In the early day's startups used to raise funds from own pocket or from their circle. After that time of VC, Incubation center and angel investors like that. With more time goes projects started even crowdfunding also from they collect funds. Now with crypto projects used to raises funds from ICO. Many things changed with time but yet all the things running now. All the just way of the raise funds for projects or startups. Never ever the end of startups and no one stop raising the funds. So, I don't think it's really goons end one day maybe something new way of raise funds.

Yeah, From ICO website and social media look like they did it. Yet, Maybe they got money in 50 hours for that they had worked very well before getting this much amount. But like is 50 hours but the only team knows how much time they invested. By the project looks good. Hope for their success.

In my opinion, Maybe BTC go around $5000 bottom. After all, it's all about predictions. Really not, People are free to predict like someone say crypto will die soon, some say will go to the moon and like you $1000.  Only time can tell what gonna happen and on time we get to know what's going on. Now market just trying to get a stable point. After some days on the moon or nowhere who knows.

Many good altcoins in the market. Not sure which on better compare to those but I still believe in those. Like Ethereum, Litecoin, EOS, NEO, Cardano, Dash are good choices for investment. By current market most of the coins so it's chance to buy for long term. It's just what I think maybe bad decisions for us if the market never goes to the moon.

No one can say exactly is it the bubble or not. Like 2017 was a watershed year for the crypto currency, with Bitcoin reaching its all-time high, South Korean investors going crazy for it and China doing everything in its powers to slow down global momentum. In 2018-19 expect to see Japan and the United States lead an economic recovery of crypto currencies and regulation will be at the forefront of government thoughts. Regulation or the threat of regulation will ensure that the market doesn’t overheat again and irrational investor exuberance common in 2017 is unlikely to be repeated.

XRP performed well last year compared to BTC. XRP's successful partnerships gave the confidence that it would go above 3$ or 5$. Yet didn't get that marked but will soon maybe end of this year. But at this point it time, it seems that Ripple’s XRP price is exactly where they wanted it to be. There’s no doubt that XRP is a good buy as things stand right now

Is it really that much simple really? If we talk about crypto then many people really don't about security concerns. Even who used to trade every day those also. It's a facet really. No doubt it makes many things easy. But what if we don't have any internet at any time. Like many people even don't use the smartphone or even can't afford it. Even what about kids who want to buy just ice cream. Yeah, We are going towards next world of crypto then also need more innovation yet.

Security is the first priority in the Crypto world. As a normal investor, we don't know how all the things work in very well manner related to security. Don't know whether the people really smart who break the security or poor the exchange who can't make good security features. That's why always for me Hardware wallet or the Desktop wallet good choice. Try to avoid the store coins in the exchange. Although put all the investment in one exchange sometime really bad idea.

As you told you already lost the 80% of your initial investment. If you for the option sell then just 20% like nothing. Just take the risk and hold for more time. Those three coins will be on the moon soon.

• One of the hidden gems of the crypto world definitely includes Digibyte (DGB), and many have started to notice this coin’s potential. According to them, it is only a matter of time before Digibyte’s value skyrockets as well, due to its amazing features an function.
• Although Stratis has received some criticism from the users in the past few months, the features of the crypto-coin are worth investing in it. In fact, the development team recently issued a statement saying that they are currently focusing on the marketing aspect signals that the coin is preparing for future. So, It really depends on the team how good they upcome with their new plans.
• As the beginning of 2018 was veritably devastating for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, various Altcoins especially the less familiar ones started using it as a golden opportunity to make inroads in the existing market. Manifestly, Siacoin was one of them and for keeping up to this fierce competition, the Siacoin development team has been tremendously busy in making ingenious implementations for their users’ convenience. Very recently, on 30th April 2018, they have published a comprehensive description of their technical progress this year. They have also unveiled their plans for this year in their 2018 roadmap.
  

It's good you go for both coins. BTC has many investors attraction and will go to the moon soon. Just from the last December, BTC waiting for the next high jump. Since, In short time ETH made really good growth. In compare to BTC, ETH has fast growth in terms of people attraction, market cap all the things. That's why it's good to invest in both.

EOS is a similar cryptocurrency to ETH but excels in areas ETH fails. EOS specializes in scalability, an area where ETH suffers greatly. However, ETH has attained the most important thing of all market penetration. The overwhelming majority of ICOs from the past year were ETH based on the ERC-20 platform. This sheer quantity led to many scaling problems for ETH and this is specifically where EOS excels. So, It's better to invest in both EOS as well as ETH in my opinion.

It really depends on how much risk are you willing to take. In one case ETH, NEO, and EOS best choice for investment for a long-term in my opinion.  Even you want to take some risk then go for some ICO also with 100$ also good in the starting.

Security concerns in not only in the cryptocurrency. It's even in banks or in the house also. I believe nothing is safe 100%. We can take some security measure which avoids many things. Like I never store my any fund in the exchange except I have to sell or buy at that moment. With time to time check your system not just for coins even for your data also is it secure or not phone or any device. It's good to use desktop or hardware wallet for the larger amount.

Definitely BTC or BCH in my opinion. In altcoin, ETH, NEO or Monero also the good choice.

• The high fees and slow transaction times of the original bitcoin are a deliberate, but somewhat unfortunate, design choice. The idea is that bitcoin could be digital gold.
• For another one that is Bitcoin Cash was deliberately split away from bitcoin by a team who thought high fees and slow transactions would eventually destroy bitcoin. It was deliberately designed to essentially be bitcoin, except easy to send, receive and transact with. Hence the “cash” part of its name. It was designed to be the spending money next to bitcoin’s gold.

I used to apply this method for trading. But like you said we can't apply if the market crash before the 2x. But instead of going for the 2x. I used to go like 1.5x or 1.25x and my first preference to cash out my capital like yours. If it's gone down then I put for the long term.

The current market is stable but really upset with what's going on. Also, it's hard to find good ico. In the early of 2018, I had almost left the ICO. But, Tried again and make around just 1.5x profit. But it's still better while compare to make nothing. Seems like have to hold all the things till next year.

I believe knowledge is the most import thing. For good knowledge, it's not necessary you are educated. If you have the eagerness to learn new things then you can read medium article, bitcointalk forum and many much things related to crypto. But. Don't blindly invest without knowing all those things. First of all, understand all the things if you can then go ahead if not then don't go.

In my opinion, Risk means profit. We just get the results overnight what we want. But our desire backed by the many nights and days. Many times we have to take really hard decisions which leads our portfolio up or down. Many investors who knew in the crypto world made mistake during the panic sell. Although it's profitable like us who wants to buy more and more.

Of course, they both have common trends and similarities, but the operation of the crypto market is very much different from the stock market. When you invest in stock, you invest in a company, but when you invest in cryptocurrency, you invest in a currency independent of the company. Major key points are 1. User Base and Revenue 2. Price Volatility and 3. Recovering Hacked Assets. The last one is a really big issue nowadays that cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to being hacked compared to stock.

Yeah, Same thoughts from my side also like you. If we talking about the ICO coins then only few will survive and 90% to 95% just dump and dump and at the end nowhere. For many altcoins have some future but really high jump and dump due to the low market cap and of course no much interest over the investors. Still many times I took the risk and made the really good profit in the short term. But always I prefer for the BTC, ETH, and BCH.