Ignore all of the recommendations of ICO investing from low ranked members (and even the high ranked ones, to be sure) as the majority of them have their own agendas/interests in recommended projects and most of those are pure shitcoins. Also be careful to not fall for a phishing link, always access your web wallets from a bookmarked link and not some xy URL provided from the third party.
It should be a major factor in it but most folks tend to ignore it as it is just too tedious to dive into a WP with 60 or more pages. But yes, if you are seriously considering investing in an ICO, you should definitely take their WP into account.
I mean its logical that ETH is not in the highest demand right now as the ICO scene is almost dead (temporarily). But ETH is far from being done, it is just taking a breather .
This suggestion has been brought up multiple times here. But I doubt it is doable as the projects would have to pay for this kind of marketing in their capital and not their tokens (paying in their tokens is basically free for them, paying in ETH or BTC is not).
Right now is the trend to invest in strong infrastructure projects which get a lot of attention. So it would be good to follow this trend as an individual investor. There are some exceptions as well ofc as the upcoming NEX ICO which is a DEX project.
Right now in this unstable market you should definitely wait out the ICO and purchase the token when it lists on the exchange as a vast majority of projects starts trading below the ICO price. But if you have access to any super hyped and hard to get into projects, you should probably participate in their ICO as it would still be profitable.
For bounty hunters this option would be much safer, but you have to realize that for projects and their teams its basically free to give away their tokens, so if they would have to pay for this kind of marketing in ETH or BTC, they would have to spend actual capital, that is why they prefer to deal in their tokens.
Its only doom and gloom when I take a peek at my portfolio But I guess I will survive this bear in one peace, and maybe in the next cycle I will be able to manage my holding better than in 2018.
Its discouraging to see a domino effect in the crypto world every time there is some FUD in the space or a bad news regarding it, people selling their positions up and down, the market really needs to mature more.
In most of the situations regarding airdrops and the teams/projects processing them, there is not enough demand for the project or the public is not informed about it, so those projects tend to build their community and awareness about the project via giving out free coins.
Well, taking into account that there are thousands of crypto projects with their own coins/tokens, so claiming that "most of them will die" is not a controversial claim. If most of them parish, there is still 100+ of them that will probably survive.