I would not buy into an ICO where you cant check on the team. Also very important is if they have a working product. Do they have a genuine reason to go ICO or does it look like a potential cash grab (like Kin does more and more). If there is experienced people from the blockchain space involved (see Raiden as example), this bodes well. If the ICO is only around an idea I would see that as a warning sign and would check the team very closely.

One more thing. Always check how much hype there is. Quantstamp has 14000 people in their telegram group which is a good indication.

Raiden is such an obvious candidate for mooner that it is almost hilarious. It is addessing the scalability issue for what Vitalik describes as the killer application for any crypto currency and also Ethereum which is payments. I hope Raiden gets added to Poloniex or Bitfinex soon.

Are you part of the team? The best thing would be to load the platform with more good ICO. I like the voting system that is on the website. For the ICO the use of kick should be made mandatory asap. As it is now I imagine many just move their ETH to Kick for purchase and then get some kick bonus without even being aware of the 10% bonus for payment in kick As it is they just receive some kick as bonus which brings kick price even lower and then moves on.

An airdrop can be good for marketing and start of community building I think. But you see things like 99% airdrop and then later they start wondering why they did not keep some coins for marketing or investors. I admit it was not that long ago that I signed up for every nonsense after getting lucky with ebtc. I think a 10 or 20% airdrop can make good sense for a project. 90 or 99% I would not consider participating any more.

I got really started on crypto by getting targeted on facebook by a scam called plexcoin. It made me look deeper into things. Since then I have not slept a lot and a month feels like a year as so many things are going on in crypto all the time. I found bitcointalk and loads of information. Blockchain has a massive economic and political potential. I am participating in 8 discord groups and like 20 telegram. With Ripple and Omise you have made a good start. Especially Ripple has a large volume of real business with banks world wide and keeps growing. Some do not like it because it is not a minable coin. Talking about plexcoin if you start looking at ICO check out some of the videos of Ian Balina. Looking at ICO with a systematic approach is clearly a good thing.

Apart from that I think it is now a big time for blockchain and protocol related projects. It seems that many of the real use cases (check powerledger eventchain horizonstate) will need some time to really fly. The potential is definitely there. If those go big, they will moon. Well it is an exciting world. Go explore and enjoy!

P.S. on of the most important directives is HODL

Typical questions you might hear are "When moon?" or "When Lambo?"  forgot these 2 "When Bittrex?" "When Binance?"

Well to put it like that the current kick market cap is 12.6 million. If you pay for ICO in Kick you get additional 10% discount on your purchase and they have gonetwork coming up soon looking for 60K ETH. I cannot see why someone looking at hacken, universa or gonetwork would not switch their ETH to kick at time of purchase to get those additional 10%. It should be possible for them to make some money with those big ones. I did test buy on hacken today with 2000 Kick. I will check on etherscan.

P.S. The customer service could not tell me instantly how many Hacken I would get which is kind of insane as that is the main information but they got back to me later and were always patient.

currently on coinsmarkets but more exchanges planned

https://coinsmarkets.com/trade-BTC-HC.htm

I think a few were also waiting for exchange because of the Dutch auction format. I really liked it. Kind of fair that everyone gets the same price. If you dont wait to the last minute you have a pretty good idea what price you will get and it is free of hassle.

I totally agree SALT looks like a good investment. I was looking at the website as I am generally interested in the topic of lending in crypto space and I agree it looks like SALT might be turning into a major player in that space. And the potential market is of course substantial.

Another mobile mining venture. I am still wondering how Electroneum will play out but some competition is always good for business. I will sign up for the airdrop just to make sure I continue keeping an eye on this one.

How do you know it will be worth more than 1000 USD? You surely know more about BTC as I only got my blockchain fever a couple of months ago but this fork really got me worried. It does not look to me as if this fork will just follow the pattern of previous one. It feels more like a serious power struggle. On a different note I am not worried for the ALTs in general or Ethereum. Quite the opposite.

It is not only money it is the better money. With all the good use cases for online ticketing, energy trading, tokenization of assets, proof of identity and so on the main thing is that crypto is superior to fiat money (meanwhile goes for all fiat currencies) and seemingly to gold as store for value.

really nice you got some better stuff for the signature campaigns. Really cool as I also have more space now for the signature. It looks more professional. Thanks!

Kickico looks cheap and their ICO pipeline keeps building up. I do not have the spare funds, otherwise I would invest some. Cindicator very cheap of course and Airswap was very hyped and then after ICO fell quickly. Currently 36m market cap for a very ambitious project. Red Pulse also good start but then going down but still slightly above ICO price.

Zen Cash, Ripple and Verge got hyped by Palm Beach Group
Powerledger had a good start
Cindicator will pump as soon as the product rollout starts in earnest and they get officially listed on one of the big exchanges
PIVX also looks good as there is a lot of talk about the privacy coins lately

damn you guys are optimistic a x10 in 3 month would already put a proper market cap on cnd

well there is no moderator in the telegram and so far only some information promised doesnt that strike you a little bit odd that they do airdrop set up telegram etc and then no new information provided?

There is no information so far. Really zero. If they want to make a stand as an exchange this has to improve significantly. What is visible so far can be set up in 15 minutes. I have sent them an email and no response so far. No info on website. Only good indication is high number of telegram users after airdrop.

I once had a smaller problem with with bittrex. Problem was after token sale the resulting ETH did not get added to wallet so obviously I could not withdraw but apart from that as soon as you have the verifications in place there was no major problems. No experience with binance it is somehow not possible for me to register there.

Genesis and hashflare got recommended to me. If you want to go for bitcoin I would definitely wait how the fork plays out and then try with small initial amount to get a feel and learn about it. The other there might be legit ones but I would stay away.