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Hey guys,

I am just really wondering what are the worst ICOs you have seen?

Also what defines a terrible ICO for you?

p.s im planning to launch one, so really curious on your opinion :)

ICOs are terrible overall. The only "successful" ICOs are the ones where devs sell their coins for 100s of BTC and a few holders manage to sell above ICO price as well.

A terrible ICO for me is the ICO that fails to manage collecting the minimum of funds and If they do then It's the one that fails to deliver the project they promised at time , If I had to give an example about a bad ICO then I will go with SpectreProject (https://ico.spectreproject.io/) where they even launched a signature campaign for three weeks but that didn't do much , now If we speak about the successful ones then both ICONOMI and ChronoBank are (even though ChronoBank didn't finish yet)

After seeing developing and then launching ordinary altcoins are not working they have decided to make money by other ways like before launching a coin first offering them in ICO, because doing that works very well apparently since greed of people is bigger than their brain.

MASS.
EGAAS.
and pretty much 99.9% all the ICOs.

i am not sure about this because for me all ICO have the same opportunity to get succes for long journey and they have a good plan in future but its depend on the devs and the team behind of the ICO. if the devs and the team want to make great history then they will work seriously and will be make many innovation after the ICO is ended and they will make some new movements to attract more investor and member.

but we see now, after the ICO is ended, then the coins is not ready to get survive in the market and we can only see that the ICO is getting down and finally the coin is dead in short time.

For me it had to be Prism.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1398402.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1398402.0)

Devs with fake names and fake Linkedin/facebook profiles     [tick]
Copied and pasted white paper                                        [tick]
Self moderated ANN thread where 'dev' prunes dissent         [tick]
Fake escrow account                                                     [tick]
Parallel scam thread on discussion blowing lid after lid          [tick]
'Developer' ran away during 'ICO'                                      [tick]

Oh dear. The difference between a genuine ICO and a scam is like night and day - if only the newbies would read the discussion thread as well as the ANN.  ;D

I think it is Decloud ICO ended up been a scam. The team was smart to generate enough interest at first but was so foolish to expose itself by using a cropped image of a bank meeting. Though they still have 200+BTC in their address

Decloud, Opair, Ebitz.... Those were owning by the fucking Wasserman. Totally the worst ICO ever, and has ended with stealing the investor's money.
But the other shit ICO had made for grab the investor's money also including in the worst ICO too. But I don't know about the definition of good ico with a clear answer.

LIR and RISE.
LIR failed hard right before the launch but it actually had a small pump.
RISE never did the same, it's just falling since the launch lol

PS: both had a reasonable amount of bitcoins raised.

ICOs which raised massive amounts.  Waves collected like $20 million - will people ever see 100% return?  Probably not.

ICOs which raise anything more than $500,000.  Coins usually do not go up much on CMC.  Even then, you're risking money for a potential 1x-10x return?  Early Bitcoiners saw something like 800,000x return per dollar invested at the beginning.   Another topic but the best ICOs were the ones that collected less than 100 BTC but offered potential.

ICOs for projects which involve pegging.  Pretty much amounts to giving your money away.

ICOs for projects with massive PoWs.  


Of course worst ICOs are the ones where the owners run off with the money and you get nothing.  :D

ICONOMI INVEST 1MILION € IN ADVERTISE AND ALL AROUND TO GET LATER 10! ;)

Most ICOs if not all have been a disaster. I couldn't say which was worst.

Ziftrcoin comes to mind as a bad one. I did rhyme zifter with shitter at the beginning and I was right. It was down the shitter coin. They raised something like $900,000.00 via the ICO and godonlyknows how much they dumped after it started trading. This was nothing special. It has proven to be the norm for most ICO coins.

I don't know what became of the ICO funds. Ziftrcoin was bought by another entity. You can't follow the money in crypto so you can guess the rest.

The coin is worthless today. No action. No news. It served its purpose to fleece the funds out of gullible ICO buyers. Save your dough and say no to ICO.

I mined some of this crap last winter for something to do. It was easy mining and heated the house a bit.

I think list has the worst ICO ever and as well as the let it ride(devs are not thinking good name for it) for they have one aim for it, to scam people.

They're all bad, I agree.  What were the ones that came out last year with signature campaigns that turned out to be total scams?  Wasn't there a Candlecoin and some other one?  I'd say the worst are those types, where they pay users to advertise...and they turn out to be fraudulent.  But asking which is the worst ICO is like asking what was the gnarliest dump you ever took.  They're all pretty much the same, and they're all shitty.

The worst ICO would be the largest amount of funds collected from the community and that did not deliver anything useful to that community. By 2020 we will maybe have a good idea of what these are.

Ico's i think would be successful depending on it's roadmap, I did joined some ico's and made me good profit...
Though there are worst ico's iv'e joined, for me xmo and rise are one of them....

RISE included into the worst too, If you are the bounty hunters and everything was always being good because you get it for free.  8) :P I may think if Lisk was also bad(in my personally). ::)

The worst ICO I have ever seen is the one run by E-bitz over 1000 Bitcoin has been collected and it was to late before the community finds out that it is a scam coin project headed by wesselman group,the roadmap is to good,investors have not foresee that,and when they see it,it was all too late.

decloud is very long time project in scam
decloud not use escrow or fake escrow not reputable escrow

so all people is want buy ico selling must use escrow

I will agree on Mass,people who invested on their ICO are disappointed in the distribution and all the promoters those who are into signature campaign,hasn't gotten their rewards yet,even though the ICO was finish two weeks and the dev is not updating the thread,totally ignoring all question both from investors and promoters.

ALL OF THEM

until you screw heads get it

no ico is worth a pile of shit
until multi sig backed by actual crypto ON DEPOSIT


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the worst is still ETH
something like 9 years of mining to equalize the 'premine'

dumb is DuMb

When I joined ICO so far brings good profit for me. After
the project and release in the exchange it gives me
earnings. But, I agree one the member who commented
here that the worst ICO Ive ever heard so far is XMO and
RISE. These ICO has been the worst really in the market.

I think ico just take the lion's share to create new coin and take great advantage to the manufacturer after ico completed in a few months ago it was not neglected coin and the price to be junk

Perhaps it would not be in good spirits to name names here, especially as the coin I want to talk about has not technically failed, rather, did not even get a launch it expected from ICO.

But if you look at my profile and history, the first sigcam I joined was promoting this coin. I remember at its closing date, it managed something like 3 BTC - barely 1.5% of its crowdfund target.

I suppose newbies like me don't know how to choose, but am a lot wiser now and my 2nd sigcamp is a lot more primed for success (not a pump and dump project at all).

ETH! :D

i think most of the ICO is not a good coin, they only last for few months and the value drop down and nobody used it anymore, I think the worst ICO is the coin who promises a lot and keep on saying they got good developer and a lot of investor, but when the hard time come the developer just abandon the coin and abandon all of the one that already invested in that coin

I am a late comer but with so many ico's in the market I don't who are the worst so I can only post those whom I encounter,I have two coins in my list,e-bitz and massnetwork,but I think e-bitz is the worst over 1000 bitcoin lost from investors,I don't know if these are really coming from the investors.

Wings is for me an unseccessful ICO. I've not heard about it for a while, while at the inverse, Waves, the most successful one, is at the heart of several other projects.

Well most of the ico's that I have seen have been bad and actually none of my investments have returned. Although there have been good Ico too. The worst I have seem is Neucoin it started at a dollar each and raised a lot of funds but now it is dead.

Eth, without a doubt, brought in the most suckers of any ICO.

mass.network - a true scam.

I already see over 100% on my waves investment, roughly 50% of that plus $200 btc price increase was my ico investment and then buying after the sale to smash it over 100%. Not all ICO's are bad money maker but you have to time it right and not get attatched.

lol,
define bad ico please..

i'm not a mETH head, i actually hate eth, but it wasnt a bad ico... investors made a lot of money from it. Now it's dying.

what would you say about VOX??

Lisk!

The worst ICO I saw was the ICO of Make currency about whom I think there was no any buyer. That was looked as a promising but as they denied to escrow the funds of ICO so no one bothered to buy their coins and the developers ran away from here disappointed.

Just have a look at this:

https://cyber.fund/radar

You can start a google spreadsheet and get some data real quick with the before and afters. The % of icos that end up below market price are the majority, therefore it's like winning the lottery when you actually manage to buy an ICO that goes above where you bought at. From the most recent ones, it seems Iconomy is the one that is performing the most. The supply is reasonable and the graphic is looking really healthy.

With an attitude like that you must have missed 100 money making opportunities.

GOOD JOB!

how do you think of ico wings

Wings might be worth a shot. I'll make my decision on that one before it ends.

Why choose fail ico rather than sucessful ico??

Too many fail ico coin
Staketoken - scam ico
Decloud - scam ico
Lir - fail ico
Bitsynq - fail ico
Dlisk - fail ico
Rise - fail ico. 2000 BTC without anything new

Ripple.

Because it started it all..

ICO is another word for scam.

PS:
We knew you were starting one..
Why else would you guys post topics like this for years ?

Yes, lir scammed 400 btc, while rise did 1700 btc, that is insane and huge money, also, in 2016 there are many other scams, like opair scammed 150 btc, ebitz, aka 200 btc(I believe the figure is faked, real must be less than 50). Declouds-300, also most are faked, namely self-invested

I participated only in few ICO's, and all of them were fail. Good ICO happens rarely.
I agree with opinion stated above, that ICO is just another way to scam people.

This ico is awesome. Failed failed failed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1581916.0

Profiting by investing on ICO is I think very risky as most of them just dumps despite all the efforts that gone

through like successfully collecting funds for it and many people promoting it. The worst case is when the devs don't

even give a shit after successfully collected the money from its investors. Ico has its advantages but it's like a new

way to scam people for me. Too risky

There are a few weak icos like egaas and spectre as well as mass but I can't say which one really are the worst because I don't invest in them usually, if only some exceptions like iconomi maybe to turn out to be a good one.

Yeah that was also one of the worst ICO but I don't know that what was the reason of their bad luck because there were some more ICOs who also do not had escrow but some a good income from their ICO one of the example is ebitz which scam a lot of investors and ran away.

Considering the topic title i think it's funny who replied.
Let's break it down.. all of the below are on this page. (in posting order)

- Spoetnik - Legendary - July 17, 2013 = 3 years 5 months 9 days
- fikihafana - Sr. Member - January 16, 2016 = 0 years 11 months 10 days
- yhlsqj - Full Member - August 08, 2016 - 0 years 4 months 18 days
- LTU_btc - Sr. Member - August 22, 2015 - 1 years 4 months 4 days
- Coccacc - Newbie - November 24, 2016 - 0 years 1 months 2 days
- Potato Chips - Member - September 28, 2016 - 0 years 2 months 28 days
- freebutcaged - Full Member - August 24, 2016 - 0 years 4 months 2 days
- Vikingr - Sr. Member - December 31, 2015 - 0 years 11 months 25 days

What did we learn ?

The noobs that showed up here late..
Think the ICO is legit.. *IF* THEY MADE MONEY OFF IT  :D

The functionality of the ICO itself is irrelevant apparently.

Hell, i don't even recall seeing any of those names here anywhere even once.

Its simple

The ones the pretend to do some good and actually have no intention.

Envion was the worse for me raised over $100 million and just disappeared into thin air saying one partner had a disagreement with the other and didnt deliver on anything.

I of course errori and I'd say not on topic, but I think you need to remove the avatar so as this fraud. The project is engaged in phishing and theft of private keys from MEW.

The ico's that never give up even though they have no chance of meeting the softcap. They keep extending it along with the bounty deadlines and in the end they say sorry, we didn't meet the softcap and will now stop

Unfortunately, every second ICO on the market with minimal chances for life. And the problem is most often not in market conditions, but in the ICO itself. Not professionalism, lack of experience in the team and empty promises suggest to doubt the true intentions of developers

I have invested in many ico early last year and of a truth I lose in investing into those icos! Some of them are no longer exists,  some did not last more than the icos ' period as the developers and icos owners disappear into tin air.  It is much advisable that you should not louch your projects into the market at this bearish market and if people I will said you should use you personal fund in develop your projects and maybe get your return after it louch in the cryptocurrency exchange market and that if it is doing well.

I can't say the worst ICO name because I think every failure or fraud is the worst ICO in my opinion so for me there are a lot of bad ICOs in crypo so you have to be careful in choosing it.
See the team that made the ICO because in my opinion the bad team is one of the bad characteristics of ICO.

most of the ico outputs in 2018 have been disastrous, many have not raised enough funds to go on, others have been scam, other projects have lost value after the end of the ico with the token devalued even 90%, perhaps the time of finished...

I do not memorize bad ICO projects because I do not participate in them. You can go to the ANN branch and see dozens of fraudulent projects there that every month deceive people. In my opinion, a bad project is a project that does not have a good idea and wants to collect a lot of investments. But in the end, he steals money from investors and creates nothing.

Worst ICO was Elisia project and they just took the money and run away without looking back. Elisia team closed telegram groups and they accept scam facts. No one is able to find the LinkedIn page of CEO and he doesn't reply back to emails.

What experience have you got to launch an ICO? You see guys, this is the big problem with cryptocurrency. Everyone wants to have his own cryptocurrency. I give up.

reward mob
actually the concept is good, even tournament games have started from the rewardmob project. tokens also exist in the market exchange. but unfortunately the dev team is bad, and doesn't develop the project, they just run away.

Hmmmm. There's a lot of them specially those ICO from 2017. And most of them are shitcoins with already 90% lost since the ICO. Most of them are below ico price and most of people telling that because the bitcoin price also dump, but for me, if they are not shitcoin the price should not go below ICO price. How pathetic they are.

There are a lot of ICOs on the market that turn into scams. There is also a lot of ICOs that are badly planned and behind are people who are completely unprepared and irresponsible. But probably the worst i ever seen is Orbeum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2934926.0

Check it out yourself, it should not take you much time ;)  :D :D
Ps. In trust is info that they scam, but the truth is that they FAIL, but FAIL!!!

the worst ico i've been is the paycoin.  this is such a terrible project that right from the start there was scam planned.  i invested a lot, and never recovered anything back.  definitely the worst project i've invested.

there have been so many scam ico in recent months that i can not decide which one was the worst. either way the list of bad ico projects is very long.

lots of ico with very good plans when starting but after ico ended they disappeared this was also very bad in my opinion so it was very difficult to decide the worst ico and ico that really gave profit

Get a list of an ICO that you can find here and list at least 50 and try to cover your eyes and if you're going to choose from those 50 I'm probably sure that that's one of the worst ICO. I've been an investor of an ICO and invest on some scam projects and from that I've learned what's a good ICO and bad ICO...

For me the worst ICO have 3 categories:
1. Failed Projects
2. Scam Projects
3. Poor concept of the project

But as an investor the main thing I look at a project is a concept and solutions and conduct whether the project is good or bad second is the team members and their credibility and lastly the public appearances of the team.

Scamdroid (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2700275) ICO was worst ICO. I was not involved and that's very lucky. They collected around 40 Millions $ but are just complete idiots who can't launch a running business. In April they simulated a fake exit-scam as PR-campaign but ruined trust in their company. Later, they failed promises and showed that they have no knowledge in crypto.  :D

Scam or outright idiots in the team not able to create a running business.

Good luck bro  ;)

Lately there have been a lot of bad ico appearing even ico scam is still there, but there are still good ico with a clear purpose, indeed when we want to invest in ico we must be smart to choose ico that can benefit us, even though to look for it is not easy, don't let us get a loss from what we have invested

It will be long list if one starts compiling it since very good ICOs are few and a big majority of those are bad or worse only. Fully failed projects or 100% losers will obviously be the worst ICOs, followed by plenty of 95% or more losers.

As per my holding ICO coins from 2017 are ICONOMI, TIME, VSL. This all three projects got a very good and top in that time investment but still they are not able to push the coin price to even ICO and now they are below 95% of the real value. They are working but only for them and enjoying all meetups with the investors money.

At present many ICOs are not successful and have not achieved Softcap, because it is caused due to the current bad market conditions.
the worst thing he experienced with a bounty hunter was not getting paid from the ICO bounties they participated in and for investors, their funds would be returned.
but if the ICO is a SCAM, investor funds will disappear without a trace.
ICO SCAM must be really noticed, don't let us take part in the ICO SCAM

the fate of ico is only determined by the project developers themselves, many ico are successful but the developer is not able to boost prices when entering the market, developers always wash their hands and let prices plummet without control

Are you asking this because you don't want your project to fall into a bad or worst ICO category if you are going to launch your project make sure it has something to offer to the community and you are real people not coming from photoshopped, we have so many scam ICO I hope yours is different.

There are lots like neluns, elisia and athero this are the worst ICOS which pretends to raised such an enormous amount of funds but it's all fake. Better to not invest on ICOS right now just buy it on exchange on a 100x lower price.

There are lots of bad ico but don't need to mention one by one, it's better we look for clear and profitable ico, besides a lot of bad ico there are still good ico and we have to be able to find the good ico which in the future can give you profit

I have the same situation as you. especially Neluns. Many people denounce it as a scam. worse is that bounty hunters have to put in 0.6ETH to receive tokens when participating in their bonus campaigns.

Worst ICO is, all the same, they generated money then run away with investors money and left bounty hunters with nothing, unfortunately I got to two of these kinds of project this year Konios and Resto Token both certified scam, what a way to start your year.

The terrible ICO for me is that they are non-permanent. Constant changes to the rules that are written in the roadmap. KYC will do, then the platform will change.

The one which scammed me is worst ico lol, one was Otho and other was Dividend — once you get scammed you realize the red flags that were obvious from start.

Think twice if your launching an ICO that added in the trash coins on the market. Create a useful platform with use case in that way, your project wouldn't be called as one of the worst project.  I guess the criteria for a terrible ICO is those ICO that only wants to raise money out of it but never focus on the product hence more on shilling the token for trading.

Elisia ,athero etc I can keep mentioning all day ,99% of ICO are liars ,deceivers that has nothing to offer other then taking it all from investors, all that remains now is just luck ,I still hope something can be done about this

yes, it needs to be considered again for ico developers to be able to redevelop their projects or tokens when they are already in the market, not only when they enter and then there are no more price movements.

Athero were able to raised a good amount of money during ICO, hence we can call their ICO successful.
I joined in their telegram channel and it seems like the team is still busy, most of the concerns are coming from the bounty group because they weren't paid yet.

Worst ICO ever when the project gather funds and can't make it successful because of lack of hardwork. ICO become also worst because of the community by dumping it after the Market List. Also scam ICO is the worstest of all!

I have been monitoring and supporting ICO developments for a long time, and the worst is when the ICO is a scam. well, however it is inevitable, and I think it is very bad, especially when they ask for more work, and a considerable amount of time.

yes it is true that ico scam cannot be avoided a step faster than us even when we follow a good project not necessarily it works and is more painful when joining the beginning to the end does not get any prizes.

I am not sure what you meant by worst ICO.

In my opinion there are some scam ICOs which collected in millions are the worst ICO ever because people invested their money for nothing.

Are you sure if Athero is a scam? Athero are currently is have listed on several exchanges. I looked on their telegram channel if the current problem is about distribution, maybe this is because the Athero team is on vacation and there is still no update.
so far I see Athero still a good project because yes, as you said they can raise money during the ICO. indeed, the problem at present it is the bounty hunters are still worried because they have not received payment.

I think for now people will be more cautious in investing their money. should the failure in investments it could make their lessons at once experience not to fall into the same error.

All Ico that run away with investors money after getting funded is considered the worst ICO and we have a very long list of scam ICO if you are planning to launch one, better not do it now, the market is not good and so many investors have stopped investing in ICO some ICO are just faking their volume to attract investors.

I would add on the list Quasa coin. (QUA) - quasa.io

They will finish the ICO only when hardcap (over 15k ETH) is reached. They have currently only 3% from hard cap, but the percentage did not change since more than 6 months.
People remained with their money blocked on a worthless (at least for now) coin for an undetermined time.

It is really hard to point out the worst ICO since most of ICOs are actually bad, and only a few of them are well planned and well developed. It is easier to say which ICO is the best last year or last two years.
And for your ICO, as long as you have a solid idea of your project, and you can find a professional team, you don't need to worry about your ICO.

It is difficult to chose the worst one because I participated in many bad ICOs.  ;D But maybe I am only skeptical about the future of these ICOs, now I do not see any progress, but maybe they need more time?

There are a lot of icos that qualify to be the worst ico ever in my opinion one of them is shivom another one is syncfab and a lot of other projects like that most of which have 0.01x or less in present value compared to ico price this is very bad and it has shown that a lot of projects on the crypto market would not be successful.

Next month should become the last month to distribute the bounty payment to all of the participants. If they are not doing it and there are some DT members will give it a negative trust to be a scam icos.

If the project is legit with a team behind it. All you really need is constant communication with your investors. I'm sick and tired of project going silent after getting our money.

The worst part been mostly that ICOs collect all the funding they required to start their program but after some few time they decide to give no show again offering little to no explanation and then you lose money just from there

right now it's not talking about the best or worst ico, actually this will be the whole. where almost all ico experience bad periods. throughout 2018 and early 2019, even the ico tokens that I have have not been listed to the market exchange.

Worst ico is the envion by far. They raised 100m dollars, didn't pay bounties, didn't install single device and now it is complete shitshow on courts.

Really the worst by far.

A good example, and there are many more like envion. 2017 was a crazy year, people have invested millions of dollars in white paper. I have a lot of unsuccessful investments too.

it's hard to choose the worst ICO and there were many ICOs that scammed people for large amount of money. and more to come.

Many lists of ico that I have participated in and also I followed their bounty, most of them delay in the market and also the price is very destroyed when it enters the market, it has happened very often

The worst ICO is in fact the scam ICO. Participated in the Ether Delta ICO in 2017 and invested in EDT token and they
 scammed their  investors by not doing the ICO and steel the raised funds. That was my worst ICO experience amongst many.

Helbiz is the worst ico for me, when entering the market the price really fell and now the price of helbiz is very sad down to x100

i think the bad thing is that ICO fail to get softcap and the worst is when they fail to maintain prices on the market.

some of the ICO promises something very good in the future to investors, after they have succeeded in collecting investors' money they don't give what they promised.

Most ICOs are scams or vaporware and there are plenty of bad examples so if you are planning to launch your own crowdsale its best to ensure you have a unique idea to present that has a real world use case and an effective way to achieve adoption, and take into consideration market conditions when setting your softcap and hardcap, and also evaluate what crowd funding solution might suit best whether it be the traditional ICO or the newer IEO and STO solutions because the latter two are now becoming more popular choices for investors

many ico can we call worst because it was a scam one project, and this thing that make reputation of crypto fall until now.

envion developers team was shit people, even to their investor they could not hold their promises.they raised money more than 100 million dolars but there is no worthed thing did.

Have you heard about athero? They have collected $19m+ listed on shit exchanges mercatox and crex24 then didn't pay bounty hunters, they locked the telegram to prevent people from complaining which is a solid proof that it is a scam. Well i don't think this the first time as there are lots of ICOS that are scammed, i hope strict regulation will be implemented soon to prevent this from happening.

I think ICO really helps us to get a profit. But we also have to be smart to get real ICO. So that we are not caught up in ICO fraud. I often get ICO fraud and this makes me bored. But I did not give up and kept trying to continue to participate in prizes.

Heard about that, yeah, looking at the amount collected, they were really successful.
I also heard they did not pay the bounty hunters yet, maybe because they don't want to see the price dump.

They need to solve that problem, they need a bigger exchange this time.

ICO at this time is not trusted by investors and they are inclined to invest in IEO projects for the purpose of greater profits. For me, ICO is just a landfill and you should not trust any words in the project. Most of the time when the project ends, they will abandon people and enjoy the new life of scammers. This makes me no longer interested in potential ICO projects

all ICO scams are the worst ICO because they are very greedy to cheat everyone to get rich, ICO scams are still hanging around so be careful investing

Throughout 2018 there were quite a lot of bad ICO. But each has a bad character, like ICO who doesn't dare to enter the market, and much more.
It will be difficult to mention everything. One of them, Jinbi, Konios.

if you see the ico is fairly sad, because the sale of sales is very long. we can see a lot of ico that has been extended several times, but the results are very difficult to accept because the achievements are not real. they manipulate sales so that it has a negative impact on the development of their project.

Recently there are a lot of them, I have already begun to get confused, but I think that everyone remembers the very terrible project AmbtToken, as far as I remember, these guys still have not done anything for investors. It's horrible.

I think if you're going to visit the ANN thread section you can find A LOT a lot of terrible ICOs. What defines a terrible ICO? I list all the worst thing below:
- Worst presentation of website
- Copied whitepaper/Worst whitepaper
- Common type of project
- Common Solution that's been answered by the other projects already
- Anonymous team
- Unclear Project
- No physical office

According to my own experience most of the worst ICOs I've invested has this feature in their project. So I think that's how you're going to define a worst ICO.

The worst ICOs is in 2018, where many ICOs reach hardcap more than $10million and some reach more than $50million but the price fall when listed in exchanger. Look at Tradove (BBC) or Shivom (OMX) in market, the price and market cap value not represent the hardcap target. I am not invest on that project but its looks terrible if invest on that project. I think many ICO looks like that but i can not mention one by one

Dishonest team members, bad written whitepaper, horrible management and the lack of working product and separate signals for me to pass this project and if they all take place in one, it is never going to be successful.

There are many,who promised to the guys,and not even collected the money on Softcap,my memory is a congenital BUZKOIN as saying that the Russian showbiz want to translate,and finally even the money to collect tlkom are unable,or who do not put in this money,as we understand that this is still the SCAM

investor and bounty hunters must ever have felt the worst ICO the feeling that I experienced was very sad but I lived with sincerity and kept trying

it's a bad idea, an unknown team and the inability to get support

Worst ICOs that I have experienced turns out to be scam. That is the definition of a worst ICO for me since I am working hard to promote it, if I do not earn from it, then I consider it already as a fraud. In fact, I am really worried about the condition of the ICO market now, so really far from before's market.

Any listing of worst ICOs that doesn't accommodate Viox, Westerncoin, a Hextracoin, Regalcoin and Bitwhite isn't objective. While Bitwhite Regalcoin managed to get listed, Viox, Westerncoin and Hextracoin never saw the light of the day. Investors funds were made away with.

That is the bitter experience that I have experienced as a gift blueprinter. The ico project that I participated in was mostly scam. So the prize that I got was profit. Hopefully in the future the ico project will be better.

I do not know I have lost several times due to too trusting a projeck and until now I have no longer been interested in ico who only gave me a loss and I have stopped to invest

every ico that won't pay its investors is bad....
more people, and more money are involved, if the ico will be a scam, and you will have your answer.

in fact there is no worst ICO, it's just that they take advantage of our ignorance and weaknesses to get profits from us. this only applies to ICO fraudsters, it is unfortunate that this sophisticated technology is still being used to profit in a dirty way. I am sure there are still many ICOs who are honest and put forward the quality of the projects to be developed.

Envion, they never pay against the bounty hunter.
Already 2 years no respond about the bounty and one of their employee is running with investor money. I think they pick the wrong people to hold their project.
Worst ICO and the bounty ever...

There seems to be many different opinions from friends here about ICO which is the worst experience here. ICO was very bad for me if it was a heartless fraud even though we had worked very long and in the end it was fraud. I want to eliminate fraud and give birth to a better ICO.

You can add this to your long list:

INGOT coin, it's a wallet with a digital bank (ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3581009)

In the chat, people wrote that Ingot didn't refund the money back to the investors on the basis of the contract price.

Bounty lasted more than six months, had not been paid.

Heard about that, Ingot said to stop ICO and not refund people's money until now. 6 months bounty and not get paid maybe bad thing that happen to bounty participants especially signature campaign participant.

DateCoin
Intrachain
Enkidu
BeOne
Moonlite
Worst ICO i have ever seen if this list will be more because in the last year a lot of project did't reach soft cap which are failed project.
Enkidu is listed in idex but it's dead.

I've been investing in ICO since 2016, and in my opinion the worst ICO I've ever participated in is more than 10, most of which are token-based, namely: Bitcad, PCC, Umbrela coin, centra card, titanium and so on.

Well, many ICOs surely fail, but then, it is still too harsh to say that it is, in general, terrible. Although the rate of failure of ICOs are high these days are surely high, and it is truly easy to lose its trust in it whether as an investor or a campaigner, but if you still believe in the cryptocurrency market, you can still keep the faith and make it work with the ICO market, but the difference compared before is the fact that one should really be meticulous and critical with choosing the better one that would, at least, have a better chance of success. So, it is a reality now that failures are the norm, and as people who join, it is our task to be scrutinize the projects we join to make sure it has even a fighting chance.

I see one launch. Scam The problem is that you can talk to the community. You run ICO. Who are you at all?  Maybe I have to start my project. I see it being made too easily.

The most terrible ISO is that only developers are aware of. There is no benefit from this ISO for the rest. There are probably many)))))

The worst ICOs will be those projects that have failed completely and closed shop. Instead of looking for those, you need to look for the best ICOs to invest in.

Too many worst ICOs I've ever participated in, more than $ 800 of my money has been hit by a scam, be careful to put money on the ICO so we don't get scam again.

Probably the most terrible ICO that I saw was a project that did not offer anything, except that according to their roadmap, the project's coin grew in price each month, and this is at the ICO stage. More than anything the project did not offer. And they even managed to collect some amount of money, which is simply unthinkable.

The worst ICO I know of HDAC and Envion. when ico started many people were interested and the project was very popular. but after the ICO after many problems occurred. Envion scam, this is an unexpected thing many people are surprised. at that time I followed the bounty campaign. a little annoyed but, the good thing is I'm not one of the investors. and HDAC, a project from Hyundai. this project has reached hardcaps and whatever happened since they were listed on the market until now there is no trading volume.

A terrible ICO for me is the ICO that does not even realize the small steps in their roadmap

Profish was the worst and scam ICO I have ever seen. They came up with exchange listing to jave trust from people. Mercatox have helped them here. This was a scam but with a different way.

ICO is now a lot of people complaining because they got fraud, but you can try the current trend rather than ICO, IEO, which has had a lot of success.

Ico worst ever is when I invested thousands of dollars but suddenly that ICO are scam because they not listed to the real excahnges site and yes they listing it to other but the value is more than lower 50 times than the value of the token when I purchased it during the ICO.
We experienced a lot of ICO who are dissapointing to us and that's not goo because we are now scared to invest because of kind of ICO.

based on my judgment most bad ico are ico who don't work their jobs based on white paper after their hard cap target is reached. there were even a number of ico whom I thought they had fled after their fundraisers were completed for various reasons. I don't want to mention the name or project their ico but they are a group of fraudsters.

There are so many worst ICO in the past and even at present time, the ICO market have been down in recent time with so many teams running away with investors money or ICO failing to raise enough found in the ICO period there by leading to the project getting stall on the way.

I also participated in a number of bad ICOs but my losses were not as big as your losses.
because I invest on a small scale because I really understand the risks involved in investing in the ICO so I don't invest on a large scale in the near future.

The worst project is a project that does not pay. We spend time and these projects stop paying us. Such a project in my opinion the worst. And these are now 99% of the market. And we have big problems.

As a bounty hunter participants for me the worst ICO ever was and is EARTH TOKEN.
They changed the bounty manager at the last week of the campaign and let the participants hanging.
THIS IS TRUE< the new manager sent a 3 million tokens to a certain address and many participants were left unpaid!

While I joined the bitcointalk forum, I found a lot of bad ICO. even then, I learned ICO badly after the end of the ICO period. Hopefully in the future there will be no bad ICOs that have emerged.

Are you serious? I see your date registered, October 19, 2017
And what I understand, at that time ICO on top. ICO bad can still be counted at that time.

First of all i stop working as a bounty hunters after i meet that lot of ico's that i've been joined has getting scammed after their token sale so im willing to find and search about ico projects before i gonna join.

Actually, I got discouraged when I came across lots of ICOs that are scam when I joined the cryptocurrency industry as a bounty hunter. Earth token was no exception.