The cryptos markets had been flooded with all kinds of speculators which in most cases often gave out false alarm and news to the detriment of teeming newbies who wanted to invest infact its very difficult to .know which of the speculator to follow considering the fact that Cryptos are unstable.

For now I belief it is advisable to bounty hunts for projects that has future prospect having done your thorough research such a token after payment can kept in a wallet pending the time the values of Cryptos pumps this present scenario or condition of the market will not continue to be bearish its for a while before the market becomes bullish.

I don't think there is thing special this year in term of bitcoin price all eyes had been on Bakkt and SEC ETF approval will all these culminates into bitcoin 2017 ATH? No however the price might have a slight increment compared to the bearish condition we had been experiencing since last year.

Bitcoin is not a threat to the bigger banks what about the smaller banks? we are aware that bitcoin can serve as a store of value a very important feature of course rather than banking their money as fiat a lot of people or investors will prefers keeping or hodling their coin in their respective secured wallets thus jeopardizing the efforts of smallers banks attracting depositors funds.

Personally my participation or investing in ICOs this year will be determine by how the crypto market fares this year else I would rather invest in an old project with a bright future of course a lot of ICOs will spring up but its seemly becoming difficult in scrutinizing the profitable ones as a result of the market conditions, scams etc.

Investors with a short term perspective are the group of people who are in the habit of dumping their Cryptos the article detailed how bad it is to buy high and sell low and gave an insight on the bright future of Cryptos thus emphasizes hodling as best way of making profit in a long term.

Bounty hunters had been battling with hard times as result of decline in the prices of cryptos, the task of earning reasonable amount of tokens is gone for now, however that does not mean it is the end, any moment the markets picks up (bullish) bounty hunting will become profitable again hopefully things will get back to Golden days this year.

Whoever depends solely on bitcoin does so at a risk, in 2017 there are several people who thought bitcoin will continue to pump thus threw in everything into it including leaving their daily jobs of course it boomeranged at the end now the prices of Cryptos had dropped although some people from third world countries do earn bitcoin for a living due to bad economy and corrupt government of their country.

In addition to all those tips a trader should have a sound money management and working strategy although the strategy might not be perfect however a  high risk to reward ratio of 1:2 or more will ensure a trader makes profits overall despite some losses more so depth knowledge in technical and fundamental analysis is a must for a trader.

In a long term perspective bitcoin will be bullish as we see the price staying up above $4K in recent days gradually it is breaking resistance with a slight pullback it will continue to pump as we awaits its launching on bakkt and SEC ETF approval overall there is the tendency of the price gaining back its bullish volatility and mometum.

Ethereum should be one of the Cryptos we should watch out for this year Vitalik Buterin is doing a great job and trying to bring ETH back intreckoning after a dismal performance of its price in the global Cryptos system he is aware of competition coming from EOS as many ICOs are trying to adopt EOS so he has to up his game to ensuring that ETH retains its second position.

Once a project fails it will be difficult for the ICOs  to pay bounty hunters in most cases failure of a project is most attributed to the market conditions of Cryptos particularly bitcoin irrespective of whether the project is a good one or not its therefore advisable for bounty hunters to be diligent and selective in choosing the right bounty campaigns.

Ethereum will surely spring a surprise pump this year
Vitalik Buterin is serious working behind the scene to ensure that ETH stand aloof among its competitors two upcoming hardfork of eth evidently shows this coin will pump this year  XRP, EOS and BCH are also coins to watch out for this year of course many projects will come up.

ForkDelta has been turned to all sorts of dumping ground for shitcoins I once tried using that exchange I was surprised to see how prices of tokens of good projects are valued at a ridiculous price addition to submitting my MEW private keys which is absolutely unsecured and might led to hackers gaining access to my wallet.

This investment is massive even in pre-launching of the bakkt platform this action by the investors will rekindles the hope would-be investors who had been disappointed by the lacklustre performance of Cryptos last year, investors are gaining confidence daily while the enthusiasm that will greet the launching of bakkt trading platform will be massive invariably triggering the bullish price momentum and volatility of bitcoin.

Every Cryptos enthusiasts look forwards to this decisive month of January and February which are the determining factors as regards the price of Cryptos especially bitcoin everyone is optimistic that these upcoming events (bakkt and SEC ETF)  launching and approval will bring about the expected bullish runs else we might be back to the present status quo.

From onset the two outstanding Cryptos are bitcoin and ethereum others are just shitcoins and not popular, in fact it will take a very long time for a layman in the street to even know that there exist thousands of cryptocurrencies apart from bitcoin, even Google can testify to the fact people seek more information on btc than any other Cryptos therefore I agreed with OP for us to invest more on bitcoin.

When the time comes the price will be bullish but at this point its rather difficult to predict the exact month that the bullish runs will triggers nobody knows the outcome of SEC ETF approval in February whether they will approval bitcoin or not this will define the future price outlook of bitcoin while bakkt launching wouldn't have much impact unlike the former.

I am sure bitcoin will come back to reckoning this year as far as the price is concerned, I think bitcoin tends to undergo corrections in even years  eg 2018 while  bullish in odd years eg 2017 while this is 2019 with much expectations certainty on the horizon and upcoming positive fundamental news we should expect a bullish runs.

There is need to bring sanity into scrutinizing scam ICOs thus there is need for regulations however this will absolutely requires KYC in most cases as we are all aware that many investors wants to protect there privacy thus will want to avoid KYC invariably resulting to many ICOs not reaching hard cap or soft cap however regulations will eliminates scam and fraudulent ICOs.