I do not think ICO will be dead next  year, if that so then crowdfunding had been dead by now.  ICO is another kind of crowdfunding, it is a good thing that SEC butt in to regulate stuff, once this field is cleared of half-baked and scams, i believe ICO will be lively again.

Though STO sounds promising there is somehow downside on this according to this article

Not only top 10, there are  many token that is promising outside of it.  With active development and partnership, it is good to long these kind of token since we all know once the platform and roadmap is delivered, those who long for these token  will greatly benefit.

ICO is very risky because they are not licensed by the governement, most of the Idea are too good to be true or too ambitious.  Aside from that in cryptocurrency space, most ICO developers are just present in the picture, there is no actual personal interaction between the investors and the project developer.  Sources like ICO ratings site are just some pay to publish sites in order for the project to be advertised.  In short, we are investing blindly in most ICO.

Funny how decentralization sounds great but behind that, due to unregulated things, most scam and fraud flock in that territory.  Since they exploit the idea of decentralization, they think they can get away with their illegal activities/  With lots of scams in unregulated ICO, I believe SEC should step in and regulate ICO for the investors sake.

The problem with trading is that there is more risk than hodl'ing.  For a beginner, holding is a better choice but of course if you see profit you can either sell half of your holding or exit at all.  But in time of depression where prices are going down, you can trade by shorting and buy back when it goes down more but that will be more risky.

True,  the problem with country that allow cryptocurrency, they lack the initiative to spread right knowledge about cryptocurrency.  Sad part is, fraud and scammers take the opportunity to exploit unsuspecting investors.   That is the reason why there are lots of scams in "cryptosphere".  This stuff gives negative impact to cryptocurrency and bad or negative news spread faster than the good one.  So people who heard about these news thinks that cryptocurrency is a scam so they avoid it.

Hmm accepting cryptocurrency does not mean controlling them.  Unless government create their own centralized cryptocurrency, they will having a hard time monitoring and controlling cryptocurrency transaction.

The positive effect will be  great if government accept cryptocurrency.  For sure adoption will be massive and honest merchant won't hesitate to participate thus, a boom for cryptocurrency market.

I fully agree, ICO must be regulated.  This is to protect investors from scammers.  This project is collecting money to fund their idea, so it should follow government rules regarding fund collection.  They must be registered and acknowledge by the government.   Meaning they need to have license or patent to their idea if needed.

The current situation may not look so good but this is the indication that the future will be bright.  Everything that goes down will eventually goes up since there is nothing to go except to go up.  Though Bitcoin may have not seen its lowest but for the potential altcoin projects there is a possibility that it will break away if Bitcoin continues to dip.

I still think it is overpriced.  A technology/code that have lots of bug.  I do not hate ETH but I do not think it is right to buy ETH at this high.  Many users have lost money here especially on their bug during transaction. If you send too fast your transaction wont get through and you wasted the gas used even though the gas is sufficient for the transaction.

This would be great, if a project are able the bounty hunter with Bitcoin or Eth, this only means that the project have a start up fund.  This somehow differentiate them with other ICO that are made with zero fund in hand.  Aside from that it has been shown that ICO that offers Bitcoin or ETH as payment have more chance of success since they have the fund to pay for their marketing and advertisement.

It is cool, with this students will be aware of the blockchain technology.  Aside from that, with the new people getting knowledge about blockchain and understanding it, there will be a lot more innovation about blockchain in the future.  This is one step forward towards  the use of blockchain in the economy.

I do not always invest on top ranked coins, I always look for a coins that is starting yet promising since there is where the potential of maximized profit.   Most of the top ranked coins had undergone pump and dump and mostly at its established value so profit from that is not that great though risk is a bit lower than the one that is just starting out.

I guess everyone here knows that there is no guarantee in investing in Bitcoin.  Past history are just reference, but there is proven fact that there is a chance that history repeat itself.  So people tends to believe in this thus they are very positive about the possible rebound of Bitcoin.

Well I guess miners have different action regarding their mined Bitcoin, and of course Miners have the most since they are the first hand owner of Bitcoin that had been circulating in the market.  Though I believe, there are groups of individual that is knowledgeable on playing the market.  They have the capability to spread news whether it is for hyping or FUD'ing, they also have funds for fake market volume. though I guess Bitcoin is greatly distributed now than before, and besides, manipulation of market had been there ever since so there is nothing new about it.  The thing here is how can we (small timer) ride with the whales.

I believe that the world will be digitized.  But it will not happen overnight.  Remember development?  Though each country have their own pace on how fast or slow they will develop.  Third countries, or worst than third countries will cope up.  Communication is fast so knowledge distribution will also be fast.  And once cryptocurrencies become obsolete, that means the world is already in a far more advanced digital era.

It is simple they orchestrated news, some huge sell within themselves.  They often time it when there is some crisis or conflict within cryptocurrency that they think may affect bitcoin price.  This manipulators have huge stash of Bitcoin and/or huge fund to play the market.  It is not a single person I believe but rather groups of person that wanted to take advantage of high volatility of Bitcoin and the weak hands that bought Bitcoin during the hype.

I agree, in order for us to at least lessen the chance of being scammed we should avoid the project that have anon dev.  I am not saying all but most of the scammer exploit the idea of decentralization and anonymous.  As for example a company that created a token or coins for a networking scheme and when asked if they have license to operate, they just reason out about being decentralized thus no need for license which is against the law.  Same goes with anon dev, they say Satoshi is anonymous but the question is, did satoshi asked for an ICO for Bitcoin? Of course no.

The cryptocurrency market may have a hard time today but I believe, as time pass by it will become better.  The market is developing and adoption is being practiced everywhere so demands and audience is increasing.  We just need to wait for sometime since the phase change in market never happened overnight.

I believe in a developers point of view, airdrop is just a waste of time it seldom meet the set audience target because of the multiple accounts.  In short it is being exploited by the participants.  But in a participants review I guess it is worth to join since you can just fill up a form and do some one time task and get some token.   And yes, I participated in an airdrop sometimes.