How I wish that bounties pay ETH. That would probably be possible at least.. if bounties will limit their participants per campaign. Many will argue about the limit of participants since everyone is looking for a high potential one, but it's a matter of being a quick researcher as a bounty hunter. But I don't think that would be possible to be implemented anytime this year. We are all hoping for a better payment/reward. This is a risk for the ICO to decide whether to pay ETH or pay ICO Tokens that takes time to be listed and gain its value. Many worry about being given a little ETH as a reward, I would probably join a campaign that pay ETH .. only if the bounty participants are limited.

The last campaign that I've joined recently required us to pass KYC and I did. I'm willing to pass KYC for bounties but never would I ever give my information for airdrops. Whenever I encounter airdrops which requires to pass KYC, I tend to just skip it since I did find it suspicious for an airdrop. It's like scam/fraud to me. For security whenever you pass KYC, never upload passport as a valid ID. I passed KYC in no time since I messaged the support or one of the admins of the campaign in Telegram. I find it a burden to wait for my KYC to be approved just like before... its been days and I almost missed the token distribution because of KYC approval.

Bounties are not just up to the formalities, it really requires you to do a job which will be rewarded after the campaign. Bounties gives decent amount of token/money than airdrops. Most bounties are legit than how most airdrops are just a scam or a trash (no tokens sent). Bounties are definitely effective, the very reason why almost all members here at Bitcointalk.org Jr. member above, join signature campaigns and other campaigns as well. Translation in bounty campaigns pays a lot from the hardwork and effort you've exerted. If I were you, try both or better yet.... do both.

To be honest, Bitcoin (obviously) gives more opportunities and better return of investments. But as we all know, bitcoin has the greater risk for investments rather than with bank. Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies are unpredictable, unstable, and can be hacked anytime (that's why we need to take extra precaution). It's just up to an investor to decide whether the low risk or the big return of investment matters. Well as for me and most of us here at bitcointalk, we definitely prefer to take risks  .

There are airdrops that are worth it and there are the ones that's just wasting your time. If you want to do/get airdrops, chose the ones (projects) that has a potential and will not make you do a lot of work. I tend to join airdrops who just makes you join their telegram group, or follow their twitter account and retweet a post and then they get some of your info (bitcoin talk username, profile link, telegram username, erc-20 wallet address...) for them to send the airdrop after their project/campaign. Yes, there are a lot of people who earned money from airdrops especially when the project is a success and the value of the token is high.

Bitcoin collapsing the banking system is actually an impression that makes the government disapprove bitcoin. The idea of a cashless country, destroying their monetary unit is not what a country's government wants. The government will be at ease if the users are responsible enough and understanding enough to know the limits of a cryptocurrency in every country. From there, probably more countries will see potential and credit in bitcoin. Government is there to control and secure their citizens (especially from unstable currencies ...and probably scams and hacking) that's their job.

It's not that hard to encourage people here since they're very open about tech stuff and money. Since IT people (students, professors..etc.)  knows about bitcoin already (or probably they've heard about it), you just need to explain it's legitimacy and how it works including the other cryptos. I don't make them invest instantly. I don't overwhelm them with jargons terms here. I want them to explore by themselves simply by joining here at bitcointalk.org. I guide them here, and it's their preference if they want to risk some money for trade and investment or if they want to mine or just join bounty campaigns and airdrops while studying. My parents and aunts are also curious about what I'm up to (cryptos) because they're seeing results (money) from what I'm up to here at bitcointalk since I prefer to do or join airdrops and campaigns. 

It will probably delay you for a semester or more... you can never predict what will happen to the money you invest. Yes, investing in cryptos is a risk... but  this isn't just right. You shouldn't just think about money here... think about your priorities and your future. You could've just saved up money for investment or do campaigns here while you're studying. I don't know your purpose or goal why you want to double the amount of your money but in my opinion this is not wise. But I still hope you'll end up with a good result, good luck with that.

The perfect place is here at bitcointalk.org, you can learn all about bitcoin.. cryptos and even more. You get to learn all the terms here as well as the processes if you want to join a campaign, trade, invest, etc. Read the threads here, even the old ones just search whatever it is that you would want to know. Learn... and eventually do whatever it is that you would prefer upon educating yourself about cryptos. Other sites can also help you too, but since you're using this site already why not conveniently learn from the people here.

So you are addressing college students here. Ok I'm a college student and I spend my coins to buy what I want and need as well (gadgets, stuffs at home, etc.) and I have a portion of the coins for spending and coins for hodling. Definitely I would want to do business with the money I got from crypto after college (a business inclined with my course). Some may spend their money recklessly... but as for me, I want to build or create something from it ..myself. Although I'm not too active with cryptos since College life is kind of busy as well, at least I got to get a decent amount of money from it for what I need and want, and in the future (hodling) I'm looking forward for a better profit and return of investment.

If you would want to know that exactly, then... no one will give you the right answer. We may give our assumptions but those would be considered as an opinion and not a fact.  It may replace fiat in the future since a lot (but not most) people are looking forward for it to happen. But that would take a long time to happen (talking about the arguments with the government and central banks of each country). You see, most people nowadays are not that familiar or interested with cryptocurrencies (some) they may know what it is but they are not using it or probably they are not that open to the idea of replacing fiat money.

You posted this on the wrong thread. This should be on the Altcoin Discussion. To answer your question, I don't think it will escalate that high this year even by the end of this year.

Of course it can survive, even if it is based and derived from Bitcoin's network and function...  it doesn't mean that it can't stand alone or survive especially I think (personally) that it is more powerful and has a higher potential

Since this is a bitcointalk forum, and Bitcoin is the pioneer cryptocurrency which has a very high value and made a lot of people rich, that iis the very reason why it's popular

That would be great and I think that is actually quite possible, just like how we are looking forward with Telegram's Biggest ICO.
https://cryptona.co/telegram-launch-worlds-biggest-ico/

It is hard to keep track of airdrops in the threads here. I recommend you to join telegram groups in which they post there new and on-going airdrops. Join here: t.me/bigairdrops Big Crypto Airdrops this is one of the groups in telegram that informs you about the latest and current legitimate airdrops in which you can join with easily. Including the Telegram airdrop bots. Just join here and on your notifications for this group. I found this group in their blog as I research before about airdrops, and I am looking for a place where I can always checkout legit on-going aidrops and I saw that group, you're welcome  .

You should consider that there are a lot of positive things about Ether that made other people compare Ethereum to Bitcoin. Even if we can see that their price is really different. The potential of Ethereum is very high.That's why others even predict that Ether might replace Bitcoin someday. Ethereum is the best alternative cryptocurrency in my opinion. The best network and transactions. Most of all, it is the altcoin that is used in almost all ICOs. You should give Ethereum a try for you to know, or if you want to get it for free you already know that bounty campaigns are the best option.

Both are great investments. If you have the money, patience, and time to do that then go for it. Unless you would want to invest in BTC than in cryptos. ICO investments are great especially if you've joined the right ICO. I know a lot of people who is great in choosing the right campaigns and ICO and they earn a lot and gain a lot of money. So my answer to that is yes, you should invest in both cryptocurrency and ICOs. And if you have more time, do trading.. and if eventually you want to do Bitcoin too then go ahead, just manage your time.

Cryptocurrencies are not that big in my country. But it is better and bigger today compared to how it is before... as they began to acknowledge cryptocurrencies starting with Ethereum (ETH). Our country acknowledges and regulates Bitcoin already and recently, the application/wallet used here in our country (that is linked and under our Central bank), already included an Ethereum wallet update to it, it just requires a very small fee (in fiat) to create that wallet and that's fine. I was looking forward if they will (in the future) establish token support in their wallet just like in myetherwallet.

As a very smart and efficient country, I can really see and tell...why they are open to the idea of cryptocurrency. Since they are smart enough to know the potential and legitimacy of it. The government of Japan can handle their citizens well, and the citizens really knows about cryptocurrencies... that their government hasn't issued such bad news against the cryptocurrencies (because of a lot of potential scam/hacking incidents). But there are more positive news in Japan than the negative ones. And with Japan planning to become the Bitcoin capital of the world if ever that's legit, that would be historical and great for Bitcoin and All cryptocurrencies.