I have to agree with Medium in this, because they need to take care about quality on their website and not get too many content from shillers and fake claps, etc.

Some of the ones you mention are not low capped. Still if you are investing in cryptocurrencies, you should know better. It is not just about the cap (although it is an important metric) but about the projects themselves, what are they trying to achieve, how advanced they are on their roadmap, if they have been able to deliver, how is their valuation versus competing projects, among others.

You should never invest based on opinions, always do your own research. Remember: you must have a strong reason to buy a token, you also must have a strong reason to sell it. If you do that, you will be fine.

And also remember: diversify. But in a smart way.

I honestly think that price manipulation should be illegal, but let's face it, we are in an unregulated market (still).

For the traders and even for the masses, who can get either excited or frightened (I always say the market is bipolar), this could be a problem. But please remember price manipulation is not done for long term, but to make profits. And there is arbitrage and the market has ways to counter that.

For smart investors, long term holders that will use Bitcoin either as a mean of payment or part of their diversified investment portfolio (another asset class) I think it is not very relevant. Honest opinion.

Do you really think that ALL people will hold their coins? I don't think it is possible, same way it is not possible to have ALL people not spending for one day, or shut their lights off for one hour in protest for some legit reason.

Actually, there are a LOT of traders in the crypto space. It is what they do, they trade. That is their way of living and how they make money. They will NOT hold on to their coins. They are actually a good thing because they do provide liquidity in the market.

So don't worry about that. Hold your coins if you have a good reason to do it (I do). And remember that the real millionaires in Bitcoin are the people that have hold it for a long time.

The only think you can really do is reporting to the authorities and to the community, to prevent other people for falling. And, very important, learn from your experience, learn your lesson so you would not fall for a scam ever again.

In a scam, you actually give away your private keys or you send money to the scammer, who fooled you.

Honestly there is really low change you will recover your funds, unless the scammer goes really stupid (uses for example the same address for all their scams, usually they change it and use a new one for each scam, so they go low profile and difficult to be identified).

I have a little portfolio of dividend paying cryptos, that I have studied and like them. I have SPEC-D token which I think is going to be huge. I also hold KCS and COSS in my portfolio. Have little positions in SIFT (really interesting trading fund), TRIA, ASTRO, TAAS and DDF (the latter has underperformed). RIALTO is also really interesting. And lately SHP although I am disappointed with it to be honest.

The thing is that the income they produce is really small. The potential is there though.

I usually don't like to speculate on things I can't control, and certainly don't spend my time on conspiracy theories. However to answer your question, Bitcoin is not gold. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, gold is a metal. Both have different utility and both can be used to diversify an investment portfolio, increasing the expected return while decreasing risk, because of their negative correlation versus other asset classes. Both are very volatile. It is really funny that people thinks gold is "safe" when is one of the most volatile (riskiest) assets out there.

What I try to focus on are the things I can actually control. I do believe in Bitcoin, and blockchain technologies, and the way they are already changing the world. So I want to be part of that trend. Having said so, I have more Bitcoin in my portfolio, than gold.

If you want to take a huge risk, and now what you are doing, be my guest. But I would never go all in in a single coin, this is like betting and if you want to do that, then it is much more fun to do it in Vegas. Since I don't like to bet with my hard earned money, I would prefer to diversify in GOOD projects that I like and understand, have done my research and could be huge in the future. One of those is Nebula.AI. And even when I like it so much, I would never put all my money in a single investment.

I am sorry this happened to him, or to anyone that has been hacked.

However people seem to think that a hardware wallet would have avoided that. Not really - he may have had hardware wallets and store on Evernote his recovery words, with them anyone can access those funds very easily.

I think there are lessons to be learned by everyone about what actually happened. I hope he actually shares his story, and a guide so people can prevent this from happening to them.

On the meantime please follow best practices, be safe, always be in control of your private keys, and in control of your digital life (passwords, etc.).

And please be aware that your funds held in hardware wallets can easily be stolen if someone gets access to your recovery words.

Do your own research. As easy as that. Have you read the whitepaper? Did you understand it? What is the utility of the coin? What does it represent? Who are the developers?

Plus you should never invest only in one coin. You have to diversify your portfolio, but this does not mean just to spread your money around. You should also be smart and know why are you buying each coin or altcoin, why does it make sense to be added to your portfolio.

Putting your money into something you don't know about is a sure path to losing it. Because you may get lucky some times, but luck sometimes runs out.

If you work to get your money so hard, don't you think the least you should do is making smart decisions about where you put it, where you invest it?

What if? Evolution happens. Bitcoin was the first one, it is pioneer and it is still very popular, widely adopted. But it has its use case and some other alts have other use cases that may be of more value to the world, and to the ecosystem. Prices are reflective of the network value. If another altoin surpasses Bitcoin, it would only mean that it has more  value and nothing else. Does not mean that Bitcoin is not valuable anymore. It will still be widely used.

Of course it is a SCAM mail. Just see that it was sent from coinbase.coml (notice the l at the end). Not an official address. But you should also read through the content. ERC-20 tokens cannot be "imported". They can be sent from one wallet to another. The scam is clear, they just ask for your private key for sure to "import" your tokens and by giving that away, you are giving the access to all your funds.

You should NEVER leave your coins and alts in Coinbase. Because you don't control the private keys, they do. And this is one of the biggest risks in crypto. ALWAYS control your private keys, and your funds.

No one can take your coins out of you wallet unless they have your private keys.

I also received that "airdrop" in one of my addresses, and this is not related to Refereum. It is some guy trying to distribute his referral link, that is all.

So don't fall for that, and don't worry.

If you see explore that token, it was sent to 720930 different addresses.

But don't spread FUD saying that Refereum are hackers because this is not related to them, as mentioned. Anyone can create a token in the Ethereum network and call them as they want, and distribute them to any address.

This is all there is in this case.

ICOs will evolve into STOs (Security Token Offers) which are mostly the same thing, but regulated. Unfortunately ICOs are raising funds from the public without any rule, some of them are scams and other ones do change rules after they announced things, even after people have invested in them. I do not like regulation, however I don't like to be in the "law of the jungle" either. There has to be some order and unfortunately this means some kind of regulation. Also, I don't think that they will be as attractive as today. They will change, evolve, and adapt.

Wow, the headline. "Officially dead". Who announced it officially? Just because it did go down in a bear market where ALL the coins and alts went down? You should know that crypto market is the most volatile that there is in the world. It has very strong swings, both up and down. Plus you shouldn't invest all your money into one currency (you should diversify) and certainly you should not put everything in crypto. Too risky and it seems from your post, that you may be risk averse. So be careful out there, and learn, read and understand what is all about.

I think that is just too much. Going too far. Not easy to manage and not needed. There are many ways to secure your bitcoin and altcoins, hardware wallets in my opinion do work well enough provided you take care of your recovery phrase, and store them offline in secure locations. I have found that people do lose access to their coins out of their own negligence.

NEO is called the "chinese ethereum" and it is also a platform for smart contracts that is, unfortunately, not really decentralized. Still in that part of the world it is going to be the blockchain of choice for many projects, so I think its future is bright. Of course in my opinion you should always diversify, and NEO (also in my opinion) is a relevant coin that should be part of your portfolio. Plus there will be some really good projects built on NEO.

I never buy a coin just because it will get a hardfork. Splitting a chain hurts the community and ultimately the stronger always survives. So in this case I will just hold my XMR and the new coin, probably sell it immediately.

How is this fighting for Satoshi? They cannot shut down Bitcoin, they can however limit the possibility to convert it to FIAT. But no I won't do most things you mention here, because it does not help and it is not the fight the community should take.

I joined the signature campaign, however I can't find the avatar?