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The Swaple Platform is a cryptoasset swapping platform and primary marketplace for cryptoassets. On the Swaple Platform, all coins and tokens, including ICO tokens, are welcome and can be self-paired and swapped. This includes altcoin to stablecoin pairings and altcoin to altcoin pairings. Swaple is also intended to be the first primary marketplace for cryptos, as opposed to exchanges, which are secondary marketplaces. Swaple does have a native utility token, Swap Token, which is used for the purpose of lowering swapping fees and unlocking premium features. Swaple is not conducting an ICO, but there will be an airdrop and bounty program announced soon!

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Exchanges are most frustrating thing about crypto, and are arguably antithetical to what crypto was supposed to be about. They centralize an entity that was supposed to be trustless. They also stand as the easiest target for governments and hackers and banks to attack cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. Even Vitalik is saying he hopes centralized exchanges burn in hell. These exchanges are easily the biggest barrier to crypto being massively adopted.

If you are talking about fiat price, altcoins generally follow bitcoin, but at a much slower rate when going up and a faster rate going down. If you are talking about alts v btc pairings, when bitcoin is moving up hard, alts generally go down or move sideways, when bitcoin is dumping, alts dump harder, when bitcoin is moving sideways, the altcoins market shines. There are always exceptions to the rule, but not many. Think of bitcoin and the huge storm that waters the altcoins crops.

I know it can be convenient to leave your coins on an exchange, BUT that is not safe. If you are not actively trading, you should not be leaving your coins on the exchange. Buy a hardware wallet or at least download Exodus wallet onto your computer and store your coins there. The Jaxx mobile wallet for phones is convenient as well. They all support multiple coins like an exchange, but you are in control of your provate keys.

The best way to protect yourself from hackers is, first, keep your funds off of exchanges after you have acquired your coins. Exchanges get hacked all the time and you also don't hold the private keys, so you are really at a security disadvantage. Second, buy a hardware wallet like ledger, trezor, or keep key. These are the most secure and convenient ways to hold your coins. Otherwise you could do a paper wallet. They just aren't convenient at all.

ADA seems like a good idea, but they still dont have a prodct if I am not mistaken. ETH is not perfect and may one day be deposed, but it still dominates the ICo market right now and they are working on their scaling issues. I think though, if any project has a chance to take on ETH, it is EOS. DPOS blockchains can just handle so many more transactions and are more flexible in the coding language that can be used. Always good to diversifiy though.

I think that depends on each projects. Some projects might benefit more from an airdrop style distribution, because for them, the most important thing is to just get the coin out in circulation, but many utility coins might be better off with bounty program, so then people will start using the coin for the utility it provides right away and provide the users the project needed for long term success.

BTC will continue to be the king of cryptos. With segwit and then lightning network implementation on the bitcoin blockchain, a lot of coins will become obsolete. Lightning network easiliy solves the scaling problem and basically eliminates transaction fees. Read up on lightning network if you haven't already. It is the future.

Waves is a good project, but in my opinion, EOS is the most promising replacement for ETH. EOS is a DPOS blockchain that can run 1000 crypto kitties without breaking a sweat, while ethereum is bogged down by a single dapp. On blocktivity, STEEM, an older sibling of EOS, is usually the blockchain with the most transactions per day, with nearly 1.7 million transactions per day at the time of this writing and it isnt even breaking 1% of its capacity, while ETH is doing only 600k a day at the time of writing and using 100% of its capacity, meaning your transaciton will probably not be in the next block and you will have to wait and pay more for the transaction to have it speed up. DPOS blockchains, like BTS, STEEM, and EOS, have no transaction fees and transfers instantly. Not to mention that you can use multiple coding languages on EOS, where as with eth you can only use solidity, which not many people know. That being said, still bullish on ETH too.

Crypto is the peaceful revolution, the evolution of money. It is a way for people to opt out of certain coercive systems without having to use violence. It gives privacy and security back to people. It allows them to be their own bank and control their own wealth. Crypto means a chnce for a better future for generations to come. It means the possibility of a less coercive society in the future.

I think the hayday of ICOs was 2017. At least in the form they are currently taking. It was the wild west, which is fine, but the market will bring it to order. People are being slightly smarter about what they are throwing their money at. They arent putting money just into a good whitepaper anymore. Crowd sales are less of a thing it seems. Just a bunch of big private sales. There will still be more ICO raising huge amounts of money, but I think they will be less and farther between each other than they were last year, and people will have to try much harder to get that money.

Ethereum is still a favorite for me. The ICO market is still very much their game. I do think that EOS will be a big threat to Eth soon. EOS has no transaction fees and can run 1000 cryptokitties without breaking a sweat. Plus developers can use several different coding scripts while making dapps on the EOS platform. It'll be interesting to see what the second half of 2018 will have for EOS.

Bitcoin is still too volatile to be the main form of payment at the moment, but that will change over time. As bitcoin becomes more and more distributed, the price will being to stablize. We are lucky to be living in a time when a change of paradigm is actually occurring. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies will fundamentally change the way humans ineract for each other, and we are all contributing to what that will look like.

Wow, I thought electricity in Thailand was cheap, but it is about $.12 here. There are still plenty of people mining here, so it still must be profitable. How is electricity so cheap in your country? From hydroelectric power?

From what i have observed, when bitcoin is pumping, altcoins are dropping, at least in their bitcoin value. When bitcoin is dumping, alts also dump, and usually even harder than BTC. When bitcoin is moving sideways or slightly up, altcoins usually shine. There are always exceptions, but most of the time like this. If people want to make the most money, they should be trying to acquire more bitcoin, not more dollars. The dollars will come with the more bitcoin.

EOS is where it is at. Ethereum was slowed down by one dapp, cryptokitties. EOS could run a thousand kryptokitties without breaking a sweat. Plus you can use several different programming languages with EOS. It'll be interesting to see what price action the June mainnet release brings.