I've missed some of these messages but you must remember when I mentioned how good a model bitconnect was and how much in profit they have been. There are now 3 others that I know of (2 in ICO stage) with RegalCoin the one that has recently started. I only put a couple of hundred bucks in regalcoin ICO (less than 300 of their tokens). One thing that I was impressed with is how stable the value of their coin is after an initial jump to over $20 it has stabilised as you can see here:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/regalcoin/ (this is similar to the stability of BCC against BTC)
It seems like similar people are behind RegalCoin (although the website again isn't great) but one thing I noticed which may be a negative or positive is the much lower staking interest RegalCoin has. BCC has 8% per month currently, but regalcoin only has a few percent a year from what I remember. This means they don't need to sustain as much growth to increase their coin value, but also means they can't use staking to pay affiliates etc. but their coin value should increase faster.
Anyway, like I said, I managed to put a couple of hundred in the ICO and was surprised that within 24 hours the coin went from sub-$1 to $20 and settled very stably at over $12 at the moment (so I profited many thousands of dollars but people who risked more money have became very rich already almost overnight). They don't even have an internal exchange currently and are just on a low volume external exchange which had to update its systems to cope with the massive volume of trades. Millions of dollars are traded daily and their market cap is far lower than bitconnects billions so have a lot of growth potential and may take some of the market away from bitconnect (they only lock in lends for 99 days, which was something I suggest bitconnect do too as it doesn't affect their profitability but may impact the sell pressure of their coin).
There are now two more that have come almost at the same time which again will attract investors. Some of these may not be based in the same geographical areas and may be scams but if they all go 10x initially and become very stable in price, then I don't see a downside to investing and just taking the profits. At the moment bitconnect is the only proven one with massive profits (so not a Ponzi) with the billion dollar market cap to match.