You must be able to analyze the project well. Look at each and every detail like what the project does, how it works, what problems does it solve in real life, what are their goals, who are the developers, their team members and founders. Gather as much details as you can and analyze the project. See whether there is any actual need for the project to be implemented in the real world. If there is a need then the ICO will survive and raise good money. You must be able to differentiate between the projects which are made just to raise funds and projects which solves problems in real life scenarios.

I feel sorry for you. It's not waves alone, it's almost all the Altcoins that are suffering from this wave. Most of the potential coins like ETH, NEO, OMG, XMR, DASH etc .. are going down in terms of price. The sudden surge in price of Bitcoin has made most of promising Alts go down.
It's very tough to come up now since the prices have gone down way too much. I was lucky enough to sell my Altcoins at a better price.
Although I suffered from a loss selling the Altcoins, my prediction is that it will go more down since BTC has to go more upwards.

The reason you state that you hate ETH is quite silly. You think ETH will have an effect in future and that's why you hate it ?
That doesn't even makes any sense buddy. ETH is a good coin and has a quite a good technology which offers better features than any other coin.
ETH also has many supporters from the crypto community and whether or not you like it, people will still buy because they believe in it.
ETH will surely give better profits in future than it does now.

The reason might be anything but it surely confirms one thing and that is that there are people out there who don't want Bitcoin to work efficiently.
These people might be the ones who forked BTC or the ones who are spreading negative news about BTC or spammers who want BTC to dump.
They are surely giving miners a tough time. Miners switching to BCH gives the proof that they are being succesful in their motive.
We must think of something to solve this issue else BTC might go down someday.

Lets say you invest a $1000 into some company which offers to double your money in 5 months. The company collects a huge amount of money from many people and then run away 10 days before the 6th month. Will you call USD a scam ?
Lets say you invest $1000 into some shares and the value of shares go down because the company suffers from a loss. Will you call USD a scam ?
These things happen in real life and it does not mean the currency is fraud. It's the people out there who scams others by one means or other.
You can't call Bitcoin fraud because it's the people who are doing it and if there will not be such people in the world then there won't be any scams going on. Neither in Crypto community nor in the real world.

Your post doesn't actually makes any sense. There is no registration needed to use bitcoin. You just need money in order to invest money into BTC and buy some coins. The Bitcoin community is large and the people who hold it knows the real value of BTC. Obviously an asset will be more strong if there is growth in it. Bitcoin will then obviously be more sustainable if there are more number of people joining the community and supporting the coin. Bitcoin has already gained a huge support by wide number of population and whether or not more people join the community the growth of BTC is a sure thing.

I would consider Bitcoin itself to be an investment . The speed in which Bitcoin is rising these days is quite remarkable and it would be better if you just hold the amount you are having at a secure place. Any wallet which gives you the private key can be considered safe.
If you wan't to invest the BTC into Alts then you can try diversifying the coins to ETH, NEO, OMG and such potential coins but be sure to do a research on your own before investing any amount. As I said investing in Bitcoin would be better option because Altcoins these days are not seeing a significant growth and hence investing in them would be a risk taking decision.

Measuring the potential of a coin only depends on the way how you analyze it. While some people have good analyzing techniques the other don't look at the way they do. You must analyze it properly in order to find out its potential. Find out whether there is something new in the project.
Find out whether there is an actual need for the particular project in the society. If there is no need then the project will obviously have no value at the end. They might raise a good amount of money through marketing strategy but it will eventually drop in value. Also find out their goals through the roadmap, you can find out through that itself whether the project will be successful one or not.

The market will obviously be red at some point of time and a trader must be knowing this and must be prepared for the worst cases.
Even if the price goes down 50% you must control your emotions so that you can carry out your trade on your benefit.
For example if the price is going down then you can sell as early as possible and then buy back later at a very low price.
If the price has gone way down before you sell then you must hold as it will surely recover in some days/months . Just try to look at it with a different perspective and you will surely find a way to profit out of the situation.

It actually depends on where you were holding your Bitcoins during the time of snapshot being taken. If you had hold it on any exchange then the exchange would automatically credit you the BTG if it supports the fork. If you were holding it in a wallet with the back of your private key then you have to wait until a wallet which supports BTG is created and then you will have to import your key to that wallet to receive the BTG.
If you were holding it in an online wallet then you should verify whether the provider will be supporting the fork and giving out the BTG or not.
There are also other threads that you can verify for further clarification.

Although both are just a wastage of energy as you say, they do give a considerable profit. PoS coins which have a good % for staking the coins are quite profitable and it is worth to invest in them to get a good return for the investment. I recently invested in a coin called xgox which gives 1000% anually for staking and it also gives a whopping 5000% for some particular set of blocks. So although the energy is wasted, what matters is the money we are making out of it.
I do agree with you on rest of the PoS coins which do not give a high % of return as this one.

NEO getting listed on Kucoin is surely a good news for NEO holders. The coin is not yet available for trading but could be available any time now.
Am pretty much sure as soon as the coin will be available we could see a spike in price. I read the news just now and bought some NEO.
The article I read stated that Kucoin will be listing Neo on its exchange and will be available to trade with RPX and GAS.
Article link : https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/comments/792zop/kucoin_will_add_neo_markets_including_rpxneo_and/

OMG does seem to be a strong potential coin but it is lacking support from the Developers as well as the investors.
The price before the BCH fork was actually a good one where we could have made good profits. But after the fork the price has been going down.
OMG has given me some good profits but until it gets a strong support from the community it is going nowhere.
It might be good for day trading but holding it will not give any good profit until the price reaches a good high.

It looks like the site is under maintenance. You should try to reach it after some time. I would be better if you don't use Poloniex as it has been facing quite a lot of issues these days from withdrawal problems to lack of support for resolving the issues.
You can use exchanges like Bittrex, Hitbtc etc.. which are much better when compared to Poloniex. Do verify your account on Bittrex before depositing any coins on it.

No coin till date whether it be an Altcoin or a forked coin has the capability to compete Bitcoin in price since BTC has raised to a value which no other coin can potentially rise to for another 5-10 years. BTG has no chance of hitting $6000 since there is no support for it by the community.
And by the time BTG reaches $6k which I don't think will happen at all, BTC would have reached $50k. So the answer is a clear NO.

The best coin for trading is Bitcoin itself as it is keeping on increasing in price daily. It is getting more fame nowadays which is why many huge investors are investing into BTC. The usage of Blockchain in the industry is driving many large companies to invest into crypto currency and increasing the overall market cap. You should try to save money and invest in BTC and try to earn BTC as well. Other than BTC, i would suggest you to buy ETH, NEO and OMG as I think these coins will give a huge return in future. Just buy them and hold around 3-5 years and you should get a very good profit from these.

That's the point people are ignoring here. Bitcoin can reach at a very good level in the upcoming years but there are also some pretty good coins like Ethereum, Neo, LTC etc... which might rise well in upcoming years. Also, if the price of BTC reaches so high why do you think people will still want to buy it. Obviously BTC won't be able to provide enough profit if the cost is so high. There are other technologies at a cheaper rate and people will surely migrate to it when they think it's too costly to buy BTC now.
I am a BTC supporter too but there is a fact that BTC will be costly in future  and people will want to explore other opportunities than to invest in a coin that's already out of the league.

That surely is a confusion among people who don't know much about Bitcoin and the fork. According to me the name "Bitcoin" should not be given to anybody as it reminds of everyone that it's the king of cryptocurrencies. Whichever fork happens for whatever reason should use any other name other than Bitcoin. It will surely lead to a confusion among people as to which side they are in and which coins they are using.

The upgrade should be done as it improves the overall capability of Bitcoin but it has to tackle some major problems like the change in name itself, letting the customers choose what they want, protection from hackers and other issues in splitting the chain.The split will enhance the networks capability and it must be done at some point of time when the network will be overloaded. So if the split provides security and enhances the network at the same time then there should not be any problems in people supporting it.

It's actually better to invest in BTC before any fork happens. The price of BTC keeps increasing day by day regardless of the fork.
The price declines only if there is a negative news in the market that spreads among the people and makes an negative impact on the price of BTC.
So, it's better to invest in BTC as early as possible and if we know there is an upcoming fork then it's the best to put as much as money into BTC because that's what people are going to do which makes BTCs price to jump before the fork so that they can get a good return for their investment.
After the fork the price usually goes down as people sell their BTC for fiat and Alts.

ETH had crossed $400 once and it might be a good time to buy some ETH as the prices for most of the Alts have decreased over time.
Eth can easily cross $500 but due to the recent situations like bans and negative statements have made a huge impact on crypto currencies.
BTC forks have also implemented a decline in Alts and that's why I think ETH will not cross $400. It will probably stay around the $300 region.