I only have one ICO I'm interested in and have nothing to gain from promoting it:

Ternio Blockchain  https://ternio.io/

It's US based and is SEC compliant.  Current testnet results to be verified by a third party:1.2 million transactions per second.   
Looking to help solve fraud in the 224 billion digital advertising market.
Tokens created 1 B
Softcap 25M
Hardcap 40M
Public Sale: June 1st- June 15th

A very solid looking team, whitepaper, and project.   

I have two approaches.  I love to mine a new coin and hope when it hits the exchange it pops a bit.   Certainly, it may not and I'm forced to either dump or hodl.  ETN recent example of this working,  but I have two more new coins that i'm having currently having to hodl because there is not profit at this point.  Another method is to mine something like ETH and sell to move into other things.  Certainly the easiest and least amount of risk.  I try and steadily move minging profits from Alts to BTC.  Harder lately though with fewer profits. 

Very cool and informative post.  Thanks for sharing your story and certainly will check out BountyHive based on your experience. 

Will definitely be watching this project.  Good luck