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Help me to understand what is ICO ..?

you can simply use google to search "what is ICO" and find this nice link: www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initial-coin-offering-ico.asp

and a lot more on this forum: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+ico+site:bitcointalk.org

Thanks Buddy

ICO means "Initial Coin Offering" when you're joining on ico you need a btc for investment but don't worry you can earn a huge of bitcoins by joining this project, It means by which funds are rised for a new crypto venture, Early investors are usually motivated to buy the coins in the hope that the project becomes successful after it launches which could translate to a higher coin value ICO are similar to Crowdfunding and it deals with supporters that are keen to invest in a new project.

Initial Coin Offering - a scammy distribution model, stay away!

ICO is a revolutionary funding model that allows new tech to flourish. Basically instead of waiting years for specific individuals and their friends to mine coins into their own wallets ICO opens up that initial coin distribution to everyone and anyone who would like to purchase some. This allows the devs to focus purely on developing their tech by keeping the financials separate to any development. The best ICO to invest in is ETH and you can buy these from any exchange.

ICO is the process where startups normally make a crowd sale and offer coins, like the DENTCOIN team, for example, they are having and ICO soon check their website dentcoin dot com

Initial coin offering. This is a way to generate funds by selling tokens to general public via crowd sale.
If you wanna know about it in detail Google it. I am sure there are a lot of material on this.

Yup and for a large variety of reasons too.
But since people are greedy scumbags they are tolerated.
This was not always the case either..
Rewind back a couple years and none of this was possible.
What happened?
New guys kept showing up lowering the bar.
The scene gets more scammy, greedy & corrupt as time goes on.

The reality here is almost no one cares about right or wrong.
The concept of ideology is long since forgotten and dead.

This whole Altcoin scene morphed into a giant infrastructure for running new pyramid scheme variants.
The ICO was adopted because it streamlined the coin creation process.
And allowed the so called dev's to bypass the fairness of a mined launched coin.
It then became possible for a device to buy or simply set aside vast premines at launch..
Where as before the dev'would have to invest in mining hardware and mine the coin at launch like everyone else.

Simply put it made exploitation far easier.
And in the process has set back the advancement of crypto by many years.
The ICO system is simply an exploited push into bad territory.. Centralization.
It will take years to get back to where we were... Once we get rid of the greedy profiteer leeches.

The reality is the ICO has raped and left for dead the concept of idealogy
It pissed all over it in in the name of "white paper" ROI's.

Ripple and Maidsafe and Ethereum had been launched when there was still credibility in crypto.
Back then the scene ignored those three shitcoin and we all called TV employees stupid scammy bullshit.
Those people are gone.
The new guys showing have no trouble supporting ANYTHING as long as it makes them money.

REAL MONEY!

Ideaology is not going to stand in their way.

If Satoshi wanted to launch an ICO he would have.. but he didn't did he?
What is different between back then and now?
It's simple..
Back then we wanted to break free from banks etc and start a fairly launched digital currency.

NOW?

We have scammy garbage like Ethereum..
That is not secure.. Not fair.. And hell not even a fucking CURRENCY.

I start learning ICO from this site: it introduces ICO in an simple way to understand

https://bitsonblocks.net/2017/04/25/a-gentle-introduction-to-initial-coin-offerings-icos/

initial coin offering, you can understand it as IPO, it is just an another way of financing. the coins will be redeemed in future.

Haha, but you can make money from that before it scam, why not use positive thoughts to make money from it instead of neglecting to ignore the opportunity and sad when you miss that. As ETH when down to 6$ if you can buy 100 ETH, in present you can have ~25k$ and can use this money for relax ;D

Why do you think so, huh? Tell me know what you think.

Most probably you will find +ve views about the ico in the Google but still here I would like to tell you in better way .
About the last last year it was believed that most of the ico are scam because they sale Thier token but don't launch the
Coin and that results into loss , or may be they will launch after 2-3 years ( best example of yes coin that my friend gave me )
So this is really a bad thing , but if you have good amount of money then it will be better for you .
But in the current time of year the ICOs are best option for the earnings purpose , because in the current time many big big
Exchange are supporting the ico  to collect fund before the launching , so people are investing more than what was in the
Last year condition .
So overall if you want to invest then it will be more better that first of all take all necessary knowledge about this and then
Invest otherwise forget your money .

it is the replacement for the old method of scamming called pre-mine

Is that the same kind of bounty offering too? And if that company got broke someday, how could the investor claim their investment?

Yes, back in 2014 and earlier people really believed in fairness and equity when they were talking about crypto currencies, to confirm what you said, look at this guy's comment -


Spoetnik explained it in his comment, you can also search plenty of info yourself as of why this is a scammy distribution model, if you are not a complete ignorant you will find all the info you need to know about ICO's.

Too optimistic explain about what ICO is. That's correct that you invest BTC (some accept and ETH plus) to a project, mostly it's new crypto-currency or a token. Actually with this invest you buy this new currency with a cheap price and now you are holder of this new thing about which nobody knows yet (in a world wide). And now here - will this currency will pump and will be popular as BTC and ETH and ect., or will the price will stay kind of frozen on the market for years, because of nobody interested in it (Startcoin is the brightest example).

I'm trying to understand it, I do not know
I am too stupid to understand english, then i translate.
I began to understand a little, then I want to be an investor with the capital I have and is choosing a potential ICO.

ICO is basically a form of investment which ensure good returns for all if the projects run successfully but this will not be the case with late buyers if an project dies up at some point or not successful at all. ICO is basically crowd funding a project through buying tokens developed for the project which can be traded on bitcoin or altcoins like ether and waves. Before joining an ICO kindly read and understand the whitepaper and if you are comfortable with the project then you are good to join

Initial coin offering, something like IPO, but to use the cryptocurrencies as the aimed asset

ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) have become a popular way to fund cryptocurrency projects. An ICO is an event in which a new cryptocurrency project sells part of its cryptocurrency tokens to early adopters and enthusiasts in exchange for money today. ICOs provide a way for cryptocurrency project creators to raise money for their operations. Most ICOs raise money in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

The ICO usually takes place before the project is completed, and helps fund the expenses undertaken by the founding team until launch. For some of the larger projects, part of the ICO money goes into a foundation that provides ongoing support to the project. They also work as an initial distribution model for the cryptocurrency tokens, especially those with a proof of stake consensus algorithm.

The ICO participants are invested in the success of the project. They can help get the word out and raise awareness in the broader community. They also provide early liquidity for the cryptocurrency tokens when they start trading. The ICO participants are also usually motivated by a profit potential if the project takes off and the tokens become worth more than the ICO price.

ICO means the initial coin offering like the IPO(Initial Public Offer) that is offered by the Public company. The main difference is while IPOs are more regulated by the respective jurisdiction at the other hand ICOs are less regulated and decentralised technology for peer-to-peer transactions.

ICO is fastest way for getting starting funds, and can be very potent weapon against concurrency. Can be initialized multiple times during one project. Collected funds can be and assurance if they are used correctly, so investrs can be protected.
Negative sides:
1. Lots of scams.
2. One group can buy their own tokens and create artificial  demand so others will rush to join. This ends dumping at the ico price and below and investors are not even aware that this is happening.
3. Projects without future, created to collect funds for something that is obsolete or is not good idea at the first place.
4. ETH based tokens can be dangerous for ETH and ETH can be even more dangerous for them..

At the end of this story everything is hands of managers how they are going to use this potential, this leaves a lot of space for human errors.

ICO is the another form IPO for cryptocurrency. Initial coin offering works same like traditional trading equity where they allot shares for public . Here you hold shares in the form of token and can buy and sell on exchanges .

.. like an IPO.
like they all keep saying.

Except with no laws / regulations like in stocks markets ::)

And did I mention ideology?

Did I point out how none have been successful?
Did I point out how none served a needed purpose?
Did I point out how none of them Need money / unregulated investors?

You'd have to wonder why anyone would bother with them huh?

A rather obvious answer to a simple question no?

ICO = modern times MLM pyramid / ponzi scheme variant borrowing on the idea of Bitcoin for one single reason.. ROI's.

ETH IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ICO COIN YOU ALL THINK.
FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST A RIGGED SCAM WITH A STUPID GIMMICK...
BUT IT ALSO SERVES NO OTHER PURPOSE THAN TO CREATE OTHER RIGGED ICO SCAMS FOR EVEN MORE MONEY.

It's intention is a failure.
Adoption is non existent.
It's only purpose is unregulated scam coin profits.

And that is what you all consider a success.

Me?
I would have to think of adoption of a currency.
Which does not apply to ETH... Because ETH is not a currency.
And it never will be either.

There is no "one day" with ETH.
It solves no problem that needed fixing.
It is the equivalent of investing in hollow worthless housing derivatives stocks.
It is an inflated scam coin bubble that is used for nothing what so ever than to run profit schemes.
.. Which is not why I joined crypto.

I joined to "support" a crypto currency.
Not a rigged scammy premined ICO profits app's gimmick load of bullshit.

I couldn't care less what they are "worth" either.

ETH - NOT EVEN ONCE!

Thanks a lot Man. Accutally I am searching that answer. Already I have finished some ICO campaign. I have joined their Singnature, Twitter and Facebook campaign and some coin. And I made a good amount of BTC. But I don't know what is the ICO. I khow that, ICO means a new Bounty campaign. Which offer some coin for Signature, Social media campaing and Other campaign. But Finally you gave the answer. Again Thanks a lot.

Ico it is = DEFINITION 'Initial Coin Offering (ICO)'
An unregulated way in which funds are raised for a new crypto business. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by beginners to bypass the tight capital addition process and is managed by the financier or the venture bank. In an ICO campaign, the percentage of crypto delivered to the initial tenant of the project in return for a legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin.

ico = instant millionaire

I like your style!

An ICO is when you offer tokens against money in order to finance a crypto-related product.

If you were an investor wouldn't there be regulations?  
Why again did the US fine Ripple.
And issue a general crypto investor Fraud alert?
Why did they impose IRS tax rules?

Quick question..

If you are investors then who is accounting?
Are there annual share holder reports and proper record keeping on "development work"?
Such as with the million dollars butters cashed out.

What part of giving 550,000 ETH to known scammer is sketchy don't you get?
Bitshares is so legit the mass shitcoin development thought oh well it would be even better ICO'd on Ethereum.

This all is like watching fanatics foam at the mouth running into each other like idiots.

Tokens.. Yeah.
Pump price then cash out.
That is crypto.

It has nothing to do with a currency.

It's a scammy charade for ROI's.

I want to point out how there is no legal age requirement nor laws such as Insider Trading.
Same thing Martha Stewart was jailed for.

And there is no Bernie Madoff serving jail time either.

This article explains it in depth to you:

https://news.bitcoin.com/introducing-do-nothing-technologies-blockchain-ico/

ICO means Initial Coin Offering. In this the developer of the coin collect the fund from members in start and give them coin before the launch of that coin in this process person can get good amount of profit from this. But there are many scam in this also so I always recommend everyone to stay away from this.

"Initial Coin Offering"  = ico , like ipo in stock.

There's something called softcap and hardcap, what's that actually? Are they related to ICO's?

I think it is the minimum fund target and maximum fund target. When soft cap reached the project can still continue but it will be much better if they reached themax for it fully development of the project.

Yeah , This is a type of crowd funding as an investment . In the current time ICOs meaning is to collect money by selling Thier tocken .
Currently most of the people are making the coins and selling the tocken before launching the coin , so in this way without development they are selling Thier coins .
Most of the ICOs are not much profitable , so it will be more better that first make lots of analysis before invest in such types of project .
Currently many exchanges are supporting to help ICOs investment and ICOs are now like to making trading ( buy and sell and down and up in the price , I seen usually this thing in the yobit.net ) .

ICO is a new concept recently emerging on crowdfunding (financial mobilization) projects in the cryptocurrency and block industries.

ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering, where Initial Cryptocurrency Offering is indicated.
Do you have any questions about the ICO?
There are many ICOs that have been successful
There are also many fraudulent ICOs
You should learn thoroughly

I don't know what is ICO. but i want to understand what is ICO.

An ICO is an unregulated means of crowdfunding via cryptocurrency. It has a token sales with refers to method of selling participation in an economy. This is where investors invest their money. As years go by ICO became popular and gain lots of investors.

Basically, ICO looks like kind of IPO but with cryptocurrencies (tokens) and is a way that blockchain startups usually follow to get money.

Mr. Google is every ready to explain to you ICO in great details. You just have to type and click some buttons and you are there. But if you are tired and too lazy to do that, ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. This is a way for a certain project to generate funds for the fulfillment of their projects. In an ICO, investors are needed as they are the ones who will buy the project's tokens. I'm done.  ;D

The rest will be discussed to you by Mr. Google.  ;D

ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. You can look at ICOs as an alternative form of crowdfunding to the release of a new cryptocurrency.

ICO is one of the most efficient and easiest ways for an individual or company to fund their projects and, at the same time, have other individuals and companies investing in them. Usually, before the new cryptocurrency emerges, the individual or company will need to raise money for all the technical development that is needed. So, they usually sell tokens in exchange for more established cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH) or Bitcoin (BTC). The ICO period is usually never inferior to one week.

There are different types of ICOs. You can either have a specific limit of time or goal for the project funding. An example of an ICO may include having every token having a pre-designated price which will never change during the ICO period. In this case, the token supply is said to be static. However, you can also have a static token supply but include a dynamic funding goal. for example. In this case, the token distribution is made according to the funds received. So, if your project gets more funds, the token price will increase.

One of the best examples of a successful ICO project is the one regarding the Etherum, which has Ethers as their coin tokens. Back in 2014, only the Etherum project was able to raise $18 million in Bitcoins or $0.40 per Ether during their ICO. While the project only went live in 2015, by 2016 the Ether value had a huge increase in price and it went as high as $14, with a market capitalization of more than $1 billion.

Even though many people tend to compare an ICO with an IPO (Initial Public Offering), the truth is that they have a lot of differences. Unlike an IPO, an ICO doesn’t grant you any kind of ownership of the company or individual who is trying to develop their own cryptocurrency. Plus, one of the main disadvantages, especially when compared with an IPO, is the lack of regulation.

ICO regulation is needed

Throughout the latest years, you have numerous examples of successful ICOs. However, you shouldn’t trust every ICO you see or you get in touch with. While some end up with losses like it happened with cryptocurrencies such as Omni, for example, others can be used as a scam. After all, you just need to build a beautiful website, list some amazing sales talk, numerous promises that this is the nest big cryptocurrency, and you may have a hand full of investors willing to buy your ICO tokens. The problem when you are not cautious enough is that ICOs aren’t regulated by any financial institution. Unlike in the IPOs case where you have the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission), there is no entity to which you can appeal if you discover you were involved in an ICO fraud.

At the moment, ICOs are still operating in a so-called “gray area”. However, we believe that this should change soon even though this would certainly withdraw some of the advantages ICOs have at the moment.

Read more on what you should look for in an ICO here - https://coins.best/icopedia/what-should-you-look-for-in-an-ico/

ICO or Initial coin offering is launch when the team wants to collect capital for their project without using a lot of money because they will just offer an ICO to the public and they will offer a coin for exchange of their invested money and they will set a minimum to maximum cap for their ICO and if they will get a successful percent of their ICO then it will continue to do its projects.

If you invest then look at all the team that supports the project make sure everyone in the project can be checked through linkedin account. Lots of ICO this month, you just need precision.
Unless you do not invest there, and just follow the bounty. You just sit and wait for the money to be shared. If your scam will not get dizzy.  ;D

Maybe the one of the best explanation on this thread. Yeap it is just the thing when you invest your money, by supporting project and after a while receive their goods. In this case you receive tokens =) Scams are everywhere even on kickstarter ;)

Ico is initial coin offering a method for projects to offer their tokens for cash (eth, btc), valuation of tokens is really important, also there is one more thing called ITO

But how if they're unable to reach the soft cap until the pre-ICO/ICO day, or if the project failed in the middle of the process? Will the token be reshared again?

If the minimum ICO target is not reached until the end of the ICO, that usually means that the project will not be able to implement the roadmap they have because of lack of funds, so people who bought tokens get refunds.

An ICO is an event in which a new cryptocurrency project sells part of its cryptocurrency tokens to early adopters and enthusiasts in exchange for money today. ICOs provide a way for cryptocurrency project creators to raise money for their operations. Most ICOs raise money in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies

An ICO or Initial coin offering is a crowdfunding via cryptocurrrency. Its term is confused with token sale or crowdsale that refers a method of selling participation in an economy . It also gives investors an access to the features of a particular project starting at later date meas that you can invest in every different projects that are made.

ico also known as initial coin offering is the process whereby startup or existing companies launches to gain more funding via a cryptocurrency to fund their projects.its also similar to ipo

Initial coin offering this is were they will have a project of a coin were they were raised a fund for there coin thought the sale or crowdsale of there coin to get funds a lot of people invest in ICO because it can be a big money if the coin pumphe market as we know you can buy the token in a lower price though ICO.

I think it has been said enough already on what is ICO, if you want to dig deeper and figure out what are different models and mechanics of ico, please take a look here:
https://medium.com/@StorifierCo/untangling-the-ico-mechanics-9e8976641457 (https://medium.com/@StorifierCo/untangling-the-ico-mechanics-9e8976641457)

I think by searching in the internet you can easily understand what is ICO, it's a very popular term that is use whenever there is a
crowdsale that is happening and personally I have participated in a lot of ICOs which brings me profit as of now.

ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) - a form of legal capital mobilization by start-up companies - has become a popular financing method for cryptocurrency projects. Today, each ICO is an event in which each new cryptocurrency project will sell a portion of Cryptocurrency shares in the form of tokens to first-time clients and venture capitalists in exchange for money. The ICO will provide a way for the cryptocurrency project creators to make money for their operations. Most ICO earn money by Bitcoin or other Cryptocurrency.

One of the first uses of the ICO's documentation for the cryptocurrency project was Mastercoin, which was supported by the community on the Bitcoin Forum. Mastercoin is a meta-protocol on top of blockchain. Bitcoin provides additional features that the basic bitcoin class can not do. The ICO will be available in mid-2013. Mastercoin (MSC) has launched over 5000 Bitcoins (BTCs) at a rate of 100 MSC per BTC and sent to "Exodus addresses" during the ICO period.

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) ? It is the percentage of the cryptocurrency that is newly issued and sold to the investors in other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Waves, Litecoin and Ethereum. ICO is usually sold to the investor in Bitcoin.

A definition is hard to come by, but the most precise one around is “An unregulated mean by which capital is raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. It is used by startups to bypass the conventional fund raising process (such as venture capitalists or banks). In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the currency in exchange for legal tender or another cryptocurrency (usually BitCoin or Ethereum)

In the most simple terms a initial coin offering is in between an initial public offering (IPO) and Crowdfunding.

actually ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is a new way to get investors or raise funds, if the old way by selling shares, ICO offers their coins which can then be traded in certain exchanges

ICO Means Initial Coin Offer   when ever a new coin comes to the market they have many option from which  one is ICO

ICO is one of models to do crowdfunding when participants of a project make investments into the company development and growth NOW in order to receive certain benefits IN FUTURE.

It could be the release of tokens designated to pay for platform services in prospect in the form of cryptocurrency. For example, when a project issues its own "currency" and exchanges it into one of the most popular cryptocurrencies or even the paper money, the ICO project could provide itself with needed funds and keep going to develop and grow.

ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is a popular form of calling for investment in cryptocurrency projects. Each coin developer ICO will create an event and in the crypto project it will sell a portion of its tokens to interested investors in return for funding to fund that cryptocurrency project. and future development. Most ICOs accept payment by Bitcoin or Ethereum.

The ICO usually takes place before the project is completed and helps finance the founding team's costs until the project starts. For some larger projects, part of the cost of ICO goes into building a foundation and providing ongoing support to the project. They also worked as an initial distribution model for token cryptocurrency, especially cryptocurrency using proof of stake of the consensus algorithm.
 you can search gg for understanding clean ;))

You are right somehow or we can say that you are right but i would prefer a single sentence which i will to add. ICO is crowd funding from people sale your token on people and it is place to invest to get double.

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the revolutionary funding way that allows new technologies to collect fund with giving a special offer who are interested to invest their ico peoject.

This is also my question to my friend, He just say that ICO means Initial Coin Offering. He explain to me that this is what people call to the project who wants to start their project in the cryptocurrency.

Initial coin offering (ICO) is an unregulated means of crowdfunding via use of cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies. In an ICO a percentage of the newly issued cryptocurrency is sold to investors in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

 Ico is the good chance to buy coins for low rate .if you join this type of campaign then you will get coin from ICO.  In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin.

ICO = Initial Coin Offering, is an investment on Project that has not yet started and it will start as soon as the ICO is closed. The vision will be in accordance with how many Tokens will be sold. Most WhitePapers show the stages and/or phases of the ICO that i.e if they receive this ammount of USD they will do A & B.

If the ICO succeeds and if the vision becomes implemented then there is a good return of investment.

WTF the four pages of this thread is plenty of posts that are SAYING THE SAME, everybody is saying "ICO means initial coin offering" Wow... i didnt know that you all needed to say it 2000 times for it to be clear.. What is happening in this forum? because i dont understand it. Maybe if i open a thread asking something then i would have 1000 replies saying exactly the same?

ICO means initial coin offerings you buy new tokens of in low price it is like crowdfunding early investors can invest their money hoping it to be successful once the ICO closed. The new project/token can get started and the value of it depends on the investors.

You can read it's whitepaper to track its progress.

thats not true at all. indeed there is lot of scam but there is a lot real ico who looking to fund for their project. so dont just judge like that

If you fine to identify the pretty decent ICO which can be grow longer than with the greater marketplace value in future. You have to buy the token sale of any ICO which gives extra percentage of amount which is worth more 50% or even more. If you do proper research you will be able to find the good ICO.

ICO means Initial Coin Offering.ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering, where Initial Cryptocurrency Offering is indicated..It has a token sales with refers to method of selling participation in an economy.

ICO is Initial Coin Offering. Initial means the earliest, Coin means digital token / coin and Offering means bidding, if interpreted its means buy earliest coin/digital token before being launched into the market. ICO is usually offered by the developers where their goal is to raise funds to develop the projects. They need funds to maximize the projects to get succesfully  and can be quickly completed. ICO can be samething like IPO ( Initial Public Offering) but IPO is ussualy for the stock market.

Google can explain you in details what an ICO is. I think I cannot explain to you better than Mr Google can. In general, ICOs is a way for projects, usually projects on blockchains nowadays, to create resources that they could use to fund their projects. This is going to need investors that are convinced of how sound their projects are.

It comes from the popular term in stocks, IPO (Initial Public Offering). ICO means Initial Coin Offering wherein funds are raised for a new token to be launch. The funds that will be accumulated will be use for the development of their project and other costs that they needed. Usually in ICO, the tokens that they are offering is lower than the market price and usually they give an additional bonus for those who will participate in the ICO.

I'll add a little where teams and devs have certain innovative and creative ideas to be realized. the more creative and innovative ideas brought by dev and having the potential of having a large share. then the possibility of investors will be more and have more chance to get large funds also from the community

Initial coin offering (ICO)  it's a great platform to invest money to get bonus profit with a ownership.
See more details login: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initial-coin-offering-ico.asp?adtest=video-idx-0 

Well now that the question is already answered by "almost the same" answer, I suggest that you locked down the thread here admin. Or perhaps that you still got some other questions? Because I did not see you hanging around in this thread anymore. ???

We may define ICO as "Unregulated way of Initial Coin offering by which funds are raised" for new cryptocurrency.  It is crowd sale to public.  This is just like Intial Public offers (IPOs) of various companies which issue shares of their companies to general public; to collect / raise funds for start of their new business projects or to expand current operations. But ICO differs from IPo as ICOs are unregulated but IPOs are regulated by rules and regulations of the various laws of the nations.  In ICOs no regulatory authority is there to watch the issue.  So there are more chances for scams in ICOs though all issues are not fake issues. 
One must be careful, watching, alert and must gain deep knowledge about the project only after being satisfied about the project; he should invest in cryptocurrency.

ICO is a next big thing in the coming years.

Let me explain you with a basic example - suppose you have an idea and want to implement it into reality. Now you need crowdfunding for the implementation of that project/idea. You will throw a coin sale asking people to invest their coins (BTC, ETH, ALT) into it and you will provide some value to their coin which will be secured in their wallets.

Now once your project start running, you will share some amount of profit with the coin investors.
 

I dont think it is a big thing. too many scam ICO. people really know what is ICO now

ICO itself is a fundraiser for building applications related to Blockchain and its implementation such as bitcoin, smart contract, and smart ledger. Many developers use this method to raise funds to develop their projects. this is a small picture like token is stock.

An initial coin offering (ICO) is a means of crowdfunding centered around cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies. In an ICO, some quantity of the crowdfunded cryptocurrency is preallocated to investors in the form of "tokens," in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. These tokens become functional units of currency if or when the ICO's funding goal is met and the project launches.

Not quite agree with your statement. In my opinion, as long as the project have a clear information, team, roadmap, etc., the ICO will not (likely) be a scam. And the ICO is the first step of the project, so it must be a big thing for the developer's team (and the bounty hunters too ;D). Don't forget to always keep in touch with the developers on every social media, and if the project is good they will often reply to your questions.

ICO means inintial coins offerings launched  herein bitcointalk to promote a kind of coin become have an value into the coinmarketcap, every ico have an roadmap how its work as legit in the market to show to investors the credibility of the project.

ICO is the abbreviation of Initial Coin offering, also called an Initial Public Coin Offering (IPCO).

ICO stand for Initial Coin Offering it a way to funds some cryptocurrency related project

A game to scam you money, also a game make you rich in a very short time, if you are a newbee, i advice you to stay away from it.

ICO means Initial Coin Offering.This is the way of investment in cryptocurrency project.It will sell some tokens to the interested investors and in return investors get a huge profit from it.

ICO means intial coin offering which is used to startups the regulated capital raising process reuired by capitalists . it has token sales which investors buy it and gain higher profit.so it is another way of investing which you can earn money.

Most of them a SCAM! Be aware in what ICO you wanted to participate make sure you read their whitepaper very well and they are not hiding their identity.