Which are the best websites to follow for cryptocurrency/altcoins/ICO news? Which are your favorites?

Is there really a way to determine what all projects/coins will survive? I wish to invest now but I am really skeptical. Does the 'top 5-10' rule always work?Is it advisable to follow this rule blindly?

When historians set out to chronicle the development of cryptocurrency, one of the first chapters will profile DigiCash, the early digital currency startup which, decades before Bitcoin, almost fulfilled the dream of giving the internet a native currency. However, that project’s inventor, cryptography pioneer David Chaum, wants his name to appear in the book’s subsequent chapters as well. Chaum, now 63, is launching a new cryptocurrency project called Elixxir, which he claims has achieved the holy grail of network decentralization, blockchain security, and transaction speed.

In a Wall Street Journal interview published earlier this year, Chaum alleged that the technological innovations in Elixxir are game changers for blockchain adoption. “These breakthroughs I’ve made change the whole game,” he told the publication. “We can actually meet the requirements to go to consumer scale.” Specifically, Elixxir implements an inversion of the traditional blockchain model, wherein transactions are aggregated into blocks and then processed by validating nodes. Chaum said that blocks will instead be produced prior to transaction batching, allowing the network to process payments quickly, even at scale.

It remains to be seen whether the production blockchain will meet Chaum’s lofty expectations while also achieving sufficient decentralization. In the meantime, Elixxir has announced that the project has received a strategic investment from Chris Larsen, the co-founder of blockchain startup Ripple and, by virtue of his Ripple equity and remaining XRP holdings, one of the wealthiest persons in cryptocurrency.

Full Article : https://www.ccn.com/ripple-co-founder-invests-in-new-cryptocurrency-from-digital-currency-pioneer-david-chaum/

I will admit I sold I about 25% of my holdings in January, but I've bought back more than I sold at lower prices. But at these levels there's no reason to sell... I believe current prices to be about the bottom that cryptos will go.

Well i believe that altcoin are not dying. It only experiencing a huge dip like any other coin inside the crypto market. I believe that crypto will really rise soon and I think we can really gain on it if we are going to make a preparation like buying more altcoin and hold it for good, I believe that we only need to have a big patience on it for is to earn a huge amount of profit in the near future.

right, need enough experience to succeed in getting satisfactory results. indeed we cannot become greedy in the crypto world, because the results will be very disappointing and will be far from what we think.

i often trade, initially i always lose because i hope it will be even higher and in the end i lose some of my assets. we really have to target and be good at analyzing especially not feeling panic when prices will rise or prices will go down.

Because ETH has a lot of supporters, it has already fall in terms of price but it still stands in the number 2 spot.
Well, I am expecting it will also be in the no. 1 although that seems very impossible right now, but who knows the future.

May be, but do not be blinded by connections. Sometimes people are let go, rather than left. And just because you worked for Coinbase does not mean you are good,,, I know for example so many people working for Big Four consultants like Ernst & Young or Deloitte,,, and they are supposedly experts in blockchain now but seriously I heard their presentations and read their writings and they are equal to writers at CoinIdol or something like that. Most of the Staff on this forum know things many times better!

In dollars, definitely not in btc, it is quite likely.
I think it’s too early to go into the negative while there is a chance and the option of switching to POS a chance for growth remains. Hope that project fees will grow anymore. The market finally fell and the projects almost do not gain air, which means it is no longer needed as it was before.

My prediction is that Bitcoin will maintain the lead and will get upto 15.000 $ at the end of the year, Ethereum could get back to 500 $, nothing could compete with these two in my view.

NEO dropped pretty significantly, more than others and if the market will recover, it has a potential to recover quickly though.
Anyways, it is a good diversification to EOS and ETH.

I think that the most profitable strategy is to walk promising coins with low capitalization and sell on the pump.

of course crypto isnt only a speculative asset because crypto is already been used by the masses . governments and credit card companies do already supported it but i guess this isnt just the right year for the cryptos to get pumped .

@op we are three more months away from the expected bull run .  yes , 2019 is the suspected comback of cryptos  based on my own analysis .

As if the very name of the project already pushes bad thoughts. Who would call your bank by that name? Apparently this is a joke, nothing more. Well, it would be possible to somehow tell you what kind of bank it is, what is its advantages.
Piggy Bank, this is epic.

that's too long.maybe in three or five years again we will see mass adoption and implementation for cryptocurrency in real life and real function.so no more people said it just a bubble.

Ethereum is number 2 based on CMC and also one of the most used utility token in cryptospace, yet it is unable to rise above $230 USD. It would seem that it is waiting for Bitcoin's bull run. Can't it make its own bull run?

Price now favorable low, but should I still buy?

What if the price doesn't go up?

Since Constantinople fork failed and should be expected in 2019, is that hope?

I am doing some research on which would be invest in. Which do you think would last for a long time if not forever? Has the possibility of being adopted by public and private entities?

Is ETF really so important for crypto? I don't think so. In my opinion, the Bitcoin ETF is just a small kan of crypto in the process of growth. It does not determine the future of crypto. The passage of ETF is only a matter of time, and the whole crypto really needs the foundation technological advancement.

I think verification using personal documents is enough. no need to do a video call just for KYC, because it's very troublesome. Even now, verification of Kyc with documents is still a lot of complaints.

Thinking of the success of your ICO is literally going to make you optimistic.

But being optimistic won't help you if the project you are promoting isn't worth it in the eyes and standard of real investors. Having a good marketing doesn't always suit, just be true to the project and make sure that there's really a good team that's working for its use case to make it easier to promote.