What about competing tangle technologies, such as rails and others? Can Iota survive serious oposition or perhaps a competitor with better access to financial resources?

You hit the spot on this one. If you want to make a decent ammount, not even to be really rich, is no longer a question of just keeping a coin or set of coins for a few years. I dare to say that bitcoin has reached its maximun for a few months.

I would not say is strictly undervalued, but it is definetly worth taking a look into XEM. It is not too expensive to have a node. I would not go for Waves or Neo as the interest is not that good.

I would be interested too in a Telegram bot. I know Telegram has an API published and I would be surprised if there were no bots. In fact, if there are no bots I may develop one

Yes please, I am also interested. I need to promote a couple of services that can be useful for people on the ICO ecosystem. Trendy words LOL

Well surely you need to read all that, but still there are many unknows in the ICO world. I think that above all you need to look carefully the team and their past. Some teams out there are great while others should not even be able to drive a car.

I guess is also about choosing the right bounty, which is in fact an investment of your time and in some way your reputation. Right choice = more benefit.

I am now looking into GoNetwork, Insurepal and a few other. ... I would avoid metronome and maybe PUNDI-X if you plan to HODL long time, but nowdays you can make short term gains with anything that has enough hype I would say.

Out there I have seen several coins doing x10 when bitcoin did x1. Everyone is very happy that bitcoin rises, lets say 50% but that may actually be not that much if you compare.

This recipee could be a thing of the past. Nowdays it may be better to look for opportunities as lots of talent is going into the market. Do you still think of becoming a millionaire by hodling?

I read that, if you have a copy of your ED private keys stored somewhere it is likely that you will be able to access your funds without actually having to go into the exchange itself. It is a real pain, but possibly the safest way.

That kind of makes sense to me. I would say that I would not put more than 10% long term, because this market is too unstable for that, so for me it would be something like 10, 30, 60. I would need now to decide which to chose for the 10 and 30

Oh well... perhaps it is time to look into a new business opportunity: insurance for crypto exchanges.  But that is kind of the Bitcoin futures... Any volunteers to short? he he....

Anyway, today I am sad because the market is down 25%, surely due to the ED hack LOL

- 1st is lack of accountability by some (not all) ICO promoters. They just play with the investors money in ways that would get them to jail in any other situation.
- 2nd is cybersecurity. Everyday we wake up to know that an exchange or a service has been hacked.
- 3rd one is market manipulation. Pump and dumps and organised manipulation.

I have now participated in a few ICOs. For the moment, I am glad I took part in Quantstamp, very organised, no rush, decent profit, ... excellent

And in all the rest... well, either you had to be quick on the keyboard and have a fast node (Gifto), there were technical problems (Bread), tokens were released before the end of the ICO (Ripio) and lately, the WAX token which has been the worst by far: The team decided to build a new blockchain, change the number of tokens and released tokens to some investors before other without locking them.

Some people say this is crypto, and what I say is that this behaviours and lack of compromise with the people that are trusting you and giving their money is going to kill the ICO business.

FOR INVESTORS - Track the teams, track the ICO managers, make sure that your money only goes to those that have a record of keeping their word. We have to defend ourselves. Please, care about your money because they don't.

I like goNetwork, they got many green flags: team, roadmap, ... As I am writing this, cryptos are down by 25% today. The perfect moment to grab some more Ethereum and play your cards later.

I am familiar with OMG only, I think that it has been a great performer in the past but I doubt that it will keep on growing as much as before. Are WTC and ICX unlinked to BTC?

That sound like a sensible option. I thought of it but it seems that BCH moves too much to my liking, high volatility and all that. I am accepting volatility if if could eventually go x10, but I think is not the case?

The obviuos answer is Ethereum, however bitcoin has many trading pairs at the moment. I would say that Litecoin is also a contender in terms of having plenty of direct pairs.

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