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A lots of new ico coming everday.Abundance can reduce the value. Every ico wants to get as much as they can.Do you guys think this ico bubble will burst soon?

This is normal for the market and it is also a great opportunity to grab and invest in some ICOs because as you can observe from the market, you can see that the most ICO coins are pumping fast so you can easily earn profits with your investment. I think the ico bubble will burst after a few months and if the ethereum will go down a little bit.

We can't say if that is going to pop soon. It's like a daily routine in the alt coin market that people who understands ICO's are a good way to make money will just continue. On the part of investors, once they had known that project is going to boom at first, they'll join. And on the part of developers, they know that it will bring them good money.

This ICOs will just spreading in it's number till will not be accepted some real punishment to those ICOswho appeared just like a scam ones.

Interestingly the most fervent ICO pushers seem to be those who missed out on the BTC/ETH/etc train. Not sure if they're here to stay, but I think raising money for a company through public fundraising that is so prone to pump-and-dump is a bit too nerve wracking for serious investors.

Some ICOs offer really interesting and innovative business models. Lots of them probably won't succeed in long-term, but some of them will (especially early birds!). It's a rule of long-tail, like with everything on the internet. But ICOs won't disappear, they offer a paradigm change. It reminds me of the change that was introduced by Web 2.0. At that time nobody really believed that a web site without content and just a service for socializing would make money. Web 2.0 introduced a different business model, and ICOs are offering a different business model. Very interesting one - participatory (some may say more democratic), prone to corruption and transparent. Cheers.

ICOs were being pushed long before people even heard of ETH and will continue long after it's gone.
I wouldn't jump into conclusions that ICO pushers are those who missed the train. Don't forget the train is still going and we're expecting BTC to break $3000 this year. They can still profit.

Crypto currency market is slowly becoming like hyip market. Where lots of scammers are trying to earn money somehow. I hope people will soon understand that not all ICO holds the potential like ETH. However, at this point, the plague doesn't seem to end and it is increasing day by day.

The presence of thousands of crypto currency is actually ruining the market and the investments are getting divided into many smaller parts. If we had fewer currencies then most of their values would have been tripled by now. Lots of crypto currency is not good for this crypto economy.  

I already got my popcorn ready, but I'm afraid it will still take a while until the wakeup call.

Nice description but I don't see the situation that dramatic. Lots of people consider this as bubble but I'm not sure if it's a real bubble.

Most, if not all ICOs are highly overvalued. Sure, there might be a unicorn somewhere in there. But a lot of these products will fail, and most will underdeliver.

I think this "bubble" is not a bubble and is in fact just the beginning of a mass transfer of wealth into Crypto. Though there are many ICOs, the difference now is that these new tokens are aiming to solve real world problems, the ones that succeed will disrupt everything in their path. What looks like a bubble now is only a ripple for a common Tsunami. Some of my favorite projects currently are Waves, Golem, MobileGo, Gnosis.

ICO situation really looks like a bubble... just check coinmarketcap website... amount of all ICO exploded... too much companies want to launch their own ICO. Some ideas are really worth attention, but there are a lot of rubbish on ICO market atm... the problem is that it is unregulated absolutely. I think if there could be at least minimal regulation mechanism it would definitely help a lot against those who just want to collect money with shitcoin and runaway without any responsibility.

If anyone want to invest in ICO he/she should perform research homework including detailed due diligence

Well at least for those that managed to get some of the coins, they can immediately sell them to at least get some profits, even if the coin don't last that long.


Caveat emptor, they say. I don't think there will be regulations anytime soon.

blockchain technology has opened a Pandora's box of innovative possibilities. I dont think the bubble will burst, but get much larger until it pervades through much of what we do in every day life. The problem with a new ico every day is unfortunately the lesser educated will not discern between vapour and substance.

The bubble can busrt everytime, This will be continue until those flippers are tired to flip their money through using the ico project. and flip the shres in the market place. I think there is no exact date about the bubble will be burst. It can't be predicted

It happens as mentioned, but most of the time we can see the ICO pumps during the days after the listing to the exchange websites. Specifically once the presale ends the value gets to boom high and this in successful project stabilizes and the rest bursts to the bottom from which the value increased and provides minor change in the up and down track.

I really do not know how long it will last, but we all are in the same big bubble, a bitcoin bubble covering all the other altcoins. I think the bad thing will happen when it breaks.

Anyways, just consider all these ICO like an alternate stock market. It really reminds me it

This bitcoin bubble can break at any time, when it contains too many altcoins, and it is not resistant enough, it will break. But we should believe in bitcoin, it is a very powerful coin.

ethereum is the first succes ICO, i think the ico momenth will be not end for now.. more ico come and im sure the era will be end if we found new biggest scam like paycoin at 2 year ago

No pain, no gain... living and learning

The lack of regulation is the beauty of it. That most ICO investors are only in it for the quick buck without proper evaluations is what will cause it to turn ugly sooner or later.

"Explosion" has a lot of different meanings, if you talk about its development, it is really explosive, but if you talk about its collapse in the future, I think it can happen But...

Those people are just helping the developers to make the market worse because most of the ICOs right now are just promising but after a few years we can see a few amount of projects that are still working and most of them will be just leave in the dust by their developers. People right now should do a lot of research before investing so they can choose the right ICO and not only for profit.

The popularity of bitcoin will continue to attract people to create a different crypto currency, but I think that eventually bitcoin will absorb all the coins. There will be only a few competitors who will offer the best conditions for earnings and a lower cost per transaction. Bitcoin will always be because he was the first.

The only thing that will affect the ICO market is a general scenerio that will affect the crypto ,market just like the recession that affects the stock market where going to the market to raise funds became a futile exercise. But in this case, in as much as people are looking for opportunities and new intelligent projects are coming out, after scrutiny, its found to be worthwhile, then the market is not close to been burst. Opportunities abound for every to cash in and cash out but doing carefully is the key.

I think when first of multi-million scam projects will not make anything they claim

I do not see any prerequisites for this. Now the market of crypto currencies is gaining momentum. In such circumstances, even if crypto is a bubble it will only swell, and this means that we will have the possibility of using crypto.

I really would like to take full advantage of this ico bubble,make the most money while you can and then make a good profit while you can ,i did miss out most of the top coins which are traded in the market and if i am able to make sure that i am able to invest in good projects and make a good project,so be it,that is my plan,it might bust later,because nothing continues forever.

Good value projects will stay and will be profitable in long term,scams and worthless will fail.It will be like it was with altcoin boom

ICO bubble burst it is because we can't stop them in making every single day an ICO, every company promises a good token to invest with and telling that it is unique compare to other tokens for some it is a bubble that will soon to be pumo and dump and for some it will be successful, who can tell who will gonna prosper soon.

Its like Bitcoin that in first few years that a few only believes to invest in but look at now so at least a token offers a good platform and future assets I think it is good and not a bubble burst because in market there is a lot of ups and downs.

I wander who and how will hunt for such scammy ICOs and how is it going to be clear that it's scammy if in fact they all the same and it's not the ICO's fault that people don't interested in it and don't invest?

At now, I think the waves of ICOs just comeback and very stupid if want try scam in hot time ICOs as now. Maybe, in 2018 the bubble or some project not really from 2017 will died and replace by good project :)

It's probably going to collude with the burst of Ethereum itself. Now the Tezos ICO is coming, and it's potentially going to be the highest ICO ever where the amount of funds are going to pass even that of Bancor, so the network may freeze just like it happened with Bancor and even worse... it's going to be fireworks if it gets really bad.

I can just say that the ICO bubble can't burst soon enough for me.
It is like people who get involved in Pyramid schemes and think they are geniuses because they make profit out of them in the short term.

I don't mean to sound nasty, but people are just investing in crap and being scammed on a regular basis, but due to the massive increases in price when they are successful, they don't even care about the constant scams.

Think about how much these crowd sales are centralizing the distribution of Ethereum and Bitcoin, especially Ethereum. People are pouring money into ETH token sales, and one goes on at least twice a week lately. The more ETH in the hands of single companies instead of individuals, means the ETH is tied up, or gets sold to convert to fiat for business costs. Less liquidity and selling pressure is usually a bad thing.

I wrote a post (https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@pedrombraz/ico-bubble) about my own view on the whole bubble thing. My point is very simple, if each one of us do not make their part, we can ruin the party. If we get enough bad examples out on the street we'll sure piss off a bunch of regulators and traditional investors, and that will likely limit the whole of crypto and blockchain economy's growth.

I think it will depend on when "NEW" money quits entering the cryptos.  The petro-dollar is on it's last leg.  Where will people run to?  Gold, Silver and Crypto.  I like watching https://coinmarketcap.com/ at the very top when you see $100,000,000,000 Market Cap.  Money comes in and people take profits.  If that dips below $75,000,000,000 I'm out...  I think it will be a while, the show is just getting started.

I feel you. It's not even an open secret anymore, but people still keep on pouring money in like summer will never end.

In this world, where cryptocurrencies is one of the most sources of income. The only thing that we can do to this is to become a smart person and don't get left behind by the possible opportunities to make money. Don't mind if they are like a scam, as long as you are making money then there is nothing wrong with it. ICOs will take time before they will get minimized and we shall take advantage of those ICOs to make a lot of money.

It is far from being the end according to me. Even mainstream medias have covered it in their news, and that gave people some ideas. I do not think this is bad because it helps crypto-currencies and blockchains development, and investors are supporting the current abundance.

Yes I think so. The reason is very simple being this, as many ICO will come into the market, that much more money will need to be invested in them. This is not possible overtime, as people are investing lots of money in the current ICO. If 100 more ICO come tomorrow the from where people will invest the money? After all we do have some limitation with our expense and the money that we may loose for bad trading. Who knows, ICO will never work after a year or so. There will need to be something new and more advance than ICO stuff.

When people will start realizing that most ICO teams are not delvering their products simply because they are scammers or they have made impossible promises. People invest in ICO's not because they believe in those projects, but because they think they will get a quick buck from speculative growth, so when this trend will stop, ICO bubble will burst. ETH will probably crash too as the result, and BTC will either don't change or will get some boost.

We can't blame the people who keeps investing in different ICOs because the ICOs now are not that easy to tell if it is a scam or not because they improved the way they promote their project and most of the times they almost all have a good white paper that can easily convince someone. ICO bubble will burst if their will be a lot of people who will be smart in researching first before going into something like investing.

The amount of icos coming in is pretty insane. I have never seen so many things trying to get money out of people in my life.

Almost all of these icos lose you money if you don't sell right away. My advice is to not invest in any of them. Their price drops almost right away and within weeks or months the price of whatever coin it is is usually really low, you would be better off buying some ico tokens or coins months later at a cheaper rate and praying and wishing it becomes worth more.

With what happened with Bancor, BAT and status ICO's, and currently happening with Tezos, it will only take one big project to fail to burst this ICOmania. It may happen sooner than we are expecting. Tech is also becoming repetitive like token card/monaco, or several Ad token ICo's or gaming ICO's or plethora of DEX ICO's. It's getting difficult to weed out wheat from the chaff.

Well, everyone is free to do whatever they want with their money. But at this point you may as well just be gambling.

I think it will burst after people will lose their faith into all these new startup projects.

I agree that almost everybody is just waiting for a quick buck with ICO, but we can see more and more scammers in ICO

People are investing in ICO because they hear great success stories about quick bucks but if we could get real stats about ration between earners and burners this could help to clarify real things on the market for all dreamers  :)

Bubble already started bursting. Most of the ICO coins are not even listed on proper exchanges. If your ICO coin is not listed on atleast cryptopia/liqui or above volume exchanges, then most probably it will be a bust. Instead of waiting to be listed on bigger exchanges, you should dump your tokens and move on. I repeat don't be a bagholder.

IMHO ICO craze has come down significantly. People used to be so excited on the prospect of the NEXT BIG THING. Now ICOs is viewed as yet another coin. 2 months ago there was INTENSE frenzy over all ICOs and they pop like 200-500% once the coins hit exchanges. People were buying more and more ETH due to FOMO in ICOs. I think it peaked at Status and the crammed traffic it caused on ethereum network sort of killed all the hype.

This is a pearl of wisdom

Read the whitepapers, invest in ICO that you would use yourself, then its win win, pick up some cheap coins, if they dont rise, use them yourself, if they do - sell them.

Very Good ICOs are few and far between. Some recent ICO tokens are trading near or even below ICO prices
that is not good.

Nope, it won't. Some ICOs are there just to scam people, but some others have a good and solid project. Solid ICOs are the reason they still exist and the reason that bubble won't burst yet.

Bubble just started :D

Or just buy XRP and forget about bubble!

Abundance can reduce the value. Every ico wants to get as much as they can.On the part of investors, once they had known that project is going to boom at first, they'll join

Ico bubble will burst when people lose a lot of money from their portfolio and couldn't afford to invest in any ico anymore. We are not close to that stage yet.

I thought it was a bubble and that it will burst in July and I was wrong. I don't think it will.
Unless we get an insane market cap rise, to 200 bill for example in a couple of months.

Seeing there are lots of ICOs and as you said abudance would really reduce the value since the investors would really be splitted up and as we see already there are lots of ICO do really fail now and didnt able to reach out the cap which is really a sad thing to know as of these days but talking about the bubble burst we would able to say such thing when they do hit up on exchanges since we are talking about their prices.

I do not think it will ever pop. ICOs are the new way of funding, and at the same time new projects and new investors come, so it is perfectly sustainable.

Crypto currency market is slowly becoming like hyip market. I hope people will soon understand that not all ICO holds the potential like ETH.

Crypto field is young and have great potential to grow.
Because of that we have many fake projects that parazitate on this new reality.
90% from them or more will die but real projects will grow very huge and will get their place in economy as Google, FB, etc. has.
So I think investing in Crypto is the game with positive mathematical expectation.

There is a bubble for sure. And there are many icos that are promising very similar things. I think The ones with better team will go on others will be a shit coin. But there are so man y possible ideas for icos so quantity will not change.

decentralized,anonymous and unregulated system are the verdict why ICO proliferate. ICO are like the .COMs in the 90s soon it will burst. ICOs are crowdfunding minus the regulation. if Security and Exchange Commission controls and regulates the ICO , then it will be the end of the ICO but it destroy the integrity of being decentralized. it's up to us the investor for what we want the centralized system with security or decentralized system with higher risk. your choice !

Yes, I am worried about its boom. Too many ICOs are open every day. People are pouring a lot of money into it, and when it explodes, they lose it all, the cryptographic market will collapse completely. We need to be careful.

Well you need know SEC has said they will have many rules changes ICO market in this year, so next time we will see the bubble ICO breakdown and only really project can alive. But in this time ICO will be like stock market.