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Hello everybody i want to know when i should invest during ICO. how i identify that coin will be Success in ICO or failed? And how to know any coin will not be scam? please clearify me these question.

if you want buy in ico, you buy must early because can get bonus and with cheap price
check addres dev collect money, if first day ico selling result is good , you can follow buy
must good dev

If you like gambling with scams.

I invested in Presearch.io, they aim to rival Google as a search engine.

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It is pretty though to identify ICO's that will be scam or not so to spot one, first look st their public relation skills because most of the time those who lack this becomes scam in the end. Also look at the roadmap of an ICO, and their team because sometimes it determines what is scam and what is not. By doing this, it would lessen the chance of you being scammed by an ICO.

I think it's absolutely crazy the market caps the ICOs are getting and the amount of money people are throwing at them. Not to mention there's a lot of scamcoins out there just to make the founders very rich.

To answer on your question about how to spot of an ICO is a scam or not, read the whitepaper well, try to rationalize the concept and see if you think it will succeed in the future and be valuable, see if the team have given any interviews, participated in podcasts, blockchain events, hackathons, see their github for activity, follow their social media and see if the community is active and supports the project (facebook groups, twitter, telegram chat room, slack chatroom)

One tip in investing in ICO is looking at their product, if a project already has a working or even a beta product that you could test try it and if you find it working well and stable and you think many would be interested in it you could try to invest in it. Also if developers and team members are always active, always give updates and accepts criticism and suggestions then people will trust them more then you could try invest in their project.

If I may advise, wait for SPECTIV to open ICO. You can invest there. I see that the SPECTIV project is a great project.
good luck

Most ico provide bonuses. For example if a ico is running for 2 months like dimcoin they provide 20% bonus in first 15 days and then keep reducing to 0%. What you can do is invest on the last day of bonus ending for example if 15% bonus is from aug 1 to aug 15th invest on 14th. If the ico is transparent you can easily recognise weather it's successful or unsuccessful.

If you look forward to one project, you can invest, but ico is always break out at the first time, you need hold it for some day, otherwise you will not gain so profit

I agree with you, I have also tried my best to find a best ICO project to invest and I found the SpectcivVR project because I think the VR will be a very popular market in the near future.

Wow, thanks your explain, after read your post I understand the reason most investor joining an ICO porject always choose deathline bonus or deathline ending this ICO.

It is getting harder and harder. Whitepapers and other project presentations are getting smoother and more convincing that they would appear legitimate. I am basing on the actual use of the tokens, the practicality of their goals and ideas. If a certain project is too ambitious that they would surely find no way for their project to really materialize, I won't risk.

this is a tough question!
early stages you sometimes may find some bonuses and some amount off what you buy. this can be good as an early investor. but the problem is, early on you don't know what you are dealing with.

and besides until the last days you may not know. the scammers are getting better and better with time. they are more experienced now. they are illusive!

i see someone already mentioned white paper, i also say reading it is good but these days people pay good money for a well written white paper by someone else!!! so it is not as reliable as before either!

No one can tell you when you should invest in ICO. You need to do the research by reading the white paper. You should also look for competitors in the space. Doing research will eliminate most scams, but you can never be really sure. So, you should only invest the amount that you are willing to lose.

No one know how the coin will becomes scam or success, only predict and learn from history price. If you're invest before ICO is just like gambling, but as long you can deal the risk that would be fine. When ICO starting, the price always lower than pre-ICO because maybe there's not have exchanger or investor. But after ICO, there's a chance to get profit with the right price because exchanger, investor already available. You can decides when to buy or sell, remember to manage your money. Good luck.

I think some alt-coin ICO that have bounty campaign here in bitcointalk is a good for investing and for assure you only invest that what can you also afford to lose because we also don't know when that ICO will go to scam!
Some Investor's is also a gambler because they gamble here by investing there money in the alt-coin ICO.

many ICO has now success rate therefore be vigilant weather it has a future plan or just raising money for there on sake.

From my experience don't invest during the ICO period, especially not when ethereum or bitcoin is pumping. Just wait after the ICO period when all the people are selling and pick up a few cheap coins.

Investing can be as risky as trading or gambling when it comes to ICO projects. Nowadays no can tell how will the ICO be in the future. If it will be a success or if it just run as a scam. But the most important thing that a person can do to know if ever a project is a scam or a legit one is to do a research. From reading white papers, to knowing the team behind if you could trust them, if they treat investors that well and because of it being unpredictable, you should invest what you just can afford to lose.

Never go into ICO...

I went into Starta, Crypviser, Pillartoken, Corion, Dcorp, Bancor, Civic and a few other assholes, who are now lower in price than ICO price.

Nr.1 More than 50% of the time, the price you paid is higher and the price on the exchanges is below your buying price within a few weeks to months. People dump at first chance at trading...
Nr.2 You can't get your money, you must hodl if you don't want to fucking lose shit from hodling. If you have a trading option with 50% gain you have a dilemma, between should I accept losses and put it in something else or should I just fucking wait and let this opportunity go by!.
Nr.3 ICO's could be a scam. You could get completely robbed. Why this f'king risk.. When it comes on exchanges anyway, and also cheaper... WTF!!!

Nr.4 You can buy the ICO at a lower price when it comes at exchanges more than 50% of the time. Except for EOS and Fucktoken, they went up instead of down.

Nr.5 Welllll. ICO a waste of fucking time. You could rather study current coins and their roadmaps.

90% of so called companies issuing ICO's are fake.

They have no product or services to promote. Just collecting money from users for their own gain.

The tokens you get in exchange are worthless.

But there are also 10% of those who are doing it for real purpose.

Just research about the service before deciding for yourself.

The reality is you to have to do your research. After that see if their is a bonus period, or  opportunities to make bounties. You add a couple bounties in with your investment and the coins price starts to get a lot cheaper. The big problem is when you are involved with a big project, they will have a large bounty program. A lot of those people dump, so you get a big dip in price. If you are willing to hold long term then ICO's are fine. The quick flips are getting harder and harder with pre-mined coins.

It's hard to identify your success or failure in ICO, and also knowing if it's a scam or not is a hard thing to do.

Let me just give you one of the Pros and Cons of investing in ICO.

Pros:
Some people get rich thru investing in ICO.
Cons:
You would probably won't be one of them.

As an advice it is wise to never commit more money than you can afford to lose. Investing in something always involves risks but then again risking also includes having more opportunities. You should always be mindful of what you're doing for you to become successful. Best of luck out there!

Out of 10 only 1 or 2 ICO will be good for investing in ICO but most of them always go down the price of ICO and even investing in ICO and then waiting for the coins and then waiting for the exchange listing will be so late that the cost of ICO investment goes high. So it is always advisable to buy in the market after it get listed and wait for some time and see the performance and then buy it. Because most of the ICO get dumped hardly as soon as it get listed in exchange as bounty hunters and bonus ICO investors will mostly dump the coins.

Hey sujonali1819! It’s perhaps a timely move given for the ICO market that is based on the blockchain industry, and where there is a complete lack of a reliable set of criteria for the evaluation of new platforms and making the decisions on whether to invest or not. You should start by collecting the information on blockchain projects piece by piece on various sources, companies’ websites and discussion forums, where each participant expresses their subjective viewpoint to make the further decision. Hope that helps!

ico is the best platform for invest. you can make good profit with invest ico. but first follow this coin future planing and her dev. now 90% coin can success.

You can atleast skim out the scammers from real deals by reading their whitepapers, and knowing the people behind the project. But some really good scammers are behind some ico than it is hard to see the real ones. So investing in ick is really risky but if you got the right one, you can have a really good profit.

When should you invest in ICO? Almost never.

if you can understand the programming code,it would be more easy to know if it's scam!
but always we only basic on whitepaper, team, roadmap to find out the question in the project

It depends on how you look into that ICO. You should make investments in the ICOs that have real projects, that products real things. That's how you make sure it's not scamming you. By the way, you should invest early to get ICOs bonuses, that will make you earn more profits with that ICOs.

ICO is not suitable for everyone, you should have faith in it.

Investing on ICOs is quiet a gamble as of these days unlike on older days which you can able to see potential coins which do really have future unlike as of now they are popping out everywhere. Finding a coin which do have potential might be hard because even if you do see their roadmap,whitepaper, dev transparency we cant still be sure if the project would be a successful one.

There's too many ICO to choose to,unlike before that only few and almost easy to identify if legit. Now it's too hard now since scammers were really good seems they planned it well.

Right now many ICO's are giving good profit to the investors but at the same ICO's failing to give profits to the investors. At the same time, we have to be very careful when investing into ICO's. It completely depends on basis of the community where people are spreading the word.

For this, read the whitepaper, check if the team is active or not, what their website looks like, etc. Most of the time ICOs are serious, but there is a few exceptions.

Haha the definition scammer of ICO in recently not is can't listed exchange, in present very easy for listing their token to some exchange as coinexchange, liqui, ethdelta, hitbtc ... just need have some money in first time :).

read the whitepaper, check out the team. You'll find out 95% of either of the two are garbage as people try to do ICO's for a quick get rich scheme now

To understand if a project is scam, team is the only criterion, you should check every profile from team if they are real and known people but however it might be a scam even if everything looks good.

Comparing the ICO in the past and the ICO in to this present i can say that there are really difference and as you said Scam ICO's are already good on hiding themselves which they do really make preparations on which people or the public cant able to detect them. because they do have the basic indications of some legit ICO out there which they will surely believe that this is a legit one but the truth it isnt.

If you are going to seek ICO which is likely to be successful it is indeed a hard thing to do. But in contrary you could do things to make it easier for you to achieve or to support a good ICO project. And you can do it by supporting on a signature campaign alts by simply applying on their signature campaign and making your task to advertise and support the project as a whole. Because being a part of the specific ICO is a vital part for it to be successful in the market as soon as the ICO released.

Actually there is no specific time for somebody to invest to Bitcoin. Because it is a matter of priorities and decision making. If you are about to invest and to have a particular decision on choosing an ICO project you should take it as a serious matter and do your part on supporting it for the whole project to succeed. It is not a one sided thing that you just watch it to develop. You are a participant is also a vital part for ICO success and you are the answer on your time of investment.

Just look at what the other people say, generaly the more pages there is in the topic, the more likely the ICO is prone to success.

My advice is if you have any doubts on any ICO then don't invest your money in buying coins. Just support them to improve their project to joining their bounty campaigns. For that, you will get the payment you can save that coins and exchange when it comes to the exchange site. Many people don't know how to analyse the new ICO is good or scam for them this is the best way to earn some new coins.