You are right that most exchanges are built to trade altcoins between them, but not FIAT deposits (some exceptions such as Kraken for instance, depending on your country). Coss will enable a fiat gateway as well in the near future.

But for trading, and for beginners, the best exchanges currently are KuCoin and Binance, both tend to have an extensive list of altcoins to trade and good customer support.

I do think that you should invest now always because you never know. Maybe you miss a great bull if you try to time the market and wait for the dip. I would dollar cost average instead.

I do have invested in Simple Token ICO because of good reasons, after doing my research. I am holding it because I still see potential myself. But it make take some time to actually get to it. I would keep holding because I am that guy (investor that is patient enough to see the projects evolve and mature, because moon comes at that stage and real money in crypto is done by holding onto the good projects). This is just my opinion.

I do agree with the first part of your analysis and that Bitcoin will eventually lose dominance (and perhaps number 1 spot). However I don't agree with your assessment that any Joe can start a valuable coin. I do think that many projects have inherent value and that offer / demand for tokens will be based in utility of them. I also think that Bitcoin itself will continue evolving (albeit at slower pace).

I do think that Tron (TRX) has a lot of potential, although price a bit high in my opinion (despite the dump). If you are HODLING TRX I would keep doing it. But if you don't have any maybe there are higher growth projects out there.

Congratulations on the growth of your investments. I think most of the intelligent and smart investors in crypto are grateful because we have had opportunities never available before. I am very happy too

Unfortunately you cannot do anything. Same thing happened to me when I transferred my XRP to a Ledger Nano S, I had to leave 20 XRP in my old wallet because of this stupid rule.

I do my own research for ICOs, have not made that public yet although I have plans to share it. Would probably be interested, if the conditions are good and there is a proven methodology that is followed by all analysts.

I wouldn't compare Bitcoin with Gold, but people insist on doing that (even calling Bitcoin the "Digital Gold" which in my personal opinion is not. However Bitcoin still has a lot of inherent value for diversification purposes.

This is a very hyped ICO and of course I didn't participate because 50 ETH in a single investment for me is also too much. I do hope to be able to participate in the crowdsale, but not holding my breath due that even whitelisted people may have to rush in and may sell out in seconds (unless they apply low individual caps to actually make the crowd participate and not having to rush).

I wouldn't keep anything on exchanges, with the exception of the amount I would need to trade. But after doing my trading, I will pull the coins off the exchanges and wouldn't leave them overnight. Plus, not all pairs are listed in all exchanges, so you would still need to move your bitcoin around.

I do use coinmarketcap, coincap and cryptocompare to do my research, but also have a spreadsheet that helps me with token economics and valuations of comparable projects to see if there is room to grow.

Everything is affecting the environment, plus there are already efficient and clean mining facilities to mine bitcoin, and this is an industry trend because cheap electricity is required to have profitability.

TRX in my opinion has a fair valuation at its current price. It is a good altcoin, no doubt, and if I had some I would hold. But I would'nt buy more at this price, of course this is just my cup of tea!

What is the difference between UTRUST and Monetha? Both argue to be the ones that will dethrone Paypal. I didn't look deeply into Utrust, I did with Monetha and has been disappointing the performance pricewise.

There are many undervalued cryptocurrencies out there. COSS for sure, but you did forget about one of the most important: Enigma which I think is deeply undervalued even when its price has moved in the last few days. Also AION.

The problem with coinomi at the moment is that it is not yet available for iOS. I still have to claim my Bitcoin Gold for that reason, no other alternatives at the moment. But they will be, with time.

There are many ICOs out of Eastern European countries such as Estonia; some in Zug Switzerland, and some out of places such as Gibraltar or similar. But only your legal advisor could tell you which is the best, depending on which project you are working on.

It is important to do your own research indeed. For 2018 I do think that the holy trinity of interoperability (ICON, Wanchain, AION) will be great holds, plus Zilliqa and Enigma which I see deeply undervalued at the moment. Those are my top.

I think you should have a strong reason to buy a coin, and even stronger reason to sell. I do have a pretty diversified crypto portfolio however Dogecoin is not there. Due to fundamental reasons indeed although it has done surprisingly well since launch.