If you ask for my opinion on three ways to make money from cryptocurrency I will reply with bitcoin, bitcoin & bitcoin;
1. Invest in bitcoin, buy as much bitcoin your spare money can get you then take advantage of the ups and down accumulating as many bitcoins you can buy.
2. Get free airdrop from holding bitcoin and sell them when you feel like selling.
3. Hodl your bitcoin until selling just one bitcoin will cover your initial capital then you can think about cashing out some.

The cryptocurrency universe revolves around bitcoin, if you don't own one yet try as much as you can before investing in altcoins. There'll be better altcoins but only one bitcoin.

Firstly I want to ask if these capitals are your spare money (money that if you lose them it won't affect your day-day activities or kept in an investment for years and it won't affect you) if yes then I would answer your second question together with the 1st


Sell them in increment in future market, Bitcoin is just almost 10years old, now imagine what the next 10 years holds for bitcoin. picture yourself as an investors investing in 2010 and picture the gains you would had made if you held to 2017 and sold in increment between 2017-2018 don't forget for holding Bitcoin you'll get those free wanna be bitcoin through airdrops and you can sell those immediately for quick cash. also as you sell in increment in future also take advantages of the dips and acquire more. Bitcoin is a game of accumulation

Right now there isn't any or less profit investing in ICOs although crowdfund isn't dead but ICO is. I believe in near future STO will take over the market. Maybe then you can consider using the established coins like bitcoin and ethereum to invest in them. STO has less risk but don't think it'll have the same ROI ICO did in short time.

Hardware wallets are the best yes that's correct but I don't own one. I have three online wallet (there reputation is excellent) Blockchain, Bitpay and coinbase you can check them out. I have been using Blockchain and coinbase wallet for a while now but when the transaction fee issus can up (delay in transaction) I switched to bitpay which was faster and somehow cheaper. As of recent I have some fund in those three wallet. Might not be the best choice but I enjoy online wallet that's why i used them.

Lack of information/education is what's wrong with the market. The internet have may it so easy that even a newbie (having little or no knowledge in investing) can jump right into investing and their emotions make the best out of them when FUD or FOMO season comes just as we're experiencing now.

If this is what you think then I don't think you truly understand what a chat/troll box can do to a forum or site when used wrongly, for better understanding register an account or visit MERCATOX EXCHANGE to see for yourself how the chat/troll box is been misused by both scammers, spammer to pass wrong information creating fud and most disturbing, paid campaigns are been carried out by project deserving the masses of what a great project they're offering all in the name of marketing for selling worthless tokens.
The suggestion above is the worst idea I have come across, reading the replies above will make you understand why it's the worst.

Don't think this will be necessary, I enjoy the manual method of putting users on my ignore list no matter how many they are. Although it's kinda stressful but it's worth the stress. In my little opinion, if the system can eliminate the "This user is currently ignored" message and not show me users information that's I won't even know if ignored user commented unless he was quoted, it'll be great for me because I get tempted to know why I ignored users each time I see the "This user is currently ignored" message

I understood where you were going by saying we should only download apps from Google and Play store. But you forgot that, that's even the store where the highest malicious apps can be found. Example we have the Bitcointalk App which isn't link with the developers of this forum so was the binance and coinbase App inwhich the companies has no association with, before they created their official Apps.
The best way to avoid these hackers is to verify any information you see online before you make use of them. Before you download an App verify from official social media account or support center if that's the official App. same should go for any information you find online like Giveaways, Airdrop, Bounty etc. Hackers are getting smarter by the day so the only way to not fall prey is by outsmarting them.

Having plenty of money to invest in cryptocurrency doesn't jut make you a whale, smartness is also required. Whales don't say anything, all they know it's their ROI. They fud for you to sell and create fomo for you to buy.
The big transfers we have been seeing of recent is not accidental. It's a plan by whales to either create more FUD or FOMO (can't conclude yet) but i know most of them knows themselves.

Here is the truth, warren buffet doesn't invest in what he doesn't understand just as forum have been advocating to you all, don't invest in ICO or promotion project you don't understand. Do you think it's a coincidence that the best and most experienced investor we have on planet earth didn't invest in Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter? His strategy has always been investing in what he understand and Warren don't understand must internet technology so i don't think he'll understand blockchain to more of investing in bitcoin. The guy is already rich and old.

What's real money? It's a currency used for the exchange of goods and service publicly recognized by a government body and in must cases can be feel or seen. Bitcoin isn't real money yet but it's a digital money and can still be used in the various ways other real (fiat) money can but with even more advantages. For your day to day shoppings/activities you still need fiats so we aren't there yet.

I just received my christmas gift from what i believe to be Crypto santa (wava coin) and it came very early so I thought about sharing, maybe it could help you receive yours either from him or another Santa (coin). 28th November  wavecoin got my attention after I notice some strong support for the $1 price mark then decided to put in some fund (first I thought about investing just $500 but later increased it to 1BTC ~4300)
               
I never taught it will give me positive results within days, I was expecting it within late December/early January but woke up yesterday I saw my investment doubled. I got my ~$4000 Christmas gift from wave reaching $2+
             
I remembered starting a topic on opportunities the bear market hold, stating people still earns even in the bear season. Well I just experienced it (isn't my 1st time though) you can too, take some time to educate yourself, learn how to spot strong support for most undervalued coins and take opportunities of them. luck might just be on your side and you benefit too. Not advising you should go into daily trading but learning to take advantage of the bear market is a great skill you should acquire as the cryptomarket will always have them.
  Remember it pays to take risk but when you know what you're doing and aren't gambling it's no risk.
     

Restriction on his posting ability should be implemented maybe a limit, no proof he's getting paid as he doesn't wear signature nor image advertising any product. He create over 3 FUD post in a single day. He was already on my ignore list after I came across one of his August post. The dude is just confused

It's possible, with the rate in which centralized system are dominating the cryptospace both taxation and regulation by government bodies can occur. Let's take binance and coinbase as example, if the government wants to tax every withdraw/deposit they can also they're already on few regulations. The taxation/Regulation can't be done if bitcoin major allies remains decentralized but they're all getting centralized so a future possibility of regulations/taxation is possible.

Just give them time. I would had uploaded screenshots here but it will take space. I have some friends in which i introduced bitcoin to when it was not as popular as it's now (that was 2015) most of them gave the same excuse you listed above but since the beginning of this year, not even a month pass by without one of them contacting me to reintroduce bitcoin (cryptocurrency in general to them). Guess what,  back then in 2015 I did every thing (from introduction to creating of wallet, buying and selling etc) for free but right now I charge them per hour. So don't bother yourself they'll be back and when they do, charge them for your time.

Won't it be a great idea to create Bitcointalk SEC that'll be prosecuting bounty Hunters/managers of ICO's already busted for been SCAM like reporting to red tag them or reporting for banning or they'll be fined before they can participate in future campaigns.

I had to read twice to understood your story very well. just as jet cash stated, Hodling and trading aren't the same thing. the moment you leave your coins/tokens on the exchange to take benefit of the ups and down, it can't be considered as Hodling but trading. For me, the best policy to HODL is to buy that fav coin of yours, store them in your personal wallet (advisable hardware wallet), before buying you should have already drafted out your investment plan (strategy) which has to involve how many months/years you'll hodl, How many % you'll cashout as you reach your first Hodling timeframe etc. In my opinion anything less than 6months, I don't consider as hodling. My Hodling in btc is 3yrs and still counting but i semi- hold/trade most altcoin

Influencers that only have their wallet interest at hand is that what you're asking about? I only follow project founders, cofounder and workers to get update when ever that's available. Most of those influencer just like the YouTube influencer are not to be trusted their information are all paid advert just like John McAfee pick of the week back in 2017.

Take away PM limits, signatures, and avatar benefits another reason you need to rank up is so when you make quality contributions other members will take you seriously. Most time replies from newbies are overshadowed by higher rank replies (except on rare occasions active merit senders dedicate their time to finding post worth meriting by lower rank users). e g I came across a reply that was merited and the previous reply said almost the same thing but was a lower rank user but didn't get merited, I merited user and he ranked up.

Glad you reopened registration, i can remember I have to PM you to register. I believe lack of advertisement is the cause of the project been stagnated of recent. Maybe a signature campaign with either volunteers or paid campaign to create awareness for the project will be the best option. Many forum users aren't aware of the project yet. Also there isn't enough testimonies online to convince those having doubt about the project. Maybe if one or the two suggestions above can be looked into, it will go along way in reviving the project.