DragonChain is one I'm super excited about. They are in their ICO right now.

This forum is the best for promoting to people who know what they are talking about.

Telegram is the best tool you have though, especially if your devs take the time to answer questions. The way an ICO handles its telegram is a really good barometer for me. Electroneum and Dragonchain are both really good at answering any questions people have.

There were a couple others that I opted out of because they just banned anyone who asked any real questions and it just felt real sketchy.

DragonChain is a great coin for HODL, Electroneum is looking pretty good too.

I tried to get into Red Pulse, but missed out.

I bought Electroneum as a lark, but its growing on me the more I read about it. https://electroneum.com

I also bought DragonChain. It's not a quick flip, but if you are into HODL, it's got some fantastic tech and should do pretty well in the future. https://dragonchain.com

Contributed! I'm very excited about this one!

Any idea of which wallets can be used to store the tokens? Also, which exchanges will carry them?

Research! You can never do too much of it. Ask as many questions as you can and when you are done, ask some more. Join discussion channels (like telegram) specific to the alt you are thinking about investing in and ask even more questions.

It's not realistic to think that any ICO will rival bitcoin anytime soon, but there are some good ones coming up that I think will be around for a while.

Check out dragonchain and kyber. Both of these look really cool.

Everything I have read says that this definitely isn't happening. However, to be fair, we will never know definitively one way or the other until Amazon says something about it.

NXS, OMG and LISK. All good investments.

Dragonchain has an ICO coming up soon that I am super excited about too.

I think people throw out the word scam way too quickly these days. Some coins are in fact scams, and some coins will do nothing and you will lose your money despite them having the best intentions. I have seen a bunch of people on this forum say that any premined ICO is a scam and we know that isn't true (although those people are usually holier than thou jerkwads). What it really boils down to is most people lose money because they don't do their research.

Thats true. There are cool ones out there though. Look at dragonchain,

https://dragonchain.com/

The market price of the token is determined by the total amount raised. Basically they will divide the total amount raised by the amount of tokens and divvy them out accordingly. There are no earlybird sales, no discount codes, and no reason for whales to buy in early and dump when it hits exchanges because the price they buy in for is the price it will hit the exchanges at, so the price of the coin should remain pretty stable right off the bat. Pretty genius if you ask me.

I think the key to finding the coins that will stick around is to look at the tech behind them.

DragonChain is super promising. It was a blockchain platform developed by Disney and they have some really exciting tech. Their ICO is coming up really soon I think.

https://dragonchain.com/

IOTA is great too https://iota.org/

and Komodo just announced some pretty impressive advancements. Unfortunately for them the quality of their announcement was so terrible that everyone freaked out, so now they have to work doubly hard to get people to pay attention to the pretty groundbreaking stuff they have been working on.

OMG is great. I would definitely say go with OMG, but honestly you should probably just research the hell out of them.

This is the most exciting ICO right now in my opinion.

No joke! It is one of the only ICOs I'm actually excited about now.

Seriously, check it out.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2096284.msg21972250#msg21972250

You really just have to do a lot of research. There are definitely scams out there and they get easier to spot as you check out more and more of them. If it seems like they are just selling a bunch of premined tokens with no use, then there is a good chance that they are doing exactly that and just want your cash. Check out their code on the developers GitHub page and see what other people are saying about it. Most importantly, ask the team and the developers as many questions as you can think of.

There are some that take precautions to ensure that their coins won't just be bought and dumped as soon as it hits exchanges. Look at DragonChain, their market price won't even be determined until after the ICO to make it less enticing to whales, and at the end of the sale they are taking the total amount raised and dividing the coins up among the investors, and that is the price it will hit the exchanges at. Basically, there is no reason to dump right away and it makes the whole thing more stable.

That's the kind of thing that I look for in an ICO, a company that wants their tech to be around for as long as possible.

Decentralized ICOs are the future.

No matter what the medium is, there will always be scammers. Don't ever click on any links, start a new thread to support if you get a direct message from anyone, never give out your private keys. 

If anything I think it will be good in the long term. It may help to weed out the shitcoins and scams.