If I were new again in crypto,  I would stay away  from day trading,  specially arbitrage. I'm sure that even if there's no volatility your profit will still be eaten up by the fees of buying/selling/transferring/withdrawing.

And if you get a big drop between buying and selling it, kiss your profit goodbye.

I'm sure it's possible, but not easy and not without high risks.

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As per latest improvements and new added features, I would say Binance is far the best exchange.

They don't list sh*t coins, projects are very well verified before listing and support team is pretty responsive if you face issues.

Unfortunately that's true, mate, it becomes harder and harder to find legit projects to join their bounty programs and eventually when they pay you, the payment not to worth pennies.

However, you should always take into account some key points before joining a bounty:
 - read carefully the Whitepaper
 - check the experience of the team members and ensure they are real
 - verify the activity on social media channels. A great project without marketing is a dead project as nobody will know about it.

I would always use Binance instead of Huobi. Personally I don't know that well Huobi exchange, but I joined some IEOs on Binance and I always had a pleasant experience.

Binance continues to develop constantly new features (see new lending feature released recently) and to me it inspires more safety to hold my crypto. 

Why would a legit project ever use an ICO and IEO simultaneously? This is a big red flag for a scam IMHO.

However, ICO will be less and less used as IEO came with much more advantages for both project owners and investors. So, opting for an IEO would definitely not let you the option to choose an ICO, too.

If you're not an experienced trader the best and safest option to increase the value of your invested money is to buy Btc and hold them at least until the next year's halving, when the price is supposed to raise.

Trading your Btc with alts will most probably diminish your Btc.

Holding your funds in a hardware wallet seems to be the best option for now.

Not sure if it's 100% safe, but I did not hear till now that a hardware wallet to be hacked. However, you should be very careful on how you keep your seed words.

As mining difficulty increases and mining devices become more expensive it is quite difficult to have profit from mining if you don't have extremely cheap of free (wind, solar) energy.

Next year there will be a new Btc halving, so rewards will be again diminished.

I'm sorry for your loss,  mate. If your Blockchain account has been compromised then I'm afraid there's no chance to recover your funds back.

In order to avoid this to happen in the future try to use a hardware wallet instead of holding your private key on your PC.

The real deal is that investing in crypto is being experienced as sort of a gamble, so when crisis is looming, people withdraw their crypto investments and prepare their fiat cushions for possible fallout.

As centralized as it is, crypto depends heavily at this stage, especially since mining became out of the reach of normal people, on centralized exchanges that rely on stable fiat currency systems. Take that out of the equation and you are left with decentralized bytes that no one can turn into still needed real world money.

I am not saying here that when shit hits the fan locally (Venezuela), you cannot leverage crypto to stay out of the high water, just that global meltdown could make crypto business as hard to utilize as printed money.

It's been said that in life you should have no regrets. However,  it's hard not to think about how would it be to have kept a few Bitcoins from 2010 when it was almost for free.

Life goes on, mate. Keep your eyes open and I'm sure you can find other gems like Eth, Bnb etc.

Bitcoin is valuable by the faith of people that it will continue to develop and its price will raise in the future.

When people will lose interest in Btc, it will lose its value, price will decrease as liquidity will become lower and lower.

Lol, the problem is that most of dark market transactions are still performed via fiat, not via crypto.

However, nobody ever thought about banning fiat for this. But when it comes to Bitcoin, it is bad, evel ... c'mon

Try to make money via exchanges arbitrage is one of most common mistakes. I'm sure that even if there's no volatility your profit will still be eaten up by the fees of buying/selling/transferring/withdrawing.

And if you get a big drop between buying and selling it, kiss your profit goodbye.

I'm sure it's possible, but not easy and not without risk.

it's not that easy unfortunately to anticipate when a bull run takes place. In crypto, even if you had a few weeks of price increase, you can have months of price drop and vice versa.

And to make things even more difficult, previous bull runs are not similar to future one, market is still immature and very volatile, so hunting bullrun is a very challenging task.

Binance proved during long bearish periods that can hold pretty stable its price and this is a proof of maturity for any coin.

Also, Binance continues to develop constantly, it has buy back programs, a lot of IEOs, loteries etc. It is maybe the best crypto exchange and will remain in top for at least many years from now.

Bitcoin was the first crypto currency and it will always remain the first. This does not mean necessarily it is the best, but being the first comes with a huge popularity and a lot of advantages.

Imagine how would it be for a new mobile phone manufacture to come on market with a great product and to replace Samsung and Apple. It would be almost impossible even if their product will be very good. Same happens for Bitcoin.

Most investors are very young people without or with poor financial education. Many think that what happened in 2007 will repeat and they will become rich overnight.

They will wake up from their dream with less money in their pockets, some of them with a big depression.  You should not invest in something you don't understand.  The same rule applies in crypto, too. You should study a lot and understand a project before throwing your money in it.

Altcoins season might not ever come after what happened in 2017. This year proved there are too many useless alts on market and most of them need to die in order to have a strong and stable crypto environment.

I would bet on top10 alts to survive and increase their price in the next few years, but most of altcoins will decrease to near zero.