It is just an act of generosity to keep your investors' faith always high. If you promise for doing so and then not keeping your words must be a kind of crime but not sure how many people will be able to find that devs are not keeping their words. Because burning is just a process of moving the tokens into some other address where they are not able to control the PrivateKey.

Basically, I like the concept of burning out tokens which are unsold as it will prevent the chances of unexpected sudden dumps. But for this to be happening in real life, devs must be honest enough. So, it is similar to just another part of their roadmap as we do see, many projects had come up with many plans but they were not at all following them later on.

I have seen many projects went for burning out their unsold tokens still they have got unexpected dumps. There could be many reasons for this and the prime one must be devs may not be honest as they sound.

Thank you for having still some faith on this community. I'm happy that you are having good understanding about this community as most people here are suggesting just count on their posts or based on where they have already invested but not really based on some analysis and researches they have done before. My simple suggestion is, invest into highly reputed coins but not purely based on coinmarketcap. Take your own time and google for more reviews and studies so that you can conclude for your own list of coins.

Like you mentioned about ethereum, both neo and eos also having unique concepts to keep attracting investors. For diversification purposes, we may go for these coins too along with ethereum investments. Having more options for the case of investments is always very important.

I think investors just realized it is smarter to invest into crypto business than crypto itself. For example if you are going to just hold a coin, why buy a coin and just keep it on an exchange? At the simplest you can buy a staking coin and let it stake, or a masternode and let it earn.

At a higher level you can invest into a casino bankroll, even further you can buy bnb and be part of an exchange, you can basically put your money into crypto business instead of buying a coin, look at cryptokitties and bakkt, investors could have bought kitties but no they invested into the cryptokitties company instead of kitties itself, people could buy or sell from bakkt deal but no they invested into bakkt itself. So, long story short people realized its better to invest with bitcoin instead of invest into bitcoin.

It is not "dead" yet but it is definitely a lot less than what it used to be.
First of all everything went down in crypto all coins lost a lot of value so ICO being at this level could be considered even good at this point.

Also, it depends from ICO to ICO, if you look at the icobench numbers we had over a billion dollars last year however if you look at more recent months, on September we had 390 million dollars invested yet on October we had 532 million invested, nearly half as much, which means there must have been some ICO's people liked during those times.

Now, on January we had 344 which is lowest it has been for over a year now and that is bad but we are still more than one third of what we used to be and it shows promise of going back up again if market goes back to what it used to be.

We can clearly see the marketcap going down but the adoption going up by the funding as well. There are many regular investment companies who are spending money on funding crypto companies. Just recently BAKKT actually received millions of dollars in funding for the upcoming bitcoin ETF thing they are working on.

Poloniex was purchased by Circle which is also purchased by someone like JP Morgan if I am not wrong or a company like that, crypto kitties got 15 million in funding. Basically adoption is increasing not only in an individual manner but also in a huge global company funding level as well. It means the marketcap has nothing to do with adoption at all, not even remotely. Hell making it low is better since the only way is up and that way companies can get in when its cheap and make more profits.

The good part is bitcoin is considered as "money" and not commodity like gold and silver. Most places that accept bitcoin recently all made it look like its a commodity and not money itself however bitcoin is in fact a money. Just like dollar and euro, bitcoin is a currency. However, what wonders me is that Wyoming claiming the "foremost proponent of the cryptocurrency" and so forth, Ohio is literally accepting bitcoin tax payments made with bitcoin and it was done couple months ago.

Not only they accept it as a currency they also accept it to be paid back to government. Its on state level but a state has bitcoin because their residents paid taxes in bitcoin, that is as further as it goes and Wyoming can not claim to be a bigger supporter since all they did was just see it as money.

Same applies in all countries around the world. The "tax" you pay are different in two, one is tax usually paid by the buyer but sometimes the seller in difference countries where if a product is 100 dollars either the buyer or the seller also pays a tax on that, for example in my country its 8% and that is the tax on the product. However there is also the tax shop pays which means they made some income but they also had expenses and when you take out the expenses from the income whatever is left you pay taxes.

Now this looks like 10% tax on profits of trading which should be regarding buying and selling bitcoin however if a person sells stuff for bitcoin and shows expenses for that product and rent and all other expenses then they will pay a smaller amount than the trader who just has one expense which is buying and one income which is selling.

Well in advance announcement of a fork will lead to price up-surge. One recent example is Bittorent airdrop based on holding of Tron. Tron was trading  around ~300 to 400 satoshi till the "fork" announcement and now trading above 700 satoshi.

Fork announcement may work similar to POS, people will buy and hold for staking rewards whereas for free coins from forks, people may get ready with bitcoin stashes with controlable privatekeys. If you had bitcoins by August 1st of 2017, then you might have got chances to get 20% to 30% extra bonus as BCH fork as BCH was trading consistently above 0.22 BTC in its beginning days.

After BCH, there were 100s of bitcoin forks and most of them had turned junk. But, we cannot be sure how many of us were holding bitcoins for those "forks bonuses" as it was free money even it was very small.

Dividends also eat a chunk from the profit of the company. If a company pays out dividens they are not growing in stock price. Think of it this way if a company has stocks that worth 10 dollars they can either give out 1 dollar per stock to the stock holders and that is called dividend or they can grow and worth 11 dollars in stock which is growing, some people prefer the first option whereas the others prefer the second option.

If you are the type of person who prefers the first option of dividends there is staking and masternodes in crypto for you, if you are person who are fine with the second option then buying the big cryptos like btc-eth-xrp and so forth works for you. Basically there are all kinds of crypto for all kinds of investors in this space and they can find themselves a spot here.

The fact that institutions move slower than individuals is quite correct. Think about it, when you want to buy bitcoin and decided that saving bitcoin aside is a good idea what do you do ? You just send your money to an exchange and they deposit it to your account and you buy bitcoin. That's it, that is all you have to do.

Look at all the big places tough, it requires a bunch of meetings, a lot of emails send and received, a lot of research, a lot of talks with governments and lawyers and so forth to see how it works. It basically takes a week to even decide which direction they will take. Not to consider the government branches, the laws, the senate, the SEC and all that takes even longer, months to decide something. Hence, bitcoin is really moving forward, just slowly.

But, how long we can keep prices up with fake bumps ? I mean how many of bch2 or bch3 or bch25, we may needed to keep price up ?  You cannot expect prices to stay up without actual holders. Moreover, without innovating enough infrastructures for people to hold and use bitcoins, we cannot dream about more number of bitcoin adopters.

Due to those people who are able to understand the future potentials of bitcoins, we are having it trading above $3000 (and due to traders and short term holders we got chances to test $20k levels). I believe at least 25% of people from around the world may start slowly recognizing bitcoins and its application and potential over the time then we may have prices trading in millions.

The big exchanges will always stay, however there are some local exchanges that had to hire people and get ads and many more stuff basically spent a lot of money during the peak which cost them a lot but they were also making so much money, local exchanges that made 10+ bitcoin in profit daily have hard time getting 10+ bitcoin volume daily let alone profits.

Now, those websites are having hard time and eating a chunk of the profits they made themselves and pay the costs however they are getting smaller and smaller each day. When we talk about exchanges not making money as much as they used to we think of binance and coinbase and bittrex etc etc but we forget that almost all countries have local exchanges that we used to withdraw fiat and they are in big trouble lately.

We can't really know if its a good thing or a bad thing without testing it out. I mean how would we know if it will be better or worse without actually testing these kinds of BTT deals on binance like giants. That is why I support the first 10 ICO's that are on binance because that way we will see how it will be for the people who participate and then come to a conclusion if it was a good idea or not.

If all 10 are bad then we will not continue with it or at least give any importance to it, if there are 2 or 3 good ones among the first 10 then we will decide it could be good or it could be bad, if over 5 of them are good then we can say it was a good decision. Hence, we need to wait and see how it will be for the next ones and how they will be AFTER the ICO as well.

For some reason (I know it will sound weird) I trust these decentralized exchanges less than the centralized major ones. I don't really know why but I feel like centralized exchanges have a reason to really take care of the exchange properly since they are making profits on top of profits every single day and make huge income from it which would result with them working on it more and more however decentralized exchanges feel like made by some developer who wanted to pay less fee (no fee) so they could trade properly without interference but that's it, no business, no team, just a good developer.

So, for that reason I feel like centralized feels more secure and more trustworthy instead of the decentralized which looks too anarchist to me. Maybe thats just me I don't know.

I feel like when you have "nil" commits in the past 30 days, that doesn't look like I should be investing.

I mean the list is literally "games you should be investing" yet there is one with no commits, one with 3! commits and one with 25. Even the highest with 188 seems like a bare limit these days. When you are in crypto, you try to find the better version of regular things, a better gambling, better trading, better transactions, better money transfer.

When you want to play a game, would you play these games ? None of them are good at all, all of them suck big time compared to non-crypto games. Gaming world worth billions of dollars and all of these look like couple grand at most. I wouldn't invest in any of them, none of them are getting any bigger soon but I am hopeful that one day crypto will have a decent game where we can invest.

No, an ICO tokem can also act as securities and if the project will go smooth and successful, then we can expect the devs to keep investing into their tokens hence there will be no need to keep on selling just for the reason of sustaining with their business.

If you study some random project on how they are doing with their tokens after ICO, then probably you might get only these conclusions. You must need to consider a real life application based project and their ICO for studying your logic. A good project and a generous devs team will never let down their early supporters. They will keep investing their profits into their tokens so that the value of their token will indicate the success of their business.

My simple logic : if an ICO token dumped to zero then you may assume that is a failed project and also it might be a planned scam too.

Any kind of short term trading will be HIGHLY riskier one with respect to crypto trading due to its highly volatile nature. Scalping must be a unique way of trading but it is more famous among Forex trader but definitely not with crypto traders. Because, there will be no guarantee to make profits even in long term in forex whereas cryptos are proving such a wonderful opportunity for long term holders then why should risk unnecessarily ?

I guess a high-risk trader may go for scalping with the help of bots. Yes, usually I never recommend trading bots for crypto traders but when considering the time and efforts needed for scalping, I believe a high risk trader may go for trying out bots. Still, it is just a gambling, nothing could be assured out of it.

You are sounding like a gambler not a real trader. Only gamblers will keep trying and then will lose all their bankroll at the end of the day whereas traders will book profits once and will close for the day unless otherwise their analysis indicates another trade opportunity.

I guess you must start learning from our own mistakes. Just keep trading but with the very small capital and focus with conscious to find out that where you are slipping down. I mean to say just trade with very least capital but rather than looking for booking profit just focus on what you actually need to fix in your trading behaviors so that you can groom as a real professional trader.

Learning alone will not help anyone to become a trader and even they become trader, just learning from books will not help them to find success in trading. You must dedicate more time to practice to gain the real market experience and while you are trading in your beginning days, you must risk only small capital and must focus on learning from your own mistake that is the key for success here.

Price gap across exchanges is happening only due to these types of problems like wallet is not syncing or wallet under maintenance or deposit/withdraw is temporarily disabled. I believe price gap will not occur between exchanges when there will be enough liquidity on both the exchanges.

There is one simple trick to find and make use of arbitrage trading : You must choose 2 different types of exchanges. One must be highly famous one with massive volume and another one must be little known exchange (yet it should be reputed one) then there will be a change to spot of price gaps. Do not look into charts for figuring out the price levels/gaps but look into order book and volumes to make use that you will be getting enough volume for your hassles of moving funds back and forth.

In my experience, collecting new tokens/coin is mush easier as I do participate into various twitter and telegram campaigns but only few projects do pay as promised and even we are getting paid, there will be no guarantee for those broken/coins will get appropriate vale to reward our time and efforts. Now  a days, most of the projects are paying only junk. I am still holding them with the hope of having some value for them in future but I'm not sure that I will get paid for my hard work.

I believe there will be even 10 or more easier ways to earn tokens but the problem right now we are facing is, how to identify the potential tokens/ICOs to start with.