I don't think BCASH will replace BTC ever, also I don't believe in it at all purely because of Roger Ver being involved in it. I stay away from projects which Roger Ver publicly advertise, just like the recent token MoneyToken being advertised by him. They gain lots of money in ICO purely because he was involved in it and I'm pretty sure he must have gotten the MoneyToken tokens at atleast 90% discount than ICO price. Moreover there's no surety when he'll sell his all holdings in support of new fork which his team will create. He is a shit person in this crypto space, better to stay away from such people.

I don't think there is any punishment for ICO failure. That's why ICO projects are risky to invest and need thorough research before investing a single penny in it. Unless ICO project guys doing something illegal or fraudulent, they can't be held guilty for failure of a project. In fact this is the first rule of starting investment in the crypto space, you need to do your own research and even then you should be ready to accept the fact that you can lose all your invested amount.

I think POLY and ONT are the real sleeping giant in this bearish market, both can easily do 5-7x if BTC reaches to $10k and ETH to $350+
Also I think PRIV will do a lot better in terms of gains when this bearish market turns and bulls take control of the situation. It can easily go 20-30x in next couple of years.

Just because ETH has rise for couple of days or weeks doesn't make it to moon again. I think now ETH devs need to deliver on there long standing issue of transactions per second limit of 14. They need to take it to couple of thousands tx's per sec at least, if not more. They are very much capable of delivering on there promises and that's when we'll see the more adoption of ETH and mooning it again.

These kind of hacks preventing the blockchain or crypto space to grow any further. Every week we have a news of one or the other blockchain being hacked or exchange being hacked and it decreases the trust. People still don't know how to safeguard there investment by storing private key files somewhere safe, it's still a complicated process for most. I think unless these kinds of issues got resolved, crypto space won't mature and investors don't trust in it.

I think it shows that BTC buyers are waiting for it to come around $6k before buying, so it's forming a good support now at that point. Also it proves to be a good support previously when BTC dipped to that level. I am not watching or following the charts now a days, given that most of them will tell you both side of story, and they're not that reliable. Let's see if on the upside we can break $6.5k resistance and then even more stronger $6.8k resistance or not.

Last year bull run started in the september only, let's see if that will be replicated this year or not. Personally I highly doubt that it'll happen this year, right now confidence of investors are very low and they want to stay away from such volatile market. BTC believers are waiting for ETF approvals, if that happens it'll surely rise the price of BTC to $12k easily, but again SEC is not going to approved it anytime sooner.

I think these kind of people should be reported as soon we find out about them. Do you know how and to whom we should report them? I'll be looking into the rules and guides for the bitcointalk for the same, hopefully I'll find it but if you can guide me that would be great

Yes but I think this dip has decreased the confidence among the long term hodlers too, for e.g. recently a transaction has been done on a 3 year old cold storage wallet, million dollars worth of BTC has been transferred from that wallet to exchange address. I think it clearly shows how it's impacting the confidence among the believers.

That wasn't the end of altcoins, but right now it's even more bad for the altcoins, almost all top 100 coins are at more than 90% drop from there all time high. And the condition is even more worse for beyond 100+ ranking coins.

I think this was much needed as many projects with no working product gained huge gains during bull run, which made many people to start investing in them. It's good for the entire crypto space in longer run, it will tske fake or non performing coins out of the equation and only good projects will remain

It's about trusting the technology more so than price, and right now ETH is the most widely used platform. So many big investors believe in it and developers of ETH are very much capable of delivering the planned updates at the scheduled time. If you are in ETH for longer term say 2-3 years atleast, then nothing to worry about. It will surely be at $2000+ by end of 2021

Yes, ideally that should be the case but right now crypto market is not that mature, or better to say crypto investors aren't that mature to look into the projects real use cases. They are getting fascinated by the websites, some network mesh shown on there websites, promises made on there telegram groups to achieve moon in a year or so. I still feel that 75% of crypto investors are not looking into any project's longer term prospect. They just want to make fortune in a year or two.

My top picks would be these altcoins with equal distribution:
1. Ontology (ONT)
2. Polymath (POLY)
3. Basic Attention Token (BAT)
4. Pundi X (NPXS)
5. Privcy (PRIV)

Those are really good choices, I haven't researched on Quarkchain so not sure about it. I too have a good amount of investment in POLY and ONT. Those two are 10-15x coins for me in couple of years time frame. I'm aware of GOLEM project but not fascinate about it anymore, I have booked my partial profit in it and shifted partial of it into POLY.

And you must check out PRIVCY too, it's also an anonymous coin and they are very new. They're not doing any ICO, rather doing 20 weeks of AD to there community members, last 6 weeks remaining.

It's hard to predict any specific reason behind ETH dump, one reason could be that I bought it 
I have a history of buying at wrong times, bought LTC and it dumped hard 

One reason is that bitmex opened the leverage trading on there platform for ETH, and in 1 month time only, it got dumped by more than 57%
Another reason which I think is that ETH is not making any technical advancements and still stuck to where they were six months back. No real performance improvement have costed them.

If you're still in crypto space, you can see that current condition is even more worse than may month when you have posted this article. It all depends on your guts to believe and invest accordingly. If you think it's bubble, then sell your positions and stay away from crypto for good. But if you think it's not, then average out your positions on this dip.

I always thought of doing some kind of classification but never gave enough time on doing the same research as you did. It looks pretty impressive and also the chosen tokens/coins correctly belongs to the category you've mentioned. As going ahead project should follow the security guidelines, there's a high chance that security tokens will boom in next couple of years. I am holding quite good amount of POLY and thinking of buying MOBU too after it starts trading on any exchange.

And now it's trading at $230, I think $200 is the last psychological level which needs to hold otherwise it won't go good for ETH. People are panic selling at the moment and they'll sell even more when ETH is below $200. But saying that, I have bought some at this level and average out my position quite a bit. Now I have around 40 ETH with average price around $360. I am waiting for some good news from the development side about increment in tx per second ant it'll increase the price multiple times from now.

And as we speak price tumbled even further. TRX almost at 2cents and NEO is at mere $20 range. In fact ETH fall really bad, right now at $225.
Almost all top 10 coins, except BTC and ETH, are 90%+ down from there all time high.

2 things can happen from here:
1. one is that you know if any bull run came like last bull run of dec-jan then what will be the approximate highs. And since we have already been there, already seen all time highs so it's clear that it's not impossible to reach there. So you can buy now and wait for the bull run.
2. another is that we'll see BTC in 2-3k range and ETH in 70-80$ range and then we will see how people react to that, maybe it'll proved to be another bubble in the history.

Start researching on crypto and different kind of projects already present in the space. Try to learn how this crypto space works, do not invest all your money in one go, invest a little and wait for next 3-4 months and see how your investment is doing.

I'll suggest you to look this brilliant guide on type of coins/projects available in crypto space as of today - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4964722