Depends on your risk appetite, crypto has higher risk but offer bigger return compared to stocks, although stocks price is quite volatile but they are real companies and there are regulations to protect you. Diversification is important so i think it is better to divide your money and invest in both of them.

I don't think altcoin is better than bitcoin right now, have you seen a lot of project token price drop harder than bitcoin and it's only a matter of time before they abandon the project. Bitcoin is the safest bet here as it's the face of crypto, if you still want to hold alt then better find something that has a lot of activity in the github to ensure that it won't be abandoned.

Mining isn't that profitable anymore in this kind of market, the price of crypto keep dropping so you won't make that much and it will take longer to break even, maybe more than one year. The only way to make money is to hold the coin until the next bullrun and sell it later but that's too unreliable so trading is definitely better now.

Eth is mainly used for smart contract and in this kind of market the supply will be way higher than the demand because most of the projects will sell their eth in order to secure the funding for the project. Bitcoin rise won't affect eth as there's different demand for both of them, the developer can't do anything about the price because it is entirely based on the supply and demand.

I already sold most of my alts earlier this year because it's quite clear that the bubble almost pop and i am right because the market really crash this year. At the end of the day it's your decision whether you want to hold or not, if you still believe in crypto then you should hold but if you find other investment that's better than crypto then you should sell your asset.

I don't know how much you will be trading with but if you want a good exchange then you should try binance. It has a good selection of coin and good liquidity alongside it so if you can trade easier, you can also reduce the trading fee using the bnb token, the interface is the best from crypto exchanges that i've used so you shouldn't have problem with it.

If you are afraid of losing your crypto asset then you should buy hardware wallet, trezor and ledger nano can hold the coin you've mentioned so you should be find if you buy hardware wallet. I consider it as a cheap investment for my crypto security, bought one ledger nano last year and i never worried about my coin.

That's because most people here are new to investing and i am sure that they don't even know what project they invest in, most of them only listen to youtube and someone says this is a good project and believe it immediately, same with shill post on telegram and other source. If people bother to check the project first, they will find a lot of red flag that will prevent them from getting scammed.

Scalping is a good way to make money in this kind of market, you don't need bullrun to make money, there's other alternative in trading and you should do that. If you only want to invest then you can average down your token/coin if you think that in the future they can recover or rise in value. I'm quite lucky that i know the market will be bad because there's a lot of overvalued project and sold early before the crash happen, now i only has a few token that i don't bother to sell because i believe in the long term.

I already sold most of my token and the rest of the coin that i have already have working product like spectre and i already earn the weekly dividend and i think projects like that are the real deal, they deliver what they've promised and even now in the bear market the price stays above ico price. I prefer project that already release mvp or beta during ico as they prove that the team can execute the project.

It's already the end for most ico because right now i don't think a lot of people will put their money blindly in this kind of market, the time when you can earn a lot from ico is basically over and right now they need to comply with regulators to avoid trouble. For now the ico hype is over and it's time for others ico to deliver what they've promised.

It is because they can't deliver what they have promised before the ico. They have an idea to make something and they need money to do that, they got the money and after one year they haven't released anything of course they will lose the token holder's confidence and no one want to buy the token anymore and the project will die sooner or later, that's why it's important to invest in something that already has demo, because at least it shows they can make something.

It is indeed not as much as last year where almost every project can collect more than 5 million with ease but it's not hard to collect like 1 million usd from ico. It's just the project become greedier and set the hardcap way too high, if you look at the icos from january last year, most of them only need to collect about 1 million but right now every project want to collect more than 30 million usd and i don't know how they will allocate the fund.

The price depends on the demand and supply in the market so if the team want to bring more demand, they have to make some positive progress to the project that can increase token holder confidence regarding the project. It is one of the reason most ico usually send bounty token later, because bigger supply at the beginning will make the price drop quite hard so they have to wait until there's sufficient demand for the token before releasing the token.

Most of them is paid to shill the project and it's rare to find some review that are not biased so if you want to read an ico review you should have your own view of the project and treat the review as additional information. Personally i don't use ico review that much because they don't highlight the point which i considered important for a project.

I think three years later we will see most of the altcoin from now will be gone from top 100 marketcap because they will be replaced with newer and better altcoin, the one that will survive is the one that has use case. Most of the alt right now hasn't release their platform and only rely on their whitepaper and marketing hype and those alt won't survive in a few years.

It's not trading if you are holding it for 6 months and it's not like the one you are holding is a bad alt, nano is a special case because of that hack incident it can't recover the value, i also have nano but i'm still in green because i also ride the wave up and sold after the hacking incident. Also if you want to hold then you have to have a strong will to do that, bear market won't be over in a short time so if you don't have the patience to hold then you should've sold it sooner.

Lesson you can learn from bear market is that you can still earn money even if the market is moving sideways and it is not the best decision to hold your coin all the time, you have to know when to sell or take profit and buyback later. It is better to cut loss and move your money somewhere else rather than down a lot and you're stuck for a long time.

In my opinion the best way to avoid getting scammed is to keep learning about crypto and economic in general. You don't even understand what is trading so you have to learn it first before attempting to do it because that way you won't make basic mistake and actually know when people want to scam you. Most of the problem in crypto is that people don't bother to learn about how thing works.

If you are expecting another bull run like last year then it's very unlikely to happen this year, bull run won't happen every year and in my opinion it will need a few years until we have another bullrun. Right now is the recovery and accumulation period and you can earn money even when the market is moving sideways, it's not as easy as last year but it is doable.