It's very easy to say it but in reality, it's hard for these businesses who already have their process settled, and change possibly everything because they need to incorporate blockchain. It's for the greater good yeah, but these companies can't afford any downtime at all.

I think both, if its a big project or token, then it most likely already has a solid team behind it. But yes, all these factors can really affect how the new token that will be on airdrop perform.

Having that 1:1 is also a good idea to attract new people to go for their new coin, most projects don't do that.

I relate to what you just said, I supported a lot of startups during the ICO days with a lof these "big partnerships" but never really failed to execute. NEM is entirely different.

Are there still ICO's? The crypto community doesn't trust the ICO industry anymore, especially with how it damaged the market 3 or 4 years ago.  I haven't heard about the project that you mentioned but its quite interesting. Blockchain is indeed the future and many big industries are not yet looking at it as a "solution" to their issue.

Existing major enterprise solutions are neither distributed (Hyperledger + Corda) nor have a focus on privacy. There is little to no progress here and these solutions are essentially just glorified databases. An example too is Concordium which has not done an ICO, the technology is real, and the business development is massive, with companies like Nestle, Volve, and Geely lined up.

What's that new coin? If you've been in the space since 2013, you should already probably know by now how to smell scam projects, are something that you're not sure about. Make sure to always check on their background before investing any big amount. There are platforms that has not done an ICO but has proven that the the technology is real, and the business development is massive. Their is proof of validation if big companies have expressed interest in investing.Like Nestle, Volve, and Geely lined up.

Blockchain has always been recognized because of its stability, trustless system, etc. and it provides assistance on the accounting, quality assurance side, etc. through its smart contracts and the technology itself for the businesses. But how come a lot of businesses are still not utilizing blockchain like how some of the big guns already are - Walmart, Visa, etc.

There's a private and compliant-ready blockchain that offers enterprises a real blockchain, while also using zero-knowledge technology to bring privacy to workflows that involve end-users. Existing major enterprise solutions are neither distributed (Hyperledger + Corda) nor have a focus on privacy. There is little to no progress here and these solutions are essentially just glorified databases.

Will this be enough for small businesses and big corporations to start using blockchain, and not shy away from this technology? If not, what does it take to make it happen?

I don't really think that the virus are giving positive effects in the price, but it really may. Most people stay in doors right now, and that's why BTC and crypto are being searched more than ever.

A lot of people also don't have jobs right now and they're looking for other ways to get income while at home. They can either play it very carefully by HODLING and trading top major coins, there are also bug bounties where you just need to catch an error and you get paid, and the usual airdrop and bounty campaigns but they already had bad reputations because of what happened in the past few years.

I wonder if this is what will help scale blockchain up to the next level. AVA is using two key innovations that make repeated sub-sampling a perfect method to speed up consensus without compromises. One is in the insight that the random sampling + sub-sampling can be applied to consensus in permissionless systems. The second one, is mathematical proof that it works in such systems.
https://medium.com/avalabs/ava-is-scalable-sampling-3adc2601bfa6


Thoughts?

I do hope that this is again the breakout year for Bitcoin, and that the halving will bring huge bounce to the price. And bounties are essentially dead right now, together with airdrop. The reputation of these events are already tarnished over the past few years.

Several ways actually, you can play it very carefully by HODLING and trading top major coins, there are also bug bounties where you just need to catch an error and you get paid, and the usual airdrop and bounty campaigns but they already had bad reputations because of what happened in the past few years. Once a project fails to raise funds, the efforts of the bounty hunters go to waste. It's good to go for crypto work that 100% pays you.

Wishing you a congratulations for a well funded raise. Any chance of doing an airdrop or free crypto campaign for the supporters?

There's no way for anyone to tell on when alt season will start, but generally, most alts will rise up once BTC goes back to being bullish again. Though there are cases where quality alts are going up due to certain milestones being reached.

As for good projects, I always go for ones that are revolutionary and will aim to improve current systems. Netflix and Twitch are such a hot trend now and are being rivaled by Microsoft making their own streaming platform. Crypto is not letting that opportunity slip away as there's a blockchain streaming app that lets you earn tokens as well. Adoption is key and we need to keep going since we know how crypto can positively disrupt the industry.

That trigerred my scam senses as well, even the 100% bonus is crazy if you ask me.

These 3 are what I can say are the top reasons as to why people fall into scam projects. Another reason below those 3 is "Influence". Crypto is a space where the price/progress can be driven by pure emotions and sentiments. Forbes and John mcafee endorsed this MLM-like ICO and is now in huge problem as they face court and legal issues. Many people believed in it because of the people promoting it in the front-end. I would not even trust those guys anyways because you can almost get exposure anywhere using money.

From my understanding, purchased data from the platform can be shared between ElyNet users together with having the ability to gift and sell it back.

Hype no longer works that much now, the community has already learned a lot from what happened during the ICO days where it's easy to build hype because of influencers and rating sites that you can pay to give you the hype needed. What those well-funded projects should do is to focus on marketing their product once it's ready and platform development. They are making system where people can develop for crypto and contribute anything that their skillsets have to help the coin's progress. It's also true that roadmap is important since that's where we can tell if a project has a realistic goal or not.

Regardless of what they have in common, people should be eager to research before investing in. Libra had all the hype in the world but was somehow blocked by governments and it doesn't taste well on investors' mouth.

This is solid and good for Korea. Imagine that place being empowered and ran by crypto and the apM coin. That will be massive for adoption if big shopping malls in the US also try to do this, it will explode.

The easiest ways to get different varieties of coins are through airdrops and bounties. You just have to do certain tasks to help promote their project and from there, you will be rewarded with their coins depending on how much work you did at the end of the campaign. There also are platforms that lets you work for crypto by helping to develop their project, like building dApps or enable business development.

But becareful as most of these airdrops now are scams, if ever they don't reach their target funding, they'll exit out and so as your hard-earned bounty.

Already having a large user base using the platform is already impressive considering that it's only on the private sales.

IEO in Binance definitely helped a lot and gave us good exposure to investors. When alts starts to recover, ONE will definitely go above and beyond compared to other coins. They're even doing a crypto reward system for the community to do anything to improve the project, from tweeting an event, writing an article, etc. Harmony ONE is definitely making moves that involves the community to improve the project during this bear market.