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Hey guys, I am a brand new crypto-girl, and I'm thinking about investing in ICO's. The thing is, I shop online a lot and I really need a tool which will allow me to pay with a crypto currency. I came across Bitcoinus ICO, they're creating a cryptopayment processor for online shopping. Exactly what I need. Planning to use it. Any ideas?

Investing in ICOs is risky business. I saw an interview with John Mcafee, he said that over 80 percent of ICOs are scams or will end up being worthless.  Their is potential for high reward but I prefer investing in proven coins.

So listen here mate, this kind of investment is a risky but worthy if you chose the right one. There like a thousand of ICO runing right now and more coming but maybe just hundred of them who really valuable.
My advice is :
1. Do a research first about the project you want to invest. They legit or not, the project is real not just dream project where it cant be done.
2. After that see the company background, make sure there is a company runing this ICO. Im prefer allready run company than the new build company.
3. Check the dev who working is really developer, not just stolen image from google, check their twitter or linkedin page.
4. Never invest to ICO that runing lending platfor, just dont. It obviously a scam.
5. Dont FOMO so much, never believe like 50% or 100% "bonus" presale. Also kind of any refferal bonuses

Before you investing your money in it, make sure you checked everything just to be sure..

Like, do they have a whitepaper? what about their roadmap? have you checked their team as well? what's the total supply? how much tokens the team reserve? are there any similar projects out there?

You should check everything as much as you can just to be sure, because investing your money in an ICO is really risky! For sure you don't want to lose your hard-earned money just like that.

But if you are confident with it, then goodluck!! I hope it will turn out good for you.

based on experience, every ICO project sometimes has different payment methods. so even if there is a way that you say, I think it would be safer if we follow the steps given by dev. in investing in the ICO so far from the error that occurred.
Good Luck !!

If you are new, I think you have to do more research as investing in ICO's are risky too. Be sure to research about the coin you are about to invest with as there are scams proliferating too. Start by reading their white paer,  checking thier website,  people behind the project and so forth. Read also thir review from  other sites or sources.

Lol but most of the coin he shill is shit too.

yes exactly what you say and I know the news.
In my opinion, ICO is very potential to be used as investment land. because it can give many advantages even up to 100x. therefore, if we are going to invest in ICO, I think we should be able to study the project from the technology that is carried to the truth of the team that works. so we will avoid the scam.

ICO are one of the very risky investment here in crypto market so even if you find the project interesting and useful for you it will not guarantee success of the project as well as good return on investment. I would suggest that you make your own study about the project and analyze if it has a higher chance of success also try to look on peoples feedback if they find it interesting like the way you see it.

Funny John McAfee would say something like this considering he is an advisor for some ICO projects with more to follow.  He also does his coin of the week tweets that use to be coin of the day.  If anything, he should be trying to convince people that all cryptocurrencies will be around forever so he can get paid doing his thing.  

It's true,  Absolutely making an investment in ICO is very risky for business.  There were so many scam projects or unworthy project.  But for me ico is very promising to change your life be better and give more opportunities and  many advantages or profits.  So if you want start to making investment,  you should learn the project first.  First thing you should do is look the roadmap of that ICO,  and second you have to searching for what's field that your ICO worked,  and last you should look the private sale of this ICO, if the private sale fastly sold out usually this project will bring us a bright future and no scam!!
Dont forget to make a group chat with your friends to sharing about ICO,  if you interested you can join in my group.

Sounds a little bit interesting for me, but since you are a new user in the crypto and you may never see this project. It has a work product, and I should share this with you. https://support.tenx.tech/hc/en-us/categories/115000106611-Getting-Started
You can spend your crypto(PAY token) anywhere and everywhere as long as the store accept visa payment. I hope this gonna help you a lot. But if there is a working product and why do we need to get other that still under the development progress?
So you can tell me your opinion about that. 

Thank you so much guys for your answers, I'll take everything that you've said to the account. I've checked all the things that you've mentioned and it looks credible to me. I looked them up on this website https://www.tokendesk.io/ico/bitcoinus/ (https://www.tokendesk.io/ico/bitcoinus/)  Also, I have read their whitepaper, and I really like it as well. Do you guys know any other tools I could use to check them?

Investing in ICO is very risky and very profitable at the same time. You need to make your own research about project (team, partners, concept etc.) and have a strategy for each project, because it makes sence to hold some projects for a long term, and others you'd better sell after listing on exchanges (maybe it's useless, but hyped project)

You should make a very good research about team and project itself before considering investing in it. But there is also possibility of taking part in bounties, that can bring you tokens of projects you're interested in, without putting money on the table

Investing in ICO may make a good profit for you, but remember :ICO is a big risk, no one can be responsible for your money, you can only be responsible for yourself.
In trying to invest in a new ICO project, I think you should know whether the team of the ICO project has a bad record, which is the most important. A good team is the key to success.

Do not invest in anything yet, by your own admission you are brand new to crypto, it is natural to be excited about the possibility of making money by investing in icos but it is one of the riskiest markets in the entire world, use your time to learn, do not invest in the first coin that you see, it may seem like easy money but it is not, people have won and lost fortunes by investing in icos, do not be one of the losers just because you invested before you could judge if a project was good or bad.

Its all up to you if you invest or not. As what they said, investing on ICOs is very risky because almost 80% of existing ICO's are not promising and many of them are scammers. But the promising ICOs will give you a great profits. If you want to invest, you should do spend more time on research.

Investments are indeed risky, however the risk can be reduced if enough research is conducted. It is hard to look for legitimate ICOs but there are key points to consider. First, read their whitepaper. There are certain details written there that may look untrue or unrealistic, or their goals and platform may seem a little off. Veteran ICO investors know how to distingush real ICOs from not. Although it takes a lot of experience, you will get there. Aside from checking the whitepaper, I also consider the campaign manager. If you are not yet that great in detecting fake or unpromising ICOs through whitepapers, campaign managers are the easiest hint. Known managers handle bounty campaigns that are legitimate. Last thing is you can check the credibility of the ICO through sites like icorating, icobench etc. Yes, investments are really risky but there is no investment that isn't.

Yes should invest in ICO to earn more money and bitcoin.

You can be right. Partly because an ICO is just like an exploration for oil. There is a big chance that the project may not really make it in both short-term and long-term perspective. Just like anything pioneering, those who are doing it at the beginning have more opportunity to grow what they invested...that is if the project will make it. That can be the main risk. Aside, of course, from those who just evaporated -- we have witnessed some ICOs who run with the money they got from their own investors though this is just an exemption to the rule (so to speak). Based on that statement from John, we have to look for that 20% which have the value that can make the project get solid in the long run.

It is not enough to examine only the white paper, the trust factor according to this forum from the manager / dev who offers ICO should also be considered and see also the percentage of ICO success brought if he is often the manager

I never recommend buying coins or tokens on ICOs because there are so many ICOs today and brand new ICOs are being announced everyday but only few of them are actually hitting coinmarketcap.com and Cryptocurrency exchange and most of them died or vanished on the thin air therefore investors are ended up in losing all their hard earned money.
I would suggest that you are going to buy on cheap coins that already been listed on coinmarketcap.com and start investing.

But if you do invest in ICOs is fine if that ICO you're investing is a good one but almost ICO price are higher than when the ICO ends.
I mean, I better buy coins when they drop than the ICO price and that's why I bought Oyster Pearl PRL after their ICO because I bought $0.0005 per token after their ICO sale and I found it effective.

before you decide to invest in this ICO, i think you should make your self on research on this project, and if this is positive, i think invest in this.

In every ICO we choose to invest, we need to have a study about these. Not only, because of the things it offers but also the risk it has if we chose to join this project. No wonder to all of us, that there are projects failed and some succeed. So, we better chose to succeed as we take the risk using this digital currency.

Try Crypterium (CRPT), the product is coming soon

Investing in ICO project is not a bad idea especially when they try to solve a problem of interest BUT it is risky. It is advisable to do a thorough research before investing in any ICO project.

There is no telling of a 100% safe ICO investment as it's simply doesn't bound to any laws and you couldn't lose your money easily, but do test the water if you wanna have a glance in the cryptoworld. ICODROPS is a good place for you to research some info on but generally speaking nothing is worth that much when it's just plain website by a group of people that young.

Invest in an ico  you will  get a huge profit if that ico success.Here is a risky also because lot of icos are coming some them will be success but some icos going scam after fund raised. So always keep your eyes  on research before invent in an ico project.

Hello PinkCrypto, glad to see you are doing your due diligence. If I can be of help, I can answer all your questions. Feel free to also join our Telegram group or ask questions in our live support chart on the website. We also have a BitcoinTalk thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2795842.0

I have invested 2 BTC in one promising ICO . ORBIS . Look what they are saying:

"Join our vision in developing financial, software and marketing services with the help of Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence , Virtual reality and smart contracts.

    Website     : https://www.orbistransfer.com

    Whitepaper: https://orbistransfer.com/downloads/Orbis-White-Paper.pdf

    Youtube     : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc8m5Gy-HJw&t
                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6-Dw0PK-k
                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45iOR_JlUA "

Now there are many projects that promise in the future that it will be possible to pay their coins online, and full conversion to the dollar.
It will be convenient enough for us))
Here is one of them https://www.belugapay.com

If you think that the price is of the coin is worth it then by all means, invest in it. I wouldn't though, just because the coin is fairly new..

Research them before investing, Because it's very dangerous.

Maybe monetha is the right choice, as you are looking for.
Monetha is a mobile payment that creates universal decentralized​ ​trust​ ​and​ ​reputation​ ​solution working flawlessly​ ​together​ ​with​ ​mobile​ ​payments​ ​processing​ ​on the ethereum​ ​blockchain​ ​leveraging​ ​smart​ ​contract technology.

If you want to invest in other ico, you can see my signature. Daneel assists you in your daily crypto investment.

You can invest but I am not going to tell here that you should or you should not. It is totally up to you to decide whether you invest or not. But before you invest on any ICO, I would recommend you to look below facts before you jump into the real deal.

1.White paper
2.Team
3.Community
4.Progress
5.Competing Tokens
6. Funding Structure

You need to make a full analysis of this project to know does it has future or not. I know that monaco has debit cards, and you can send tokens to your card, and convert into dollars. Check them them too.

completely agree with the fact that you need to be very cautious about the choice of ICO. scammers are already here! you just do not hurry to make important decisions, it's good to learn everything, to check.

go to the web-pages which are not providing paid ICO  rating, go through white papers and assess idea, you shall as much money as you can afford to lose, it is risky, but in case of success, easy way to get profit.

If you have decided to invest in an ICO, please note the following:
+ Learn about the dong you want to invest
+ View its price possibility
Learn from the people ahead
As far as I am personally you can invest in ETH and Ripple because personally I see this is 2 dong can replace the BTC in the future

and most importantly Guys ... all the luck in business ... and never get on assholes who want to fool you !!!! and if this is with someone happened then, do not lose heart ... these swindlers will sooner or later have to pay for everything!

Yes you have to invest in ICO's because ICO's give ROI in short term time . Before investing ICO please check there project and credibility of there project .
Good project which had future .

But don't invest all your fund , invest only 20 to 30% only .

For long term invest in BTC,ETH,XRP and on oldest coins.

ico can give you profit but you need to be cautious. it is risky to invest in icos.there are some scams also.if you research before invest and choose the right ico that can make you happy.but always remember that, icos come with risk, and in order to make a sound investment into an ico, you must perform your due diligence. for example, there have been many initial coin offerings that have failed because the token being offered did not offer utility or security, and the company was unable to achieve a growth in price. great icos do not just represent large returns, and have much more depth than most people realize.

There are some ICOs worth investing in, but it's not easy to pick the right ones since you'll really need to check the track record of the team behind it and check unbiased and unpaid reviews. It's hard to tell the difference, but I kinda have an idea...

Joining ICOs today is a little bit tricky and you need a further research about the ICO you are planning to join because most of the ICOs today are just trying to raise money but will fail at the end.First you need to check the founder's background,then the development team's previous job ask yourself are they credible?second it should have an existing product with a use to the real world and third the roadmap must be clear also the whitepaper is not business oriented these are some basic things you should check because investing without proper researching will lead you to losses instead of gains.

Only invest if you are satisfied with the project, roadmap, team and also check out the practical use cases of the project, if everything makes you feel good about it then you can invest a part of your investment in an ico, do not put all your money in a single ico.

nothing requires you to invest in ico. basically investment in ico always has a big risk. you should know that. but, there are many benefits you can get from investing in ico. but remember, knowledge is the most important part of your understanding. I think you should try to learn a lot of ico if you really want to get involved.

Yes you can but never forget to know their information because a lot of ico are scam so you will get not frustrated from their sickness. Also the others did not success but it's ok, because they will going to return your money.

So you are just basically planning to use a certain project regarding on using a cryptopayment processor.Investing to their ICO isnt bad though for contributing for the development of such project but i would say its not really necessary at all because ICO investments are just really good for making free money but well it all depends on your since its your money after all and supporting their project isnt really a bad thing.

Make that 90% of ICOs are scams or end up being 1 big nothing. Unfortunately, this is the case. The positive side is that they keep bringing innovative ideas and concepts to society and we learn from these and see how we can improve. If you have done your research go for it.
I've personally invested in one ICO that i believe will be big this year, it's called DIW Token and its currently on whitelist stage. I'm participating in most of their Bounty programs and they truly seem to be rising in popularity and you can see that first hand from the Telegram groups and Bounty Campaigns and articles/blogs that are everywhere.

Ya, it is good to invest in ICOs, but not at all time. So be careful every time when u investing because there are some fake ICOs were also running in the market. According to me, before investing in any ICO u must take good research about the company, second the profile of ICO team as well as there partners profile, third read about the whitepaper of particular ICO, fourth road map for the project, fifth which Platform they can use, sixth how much coins or token they can supply in market and reserved for future. When u satisfied with all things, then after u invest in ICO, surely u can get a good profit from your investment.

Supporting ICO's project is not bad if you knew it that it is worth to support, ICO's project can give real profit when you invested with it but think it over you just do some research before you support and invest to their project. Always check their platform that state how works their project is, and also roadmap and whitepaper you must be check of them.
So miss PinkCrypto good luck to your journey hopping that you are one of their success. ;D

Investment in ICO'S are very risky because so many ICO'S are listing below there ICO'S price. So be careful and you can invest in already listed altcoins.

some developer gives of guarantee as might to collects with the limit of returns within the distinct of terms with calendar days of the investment plan, as investors to collects of shifts with differences and manage to cash out of nominal profit for the mew wallet of the dedication.

For one reason, this ICO does not seem very trustworthy.

The high discounts for the first investors do not seem appropriate or expedient.
It creates the impression that someone needs fast money here.


What speaks for the ICO is an already established company.

According to the Companieshouse, the directors are identical to the website of the ICO.

The company itself seems to have been founded very quickly. In the last minute before the ICO.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11141904 (https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11141904)

Provide a link. Just judging from the name it sound really awful, but just link it and I will have a quick read to see if I can help you.

If you have seen any ICO and you are interested to investing in it 1st thing you do is research about that ICO because there are so many ICO which are fake. I hope you got it what i mean to say.

Somewhat familiar with this project. It needs to be successful. But I can't say that he greatly multiply your investment. Good Luck To You.

Should I invest in this ICO? investing in ICO in my opinion is very risky. Yesterday I saw a broadcast of John Mcafee, he said that more than 80 percent of the existing ICO is a fraud. There are a thousand ICOs running now and only a hundred ICOs from those who succeed. So my advice to minimize the risk, I suggest to buy a coin that has been proven already in the Exchange. And if you want to invest for the long term I suggest to buy Bitcoin or Ethereum. Because of this coin which I think is very good for long-term investing.

you do not have to participate or invest in ICO, but with ICO you can get a lot of benefits because some ICO there are providing bonuses up to 90% for the first purchase but you should not buy or invest but you also have to pay attention to some teams whether they are experts in its field and whether the project is promising or not. should be better at choosing some ICO because nowadays there are so many fake and terrible ICOs.

I do not know based on what you think the potential ico is like. which is sure if I judge ico it based on what developers do. if they do seriously and indeed proffesional
I seen from the way they set their ico concept. how they run their plan and road map. so I prefer ico based on the concepts and innovations
not based on price or just the promise of the profits they provide. hope this helps

We must try to analize the project from every angle possible it is not unheard of to see projects that copied everything from another project, so it is not enough to check the white paper we need to check their website, who registered the website, for how long, where that person is located, if possible we need to find if there is a phone so we can talk and engage in conversation, this may seem like a lot but you need to be very careful about where you invest your money.

 For me investing in ico is a greate idea and its lesser risk than trading.I never scam on ico if you just read there profile like whitepaper , roadmap and the most important is the crowd.Is this ico have many investor.They said the more the merryier and less risk.

Before make investment in any ICO make sure they has minimum viable product, this is prove if they will serious to development their project. Also understand what the aim of the project and what problem will be solved and they has unique concept and different with others. Also check who the team founder, it is they really solid and professional. And also make sure you have risk management to reduce risk, dont put all money in 1 ICO.

no wait till they hit exchanges...many get dumped and you can buy early on. Unless your daddy is loaded and will save you lol

Ico buying is more suited for people who know the risks and gaines involved, besides it is a hassle to get in the good ones lol

I'll not recommended to invest with ICO even you have good analyze and faith. ICO is new product ( coin ), need big fund to keep develop the project, news to give positive impact and also time to built trust with member. New is opportunity but for quality you need to wait first and see their price action and volume at least 6 month before decides to invest/ trade. Be careful with your money and good luck to you.

For most starters in this market, ICOs are one of the easiest ventures to get tokens and coins, but like everyrhing in the cryptocutrency market, it has its fair share of risks. But despite saying that I would still say that it is a good investment, if you know what you are doing. You really need to study and check the background of the projects you are joining to make sure that they are not scams or if they are legit. Also, even if it is legit, checking on it would help you determine which ones have higher chances of success.

you can invest but before investing you should always think that is it will be real project, who are working behind this, is showing it's team members face and profile publicly.although investing in an ico is more profitable but here are little bit risky too.

Like the crypto market, investing in ICOs campaigns is an effective way to earn bitcoin or other altcoin. However, it also brings a lot of risk. Study their tactics carefully, to minimize fraud. While trade and mining are becoming narrower and more difficult. I think investment in ICOs is a wise and long-term decision.

Hey there Pink Crypto. Check out these sites for an idea of good ICOs and what is your best investment opportunity. Always remember that even though an ICO can be a great way to make some money, never invest more than you can afford to lose.

Here check these out:

https://icorating.com/
https://icobench.com/
https://www.icoranker.com/
https://hacked.com/ico/

ICOs are a good form of investment because you can buy the tokens for a low price and that can be valued enough when  they are traded in the market. However, like any investment, there is a need to research, since there are numerous scam and unreliable projects

Hi PinkCrypto, we are approaching our softcap!
www.bitcoinus.io
You are welcome to come and join us in our telegram chat @bitcoinus_ico , we will answer any questions on the topic!
Best of luck with your crypto experience, have fun and make money!

You can check this new ICO which is called Daneel, after it launches it will help a lot of people like you on how to invest in the cryptocurrency world. It can also give you information and ideas on what you can on a certain coin that you want to invest with. Check out their whitepaper and you will see how great its functionality will be.

Most icos have nothing to show for when they enter in the ico stage, this is why most of the time I refrain from investing in icos since you need to strongly believe in the devs when they have nothing you can see or use so you know they are not going to just run away with your money, I think this is the reason investors are becoming more careful about where they invest their money and are asking more from icos.

you should check more information about ICOs related with online shopping. what does this particular ones offer?

The thing is there is a lot of project with the concept that you are talking about and for that kind of project the most important thing is the connection of the ceo to make business partnership. Government also have to support crypto in order for the project to work.

I could not recommned to invest to Bitcoinus ICO, it is much advertisment and some misleadings in the title (like instant payments). ICOBench ranking is low (3.5 at the moment) I think that exchange price will be lower after ICO

Have you read their website, whitepaper and the profile of the team members. Do you think the claim of the team is good for you to invest in? If you are convince then is best you make your won decision of investment based on what your intuition tells you.

As you've said, you're still new in this kind of things. All I can say is, if you still a newbie in this kind of thing, don't take that risk in investing or in buying coin or token in any ICO's you see because you have to learn a lot of things first before getting involve in having a big amount on where you start. Just start reading and knowing first the cycle or the advantage and disadvantages or a pros ang cons in every situation you want to get in.

Actually, I believe that the best way to squeeze as much profit as possible is to invest in tokens of a product company at the very beginning of its way. Since I've done a kind of my own research, I think that it's a nice idea to look at SCHT. As far as I understand, their ICO is scheduled for April-May 2018. But now they're holding the pre-ICO, so tokens with a discount and additional bonuses are available. Anyway, you can find everything here:
https://smartchain.io/

Investing on ico is a huge risk because not all the coin in the market is really profitable, the best thing to do is try to research every information about the ico's platform before investing in order to reduce the chance of getting a bad ico because sometimes the developers are not continuing the road map after they get the profit from sales.

No until you are able to determine which ICO is going to be successful and legit. Its too risky to invest in ICO. invest in stable alt coins under top 20.

Theres a lot to consider first before joining these ICOs,the founder's and developer's credibility,does it have a good working product/services?the whitepaper and roapmap must be clear do they have a short and long term goals?any existing partnership?these are just the basic things you need to consider before entering or investing to these ICOs because most of the ICOs are created just to raise funds and eventually run away from their investors.

These are really very good tips to look out for. The main thing to remember is that you should choose a cryptocurrency for investing but people on the forums.

invest to ICO is a good choice now, but ICOs are have risk.
If you want to invest just reading company infomation clear and carefully. ( The founder, team dev, previous project... etc )
- with a promise ICO you will earn alot from them. Research is the best skill i recommend for ICOs invest  ;)

You should invest in ICO because that is where the money hide because if you will be investing into the good ICO and with potential ICO in the making then you can make tons of profits by just investing and there is no doubt that it is an easy money because all you need to do is do some research and after that then you will just invest and expect some huge profits.

Does not really look like the type of ICO I would be in unless they had an excellent team, which they don´t. So my advice for you is stay out, not worth the risk.

Hello, thank you so much everyone for your kind responses. People are so friendly here, and everyone gives out so much good advice.


Thank you especially for these good resources, I've found a few myself, like an ICObench, but the others I did not know about.

So I decided to invest 10% of my ICO allocation in Bitcoinus. They got some new advisors on board, which I really like, and I think, they can do well.  Do you guys have any suggestions for other ICO's I should look at?

it's certainly very good, we can invest wherever we want either ICO or by buying coins in the market exchange, but if you are interested to invest in ICO, I suggest you to join daneel project, please see the info at www.daneel.io

Wow, I just learned about the Dencity exit scam. It looked like a cool project, just two guys in the team but decent advisors... Now I don´t want to recommend any ICO.. DYR and do it well

It is really a good thing to invest in ICO. But you should do your own research before investing ICO's since there are so many scam projects these days. First of all you have to check their website and go through the whitepaper, project team, project road map and total coin supply etc.. Further you can join their telegram channel and can get some idea about the ICO as well. In addition to this just follow their all the social media channels as well and be alert their daily updates. These days there is a good ICO called "Daneel" and i can recommend for that for you. You also can research for this ICO and this is one of the best promising project in 2018. Further they have partnered with IBM and it is a beginning of new era in crypto currency. Daneel reached their soft cap and more than 8M DAN tokens sold and still counting. Further ICO ends in 13 days and you can participate during this period with the bonus of 10%.

Investing in ICO is a risky business. No one can guarantee your benefits, so you are responsible for your investment.
If you're a newbie, maybe you should get a sense of the ICO project's white paper and technical route.

That's good that you've chosen ICO in those sphere that is of your interest. It means that you understand it and can decide if this ICO offers something good or some useless unreal scam