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I want to ask if it is safe to invest in tokens, now a lot of ICO Token sales,
how to choose tokens that potential scamnya little because many tokens scam this late.
can you give me tips about that guys. thanks

keep your btc

yes dude, but i need some tips from other people to choose good ICO and bad ICO

from plan or project dev.

Let me tell you that it is difficult to find a good ICO, there are a few good ones who are on this forum right now.

Take a look on VisaCoin, they are going to launch their pre-ico on November 30th, each token would be at $0,85 and it is probably going to be over $5 by next year, because a lot of people is going to invest in this project.

And the one who is in my signature is a good ico too, just take a look at the ANN, there is a lot of information in there, i will put at least $500 in that ico because i trust in their dev's.

It is not difficult to find a good ico, just take a look at what other people say about that one, and of course, take a look at their website and their whitepaper first.

yes many ICO success and many ICO also scam depend with plan of dev and whitepaper, but how prospect of tokens in future ?
can like Bitcoin, or Ether ?

if i know which token will have brigh future i should be billionaire by now, i miss bitcoin  i though this all just some people playing around with "e-money" and i miss ethereum to cause i dont think it will work like bitcoin. choose what project you want to invest see their background like their have real company or not their team etc

a very precise statement, this is a good choice and look at bitcoin movements this year, very surprising and beyond my predictions. I became impatient to wait a few more years  8)

agree dude, keep BTC for me also look some profitable of ICO :D

I wouldnt choose an i ICO that has no product,no good developers and whitepaper,has no short - long term plans,no good partners and investors.

Before investing in ICO first make some search about team members and advisors if they are reliable people it's not scam, secondly check project of coin if its look necessary for this challenge u can invest.

Every people invest on token sale they will be first check the white paper and blog to gather the information whether it is legit or not, then only they use to invest on ICO. Other than check whether they have escrow and project will be long lasting by checking the information about project which is relevant to bitcoin and altcoin usage.

However, instead you want to go investing on ICO you can choose any altcoin which shows the best market place supply. I think that doubles the investment as more than expected.

No, it isn`t safe to invest in ANY token. It`s your own risk (you can read it on the last page of whitepaper).

Know the people behind them
It is critical to know the nature of the company and the teams behind ICOs. Most of the companies are newly incorporated, but many founders have been around in their respective industries. It is possible to review profiles and search for news and mentions in their prior projects and efforts.

Go for disruptive concepts
As far as the concepts behind these startups, the adage of offering unique and valuable holds. Due to the ease of holding ICOs, many startups have fallen into the me-too trap, where they only seek to be a better, cheaper, faster version of an already existing service. Unless they offer something unique, chances are these startups are just bound to compete rather innovate.

Understand the target market
It is important to put the company, their technology, and product or service in the context of their target market. They will inevitably be subjected to the market and regulatory pressures of their target industries, so knowing the environment should give you an idea of what challenges and opportunities these ventures face.

Evaluate the technology
One can also evaluate the viability of a venture through its proof of concept. Ventures with proofs of concept and pilot case studies are often safer bets. ICOs that offer nothing more than an idea bear significant risk compared to ventures that have proofs of concept already available for evaluation and testing.

Nitpick the white paper
A white paper serves as the company’s pitch to potential investors. As such, it should be well-written and substantial enough to provide compelling arguments on why people should trust the venture with their investments. Nitpicking the white paper could prove useful in revealing the details of how their solutions work and what need areas they will be addressing.

Know what the coins are for
Integral to ICOs are the coins or tokens themselves. Aside from functioning as the form of security (similar to stocks in traditional investments or initial public offerings), these coins often have other functions with the platform or ecosystem.

Filecoin, for example, offers a decentralized file storage solution. Users with spare computing resources can rent out these out and earn Filecoin tokens in the process. These token can be used within the platform or be later exchanged to fiat currency or popular cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether.

Just checked VISACOIN white paper. Didn't find any mentioning of development team members and their profiles. The fact that devs decided to stay anonymous automatically  excludes this project from my wish list.   

You shouldn't invest in tokens created by faceless guys/teams.

Don't invest more than you can afford to loss.

Invest in as much ICO as possible to diversify your risk of lossing all your investment

Search about the token yourself rather than following others suggestions.

Simple suggestions are popular here, look at the dev team, road map, white paper and other important details that are circulating about the project. Nowadays, you really can't determine on what are the scams and what are those that are true. There are projects that looks like legit but in the end of their ICO when the result is positive to their goal, they will just suddenly run and it's unpredictable.

First before investing in any ICO you have to check all the details of that project well like why they offering the coins and what problems will be solved with this project and what is the future of that coin and how long its will be and also check the white paper and the developer team of that coin.And there is lots of websites from which you can get good and reliable information about particular ICO.

Investing in projects during ICO is always risky, if you want to invest in project it is important to read whitepaper too see what are their plans, check team behind project and try to research team and their history, investing in ICO is what I call high risk investment which can bring you lots profit if you join good project.

Things you should be interested in:
+team dev: find out about them
+marketing: look for forums containing posts on ico: bitcointalk, reddit ... and see community reactions.
+Itinerary: ico going on the right path will be a good ico.

just take profit in short time not for long dude

Investing on ICO's are very risky because not all of them are good for you to invest on good coins make your own study about that specific ICO although its very hard to tell but that is the risk in ICO. Choose the ICO that you believe will last longer in this market and survive the level of competition.

You just need to search if the ICO has a good product,developers or the team,good short - long term plans for the coin,investors they have.

Most reliable ICOs are the ones which have behind a real well established company. The team will be experienced, they would approach it like business, they would have the knowledge to implement a technical project and the commitment is different in this case. Like for instance Sether.

thanks for suggestion, iam really newbie in ICO world

One of the best way to choose an ICO is by looking on the result of their pre-ICO because you can actually see if they are supported by the market also the people's feedback are important, you can visit their ann thread and do some reading I believe many ICO will become successful in the future we just need to choose the best.

Check em white papers and project, if you feel it worth it invest some money on it, never all ICO's are too risky unlesss people behind it's project are trustwhorty

we are same analysis, who is behind ICO and are they have real product to sold or no, and about team of dev, i think thats how to choose good ICO for newbie like me.

You can't guess the price of a new ICO. It can change every second...
Your success depends on your lucky...
There's a new ICO of C project has just announced. You can try your lucky... ;D

Just read the white paper of the project, but remember investing to all ICO here in the world of cryptocurrency is you must to take the risk to earn money in that way because there is a possibility to earn or to be loser.

I would have told you to look at the white paper but white paper don't mean shit,  the team behind the token is a very important criteria to look out for, the token sale price, and the total supply, coins with lower supply  have better probability of success than others

If you are wanting to invest into ICO's the most important thing is to research. People jump too quickly into throwing their money into it without actually knowing too much about the ICO they are investing into.

Research heavily, look into the team, the whitepaper, ask questions on their thread, see how the other crypto enthusiasts are reacting to the ICO.

Then I would get involved in a bounty, to learn more about the system, most ICO's are open for at least a month and there is no need to put money down on the first day. ICO's that sell out in the first day should be avoided as 99% of the time they have made deals with huge investors before it has launched.

It's hard to say. Keep in mind that not all commodities (digital and real) may be ready to be tokenized and traded digitally like bitcoin. If the market isn’t ready, it will ultimately affect the venture and the value of their token.

 I think you need to do good research before the project goes into Crowd sale or Token sale. When you see that the ICO is strong and legit, then you can invest in it.
You need to be cautious because some ICOs might seem real but they can end up being a scam.

You have to be well known about the project. Read their whitepaper thoroughly and ask your questions and then invest if you think it will success.

Well I think for you will be great to trade on top of the Ico,you can trade every day from 2%-10% buying and selling the Ico like Neo,Omise,BCC and other.

To find a good project is very difficult,lot of my friends failed with new project.So my opinion is for you to try some bounty campaigns and also to trade on traders platform.

Good Luck

Hi Krocosee,

You make very valid points and as an investor but also someone who is raising an ICO, I tend to apply older techniques e.g. looking at how long the business has been established, is there a real-world application, whats the team like, is there a clear use of funds etc. Investing in ICO's is a lot like investing as an Angel, so doing some homework does help and making sure you spread your investment across a number of companies rather than just 1.

I'd like to introduce us and our ICO, Crowd for Angels is a crowdfunding platform that is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are the first regulated entity to release an ICO and we believe this ICO is much stronger than the current offerings on the market. This is because there is an underlying asset, a clear structure to add value to the token and a solid business case.

If you would like to know more, please do visit: https://crowdforangels.com/ICO (https://crowdforangels.com/ICO)

Andrew@CFA

Today it is really hard to choose the right ICO. I was looking at the idea and promotion before, and it always was like a sign to me that the project is good. But now scammers are ready to spend a lot of money for design, promotion and the idea that you just can't know will the project will really succeed or no. I am agree with that guy who said " keep BTC", cause it is the one thing that you can really trust nowadays.

Right on target brother, I am just wondering why people invest in a token thas has no guarantee. Keep you bitcoin and just join the free airdrop to get the free token.

its just like gambling, even with the solid team and reliable roadmap, it still may have a bad performance after hitting exchanges, i think its better to hold our btc and eth nowadays

Always difficult to know good or not the ico project. Too many ico is one of the reason.
Normally ico project which has real working product is legit or the ico project is developed by the exist offline company.

Read WP. If you will understand it then it's half a deal

yes already did, also usually roadmap and team dev dude

I think it is better to buy some cheap ICO tokens after their tokens are available on some exchanges, you can see how many money they raised and if it is hot, I am sure there are panic seller like bounty hunters that will see their tokens at a cheap price.

Any one who missed the BTC early stage/years, is wise enough to play it smart and profit from the ico business. Yes, there are good and bad ICO tokens.

Good ones those who focus on the value of the project and keep going forward with a SOLID dev/team.

I say https://cybertrust.io/ is a huge one. It is not cheap for tokens, but it is promising.

Do your own research and be PATIENT bro! Just my tip for you.

I think a easy way to find a good ICO project is to check if it is hot on medium presses, such as the how many members in telegram channel, or how many posts in the ann thread on this forum. I think you can take a look at my signature, modex is a solid project that have many famous partners.

Always read reviews, ask questions and choose the projects with good developer vision, WP and at least beta version.  So I suggest you pay attention to the IQeon project (https://iqeon.io/en)

I see a high potential @Viberate ICO. It is based on music platform.
They yust released their rewarding system for all their members. They will give away 5000 VIB tokens every day for next 2 years. So this means guys are really giving their best to make Viberate a great platform for their customers.

You can check it out on link bellow:
https://www.viberate.com/referrals/ce18a51e_8544c552_daed2202

Wish you all best in your decision.

In my opinion to find potential ICO is they should be have working product so this is proof that they are really serious to development their idea and for the their community. And others thing is the purpose of the project should be different and unique than others.

Its really hard to choose a good ICO because a lot of them are just scammed and just take your money and went off the grid. So you have to be very careful. You can check the signs that will indicate that the ICO is good. Always read the feedbacks about the ICO, check the number of members in their telegram group, check the developer behind the project whether they are real person or not, read their whitepaper, see their vision and their business plan if its real, and lastly you can check all the comments here in the forum.

Research is important when choosing good ICOs, it's been mentioned many times but its important to do it.

I will suggest 2 ICOs for you and feel free to do you research, I'm sure you will not be disappointed.

trade.io is a great ICO, and its getting more and more followers as time progresses. Discover trade.io and participate in their mission to democratize the financial markets. They have already raised over $11 million in funds during PRE-ICO, which allows them to complete the buildout of the first-ever blockchain-based trading platform and of their exchange, through which other upcoming ICOs can launch.
So far they are showing good progress.

Link here: https://trade.io/

A good ICO that i wanted to share with you and i've noticed from doing some research, is a project called DIW, and this one will be quite good i believe. DIW will enable you to securely store and save your personal and sensitive information within a highly encrypted, secure and private decentralized platform. Definitely worth looking at imo!

Link here: https://diwtoken.com/

I think it is better to buy some cheap ICO tokens after their tokens are available on some exchanges, you can see how many money they raised and if it is hot, I am sure there are panic seller like bounty hunters that will see their tokens at a cheap price.
I found an interesting project recently but Im in doubt. Mytimecoin, its like casback by coins for watching or using information from partners of it. Have anyone heard about it?

Sometimes even good projects can collapse. Therefore, there is always a risk in this. I have not yet learned to choose the right projects, so I trust my friend, who has a lot of experience in this