check, recheck and then - check again.

Your are putting your hard earned money in the hands of someone you've never met, so the cardinal rule is to check every bit of information and make sure it is accurate - check the website data, cross reference team member information with social media sites, investigate every key team member to the best of your abilities.

Once you've verified the validity of the project and its members move to step 2 - investigate the market that project is in...is it ripe for success or filled with competitors?

And my own personal bit of crazy - if the project demands a minimum contribution amount that seems rather high - stay out, as they would normally only take that step if they want to insure "seriousness" of investors, while the project may be valid, i am adverse to comply with high demands - a reliable project ought to let me decide how much I want to invest in it, they should welcome all members of all sizes not seek to create an exclusive club.

A solid idea is far from enough.
you need a solid team
a solid product
a solid roadmap and goals
solid management
solid updates and accountability

with all of that in mind its hardly a wonder that most ICOs fail or flutter after launch - a lot of them have great ideas but no idea how to pull them off once they have all that money at their disposal and they are done in by mismanagement and goals that they simply fail to achieve or correct.

I think a lot of them, when faced with the first "trouble" tend to panic and overcorrect, which is just about the worst thing you can do.
even if you F'd up, the best thing to do is to admit it to your audience and be ready with a plan on how you will correct things, but I guess its some sort of macho ICO pride that prevents them from doing that and does the project in.

I think investors began seeing that, probably sooner than the regular public and so over the past few months have been far more careful with how they spend their money.

I see your point, for sure, but do you not also agree that the very classification of bitcoin as anything other than a "fad" will serve all of us better in the long run?

https://m.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-ruled-commodity-palladium-etf-shines-cm1030552

What do you think? is this the early stages of acceptance towards cryptocurrencies?

Was this just a one time "glitch" or is 2nd place really up for grabs (assuming no one will catch bitcoin any time soon), thoughts?

Yes, it is, most likely closer to the launch of the exchange itself, where we believe the momentum will be most useful.

Again, I think this is a matter of how you define "trustworthy"...just being a solid coin might not be enough to gain trust, there have to be other factors in it.

Like many have said in this thread - it's all a question of what you consider "trustworthy"?

some will look at the credibility of the project
others at its ability to succeed in its market
while others may only look at the team and their ability to communicate properly with the audience

Personally, for me, its all three combined - a project that is credible, able to succeed and communicates properly.

The real question is how many ups and downs the markets will go through before we make it to 2020? a year and 3 months might as well be a lifetime in crypto-time

Dear Cedex Bounty Participants

Cedex would like to thank all of you for your hard work and dedication in helping the CEDEX name become as real as it could be in the Virtual world.

A great deal of our successful ICO can be traced back to you helping spread every post, tweet and link out to the masses.

With distribution now behind us, Cedex is moving on to the next step – getting listed on an exchange that can help everyone involved (that means you!) maximize their profits – be it from a contribution or by taking part in this very bounty campaign.

We would like to invite you to register on the CEDEX website and to the CEDEX newsletter if you have not done so yet – they will be the best and most up to date places for you to get future news about CEDEX, its coins, platform, plans, possible future bounty campaigns and everything CEDEX.

The CEDEX team is always available to answer your questions on our Telegram Channel - https://t.me/joinchat/Fu9Tng8MwZ574gdVPt1eSw
as well as on Facebook.
and Twitter - https://twitter.com/CedexOfficial

We hope to see you become a part of CEDEX as we continue to grow and transform diamonds into a new asset class.

At this point it would be a platform for trading diamonds and tokens, where you can essentially get a physical product (diamond) or you choose to purchase one with our tokens, or convert a diamond into a cryptocurrency (cedex coins)

Hello Everyone - We understand you are all waiting for your #Cedex coins!
But we are asking for a little patience - there is a long list of contributors and campaign participants to go through, and to make sure that there are NO  MISTAKES - we are doing the transfers manually - so it may take some time!

The #Cedex Distribution event has started!!!

Smart Contract Address is:
0xf4065e4477e91C177DED71A7A6fb5ee07DC46BC9

See Link for MEW configuration guide -
https://cedex.com/img/get_coins.pdf

Regretfully - there are countless individuals out there that are separated from their conscience to the point where they're fine with lying, scamming and stealing - we can not help that.
all we can do as a company and a website is provide the best and most accurate information to our supporters and keep them informed about anything we know and learn and any updates or changes they need to make, for whatever reason.

At that point, it is up to the individual to weigh whatever information they see through various channels for accuracy, and if they chose to ignore the information we give them, or do not double check things with legitimate sources - we can not help them.

Had accounts or information been compromised in any way - that is our problem and we would do anything and everything in our power to correct it, but that is not the case.

If you see a person walking the street with a sign that says "i'm a bank" and you give them your salary without checking - you can't really blame the bank for that, can you?

well, same here - We repeatedly stated before, during and after the ICO across our site, social media and emails - not to trust any information you receive anywhere other than official cedex email addresses like support or compliance because social accounts can be faked rather easily, we've gone above and beyond to try and stop such attempts, but we can not stop 100% of them, so alerting is our only course of action.

Ignoring such alerts shifts the fault to anyone doing the ignoring, not to the company.

But, having said all that - we will continue to try and support you and provide any assistance we can, so if you have doubts or questions regarding possible scammers or anything of that nature send an email to support@cedex.com and we will do our best to aid you.

We hope to have CEDEX listed a short time after the Token distribution on may 8th, probably a few weeks...

Yes, you can still change your wallet address, email support with your account details and new wallet information and they will be able to help you.
Please note that you can only do this until May 5th!

Only contributors need to pass KYC, so if you only took part in the bounty campaign you do not need to pass KYC!

That is exactly why we're pushing ahead with this project - because we believe it has real world potential and real world applications, and the ability to transform and modernize an entire industry.
We thank you for your faith and your words, it is always good to know the community believes in a product as much as the people behind it do!

The sale has ended, but yes, the project is moving ahead with full speed...CEDEX will have more news for its community in the coming weeks.