Deici seems to be a cheap scam attempt.
Look at their website, website and the airdrop seems like a pathetic attempt by a group of novice scammers to collect some money from unsuspecting investors.
They copied most of the text from the EOS and are trying to build a cheap clone of it after seeing the relative success of fundraising by EOS.

It's like government are making harder for crypto-companies to work without their consent. And yes we can't ignore government not until the blockchain takes over the world.
Meantime, they should co-operate. Everyone would benefit from that.

Most of them yes and bitcoin is in steady rise. With a rise, now it's averaging around 7.5K.
Similar rises are seen in most of the coins and the total marketcap of cryptocurrencies.

Stronghold USD is the name of new coin pegged to the price of USD and for an instant attention, it announced a partnership with IBM, the first PC company.
Global vice president of IBM blockchain did confirmed the partnership.

https://news.bitcoin.com/ibm-backs-the-development-of-latest-new-stablecoin-stronghold-usd/

I can fill you up if you are to go first or if you pay for Escrow. 1:1 Skrill to Bitcoin.

NEO hasn't been in the news for quite a time. There are no visible buzz about it and hence no new investors are attracted towards it. In the mean time, it's competitor are aggressively expanding with advertisement and building up of communities. It's directly reflected in the price.

You should also be sure the ICO issuer has no issues using a VPN. As for some, you can be asked for further verification for joining the ICO. And it can also be an excuse for confiscating your funds.
The same is with exchanges. Some are Okay with VPN while some forbids it.

CARD is already the ticker used by cardstack. Which is already a popular token.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cardstack/

You should try something else not to mess up about the ticker later while listing on an exchange.

If I were to increase my portfolio, I'd buy Ethereum.
It's currently low valued and is struggling with problems but when they'd upgrade it with newer ways to verify transaction and increase the transaction speed, it would again rise high as it's still the most used cryptocurrency.

Every exchanges has now implemented user voting listing of coins which in return is highly profitable for the exchange both during the voting and after the most popular token get listed. It also leads for the tokens that have large community or the one that can spend a lot for development(listing) would make up to a popular exchange.

Crypto is not just about profit. It's the new technological revolution. If we don't stand for it now, the world would go back many years.
The faster the world embrace crypto, the sooner would we move to a better world.

Waves is a useless token. I wonder why it is still going on?
It was just made to make it easier for scammers to create tokens. Shady moneypot too cancelled it's token issue on waves realizing they were even more shady than moneypot.

Whoever doing this, are just helping ETH.
They are showing where ETH needs to improve in order to stay in the race.
Confirmation of EOS original team would further disgrace EOS for ETH followers but not for others.

I can but I wouldn't. Crypto are at one of their lowest price for a year time frame. If we have a bit of faith and patience, we would be able to harvest much better fruits. Be it 3 months or 3 years, I'm not going to sell my crypto cheap.

If you are going to forget about it and would wait for a couple of years to redeem it back than it's a good idea. But you would not be satisfied with in short term. Cardano has the potential for growth but that may take years.

Nchain acquires three new patents from the European Patent Office.
The blockchain technologies research and development firm, Nchain, has acquired three new patents that have been issued by the European Patent Office. The company’s latest intellectual property invented by Nchain’s chief scientist, Dr. Craig Wright, cover “digital rights management using blockchain.”

To his defence,  Calvin Ayre, believes it is necessary for companies like Nchain to acquire these patents because otherwise bigger companies like Bank of America, Visa, and others will grab them first.

https://news.bitcoin.com/nchain-group-granted-three-new-blockchain-patents/

What do you think about it?

When you have your own blockchain, you are in control of everything. Depending on others will hurt your business a lot.
Like Ethereum congestion is not only hurting it but also to every tokens issued in the platform.

What if it's an exit strategy. What if they were not hacked but they stole both the ICO money and the coins and tokens people trusted their exchange on.
How could anyone hack and reprogram their smart contract while the hackers weren't able to do that in any other dex.
Remember only way to get something from etherdelta is phishing.

You can but doing so would be heavily influenced by your personal perspective as almost every ICOs are initially sold for few cents for a token.
That way you need to include hundreds of ICOs everyday which would be a waste of time for yourself and unproductive for anybody.

Look for what they intend to do and how would they achieve it. Look for the field experience of the team involved. Verify the team members involvement. Look for news and reviews about the project. Look for work on progress. Try to verify it in real world. If all goes okay, invest.