The main thing for any ICOs project is financing. No funding - no implementation.
Therefore, first of all, you should pay attention to partners and also whether the project has external investors who will provide initial capital for the start of the project.
Also, no harm will be familiar with how the project is going to distribute the funds, sometimes immediately clear financial strategy and whether it will be successful.

That's right, many are waiting for the right moment when it will be possible to earn a lot without special risks and without pain.
But this does not happen. We must make as many risky decisions as possible in order to increase the likelihood of success. It only works this way, the only question is how much the risk is justified in each individual case.

I agree with you. Despite the huge number of scammers in the crypto world, there are also a lot of smart and decent people.
This forum proves what the current crypto community is. Intelligent and interesting people sharing information with other people free of charge for the benefit and development of the blockchain.
It really is commendable. I believe that this forum is the spirit of the crypto community.
I do not think that such smart people sitting here could not have guessed the imminent end of bitcoin. Therefore, while members of the forum believe in the future of cryptocurrency, it will never drop to zero.

The increased price of bitcoin is more likely to prompt people to buy it, that is, to invest, and perhaps partially motivates for everyday use, but the primary goals will be investments.
In order for people to want to use Bitcoin in their daily lives, it is necessary to make it as convenient as possible for use.
But since this is not so simple due to the limited code of bitcoin, we must create a service around it, as convenient as possible.

Do not you think that those people who have a sufficient amount of bitcoin did not take profit in the dollar when it was necessary?
If you constantly keep assets only in bitcoin, this is fraught with a constant change in their value due to the frequent fluctuation of the price of bitcoin.
Those who were rich thanks to Bitcoin, remained rich. Those who wanted to get rich are waiting in line.

Can you list the names of these projects that are accessible to beginners and have payment not in bitcoin?
Personally, I have never met any new projects that paid at least something other than tokens that subsequently cost nothing because the project does not go on the exchange, and if it comes out then low capitalization and lack of volumes make it impossible to sell these tokens.

I think that the easiest way to make sure the project is honest is to contact the exchange and find out if the negotiations are going to be negotiated with them by the project regarding listing.
If the exchange confirms this, then everything is in order.
Thus, you can check almost all exchange partners and find out where the project is telling the truth and where it is exaggerating in order to attract investors.
Most are too lazy to do even this job.

What did he do? What kind of work in the project did he perform? What was the bounty pool and which particular pool was where he participated? And most importantly, how many people were in the company?
The answers to these questions will give you an answer why so little has come out. Maybe the project did not raise funds, maybe there were too many people in the company. The funny thing is that if he managed to sell coins for $ 7, then he can be called lucky, because most projects do not pay anything at all

The answer is obvious - the instability of the course.
No one wants to completely depend on a currency that can lose half its value in a week. Obviously, this can happen with any fiat currency, but what do people believe in?
They believe that the dollar is in their pocket will remain the dollar tomorrow, can they say the same about cryptocurrency? No. This is the main problem of the widespread use of crypto.

I am an ardent supporter of diversification, but if you asked me to choose one thing, I would choose gold.It has a longer history, it is more universal, it is understandable to people.
Gold is one of the most liquid assets.  In the case of almost any crisis, I will most likely be able to sell my gold if necessary, which cannot be said with 100% certainty about bitcoin.

Not all bounty programs requiring KYC should be bypassed. All individually. From the last such projections, for example, sparrow, temtum, and bcnex can be distinguished.
They all asked for user data, while they are real projects with real products. By the way, these projects were conducted by worthy managers, except bcnex, there was a manager from the company.
So as a criterion, you can use the reputation of a bounty manager.

It makes no sense to blame anyone. Everyone does what they want. This is our reality.
In ordinary life, there are also many failed projects for exactly the same reasons that you listed above, and so what?
These projects, bad ideas, weak developers will leave the market by themselves when it becomes clear that like models just do not have the right to life.

Frankly, I don’t like your methods. Writing private keys to a notebook in which you keep a lot of crypto records is already fraught with problems.
A virus program can download a USB flash drive immediately when it is connected to the system, therefore it is better to use an encryptor similar to a bitlocker, both for a USB flash drive and for your Windows 7.

I just wanted to offer the same thing, take paypal out.
The regulators took hold of Libra tightly, that's true. Paypal's output made a lot of noise. but it seems to me that all this benefits the project.
The stronger they press on the libra, the stronger its release after launch will be, because in this case it will turn out that Libra won, and public attention will be riveted to it.
Yes, the project has other goals, well, let it give the market something new.

Perhaps the reverse side of all this surprises me.
Namely, delisting of coins, closing of crypto exchanges due to their unprofitability, the SEC attack on projects, payment of fines from regulators by major projects.
These things are now very surprising and pleasing to me, because this is the essence of the development of the crypto market. The market is cleared of garbage and scam.

We live in a centralized world, all serious attempts to create decentralization will be spotted at the highest levels of government. How do you think the government of all countries relates to decentralization?
Where there is decentralization, there is no government. Therefore, this simply cannot be done. Cryptocurrency allows us to some extent get away from the part of state control, but we are all exactly inside the system that will always resist such changes.

I would unite all your conclusions under one single thesis - Lack of knowledge. Knowledge is gained through experience, so inexperienced people are more likely to trust promises.
Greed is also affected by a lack of knowledge. Therefore, the most important quality that people need to be instilled so that they are less prone to cheating is the desire to receive knowledge from more experienced users.
We, in turn, should share our experience with people, which will increase the resistance of the community to scam.

The problem is not the delay in payments, there is nothing to worry about. The problem is due to these delays. Projects do not raise funds, and they have to delay payments so as not to fall into the mud face.
But even when payments come, projects very often go out on weak exchanges, and are worthless. They are pushed to such exchanges by a lack of funds.

Many in this thread condemn the author for wanting to create another shitcoin .
But this is blockchain, this is cryptocurrency, this is freedom and its charm is that everyone can afford to do what he wants.
So if you want, go and create your currency. You have already shown more than one way and a guide on how to do this. Act if you want.

If an account is hacked, it is far from a fact that the community will immediately know about it. Therefore, do not focus on the lack of a red trust.
To begin with, you can check the message history of this forum member, his trust list, and also whether he has had successful bounty campaigns in the past.
If none of this exists, and the user has been inactive for a long time, it's probably a hacked or purchased account.