I wouldn't call it a passive income, because there's no guarantee of income every month, it depends on the campaign. Sometimes you get the money only after the campaign is successful.

Fluctuations depend on the BTC price: it drops, all others follow. Other factors may include negative media campaigns, and then investors themselves who are selling their coins at low prices, or withdrew their investment, and are waiting for the market correction to start investing again.

Yes, you should hodl BTC for long time because it has already withstood the test of time and hodling it will give you the highest ROI.

To maximize your profits, you should invest in both coins. Both projects are really popular and promising and have a great potential. ETH is hosting most of the ICOs and upcoming project, while Ripple focuses on helping people use credit cards and banking services at low cost.

Both coins have potential to increase in value, but I would prefer Ethereum. Although it may remain in the BTC shadow this year, I am hodling to see ETH grow by the mid-2019 and reach its full value potential.

I think the market will go up again by this fall, the prices will start to rise, many more ICOs are appearing already. More investors are joining the crypto market now, so soon it will become stable again.

Anything can happen in the market; prices are always going up and down. It's a natural market situation, depending on the demand or needs. I think the market will recover soon and the price will keep increasing.

The time to buy is now, because the market may recover soon and most of the altcoins with good portential are still cheap. If you buy and hodl till the market recovers, you will make huge money from it.

I prefer to invest in popular ICO projects and I do not need knowledge of technical analysis. I try to understand whether it is scam project or not.

I believe that the crypt will be able to get out of this difficult period when the scam is the biggest problem of everything in the community ..

I think that most of the traders had similar situations and everything is usually worried because you lose your money and it's normal to feel like this.

Sometimes and especially today, ICOs take longer because of current negative situation around the cryptos: many people don't invest due to current high volatility of the market. Fund raising takes longer or fails.

I just recently began to understand the features of the crypt, I like the idea of decentralization and the rejection of intermediaries like banks or other financing institutions.

As I have current job already, I am mostly involved in bounty hunting right now and sometimes do trading. In future, I plan on focusing more on trading as my job.

Personally, my strategy is participation in bounty campaigns, it is mainly social networks, and then investing in prospective ICO projects ,because it's more profitable

Ethereum is great for long term and you should hodl it if you really want to make a good profit. After the team have improved some things, the coin will become more valuable.

The market is now in a drawdown which can at any moment turn into a dump. I am now thinking of selling coins that are less promising in my portfolio.

I'm still thinking about what kind of coin to buy and whether it's worth keeping Bitcoin at all. Many people began to doubt that it could grow in price again.

Probably that was the best decision for now, but there are more good alts, not only that one, but NEO or Ethereum now seem like the best ones. I do not think that was the best idea.

That is a very good and sensible idea. You are right and so much far, not all of the rating websites are not faked. I think even all of them being paid to list a coin into the rating.