anyway, we got so many ups and downs ahead. There's never a right price to buy or sell. We actually do not know for sure when the price stops dumping and start growing.

Personally, I wouldn't advise you to invest in any ICOs nowadays. Too much lies out there. The most of project teams don't keep their words and don't even stick to their own rules. They change them multiple times, make shady moves and decisions in order to make a quick fortune for themselves and leave investors and its supporters empty-handed. As I participated in plenty of projects recently, I see the same picture again and again. Every ICO coin's price dumps huge and the team makes nothing about it, for 2-3 months the price dumps harder and harder from the ICO price. Most of the projects dump by 70-80%. I think you don't need that. I would rather suggest you to pick those projects that you like and believe that they will become successful in the future. Wait until the end of ICO, in the telegram group find out whether the team has any upcoming important events. Wait until the token hits exchange and bounty hunters sell all their rewards, you will see a huge dump of token's price. And if then you still believe in this project and ready to wait until the big events related to this project, then buy this token at 50-80% discount and wait to make profit.

I think that Ethereum is very good for a long-term investment. It is one of the two the most authoritative cryptocurrencies with high demand on the market. And its price is relatively low to its highest rates. It has a good potential and space for the growth. Especially if you buy it now for 500-600$. I think you will definitely benefit from this deal in a couple of years.
Although you should understand all the risks that are behind any investments, and I would advise you simply just follow the news concerning the market and ETH itself.

Partly I can agree with you. Most of the crypto analytics are telling nonsense because actually nobody knows where the market is going to go. But still, I prefer to read or watch videos with the analytics I trust. They are trusted ones for me. They are more experienced in this market and spend more time analyzing the market and upcoming news/events. That is why it is worth listening to them because they can know or take into account something that you wouldn't know. At the same time, the final decision for any actions must be only your personal. I listen to the information, analyze how it correlates with my personal views and then I decide whether it is worth to take into account received information from them or not.

Although Ripple is developing very fast and has plenty of agreements with influential companies and banks, a lot of investors and traders are very sceptical about it because it is not like other cryptocurrencies: it is centralized and obeys all the regulator's rules. That's why the majority of people don't trust it and see how its management team makes all the steps to make cryptos lose their basic features and peculiarities.
I also entered the market because of the amazing story with it at the end of 2017. Although, soon I realized how this market works. I bought XRP once and it didn't bring me any profit actually. And I want to warn you that if you expect Ripple to burst and bring you huge profits, it won't. At least not in the closest time, maybe in 2-3 years. The main issue for that is the massive circulating supply of XRP coins: 39 bln. coins are too much. Very few coins can with billions of supply can reach more than 1-2$ price.
I advise you to invest in other top coins.