There are soooo many projects out there that it's very hard for people to get deeper understanding of each one. We tend to scratch the surface and give tags like "universal wallet", "decentralised exchange" etc. I guess in most cases it's true, but in many, there's so much more and Ethos is one of them.
No I don't use Ethos Daily Summary, but I will now. I'm frequently on main ethos channel and trading one. Stephen and Shingo answering in depth and promptly amazed me from day one. I'm holding big stack since $0.70 and intend to keep it long term.
And You're absolutely right - after cryptogeddon that will surely come someday, Ethos is one of coins that imo will not only survive, but thrive in the world after.
I encourage You to dig into BTS (Bitshares) too. It's a similar story - people tagged it "decentralized exchange", but it's a whole advanced ecosystem, one of the first (I think it was created in 2013), but at the same time, one of the most advanced technically. It was written by in my personal opinion tech savant Dan Larimer, that made STEEM and EOS later on. Dan is no longer on board, but still close to the project. I strongly believe decentralised exchanges are the future and BTS is surely the most advanced one and already 3rd biggest in terms of number of transactions.
Check out http://blocktivity.info that shows data on real usage of blockchains. Steem is first, BTS is third, with ETH between them and BTC 4th. Notice the last column showing whether chain is overloaded. ETH is now with it's back to the wall, BTC is struggling, but both STEEM and BTS are fine. Funny thing - one of the VERGE developers was boasting a few days ago that it takes 30 seconds in their blockchain to create a new block. Well, in BTS it's max 3 seconds for a looooong time now. And EOS that is to start officially in June, is going to have 0,5s blocks.
But back to Ethos - hold it man. Price spike incoming with the release of EW, but true game changer will be fiat gateway later this year. There is a slight chance that we both hold an AMAZON/APPLE-like shares that will make us millionaires in upcoming years. I wish You that :-)
I wish you that in return :o)
Like I say ETHOS was $7 when I got in (my $1476 is now worth $512) so at this point even breaking even looks like a result. At $0.70 you're already doing pretty well, and whatever happens (though I don't know what effect a prolonged bear market would have on the project's finances) surely it must be up from here, even if BTC goes sub-$5K or wherever the hell it's going.
My problem is that although I would much prefer to be in solid-to-highly promising projects like Ethos, right now I kinda wish I'd been in XVG when they promised their big coup, then got out when the announcement came (I was just about to be until they had their tech problem and pretended it was no biggie - that put me off). In order words, something please just go x10 to give me some breathing space. :o) For the moment, BNB has been saving my portfolio / ass and long may it continue do do so, though I will be using some of it to get some STEEM to power up, once the balance of exchange between the two coins improves. (On this, do you happen to know the answer to something I'm finding surprisingly hard to get to the bottom of: how much SP would powering up say $500 of STEEM give me?)
Thanks for BTS. As you say, so many projects, so little time, and though I've hovered over this one as it's gone round on the carousel I've never really delved in. I'll do so now. Thanks for the other tip, too (Block'tivity), which again I'll be looking into once I've pressed 'Post' on this. You in EOS too then, or not?
What a fun, crazy ride it all is ... enjoy that first million.
PS The Block'tivity thing is pretty striking. Why don't you do a post on it?