Quote from: TheCoinMine on July 26, 2017, 03:23:35 PM

So I know everyone in here says to do their own research on all this, and that is exactly what I prefer to do. That being said, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to good places to go for research? There is a solid amount of good info throughout this forum, however, a lot of it is very conflicting and not always the most trustworthy. So I am sort of looking for either websites, blogs/vlogs, youtube channels, or just generally any good resources people use to make their decisions. It is easy to find this type of info for stocks, but knowing this is a much younger and developing marketplace, it is a tad more difficult to find. Thanks!

If investing a lot of capital, I usually look at coinmarketcap, the OP, recent development, historical trends and look into factors such as PoS percent (>8% is bad), block reward distribution (and how long the coin will generate blocks for), size any premine, USP's, status of the owner - newbie=bad, actual accountable person =good, fungibility of the network, USP's application real world scenarios, block explorer, distribution of assets across wallets, dev team, source code (needs to be open source, and frequently updated), number of exchanges and quallity of listed exchanges - sometimes I even check the typing style of the devs first post compared to current to see if the account was sold at some point. I don't usually invest in an IPO

There was also the coinsource trust index - but I don't think that is still used.

But if I'm just going to invest a few hundred thousand satoshis, I dont put so much work in and simply 'have a punt'