Yup, Stratis is oversold, so is Waves, both have great value and have so much in store in 2018. I hold Monero already but I believe PIVX is also oversold after making its climbs and gains in 2017.

Bitcoin itself, do not forget, that is currently oversold though at 10k most people will think this is the correct price.

Verge is overbought even at this level!

It implies that the project has a lot of ADVICE, but it means nothing in terms of guarantee. I will tell you this. Advisors are actually marketing tools. They bring onboard recognition and their own personal networks, so by association, the ICO seems to be "big" and "legit". If the advisors are all low quality it does not matter if you have 1 or 16, but on the other hand 1 good advisor brings in a lot of networking. McAfee can be advisor and your ICO will be big. Why? He says buy and all his Twitter followers buy.

They are actually still as good or still as shitty as airdrops ever were before, depending on how you look at it. If the project pays the same amount of attention and care, and are actually as good developers as they are marketers, then the token will always have some sort of value. But what I do agree now is that so many projects are just copies of each other, so it can be really hard to distinct which are going to be the actual ones to launch properly and do what they set out to do. I am staying away from airdrops at the moment. You want something, work for it.

By far one of the people least in support of ETH but I fully agree that 1,000 is the natural price for it to reach again this year. The founder recently said all of crypto could just drop dead to zero and he is right, but he will not allow ETH to continue trading below 1k for more than 6 months, simply because he will feel it is his reputation at stake, especially when 2.0 is rolling out.

For anyone who wishes ETH could stay away from Bitcoin's shadow, though, the fact that it is now less than 10% of BTC's price means it still cannot act independently of Bitcoin in the market.

Just to update, I think I finally figured out how the wagering cashback works,,, yes it does take into account even 0.1 MBTC bets, but they will only credit after a sufficient number of wagering has been recorded. I do not really track but this is what I discovered. Anyway, hopefully they provide a full statistics of wagering so we can also keep track. I just busted my entire deposits today, not that I mind, of course, it is my own fault, but I would like to keep track of overall profit and losses so I can,,, discipline myself!

Nice change to leaderboard, it is much easier to see and is fairer, I tried to climb up but busted before anything happened. Good job SyGambler!

It is quite amazing to see that even today, people still misunderstand the basics of hacking. Very few hacks are possible even on low end systems, if the user's own personal security is take care of. But I guess if even guys like Mt Gox and all those crypto exchanges still leave USB drives lying around or download malware that sniffs passwords on computers then you cannot expect any better from common people new to Bitcoin.

You do not even need cold secured ledger and what not if you practice good security.

I will be objective here. I see a lot of scam accusations about Yobit, but I also see the same scam accusations against Poloniex and Bittrex and whatever other exchange you want to mention. But on my objective view, there is not a single valid or actual scam proven against Yobit, as of yet. As far as I can see and even with my personal experience, they are slow and they take time but they have not scammed. They were also official exchange partnering with coins like Bitcoin Gold, so there you go.

As people here are pointing out, the chatter on Litecoin is very much alive. I do not think much of it is really healthy but most are generally positive, so the short and medium term outlook should be good. Remember that Litecoin made its biggest moves while no one was really talking about it. Except good old Charlie Lee of course.

I like all my coins for their simple discussions, not dumb and not without passion, but less of the shilling a lot of alts get these days. I would actually worry if there was a lot of talk about Litecoin by posters saying it will go to the moon TOMORROW.

I do not think scam is the appropriate word here as scams deliberately want to steal your money. But I agree that 99% of ICOs are not honest and truthful about what they really want to do with the money they take from investors. I mean, most of them do not have products. Most of them do not even have budgets, as in they do not do research to show how much things cost, so they just imagine a number and make that the hard cap.

I agree it is sad to see that people invest money and it is into absolutely nothing. But think about it. Did Ethereum's ICO really know what their funds were used for?

There are some perfect descriptions, and there are some correct descriptions, I believe this is one that fully fits Ethereum. For such a long time, I could not bring myself to buy Ethereum or even store it, even when Bitcoin was having such problems with high fees and transactions. I know people call me stupid around my networks for thinking like this, but this is the point I do not like.

Bitcoin has many threats, but they are all indirect and can be overcome. I see Eth's centralized leadership exactly as the point of failure I dare not gamble on. So yes, today I have a bit of ETH, but I do not see me having it in two years. It can be whatever price it becomes, it will never win me over.

Thank you for always remembering DAO.

Well, I had a bad experience with ICOs from last year. Spent so much time to choose a good project, even really supported it with my own effort as I believed in their concepts. And then after all the fuss, I got really burned when people dumped. Investors who got in through exchanges were able to own many times more tokens than I did as an early investor, so until today I feel very apprehensive about ICOs.

I really hope you follow up with progress, this is a good sample of how things would work out for ICO investors in 2018. Do not forget to specify your entry price (how much you paid for token).

Better than all the ICOs who have raised tens of millions and have yet to even roll out a testing alpha for people. Of course every blockchain project is complex. I would say that perfect is impossible though. And do not be misled to think there is something that cannot have exploitable flaws. If there was such a thing as a flawless idea, then we would have no more problems to find solutions to.

Also looking to buy below 1,000. Looks very close to happening.

Thanks for all the replies, everyone, I did not quote the separate replies because it would confuse this post and make it too long. It does seem quite interesting, and I am always on the lookout for a project that gives back to the community. I personally think there is nothing wrong with the name, but a future rebrand should be considered - just for the religious connotation (I know it is not).

The sanctuary cost is definitely quite high, but I suppose that is only me on a personal level. I will follow this with interest, perhaps take up one of the offers for a shared sanctuary.

So Bitcoin seems to have lost another 10% today, after building up a lot of steam from the 6k lows. I am wondering just that why the alts have not really done anything either with the rise or with this dip. There has not been any significant new news recently, so this is probably just the seasons pushing the market along.

Waiting for the new money to pour in, or are people busy looking at ICOs now?

Thank you very much for the information. I must admit I was not looking properly, or got lost that I did not find that link. Accountability is perfect for the blockchain, in fact, with blockchain making everything ready, there is no excuse not to be transparent and accountable. The sanctuary is a good idea, but do not think I can come anywhere close to owning one at that price. Is there any easy option to own part of a sanctuary and therefore part of a vote?

Also, this is just for curiousity but are you based in Holland?

I have always been against centralized coins, but then I held and still hold Litecoin, which was for a very long time led and determined by one man. He is still at the top today but has already let go of all his coins, so in a way, he already started his distance from it and has said he would stay only until the old ATH is reached.

My point is, it is okay for a coin to be led by one guy, if the community is okay with it. Is this community okay with that?

Oh, no. Why did you show this? Now I think I have found yet another app to kill my life, after successfully leaving behind some stupid games end of last year. Checking out the website and I did not even feel like reading the whitepaper, just wanted to refill all my lost nostalgia for these games.

And then the huge disappointment when finding out you cannot collect and it is not a game. It is a bloody ICO that does not even want to have proper strategy. I hate this type of project for killing my joy. But I cannot feel angry, just sad. Someone please make a game like this?

Bad name. Ripple effect suggest some form of cause and effect. But that aside, I put my money down a little on Verge in your list to make consistent profits. Ripple is actually another of those in my mind. Ripple to again go to $2 at least for easy profits as I will always buy below $1. Verge I will always buy a while before it pumps. And sell a day after McAfee talks it up.

I do not see any serious holding for either of them though. No confidence in their decentralization and use.

And it was an equally breathtaking year so far in 2019 to see the losses Bitcoin had, along with all the other alts. Bitcoin lost a spectacular 60%, but some others like Nano today have shaved 70% or even 80% of their ATHs.

Something tells me it will be an even crazier year when all these cryptos recover, and some alts finally die. People will experience high gains for some, and witness a lot of alts completely become useless. Newcomers who have been waiting for signs of recovery will see it now.

First of all, decide what the objective of the whitepaper is. If it is going to be a marketing tool, then decide what the messages are. If it is going to be a technical summary, then decide how detailed you want it to be.

Bitcoin's whitepaper was only 8 pages long! Plus 1 page of references. It was a technical tool to explain the technology, and so precisely done it only needed 8 pages.

But whitepapers these days ramble on because they forgot to set their objectives. For me:
1. Technical Whitepaper - whatever number of pages it needs
2. Marketing brochure - here you sell the idea, this can be as many pages, including ICO details.