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Hey guys I would like to know one thing! How did you know that ICO like Basic attention token are even running an ICO ?
Like what were your sources bcs for me it seems like some ICOs like CIVIC and others are gathering large sums without even having a proper thread (or not having at all) at bitcointalk.
So I don't really get who is the targetet audience for their ICOs? And where are they doing all their advertisment?
Or is it more some closed door stuff?

Anyone has some insight for me?

Greetings!

Sometimes its the users that find ICO's on various ico release site and post information here. I try to check out every ICO release page a couple times a week to make sure I don't miss anything even though I read the Ann's here.

I found a few through several websites; but honestly I've given up on ICO's since most of them require looooong term holding to see any profit.  I might as well purchase them in an exchange after they've demonstrated some execution.  Here are a few useful sites.. although looking at them might stress you out on the potential of a crypto bubble.   :o

• https://www.coinschedule.com
• https://www.icoalert.com/
• https://www.icocountdown.com/

many project doesnt have ANN in this forum since many new comer doesnt know here at all, they get information from the ico platform or some website, also just follow some people to invest

Civic got lots of attention because their ICO model had some novelties and their top guy had been on TV. We we're a fan of their model:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ico-wars-continue-as-lakebanker-says-civic-was-north-korean (https://cointelegraph.com/news/ico-wars-continue-as-lakebanker-says-civic-was-north-korean)

Mhm but still,

for me it still looks like that some ICOs like Enigma and so on get a lot of investment from somewhere but I simply don't know from where?
It's not like how it has been before with Waves and Lisk that we all invested in them it seems more "state like" investment in this ICOs.
Idk some strange feeling about them?!

Any ideas?

EOS was including on that list due to the recent claim to be the future of the ethereum, but the more project doesn't make sense in its idea or innovation. The only thing that the smart contract should be exist right now caused by the ethereum was better than neo. It just take double digit of the million dollar to develop a project worth over 30 billion capitalization and eos is nothing for ethereum.

Theres a few website that show upcoming ICO's. Also in the ANN section you just have to check daily to see what's coming up. The odds of actually getting a big winner like BAT is slim though. Most coins go to small exchanges and then die shortly after. You really need to examine the team behind the coin.

Check reddit (/r/CryptoCurrency, /r/ethereum, /r/ethtrader, /r/icocrypto etc.), different ICO lists (google: ico list), follow crypto investors on Twitter, check ANN here on bitcointalk ...

yeah sure but someone has to put the money in. There are many amazing ideas out there but someone needs to sell it to the right person. And I highly doubt that only the idea made it. I think the marketing played a major role in it.

some ICO's are doing a closed funding.. from private investors and perhaps a second funding from the public
or they might even open their token for sale after the private pre-sales

I am holding my BAT, this is a good project and besides, they have Brave browser  which they can incorporate their token later on etc. I am optimistic with the devs and confident enough they can deliver.

yeah exactly but which investor is investing in stuff like that? Where are they finding the people for this?
I mean investing in ICOs like that is madness!

I know a whale. He attends lots of conferences, meets with promoters, dev team etc. Gets in before any public coin sale with $500k upwards of investment!

bAT has too much hype up front I would be careful with overhyped projects - but yeah I think BAT can be amazing long term - Another big coin long term is NeO it can be Chinese Ethereum.

Anyways, the best sources of information are usually various trading slacks, reddit, bitcointalk and various YouTube channels. Once you are involved in the community you will know about IcOs easily

Really thats interesting! So I guess he gets waaay better conditions than anyone else? So it really seems that there are people who are really in to it!
I am really very interested in the stuff could you let me know a bit more about the guy??

Ye, those people give to live and develop some projects but who is payers as result? We all. Is this no hype? But so life. I think much people dream to meet those inestors, but that's why he is whale - one self!

yep whale insiders and other scam tactics is how they collude to suck btc from your pockets for months and years and most of them will not produce any functioning useful product

icos = dirt

I follow twitter, telegram, Reddit and bitcointalk. I found Enigma through Twitter and it turns out to be a huge project.

I tryed to downlod Brave browser. Idea behind BAT is not intresting for me. Very dificult for browser. If people want to surf internet they will use easist ways. Also I amnot willing to pay websites I use offten...

BAT is shit. It will not see mainstream

Only hype because of Firefox creator behind BAT.
But Firefox is simple free browser thats why it atract people.

Brave no ..

Civic is in polo.

But it wasn't "just a big project" they must have presented it somewhere to someone with a lot of money beforehand!

This also pokes my curious system. I really don't know where people get infos from these new ICOs i always get left behind. Which really sucks. Specially when the coins skyrockets a few weeks or months later. But now that someone has posted a link where i can see upcoming ICOs, im having second thoughts. Because im afraid that i might get scammed. Damn it. I wish i had someone who could tell me infos which coin is about to launch and will it become successful. Tsk2 :/

This is strange for me to hear since I'm using Brave both on mobile and desktop and it's working very well for me. I don't use it because of BAT but because it stops ads.

Yeah lets say like that Its not like I don't know about upcoming ICOs but it seems like the ICO are attracting a lot of money and that even beyond their cap so.
For some ICOs there is such a huge demand that it simply is beyond their Hardcaps but the ICO don#t really look different from the crap/scam ones, IDK really..

Civic has real billionaire investors not just some wannabe crypto p&d kidz.

There is no ICO that will have some sort of cryptographic element that will not featured or talkded about in bitcointalk forum! Somehow somebody we at least mention it in a comment or there wil be thread where ut will be discussed!

I understand that but who is investing in crap like that and what is the sense in investing into products millions when you don't have any say over it afterwards.
I would prefer investing into a company which I own and not where I buy some usless Tokens from it.

A difficult question because I myself did not understand how to collect such big money and not pr on bitcointalk

I really not understand how Tokens like BAT could collect even 10$ dollar the idea is shit everything around the ICO is shit just the devs are some clowsn.

BAT just another shit even the brave browser still unfinished and that has a lot of the bug. Why so many people are interesting to invest on that shit. But what is your opinion about denta coin?  ::)

Well Denta Coin (My Signature campaign) I can suggest you as a Token as an ICO which is different from all other ICO which have been becasue you are directly supporting the Denta coin team  ;D and not another team.
Please tell me about your sig coin?

I have also had the same impression, that even though I'm spending a lot of time researching I'm finding out about most of the very cool projects when it is already too late, and I asl myself how do all these people with all those millions always find them in time...

Actually I guess it works a bit different for ppl who are investing millions into this ICOs
AS FAR AS I get it now it works the following:

1. Big investors get "special rates" for the ICO
2. They get in contact with the ICO on all the Events around the globe
3. They are interested in inevesting bcs they wanna see a good return you can't double a million $ by trying to guess which shitcoin is pumped next
4. Investing into the newly hot shit ICO waiting 1-2 months after ICO selling for double amount and making another million

Actually Civic is one ICO I had spottet in time and I had tried to join it, but the only way to buy their tokens was through an app on your mobile phone, and it turned out that my phone was not new enought for their app to run there and so I have missed this ICO. A bit unfair, I think they should have made it compatible also for phones which are a few years old.

I don't know honestly with this fat Vinny i don't get why anyone invested there. The project itself doesn't make any sense its just fat Vinny trying to scam ppl.

But with the team behind it (not just the firefox founder, but the creator of javascript also) it is more likely to go manistream. Big name attract big attention. I'm sure with them being able to advertise there product on a popular browser like firefox a lot of people will get into it.

Vinny uses his popular name and image to marketing his project and it works very well without ANN thread or bounty compaign!

the only worriesome thing is that his tokens is overpriced and only 1/3 of total supply is in the market!

I really don't understand who likes this scammer from India! This guy has soo negative vibes idk. Really disgusting person.

Why Scammer ?
btw. he is from South Africa  ;)

He looks like an Indian, idk he simply has a bad aura I don't like him and his projects too.

I guess these ICOs will end up enriching (perhaps) their investors only after many years... if at all. Probably just a few projects in fact will.

The problem with some of the promising ICO is that they wont fulfill what they start out and all of the projects i have seen start collecting funds with just a prototype and when they could not fulfill their promise in time,the price would crash as we have seen in many projects,i am hoping that BAT will fulfill its promise as it is backed by successful developers in the past but i am not sure about the rest.