No worry to invest in XRP, it seems the best cryptocurrency now regardless price. Many banks support XRP and confirm they will use XRP in their systems.

I have, 2017 was ICO year for me, all projects i invested give me high profits. 2017 is bullish year so most of ICOs reached hard cap and after listing on exchanges, their token pump very high, all ICO investors had profits.

meaningful and legit? because they're scammers, by scamming they can earn a huge amount of money, thousand times more than a licit job with their ability. If they're not caught, it's ok, they can live a wealthy life, that's why they become scammers. However, scammers are not lazy because it's not easy, it's hard work. I must say that scammers are smart, laborious and creative. Anyway, i don't encourage illegal jobs like this, i just want to clarify your opinion about them.

It's only some days to the end of this month and next month is December, the last month of Q4, market is still in bad conditions, panic sell wave knockout market now. IMO there's no hope for this last quarter, we better forget about this bear in short time and enjoy Christmas and New Year Eve.

Each project has different plan for exchanges listing and it's also affected by market conditions. Some ICOs list their token immediately after token sale, some others list after months and some even lists after years.

Everytime Binance CEO ZHAO Changpeng say something about a cryptocurrency on his Twitter account, there will be some change/update about it on Binance exchange, i have watched this for a long time. This time i guess it's the signal that Binance will make XRP as trading pair against altcoins.

Some campaigns did that. To avoid it, research carefully about the project before you join their bounty campaign. Most of bounty extend because they can't reach their soft cap/hard cap in token sale period. They are bad project and not worth to join.

You can hire marketing agents and community manager companies like Amazix to handle that work for you. But i advise you work more with your project and wait a bit, it's not good time to run a new ICO. Due to bad market conditions, i see many good ICOs even can't reach soft cap.

With help of bounty hunters an ICO can reach to millions of people in friendly way. To do that without bounty hunters, company need to run a big marketing campaign and need big funds for it. Many startups don't have initial angel investor,  don't have initial funds to do this. They need help og bounty hunters.

It's very hard to earn from ICO investing now. We should wait until next year when market gets better. Invest in ICO now in short term is not profitable, but in long term it could be, if you still see good projects and believe in its long term development, you can join ICO and hold for long term.

I'm aware it, XRP is becoming strong, it took the second position of Ethereum on CoinMarketCap. Soon we will see many exchanges add XRP trading pairs and many new ICO will accept XRP payment.

IMO rating sites are not worth to trust.
OP seems that you put your effort into your post, keep trying.
Here are some good tips for you in ICO world by Coolcryptovator

Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively. ✔

Find the scam ICO list here and  here, some are active with token sale, maby you find ICO which you intend to invest 

ICO becomes bad because of shit and scam projects, and the blockchain infrastructure is not good enough, hardcaped project can not delivery good working project. Beside of exchange projects and dapps platform projects, i have not seen any projects which can offer what they had drawn in their whitepaper, what they promised when running ICO.

Exchange to dollar is better. Rate between altcoins vs dollar is easier to calculate more than rate between atlcoins vs bitcoin. Furthermore, from dollar we can withdraw it to bank account when we need, while in bitcoin, we need to sell bitcoin for dollar, and it generates more trading fees.

If you're interesting about new cryptocurrency exchange, you must take a look at Encrybit project. Encrybit offers many advantages over current exchanges on the market. They commit to bring us a modern cryptocurrency exchange. Take some minutes to visit it https://encrybit.io/

I hope so, i'm holding a lot of Ethereum now. The panic sell wave make Ethereum price dump too deep, many traders didn't learn the basic lesson of trading market: do not sell in panic. After dump time there will be a rebounce so it is not need to panic and sell during dumping time.

It's a damn lie of such projects. Bear market takes no effect to token distribution and exchange listing. Token distribution can be done smoothly at at anytime if there is no network congestion. In bear or bull market, centralized exchanges always accept listing application.

Bounty is like freelance job as you can work from anytime, anywhere and sometime money from bounty is more from office salary. But i still prefer office job because it's stable and i receive my salary every month. Meanwhile in bounty, you don't know when you will receive your token, how much it worth. some bounty run over a year but worth less than $100.

2018 is not investment year so i think there is not best investment or profit investment. When the market goes down in the whole 2018, some short term investment gave me profit but it's not worth to count. I hope the market in 2019 will be better.

Because Ethereum is most used for ICO investment, the only way for Ethereum more stable is ICO market get recover and profitable, then investors will invest in ICO. To make ICO market recover, the whole cryptocurrency market must be recovered  and have growth.