Reading whitepapers is boooooring; I only occasionally glance over these mostly unreadable texts and let others do most of the reading :-) It's a case of surrounding yourself online with people who'se advice is to be trusted, just people like you and me, with a good head on their shoulders that are willing to read the whitepapers. Because no one can read them all: first you filter the worse garbage out yourself (like POWH3D). Then you watch / read about the projects with realistic aims and a realistic use-case; these are your HODL-coins.

Then there's the altcoin-season in which there's money to be made with the pump- and scam-coins: these are your trade-coins, where you take a little bit more risk and hope to exit before the house of cards caves in. This is quite difficult to time, but there's where we get help from all the technical analysts that read the charts for us.

I live in The Netherlands, all the way up north in Groningen. Maybe you can join the discussion @fullcoverbetting; he's started a blog to get to know where everybody's from.

I'll be sure to visit @scandinavianlife!