This seems like a cool project. Looking forward to seeing your whitepaper! Any idea when it will be up?

Unless you need money you should never panic sell when there is a market dip. The most important part is that you diversify your portfolio like with every investment. Market is very volatile because it's still experiencing growing pains. This means huge potential for both gains and losses so you need to be smart. Some years from now you likely won't be able to make that much money, but the market will be way more stable. Crypto is here to stay so I'd treat it more as a long term investment and hodl haha

The problem is that crypto is still in a wild wild west and although a couple of years ago everything was happening on the small scale right now everyone seems to be getting on the hype. Unfortunately, it leads to a lot of scams so it's good to regulate crypto - I think that there will be more and more smaller countries jumping in to be crypto-friendly. It's the big assholes (like China and US) that are gonna see it as a threat. European countries will more likely want to attract talent by being receptive to crypto.

What research? Do you have a link? Publication? Something to back up this claim? I would be really interested to see it.

I think that more companies should get on this. I wouldn't buy a huawei phone but someone if samsung or LG did it I would

From what I can see people are really mixed about EOS. On one side Dan Larimer surely knows what he's doing. On the other hand each and every one of his projects is entangled in some sort of shady scheme like the possible rigging of the Steemit mining event.

Overall, I'm sure that he has a vision of what he wants blockchain to be, but I'm afraid that this future looks surprisingly hollow from the pure morality standpoint. I do hope that EOS can convince me that I'm wrong, but I just don't have the best feeling about this one.

As to Bitcoin running on EOS? There will be more and more platforms that will try to unify various blockchains. So I guess it's possible that EOS can be one of them.

blockchain is here to stay that's for sure

as for the state of cryptocurrency... it depends on regulations in various countries. Some (like US) won't be very favourable and are already looking into a lot of disadvantageous regulations for utility tokens for example.

Smaller economies will likely be a lot more receptive because new tech means new talent and more advantages for their country (Switzerland, Japan).

I'm worried about illegal stuff stored on a distributed ledger that people might not know about and the regulators might come hard on in the future.
It's likely that the space will be very polarized for a while. But when some see threat, others see opportunity. Technological progress involves risk taking and blockchain has already changed the internet and it will continue to do so. Let's hope for the best!

There are a lot of ICOs out there that are a total scam and there should be no ads because it makes all ICOs look scammy if more and more people who don't understand crypto get scammed by these ads. Besides, a lot of sources say that ICO ads are not that effective anyway. It's all about building community around the project for people who want to engage with it.

this is 100% true. not only through telegram too... I found this article super helpful: https://hackernoon.com/the-ico-handbook-705a89fa8978
It's a must read for companies doing ICOs but also has some interesting example of phishing scams and how to avoid being duped. A lot of this is common sense though - if it looks too good to be true it probably is so everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt. ICOs are still w wild wild west

That's really interesting... I wonder what impact this will have on a lot of the crypto channels. Most of the big ones seem to be Russian.

I do find Telegram really scammy, it takes a while to get to know the good channels. However, recently people keep talking about Telegram more and more in the context of ICOs. Less so Slack and Discord