Lol, what's with the toxicity of this community sometimes, if you don't wanna support it then...just don't. Rather than complaining about it as though he just asked you for your life savings.

I mean it's the premise of how the ICO functions that allows for these "scams." If you bottleneck it - then you are suddenly bottlenecking all the good projects that depend on that same ecosystem to function.

I'll second what other's are saying - the kind of growth that IOTA has had over the last bit is unsustainable and it will have to undergo a correction. Be patient and profit.

No one word answer to this one.

While ICOs allow for easy dump schemes, there are some genuine projects. Essentially it is a situation where amidst a largely negative dominated ecosystem - there is the small, but relevant, amount of positive projects depending on the existence of that ecosystem for vitality.

I would advise you to do research on a case by case basis and just look at individual ICO projects and try to apply something like Charlie Munger's two-track analysis when making a decision.

Let me chime in here.

The price will really at the end of the day be dictated by Demand and Supply.
1.With the release of Proof of Stake - we are limiting the total coin pool inflation to only x% (likely single digits) per year.
2.Adoption. Currently, the ETH Enterprise Alliance features very big perspective players - but they're not going all in for one reason, right now, the operating cost is not the most sustainable due to the high fees miners (needed to run the network) have to pay for electricity and the proportional compensation that they then have to get from the network. Releasing PoS, we eliminate the need for mining, making the system: A. Inexpensive to operate, B. Improved operational capacity (through new innovative tech advance over the current consensus algorithm.) This means, we will have several elements at play here: i. Adoption, ii. Speculative Agitation, iii. Resulting Market Interest.

So, TLDR: Limited Supply (Lower), Far more Demand (Higher). What happens when Demand overtakes Supply? That I'll let you answer for yourself.

In terms of sheer portfolio growth - no one can predict it or even give you the vaguest numerical estimate. Do some research on the technology behind some of these coins and find one that you just really believe in (they say invest in what you know for a reason.) For example: I personally think ETH is a disruptor and has crazy potential due to it's unique positioning.

Mining, I can tell you that I'm getting on average 2.5-3.2% Monthly ROI (after power, cooling, depreciation of hardware, tax and etc...factored in) here in Canada. BUT, with ETH for example, you will need at-least $200K+ to make it a viable income, it will require quite a lot of time at that point as well so be prepared. But, at that monetary scale, it's a huge risk for ETH specifically as having a 30% (CCA quoted) depreciation rate gives you a 3 year financial lifespan per rig to squeeze out the 90%+ ROI and Casper is due in late 2018 and who knows if we will have a viable mining alternative besides UBQ because PoS is far more beneficial for most coins in terms of technological advance. Of course, you can also foot the bill for Power (+ longterm liability for depreciation of equipment) and simply amass the coins, let portfolio grow in value and then participate in PoS (in respect to ETH of course.) I'm not too sure what the rates on BTC are like with equipment and all else, so I'll let someone else chime in there.

https://github.com/dashpay/dash/wiki/Whitepaper

Oh hey, I found your entire whitepaper in the whitepaper of the coin you forked...nice one.

My host computer is on 24/7 it just seems to drop the Node from the network after a few minutes to a few hours, I think this might be sentinel not working with XIOS source.

If anyone has any info - chime in please.

I have two separate nodes on the network.
But they keep turning off after a while.

I unlock walet ( staking only off) then start masternode, come back in a while (random time) and they're off.

Driving me nuts, can someone point me in the right direction?