A legit project with hardworking team developers could also ended up failure because they have somehow messed up strategy or there's something that makes their project struggle even after putting so much effort into it.
For example is the competitive market which is really hard for a project with rather low market capitalization to compete with the bigger one.

Not that difficult if you know the basics, scam ICO tend to use fake LinkedIn and random people's photo profile aswell. If you take a look, their picture always somehow quite fishy and do a google image research on that one. It's quite easy. However, whitepaper could be bought from someone else but the authenticity and how the whitepaper stands with logical and technical explanation is what matters most.

Actually quite different, scam project is running away because that is their purpose from the beginning meanwhile dead project usually tend to put all their effort to the project including burning money for marketing but still ended up failed maybe because their strategy is just a fault from the beginning or other important factors aswell.

It's all about efficiency, the main purpose of AI? to automatize most of the things so that we don't need human resources anymore to do something which will definitely reduce the cost and improve the productivity. However other purpose is to make the life of human easier aswell.
Different with blockchain, albeit having the same purpose which is to improve efficiency blockchain is designed to eliminate middle man and the border or limitation between transaction internationally while don't have any artificial intelligence built in but a command that will do as designed.

Nope. Traditional cash is still being used everywhere, the only societies that are already cashless is in China and Korea if I recall correctly. Even in the USA people are still using paper money even though some of them already uses some sort of digital cash payment processor like Apple Pay or Google Pay but paper money is nowhere to extinction.

That kind of thing also happened to ordinary currency like what the authorities have created. A currency will always depend on the user itself, it just doesn't make sense to blame the currency because it's people that have mind to do something either good or bad. It's all optional.
In the other hand if we use the same logic, anything that have value could be banned because it can be used for criminality aswell. The government just need to make a regulation to prevent the criminality and it's solved. Not blaming the currency that have no brain.

Most of the scam ICOs are already spotted even in their early stages, people are now have become more and more smarter compared to at that day when the first ICO appeared.
They know how to distinguish fake profile and many more. Even most of them seem to take an in-depth review of the whitepaper.

There's no middle man or third party that's involved in a transaction of cryptocurrency unless you're using a payment gateway like bitpay or such thing. The transaction is send directly to the destination without being intervened by the authority.
That's because the decentralized system, although the coin will be there within an instant but it will requires confirmation to avoid double spend.

Exactly! things get quite different to few years ago, at the moment so many people already have the experience to select a great ICO and distinguish the worst one. It's kind of maturation of the ICO market.
Quite the opposite if things don't get to this direction, well that means people are not smart enough to learn from the past mistakes!

That's impossible because every stablecoin provider or creator will always giving back up equal to the total supply so that the coin can be bought back anytime with enough resource. They are taking the profit from the fee generated in every transaction. If the stablecoin turns out to be zero, that means the company is scamming.

If it's hacking the written code for smart contract, maybe it's possible. But hacking a cryptocurrency that uses blockchain as its core system and the decentralized nature. That's nearly impossible and if it can, will take so much resource and effort aswell which will definitely making it not worth the try.
I've seen plenty of smart contract that is vuln to hacker and those that have been taken advantage of but our security is improving by the time being despite having the motto "no system is secure"

Most of people still uses Ethereum anyway to deploy their own token mainly because the community is huge unless the other. The decentralized exchange platform also majority specializing in ethereum blockchain and that's a positive point when a token need to be listed into exchange urgently. The rest smart contract platform tend to have unique feature, but rendered useless because no one wants to use it. It's more of practical use than theoretic.

It's already #2 though. So, the using of word "will be" is not right. However after the decline of the price the total capitalization of ethereum decreasing significantly, even if I recall XRP could overtake the 2nd position for quite a while that proving that ethereum is still vulnerable against any other coin and could take the #2 position whenever it can. However, I see that the rumour of vitalik buterin leaving ethereum could somehow affect the market emotionally. People in the ethereum community are just too attached to the name like Vitalik Buterin.

Quite true though. banks are taking advantage of the blockchain system to make everything more efficient. It's just matter of time until they figured out the best way to use blockchain and there's only a really slight chance that cryptocurrency could replace bank.
But hopefully it's possible for crypto to give an absolute alternative for those who don't like bank in the future.

Well I see some of online course available from MIT is discussing or talking about blockchain aswell. Considering how useful blockchain to improve efficiency in various aspect of technology it's basically not a questino because
learning technology knows no bounds, technology always developing and becoming more and more advanced and blockchain happen to be the product of that.

Despite having flaws ethereum has proven itself to be a useful coin that can be really used unlike other that's only good in theory but never being implemented for real use anyway.
There's nothing perfect if we are talking about internet but however, it's a matter of how useful the thing is to the community.

Maybe should've renamed from ICO rating to ICO monitor LOL. If the review is not objective and heavily biased the rating will lose its point of existence there, why even bother giving rating if it doesn't guarantee the quality of an ICO based on objective review?
Every ICO rating should actually remain neutral even if the ICO they reviewed advertising their project in the website of that ICO rating site.

However Im sure that if ethereum still alive, there's still hope. The point of being decentralized is that it will not rely on individual or instituiton, ethereum is owned by community. Maybe vitalik leaving is a bad news and could potentially affect everyone involved to ethereum
but however it's hardly bring down ethereum to the point where it will have zero value.

Regarding privatekey, as far as I know hacker will not trying to crack your private key like it's an encrypted data but instead they will lure you to give them information through some kind of phishing website, so many people already got caught into this trap and it's a must for people to always recheck the website they were in.

Talking about technical aspect, banks especially their e-banking also have a hole that can be exploited by hackers but their centralized natures could overcome it. While in decentralized system like blockchain reversible transaction is just impossible. Maybe we need to resolve this first.