Self-regulation by the community, the investor community demanding higher standards of proof of identity not on our side but on the side of the organizers of ICOs... but this has its downsides. There's no perfect solution except for people that would do their own research and think for themselves but I don't see that happening.

You shouldn't really think like that, profit is profit. Hindsight is 20/20.

It's a market. What goes up must come.... (*spoiler*; down)

I usually don't invest more as 20% into any ICO of my total holdings. I'm not going to disclose exact figures.

Well it can also raise BTC prices, if bitcoin remains stable it means slowly more money will go into altcoins, then as altcoin prices rise and people liquidate their positions that money flows back into Bitcoin, raising the prices of BTC and alts go down again.

You should track each ICOs performance on that list aswell, see if any interesting results come up when you compare.

Me neither really, seems like Litecoin's founder Charlie Lee also doesn't believe in it anymore and goes on promoting other projects. I if doubt Charlie Lee ever had the intention of making Litecoin into something, afterall it's just a copypasta from Bitcoin with a few variables changed.

Why not both?

Completely forgot it even existed, I got a tiny bit of money in the ICO. I don't really touch HitBTC anymore and I think a lot of people don't want to deal with this exchange. But I don't really expect this to go anywhere in the first place. I don't really get the idea of decentralized banking anyway or what the benefits are. I can see the usecases in liquidity pools but that's about it. I think it will drop further.

So you're asking which projects have good tech or are you just making a statement?

You should probably post this in another section of the forum like Bitcoin discussion or technical discussion.

Caring about privacy and giving away information for targeted ads, I don't really see that fit. I think its reasonable to pay people for watching ads however, seems logical.

$0,- I don't really believe in Substratum 

Bitcoin doesn't work, it brought to the world a great tech but it obviously doesn't work. In 2017 Bitcoin transitioned from being a currency into being an asset, digital gold. It was intended for it to be used as a trustless peer-to-peer cash system but due to it's deflationary nature it failed to be one. Instead of spending Bitcoins on goods and services people would rather hold their speculative asset in the expectation of getting ROI. Bitcoin Cash and especially Roger Ver has been hammering away at Bitcoin's flaws ever since the hardfork. Accusing Bitcoin's failure as a cash system due to high fee's and technology that doesn't scale. Now Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are both involved in an endless technological debate lashing out at eachother and why one is superior to the other. Although the different paths both coins took are interesting developments and it's  yet to see what the future is for both, they are forgetting the essence of the problem. It isn't that BTC had temporary high fees that it failed as a trustless cash system and Bitcoin Cash promising bigger blocks can't solve that. The problem is that people have been treating Bitcoin as a speculative asset instead of a currency. People even look at you funny when you say you're using Bitcoin as a payment system and I can't see Bitcoin Cash doing anything different as it increases in value and attracts more ''investors''.  The problem with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash is also one of the reasons people we're excited about in the first place, it is deflationary, no more banking cartels ruling the supply and printing money as they please. But whatever you say it is, it doesn't mean people will use it for that purpose. Therefore Bitcoin has proven to not work, to have failed as a trustless cash system and has been dubbed digital gold instead, Bitcoin Cash pretends it has the solution whilst it clearly doesn't see the writing on the wall that eventually, it will suffer the exact same fate as Bitcoin. Why spend something that will keep rising in value?

Skycoin is trying to learn from the mistakes of Bitcoin and I believe it has found a proper solution to the problem. Skycoin which is a decentralized, trustless cash system that is deflationary also generates CoinHours, which is an inflationary coin, each Skycoin generates 1 Coinhour per hour, there's no cap, since coinhours technically won't increase in value forever due to it's lack of scarcity and inflationary nature it is the perfect spending tool used for goods and services. We take the best from both worlds and combine a deflationary coin with an inflationary coin that just like we are used to in cryptocurrency can't be manipulated or controlled, it's output is mathmatically determined ( 1 Coinhour per Skycoin, per hour). Although Skycoin has a lot more to offer it is just this that I want to focus on. Skycoin is the only cryptocurrency on the market right now that has an economic model that makes sense as opposed to all the other coins that will only be hoarded and can't function as a currency.

Bitcoin doesn't work and Bitcoin Cash saying it can solve all the issues of BTC is a fantasy untill they realize what the real problem is, why people aren't using BTC as a currency but as an asset. It wasn't untill I realized this that I figured out that the whole debate between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash which everyone is so tired of is flawed to its core.

With Skycoin and coinhours, inflation is set at a fixed rate, encouraging spending instead of hoarding, people can hoard Skycoin all they want but their coinhours are technically going to decrease in value over time which is why it won't matter to people if they spend it. With Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash there's no economic incentive to spend, only to hoard.

I think this is very important to realize, I think Bitcoin can function as digital gold, the idea that people have something to fall back on when all else fails (governments, banks) is powerfull and shouldn't be neglected but it obviously doesn't work for what it was intended to be. Not to forget this is all highly experimental, results are not guarranteed and we could see a breakdown in Bitcoin when no more people want to join it's network simply because they see no added value in buying a speculative asset and hoping for the price to rise. Cause that is all that is happening right now, nothing more. Still it is a powerfull threat to the establishment and can always serve as a protest when people feel they aren't being listened to.

Depends on the overall volatility within BTC, if BTC goes steady alts usually outperform Bitcoin, but if Bitcoin goes on a rampage crushing the price everytime then alts start slumping as people want to ride the Bitcoin wave.
Right now, if you're looking for more volatility alts would be the place to be as opposed to BTC.

If BTC tanks however alts usually go down with it and depending on how hard BTC tanks alts can tank a lot harder. I think the relation should be viewed in terms of volatility for now.

Tough decision, EOS has skyrocketed and I would avoid it for now as a longterm hold untill the price cools down. Ethereum is hanging in there pretty stable. I would suggest to either go with your own research which points to EOS as you say or go with both. My main advice would be to dollar-cost average in, which means you pick a number of how much you want to invest and start buying some of the coin(s) you want every week/month?

example:
I want to invest $5000,- into ETH and EOS, $2500,- both
Every month I put $500,- into ETH and EOS regardless of the price
After 5 months I have invested the full sum and calculate my average buy in, you now just hold untill you're satisfied with the returns. Goodluck

There's positive news all over the market, altcoins getting into partnerships and more talks about regulation inviting bigger players is becoming more real everyday. I think we could slump for a while though. My technical analysis says we could go up for the next few weeks orso, maybe into 9k. We'll have to see what goes on from there, though some bigger picture analysis also points in the direction of revisiting 6k.

Just wondering to get in on EOS for registering the wallet so you get lifetime aidrops but I'm still not sure how this exactly works so if anyone could answer the following questions then that'd be great.

1. Does the EOS aidrop happen proportionally to how much EOS you hold, or is this the same for every wallet?
2. Does my wallet need to have EOS in it to receive aidrops, or do I only need to register the wallet?
3. Is there a minimum amount of EOS I need to hold to register my wallet?

I think that was it. I'm not sure about the project but the idea of being atleast included to a lifetime of what essentially are ''dividends'' sounds very appealing to me, if it takes of great maybe I can earn some good money in the future on these aidrops, if it doesn't take of (it already took of really) it's not a big loss.

I believe NEXO gives 30% dividends, you could check that one out.