It is not about being lazy for not doing research. A bounty that has a huge reward will simply attract bounty hunters to be listed and participate in the campaign ( and just like you are doing by now). Yes, it is really hard to find legit one that is why they just come into participating bounties with hoping for a piece of luck and hoping for a good result. And even we know that this project is run by known and reputable Bounty Manager but still, we can't assured that it will work find especially when the funds aren't escrowed yet by someone else.

Holding the right coin/s is the best thing we have to acquire when we are planning for a long term holding, not just we hold our coins because it has no market value this time but just because we know that we can make more money from this in the future when the right time to come.
The most common mistake why some holders don't ever recover their losses because they buy coins that has a low market volume. Even we hold it for 10 years or more, it eventually won't work and still at the bottom.

They all both having of high risk but betting is more likely to have it more and more chance to empty our pocket than of Bitcoin investment. I'd likely not to engage in betting because I know it wasn't safe at all. They all both possible to have losing ends but in betting is most like it comes near and possibly it gives you big losses instantly unlike bitcoin investment where we can still recover if we can manage to hold our funds.

I like how OP clarifies it to your siblings and hopefully, they could get it and soon to become an investor rather than being in betting.

Knowing ourselves capability is one way to determine if trading would be a place in the right place to stay. Many people had come to trading without knowledge but in a certain thing, they will able to survive because they adopt the environment and most likely they learn faster than of the others. They'll find easier to adopt the system because they also know how to manage their emotions and face the risk.

There is no way to minimize the risk in trading (IMO) and it is not escapable. The only thing to do in order to not being hit to big losses is to maintain the calmness of our mind and don't even bothered so hard when we saw a declining sentiment in the market.

That is was hard and of a big challenge when sometimes you've been getting into addiction. Many gamblers whereinto that situation but they can make themselves leave gambling because they consider this as a source of income. And supposedly it wasn't a good idea but that gives them a life to keep and feel that they are secured in gambling rather than finding a job outside. And for us who still have a chance to escape for a horrible to be in the gambling, we have to make it before we got stuck and be addicted.

Gambling is actually not the right place for me. I tried several times in gambling but it never works for me and it seems to be that I don't have luck in there. This is purely a luck based game unlike in trading.

Though trading could be at high risk but many were having this one cause it is profitable when you can manage your funds and self in here. The most reason why people keep failing in trading is because of emotions and mindset. We are looking for the best place to stay and to become profitable. It sometimes we feel bad about the situation that we have but that is life and that is why we have to choose the place where we feel comfortable doing with either in gambling or in trading.

You can read this one buddy...
https://hackernoon.com/what-you-need-to-start-crypto-trading-a-four-step-guide-49a2310d5dee

A simple 4 steps will help you to mitigate in crypto trading.

And one thing could help you to fully understand how trading is going to work is by sending personally yourself into it. Having more experience in trading will teach you a lot more than a thing that you've learned from reading and youtube tutorials. But pf course, learning to this it won't be instant, you'll need to spend a lot of time in order to fully develop your mind and as well as your strategy.

It only happens if BM handling the campaign will secure first the payment before it started ( just like a few managers) and been escrowed. But this never gives assurance of its future or its market value after the IEO/ICO is done. Though they receive their rewards but couldn't imagine how this project turns into shit and no value token in the market. It still meant nothing and all the efforts and time spent by the participants are still wasted.

It is nice to hear that the funds are escrowed already but having a scenario like this...still it gives you a doubts if this project is legit or not.

The current market trend is quite different from the previous halving. And I don't think we need to be in a bullish market before halving to think that we can be in skyrocketing coz if we could recall the last halving, bullish come after the said event and it actually takes months. I'm not opposed to having a Bullrun early this year ( as we all love too) but the market resistance is not really at strong and this is not enough to push the market into high in just a few weeks. And therefore, we can't expect that Bullrun will come to us in the 1st or 2nd quarter...it might be possible in the 3rd quarter but as we know, it all be unpredictable.

That is a certain thing that you'll give no choice but to use other exchanges instead especially when you have tokens coming from bounties.
Anyway, there is no problem with using other exchanges even it wasn't best as we think/or it having a huge market volume because the most important in here is that we can make a trade of our token.

Yeah, it is very important to look at its market review and for us to be guided also which one is doing good and could be trusted.

Definitely, we shouldn't have to store our assets in any exchanges for the safe keep. Even exchanges will say safely kept assurance for everyone holders and traders but due to the fact that hackers are still active, I don't think we need to trust these promising words. Even we are using either DEX or CEX, we can't still give them a hundred percent safety assurance of our assets.   

They are the top-rated crypto exchanges existed today and have used one of them is a good idea. Of course, we don't need to have them all and load up, choosing the best one and feel that you are comfortable with using it would be a good idea. They are all performing great and choosing one among them will put us into regrets or dissatisfaction but instead, we have good trading experience. And I think that most traders will choose Binance...

For me, not yet. I have been looking for the market to surge high and reach to $11k (and for me to call it in bullish) but we are still below $10k which I consider it not a bullish one. Yes, we are a little bit high from the price where we started this year at $7,700 but I'd never see of its market consistency to rally high and stay on the top beyond $10k level. It is quite to see that we can't see Bullrun early this year as many people expecting to happen but it might be possible after halving as in most halving, the uptrend motion comes after the event.

The market still in the range between $9k-$10k, we can't find it steady over that $10k in the past 2 weeks. Though there is a time that we hit more than that but that was short and it drops again.

It is something we need to think that the crypto market is still volatile and anytime soon will make a huge pump just like $15k but we couldn't expect that it will stop there instead, we could think that similar cases will happen again and declines will follow. We can't just say STEADY because it is impossible to happen in the market like this.

I used to trade there at Forkdelta and import my wallet and the key as well but I've never experienced being hack by anyone or I've never noticed it. The possible reason why we lost control of our wallet having entered our keys is that we never do the logout and make another see's on it. If you are using this exchanger, you'll have to end the transaction first before leaving and don't hang for long hours without logging out unless if you are using your own PC or laptop but if not, you are risking it and might other person will trace your transactions. This commonly happens when you are using a hotspot internet connection and those in the cafe also.

There is one thing that could hold altcoins to soar high is because of trust issues where investors are still in doubts for altcoins capability especially those on the bottom. It was broken last 2018 after the hypes dried out and many investors suffer big losses because of their trust in altcoins. That gives them a reason also to consider Bitcoin first rather than having altcoins. The devastating scenario that it happens before is somewhat people are also afraid of happening again and even they invest altcoins, they are picky and it absolutely they will chose on the top altcoins.

It only happens if we could see huge strong support coming from us and most especially from investors. This is a vital thing that we need to consider but the current market situation tells something that we aren't of that strong support. The last 2017 Bullrun is obviously happening because of the hypes made by whales but this year, it looks different and hypes aren't visible at this time. The only hope that we look for now to make the market trend going high is halving and people are having positive insights for this event.

If you really understand the market and appreciate how it works, you can be like this but if not, you'll probably be selling off your coins immediately. This is the most common scenario when a doubtful person come into crypto and end up losing.

If we are planning to be a part of the crypto market, we must have to understand first the risk that we face. To know that the market isn't healthy all the time and in aggressiveness. And need also to understand how volatile it is that it makes no reason to think that we are always having an uptrend motion but also we could experience a downfall scenario.

And it sounds like it won't work for us.
I'm a risk-taker but I'm not a kind of that person who takes risk without having any assurance of returns. That kind of experiment will closely be putting to our ends and just losing our funds. If we only have a random choice of coins among the top 10 coins in the market maybe it will work but if we considering picking up among the listed altcoins in the market...I'm out from that.

This kind of investment couldn't be in a great deal if we only just having an experiment. It could be of some excuse if you have already a lot of money in which you not afraid of losing it but for me (us) that have of limited resources, we must have to play it safe.

It seems to be helpful to check its whitepaper or the focus of this project if it is new but if we planning to invest in those coins that are already been existed for a while, it is very important to look its liquidity. This could help to identify if this coin has a better future or not.

For the safety and profit assurance, it is better to consider those coins that are listed in known exchanges and having a huge market volume. There is no need to waste time searching for another one coz you can't find any promising coin on the bottom list.