At least Ripple has some real usage, following this article: 3rd-Biggest Thai Bank Teases Tantalizing News for Ripple (XRP) Bulls. However, people said Ripple is the coin of banksters and I agree with this idea. It's highly centralized, high fee and dangerous to play with.

My best airdop ever is Project Hydro (HYDRO) with 222.222 tokens. At its ATH, the amount was approx USD 3k. But unfortunately I didn't sell at that time and still hold it until today. However, as I observe, this project is being developed well and still looks promising.

I only agree with BNB and BAT in your list. BNB is backed by Binance and BAT has its own real use product - Brave browser. Others are just old and slow to grow coins. RVN is a new face but I don't have much information about it tho.

The only thing that I expect in Facebook's coin is that it will make cryptocurrency more popular to people. I don't expect it will contribute anything like technology to crypto world. Mark Zuckerberg is a cunning old fox. He just tries to benefit from his users.

As far as I know, Bitbond is a certified German STO and running a bounty on this forum. However, I'm not really into and believing in STOs as they're not legally moderated. Why not take into consideration IEOs when they're on trend?

It's ridiculous to see BSV doubles after Craig Wright's patent application. People clearly know that Wright isn't Satoshi and his application will definitely be rejected. Maybe the pump was just a move from Wright to sell out all of his BSV.

Just as a worker wants to start his own business, a trader wants to sets up his own exchange. However, things are not easy in both cases. If a worker can leverage his old experience, a trader doesn't necessarily leverage his trading experience to launch an exchange. Marketing is seriously important in this case.

Providing the relationship between Justin Sun and Binance's CZ, Tron is a good choice for investing. Yes it's a pump and dump coin but you can leverage that to get profit. Anyway, if you're looking for a coin with serious development then Tron isn't for you.

There's fact that when the market goes up, a lot of fortune tellers emerge. In my oninion, not only Ponzi scheme but all these kinds of tellers are scam, too. Anyway, providing the scam exposure situation in the past couple of years, people already have a specific amount of experience. That's a good sign since the more people are scammed, the more tarnished crypto's image is.

Though there's no confirmation yet but very likely the new fintech firm is from Facebook. However, this doesn't have any relation with Facebook issuing its own stable coin. It's undeniable that blockchain is an innovative technology so sooner or later, tech giants will take an eye on it. Anyway, good news for blockchain in general and somehow good for cryptocurrency in particular, though.

The advantage of Waves is that it's one of the earliest altcoin and hence have a large community. Truth is, like many other altcoins, Waves has no serious real product, aside from Waves Dex with poor volume. I have a bad feeling that sooner or later, Waves will become an abandoned project.

Ebay clarified the rumor: they won't accept bitcoin or cryptocurrency. See reference: https://coinnounce.com/ebay-no-plans-of-accepting-bitcoin-cryptocurrencies/. Many companies leverage bitcoin's reputation to advertise themselves nowadays and it seems like Ebay is no exception.

So most of the ideas here are against ICOs. It sounds like ICOs are ignored from investors' list. Regarding IEO, I took a look on Binance and found out an upcoming IEO called Harmony. Full details are here: https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028476111. With Binance's strong reputation, I think this IEO is worth investing.

It's great that I sold some of my long-term holding tokens in my portfolio in the last pump of bitcoin. Next, I'm gonna wait for BTC's correction before buying any new coins/tokens. It's been green for a few consecutive days. People were hyped for its pump. The more they're hype, the more they're panic when BTC's correct. It'll be the buy entry then.

It's undeniable that blockchain is a innovative technology. Governments and organizations should have studied it sooner. Europe seems to be slower than the US or Asia in developing blockchain, at least in ICO projects. And hence, German - the leader of EU, is expected to elevate old continental's position.

Actually, all altcoins are pumping now, follow the lead of bitcoin. It's not necessary to use technical analysis to give a prediction that ETH will reach $300. I even expect a much larger number than that, maybe around $500-600. However, we have to wait and see bitcoin's movement first.

As bitcoin is on its bull-run phase, more money will be poured into the market. ICOs/IEOs will be consequently benefited from that. This has been proven in 2017's end. Do you guys have any recommendations for upcoming potential ICOs/IEOs? Give some explanation for your choice if possible.

Nothing's perfect in this world and either in cryptocurrency world. Bitcoin isn't perfect, that's why altcoins are created. And even so, each altcoin serves one or a number of limited purposes only. If you difined perfect = value, decentralization, scalability and anonimity then I'd say it's bitcoin + lightning network + Mimblewimble

Actually, I don't care much about facebook's coin. It's just maybe a kind of marketing tweak like JMP coin. But I do care about the hype attraction of this coin. With a huge number of users, facebook coin will spread crypto to millions of people. According to Spencer Bogart - a Blockchain Capital’s partner, Facebook Coin could triple crypto-user base. It'll be interesting to see how busy the crypto market will become then.

I think it'd be more precise if the title was: "China is one of the leaders of the blockchain?". Actually, China has so many crypto projects but regarding realistic blockchain projects, there're not so many. There's a fact that crypto start up can bring people quick money but it's not the case for doing a serious blockchain project with real value. Japan, Korea and Singapore maybe equal or even more appropriate to be in the leader position instead of China.