It is a trade-off between how many people should be rewarded, and how much they should be rewarded, and this is the company's decision to make. It is in their best interests to maximise the number of participants as that gives them more exposure. For various reasons they might limit the number of participants, but again this is entirely up to the company concerned. It is essentially a freelance marketplace. The company sets the terms, and prospective workers decide whether or not to accept those terms.

Agreed that it is too early to call a recovery, and agreed that NEO is a great project with great potential for 2018. The price did indeed drop more than it should have relative to other coins, and I was one of the people to take advantage and increase my quantity of NEO. I really think it will go from strength to strength, particularly given the insular nature of much of China's economy.

One thing I would add that is important is any competitors. A project may look great and tick all the boxes for white paper, roadmap, team etc... but if they are trying to solve the same problem as an already established competitor, then this must be taken into account.

There is a link to bitcoin as bitcoin is the gateway to crypto, and if you start with fiat, for a lot of coins you have to go via bitcoin before you can buy them. Also when there is a news report saying something about bitcoin, this is generally interpreted to mean the whole crypto market, so prices tend to move together on this sort of news.
There are also independent moves where one coin goes up or down according to its own developments, but this can be buried beneath bigger whole market movements.

Without going into too much depth, the simple explanation is that the whole market tends to move in cycles. We had a big surge in December, now is the time for every coin to lose some value. We rose too fast, now the prices are correcting. They will eventually settle down and then we will be ready for the next market move.

Yes, a thread from long ago - but not that long ago, only a few months. It shows how quickly expectations can change.
BTW - still not too late to buy

If it is a good project then you have no reason to be worried. ATH is not really all-time, it's only all-time so far. By the end of the year I think the Dec/Jan ATH will look very small. The path leads upwards; don't panic!

If you can't decide between two coins then often the best approach is to split and go for a smaller amount in both. If you put everything into NEO and ETH goes up, you will be annoyed with yourself. Same if you buy ETH and NEO goes up.
If you can't decide then go for both.

Probably NEO at the moment. I do try not to have favourites as that is an emotional attachment, and it can be hard to sell a favourite even when it is logical to do so.

I think it is a good idea to do everything you can to prevent multi-accounting, so that everyone only gets one share. There are various methods you can use to help with this - although formal KYC is a step too far for an airdrop and might cause a lot of people to stay away.

Agreed that there is a lot of manipulation, but it's an unregulated market, so...

I think the main reason for the recent fall is a lot of newcomers who bought in at December ATH panicked and decided to cut their losses. Traders no doubt exploited the drop to short their coins, so making prices fall further. Plus obviously the numerous negative media reports.

The market was overheated and we could all see that we were due a dip, regardless of any manipulation by big players.

I don't know. Some ICOs have said during the big price rise that they would reduce their hard cap because ETH is now worth so much more... but now that it has fallen a lot, that means their hard caps have fallen too.
The volatility is a problem for caps to be set in crypto.

It is indeed nice to see some green again. The dip was necessary, but I hope we are now coming out of it and can have a period of stability before the next rise.

I think that bitcoin market dominance is only heading one way - downwards.
Not particularly due to deficiencies in BTC, more the viability of alts.

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

I really like NEO and hold a decent % of my total crypto in this coin. It should have a great 2018.
I don't have an opinon on whether current price is high or low relative to other coins, as obviously everything has dropped recently and by varying amounts.
Long term I think NEO is a greta option.

For people outside the crypto sphere, bitcoin is cryptocurrency. One thing that would cause this to change is if another coin - I suppose ETH is the likeliest - supplants BTC as number one in cap. I think this would create massive media attention, and widen the focus from bitcoin to encompass all of the alternatives. And once the gates are open, they'll be difficult to shut...

Second vote here for SkyCoin. I've picked up a bit. Very low cap at the moment, and a very worthwhile project. Compared to IOTA, SkyCoin is severely under-hyped!

It's been a very volatile couple of months, even by the standards of crypto. Looking at the entire market cap, there was a huge rise in December and a similarly huge dip in Jan. Obviously a big dip is to be expected following a sudden rise, but I think there is a reason that this one stands out.

The slew of media articles was I think the principal driver for the rise, and the mainstream nature of the coverage caused new 'mainstream' people to invest in bitcoin and alts. Crypto is headed inexorably towards the mainstream, and with each step that it takes it will attract a greater percentage of people who know nothing about the tech and maybe have not even heard of the word 'blockchain'. This absence of belief in the underlying tech and the transformative nature of blockchains and decentralisation causes them to be more skittish, and sell up at the first sign of a bear market. Essentially they are not buying into the ethos, but merely into a new asset class. This I think is why both the rise and the dip were so severe.

What I'm saying is that I think we could have more of the same. The closer we get to the mainstream, the more 'mainstream' the new people who buy in, and so the more volatile the markets. Yes, traders will exacerbate any situation by shorting, but this is a symptom not the cause.

Just an opinion, feel free to shoot me down - but I do believe that the path to the mainstream will become increasingly rocky. There is also the ongoing threat of new legislation, but agian I think this is symptom not cause. The cause is the new class of people entering the market.

(Apologies if this thread is in the wrong section, I wasn't sure where to put it.)

The most amazing thing about IOTA is the insane level of hype. In theory it's great, but in practice there is a great deal still to prove. I think the jury is still out really.
I'm not saying it's a bad coin, just that I think the hype exceeds what is merited by the current state of the project.

I think it will yes, not just because of what XRP is doing, but because of the whole crypto market. I know we have a slump at the moment, but we will recover and crypto will grow through 2018. The main reason I think that XRP will pass $2 is that it has already done it before, so that is not an all-time high, and I think a lot of coins will hit new all-time highs later in 2018.