Team activity in marketing and coding is the most important for me. Anything else like listing at known sites is secondary I suppose.

Recent behaviour of BCH price looks like convulsions before the death indeed. I wonder if it will be alive in some months.

Unfortunately your petition about panic sell stopping has no sence. According to polls most people want to get bitcoin gold in opposite of buying more alts at dips...

Buying more altcoins is looking more attractive for me. I've made a lot this August with alts!

Bittrex is the largest altcoin (including ERC20 tokens) exchange. It has pretty high 24h volume and very good security.

Verge, Ark, OmiseGo, Qtum are very strong coins. I have them all but I suppose Verge should be pumped more than others. BTW check out ZEN. They plan to release masternodes soon.

It's pity to hear that about BTS. I know it's pretty useful project And I have it a little...

I use cryptopia pretty rarely for small cap coins only. It's not bad but there is the lack of liquidity. It takes too much time to make some profitable deal. It's not the problem of exchange for sure but there is such opinion anyway

I like Ivan On Tech, DataDash and Vincent Briatore channels. The first two are well known. Vincent Briatore is small cap analyst.

Unfortunately I've heard about SPHR only. Just because it's a little bit more popular than others. According to graphs COSS is most interesting for investment I suppose. But fundamental analysis should be much more important here.
If you have such suspicion about only these coins there is the way to make profit anyway. Divide your deposit and invest same parts at each of them
P.S. Check out ZEN. It has a little bigger cap, but it's very promising coin!

I like XEM due to the community but I'm always trying to choose small or middle capitalization coins to make better profit. One of my favourite low-cap is ZEN. They will release masternodes soon so it should be pumped a lot.

I suppose that if deeponion were not scam this thread would not be pumped by new messages every now and then. BTW I tried to sign up to deeponion site twice with different mail domains, but it didn't send me the confirmation mail. I think this is the fate =)

Recently I've found SRG ICO. Check out their ann thread. I'm not decided about my own investment yet, but it looks pretty good now. Does anybody hear about it? What do you think?

I'm not surprised about this dump&pumps at ZCash at all. Market is very unstable now and any kind of news make significant shifts. Especially at those coins which were not be pumped last few weeks.

Verge is one my favourite coin and yes i'm sure it will be pumped a lot in some years. HODL 100%.

P.S. Check out zen. It has very low cap now and same aim as at verge. The privacy.

First of all I analyze the team. It's perhaps around 30% of confidence in project. After that whitepaper. It must be in details and witout any mispells. After that I'm trying to analize site and community channels like bitcointalk, slack, twitter, telegram and so on. Here I'm trying to understand the level of hype. Btw bounty politics is also very important. Good projects are rarely make more than 1-2% bounty reward.

I think the demand in privacy will grow with time significantly. That is why my picks are Verge and Zen + maybe Zec.

My picks are Ark, TenX, Verge and Civic. There are many factors for their growing next few months. Good luck  

These steps of spotting scams are static. I prefer interactive methods. I like to ask as many questions as I can directly devs/managers 

Here is the story...
Long days ago there was only one ethereum. There were different ICOs already. One of them was the DAO ICO. During DAO ICO some smart hacker has found a vulnerability at DAO smart contract and used it to hack them for around $60m. Ethereum foundation couldn't let this occurs, so they decided to roll back all transactions to the moment before that DAO hack. But the main thesis of ethereum was immutability and many people was disappointed with their decision. And thereafter hardfork occurs and Ethereum Classic was born. It's the original ethereum blockchain without rollbacks.
Today Ethereum is much more usable. There are many ICO cunducted at ethereum platform. As I know ETC has held only one ICO. BTW ETC shows weakness last time. If I were you I would choose ETHEREUM. It has much higher potential to grow.