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There are so many fears and rumors around ICO. I think that ICO format is very convenient for projects as well as for investors. There are too many scam ICOs and I understand what is the point of the governments fear. But I wonder what do you think about ICO in 2018+. Will it survive?

God I hope they'll die out, but doubtful, the genie is out of the bottle and everyone is up for grabs of easy coins from the unsuspecting public.

I do not think so.

It will be like start up company. 95% of them get the boots out from the market.

Yeah, I agree. But the question is about ICO fundraising format at all. Will it be alive in the future?

I think it will be alive and well but it feels like governments will step in more and more to try and protect their taxpayer's money.

Now it's China but I have a feeling that with increased attention from people like Jamie Foxx, Paris Hilton or Mayweather which will undoubtedly be followed but many more stars promoting ICO's, US will follow China's suit soon.

I think it's bad for crypto to involve these sort of paid promoters who clearly have nothing to do with crypto world and will only give a bad reputation on the long run to the serious ICO's out there.

This cracks me up so bad, it's funny cause it's so untrue.

The ICO (initial coin offering) model of fundraising introduced a democratic way for small investors all over the world to contribute to projects they believe in and get something in return, usually tokens or coins that have functions in the project product.

There are a lot of promising projects are being built on top of the Ethereum network, and a lot of them are using ICOs to fund themselves.

The big problem is that, along with the promising and disruptive initiatives and blockchain applications, a lot of scammers and opportunists appear.

I think that regulation of ICOs will increase in near future, but they will not disappear anytime soon.

it will be a harder journey for those developers who will start an ico next year as its been tackled now in china for sure more countries will look at it
and make sure that their countrymen are not being scammed or they will try also some ruling to be implemented and it will be another problem with
developers to meet the  law for ico projects.

I have heard about decentralized ICO. May be this kind of ICO will be next? Interesting to know your thoughts.

I am not so sure ico will last long, although the investors are very much to make their ico, but the deception is now also increasing, plus China has also banned trading with this bitcoin

Guys no worries!There's projects about decentralized ICO's (like Komodo).
ICO's will be fine.Peoples will for freedom cannot be stopped!

Its looking very grim for ICOs currently and the situation could just continue to grow worse as many countries are bringing in rules to regulate fundraising of this type, not to mention China has already banned them. There are so many ICOs popping up everyday and without adequate research, investors could fall for ones which would unfold to be a scam and this would worsen the situation. With time, more fundraising methods might come and we could switch to a completely new method of raising funds so only time will tell.

Yes we cannot tell early, but as one of the contributor in some ICO I think it will survive. It will survive because I am for sure there will be a regulations and rules to be implemented soon to prevent scam ICO's.

I don't think it's going anywhere for a long time. Even after China ban it'll continue to go on. I think people should realize by now that crypto is here to stay. Yes, there are some bad ICO but that's what happens in free market where people have more control. Do your research and you won't have to worry.

I think ICO fundraising will survive for the years to come.  It has been around for several decades but in a different name.  The idea is to collect fund from prospecting investors and carry on with the project when the target fund is met.  This is the same as crowdfunding with fiat currency, that promise token or any project benefit for investors.  I do not think that this will be shut down by the government but I believe that ICO will be regulated to give protection to investors.

The only thing that should change is that the devs can't dissapear with all the funds.
I hope this is what will be achieved.

too many ICO and nothing control it, it is good for cryptocurrency but don't know about the company because sometime investor's money hold in some ICO when it is not have good price in market

People will be disappointed in projects not released. However, as the ICO Platform matures, we expect that certain wealth will flow into the market. I believe that regulated countries will regret. Denying the structure of a new market slows the growth of the company and loses its competitiveness. In this regard, there is no clear paper on the new framework neither communism nor capitalism at the moment.

As long as people decide to launch cryptocurrency related business there will be ico's. People need to realize that only 20% of businesses survive their first year, so it's very risky to invest in an ico. If people stop investing, new ico's will rarely occur but I don't really expect that to happen even though ico's are often associated with scams.

In my opinion it can't die so fast. Maybe it will transformed for something as here mentioned like KOMODO.
But if you invest in best companies, you can earn very much money, almost impossible in real life to earn so much. So hope it will live in 2018 and 2019.

Serious & logical regulations will definitely limit the number of ICOs....but IMHO; ICO as a concept will Never die....it's highly tied to the Crypto Industry

ICO is like kickstarter, so it'll most likely to survive until many years later, as you see that a project which held kickstarter by raising funds through Initial public offering or such also have percentage to be scam. basically the same as ICO so there's no need to worry, by the way even if ICO becoming obsolete, another method will appear.

Yeah, except the blockchain doesn't eat 20% of everyone's funding like kickstarter.

As long as the CryptoCurrency is alive, ICO will continue to exist - nobody can stop it and there will always be a new idea.

I'd like to agree, but I can't. I think government regulations will finally kill ICO as a method of fundrising(

ICO fund raising is definitely here to stay. I am happy about the regulations that are being set up. Especially in the case with China, we will shortly get news that they are not really banning the crypto currency trading but just the unregulated ICO's as it was draining out money from China.

It is a difficult story speaking about ICOs. On the one hand, it is relatively easy to get money from investors, on the other hand, it is based mainly on money making. So the investors may not inform about the aim of the new coin. In longterm conditions, I guess, it will not survive. But this will happen probably in some years, so 2018 may too close.

I also think that there ICO  is a very convenient form of collecting money, but also I believe that there should be minimal regulation to throw away all the slag from this market

Decentralized ICOs are the future.

I think ICO fundrising will survive in 2018! I think its good that we will have a few regulations in the future, many people just made fake ICOs and fked up all the money from the people. Stronger projects will get more attention with these regulations, thats good for the market!

In the future most of the companies adopt blockchain technology... so many new startups will come up with an interesting projects. so ICO's will be more..

For 2018, I believe it will survive. Later on, I have some doubts. At the same time, decentralized ICO project has potential, we will wait and see :)

If the ICO of 2017 do not produce a product or do not stick to their roadmap we will see
a huge affect in the industry, and a lesser hype

As we have seen that china have started the process to regulate the ICO process that is why they have temporarily banned ICO and will start after it gets regulated. So in 2018 only the genuine projects ICO will be surviving and cryptocurrency will get a new module to work on.

Ico will survive.  This had been the vehicle of startups that are promising but lack in project.  As long as blockchain technology exist, I believe Initial Coin Offering will survive, it may change its name just like IPO, ITO, or any kind of crowdfunding.  Now if blockchain ceased to exist then that will be the sign of ICO not surviving.

I wonder if ICO's fundraising can be tailored to meet
new regulations that will be put in place. Maybe
adopt the same mechanism for fundraising that is
similar to the likes of Kickstarter ?

to me there is very little between a crypto ICO and Kcikstarter . . .

It will survive since a lot new projects are coming and almost all of them will improve and benefict somehow all the others coins, and well there are always new opportunities and new visions wich will get fundrising without any issue, ICO scam does belong to the past atleast it should be, people wont invest into shitcoins anymore unless you have a solid reputation and roadmap.

I think that in the near future, not only China, but also other countries will try to resolve the ICO in order to protect investors from potential fraud in this area. However, ICO is in demand and they will exist for a long time. Many coins created by ICO will die, new ones will come to their place.

There will be other countries who will also ban ICO's, but the medium to invest with bitcoins, or etc etc will not change. The shape and manner in how we do it will definitely change in one form or another.

Regulations will come and cannot be stopped, yet if ICO's will comply to any regulations given by governments there shoul be no problem it is also a good way to prevent scam ico's from taking money of investors, also coin/token devs and team may also use the airdrop way to distribute their coin if they want to avoid the ICO issues and regulations.

Yes!!!  I can't believe people still believe governments are there to protect the 'common' person.  For the most part, people in big government are only there to get re-elected and/or accumulate power.  They're against ICO's because they've cut them out of the circle.  I don't like all the ICO's and I believe many of them are scams but I DO NOT want government to come in and regulate them.  All they'll do is create an expensive and convoluted licensing process to create an ICO... and even worse they'll create an expensive and convoluted process to be able to participate in them.

Can you invest in Uber today?  No... because if you want to invest in Uber you have to be an accredited investor; meaning have a net liquid worth of $1MM or earn more then $200K annually.  So you can't just send .5 ETH and own a piece of the company.  Why... because that would erode the power of the elite.

This might be the last year for golden era. It will survive but hurt a lot. You better make some money this year, we won't see same market next year.
Money always flows, whether IPO's, ICO's or whatever name in the future. This business is growing more and more every day.

The need for an ICO is always there. Its conduct is well supported by investors, and demand should always generate supply. I see no objective grounds for holding the ICO to be suspended or terminated. The holding of new ICOs can not significantly affect the events on its prohibition in China, even if this is not a temporary measure. Therefore, next year and in the near future, the new ICO, I hope, will only please us.

Yes, Decentralized ICOs are the future. We too focusing to start good potential projects in blockchain technology.. Soon DigiAset will issue the road map with future plans and projects..

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just some scam ICO die. many good ICO I believe still can live more than 5 years. Centra, KickICO, Vibehub...

It will certainly survive, it will be harder and there will be more legal hurdles. You cannot really stop crowdfunding, you can make ICO's prove they are not a security and restrict how they raise money but you won't shut them down completely.

probably poverty is the cause of most scam ICO cases in china, if you look on other countries specially in first world countries there are a lot of ICO but less scam cases even if the ICO fails. I think it ICO program is still viable for 2018 up to 2020, successful ICO tend to have more profit than scamming out people.

Probably not for those which are not issued in a more compliant way.

Study the facts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2215645.msg22339211#msg22339211).

Investors are risking legal and criminal culpability for illegal selling on unregistered exchanges.

Crackdowns are coming eventually. China just the first salvo of what is coming from regulators in major nations.


That’s an example of what is going to happen to all ICO issued tokens when the delistings come forth.

And STEEM is still trading on Blocktrades and Bittrex, so imagine the utter collapse towards 0 of the STEEM price if it had been delisted from every significant exchange.

Everybody going to get plenty of warnings but they will ignore the warnings of course.

More regulation can be published by the economical institutions of governments. They don't want projects to collect money via crowdsales from the citizens.

2018 will be a hard year for ico fund raisers.

Let's hope that all these prohibitions of ICO by individual countries are aimed at achieving a positive effect on the regulation of its implementation with a view to reducing risks and protecting the rights of investors and are temporary. Therefore, it is to be hoped that the successful ICO next year will be significantly more than this and we will be able to participate in them without significant risk.

With all the issues that are hounding the ICOs, I still think that ICOs will still last past 2018. While there are scams, the majority are still legit projects and ICOs of these projects are either sold out or almost sold out. Investors know how to tell a scam ICO from a legit one. After all, it is their duty to look at closer at ICOs currently offering tokens.