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I just don't get why people aren't trying to push good projects more than they are trying to shoot down everything

most of the time the majority of ppl have no idea on what they are "investing" in so they give all the good ICO's a bad name bc now many think they are all crap coins. Do your research ppl!

Because some people think ICOs are all scams. Due to lack of knowledge about stuffs about ICO, they choose to stay away and avoid taking risks than doing research. Still, we cannot push people to believe to something they don't want to believe in the first place. It is their own preference. If they don't want to be educated, let's just let them be.

There are good ICO's, you just have to find them amongst the more common poor quality ICO's. If you use a systematic approach to your due diligence it is not that hard to separate the two.

Past experience.

Its probably because too many ICOs have already failed to deliver and even some have actually ran away with investors money.
Finding a good ICO is like finding a needle in a haystack.

cause many are frauds.. people need to check if they are really working in something before investing :P

Trust may not be completely down for ICO projects but there are some people who complain because of the very low price when entering the market. They already spend a lot of money for an ICO and that they can price fall below the price of ICO.

I have kept hearing it's all in the approach, and that there are ways to tell good from bad, I don't know how things really work around here but is that something people would be willing to share?

People won't try to push good projects because the first thing that come into thier mind is all negative thoughts which can lead to disappointment at all times. Try to think on a positive side maybe it will help you to do not think bad towards ICO's.

Yes maybe its not easy for to find and separate those two but you still can not make sure 100% right.
For the other people like me too, its so confusing to find between potential and shitcoin one. So thats why till now i am investing but i am yet afraid with my decision.

I think because also most people have no faith in IPO)
Most of them don't prefer high risk

I still believe that those who have great knowledge about crypto have faith in ICOs. Most often, the non-believers of ICOs are the ones that have yet to understand the great advantage of participating in ICOs. These are also the same people who do not walk a single mile in getting to know the different ICOs offered. Most probably, these are the people who have tried investing without doing a little research and ended up scammed.

Those are all great points. I've just been building a portfolio of solid alt coins and I'm thinking, why would I not go and use 10% of my portfolio on projects that could actually make a difference? Can I lose sometimes sure but if everyone thought that way then would the first alts ever been successful and would we ever be debating in this thread? Idk just food for thought

We really have to expect that the price will not continue to become higher and higher, because it all depends upon the status of the market. That's why people you have to be open minded in that kind of situation before you invest on the certain amount of the project.

There are even ICO some that do not fit the road map for registration in the market, so the lack of investor confidence in the developers. so that when the tokens enter the market they immediately sell all tokens owned and make the price very cheap.
Essentially everyone investing in ICO already knows the risks to be had.

Some people dont have faith in ICO maybe because they are afraid to take risks. They dont explore the ICO world and have knowledge about it.

We are on different years now. People tend to invest to those projects that are only promising great returns and profit so you have noticed that there are some projects that are not being pushed despite of their potential and the goodness of what they are trying to innovate. And ICO's popularity has increased and scammers are also using them to take advantage, that's why some are just playing safely and don't want to become a victim of those potential scams.

ICO's come out and out of nowhere FUD can instantly dump it, true or not. That is why people are losing faith in them. They are not making sense and it is all about moon and making gains. But non-reliable teams are trying to hype something and make more people invest

you just have to find them amongst the more common poor quality ICO's

Maybe because they were scammed in their previous transactions with ICOs or it can be that all ICOs they joined in and invested failed.
And so they no longer trust in ICO projects.
Usually faith in something crumbles if all fails.
This is just giving all ICOs in general a bad name due to bad experiences.

Trust in ICO people

ICO's are the one to blame here not the people. The method in which they can ammas a large amount of income is to create ICO projects and also creat a campaign to raise the ICO's money. Then after the end of ICO they tend to get lazy about their product or services and sometimes turn out to be a scam.

Some people already have bad experience with ICOs so they do not want to experience it again. ICOs may be profitable but not all the time because there are ICOs that reach the hardcap and then after the ICO, the team are gone with all the investors money and if you are one of those investors then you already lost trust in ICOs. However, if you have good experience with ICOs then you may invest again on others.

As we have observed recently, some people just wait for the coin to be listed in the exchanges because price tends to go down below ICO price when listed because there are dumpers so for those people who already observe this cycle will buy when price go down and they can buy more coins compared to when they bought it during ICO.

Because ICO is the haven of all scammers in crypto. Majority of ICO only wants to get  people's money and let the value go down. There are only few have real development and intended to make a difference and add value to crypto community.

Because there are some ICOs that would just scam or take away people's money. And also dumping of prices are common after a certain coin has been listed to the Exchange that is why others dont like icos.

I don't think all people don't trust ICOs. Some have already earned from ICOs so I think they still believe in it. I think we should continue supporting ICOs so that earning will be continuous.

cause 90% of ICOs are all the bullshit :) you just need to know that

Most of ICOs are useless unless you did a research before investing. only a few of them has a point. And that was always going that way.

There have been scams in the past and it is harder to distinguish scams nowadays. Before you invest in Ico you need to research on the company, read the whitepaper and make sure their business is legit.

There is no perfect direct project, all require the initial process to be better.I think not everyone does not believe ico, but trust is very difficult to predict. because one's beliefs require a convincing credible process, such as an ico project, if he really has a mature concept, a good team, and also recommendation from good companies. then there will be plus for ico gain trust from investor. many ico are promising fake, but many also according to his promise. it all depends on how you rate to see the ico project ..

Smart investors will always believe in the ICO, because they are likely to distinguish the scam from a good project. And those people who are new to this business, can lose their money at the start, and at the same time faith in the ICO.

Because they only think of the profit that they will gain if they invest on that ICO. If they think that they will only gain a small profit they won't invest or trust that ICO.

Yes, think positive will help anybody to do good thing and it can be implemented in investingg also real life.
Maybe bad first impression also include in the reason why. People get introduction from bad people make us believe in them and have no faith in ico.

People are divided here into two types: those who want very, very quickly and earn a lot, or people who want to make money but I want to understand which is a lot and that paid 100%. But the second usually smaller than the first. Therefore, there are such topics for discussion.

Due to a lack of regulation, it often happens that companies choose to conduct ICOs right after finishing
up their whitepapers while being unsure as to whether their projects are truly buildable.

What’s more, companies conducting ICOs are also not legally required to release any information on their latest developments.
Therefore, there is always the risk that projects are abandoned.

Most of the ICOs today doesnt have any good to offer,those services and products doesnt need blockchain,so that is why most of the people think that most of these projects are scams,but in reality there will always be 3/10 ICOs that will turned into scam after they have solicited some good money from these noob investors that is why we need to be alert and vigillant before joining these new projects to lessen the risk of getting scammed.

We can't generalize man. Not all people haven't faith in ICO projects, there is still a great community believe in this projects and invest in them. People who have bad or negative ideas about ICO projects either they have bad experiences in the past with ICO, or don't have good knowledge about this projects and the potential of earning you can make when investing in the right ones.

I think the problem is that its so many ICOs going on and only maybe 5% can be seen as serious...
So I assume people have faith in ICOs but that its so many shady ones out there so if you read on this forum it could seem that people are very much against investing in ICOs but this is probably becuse the majority of the ICOs are shit.

I'm sure some people have faith in ICOs, but it is hard for someone to have faith in something when they did not know what they were investing in the first place. Seems as soon as the price goes down a little or a fake sell shows, people follow each other to the exit. And yes, we get burned too by startups, but this is coupled with weak hands, no prior investigation, and ICO flipping.

Yes, there are a lot of scammers now. More recently, the news thundered on the same Bitconnect as I remember. It all creates bad background information about ICO

if someone lose money on scam icos then they lose faith and this is understandable for me.
But there are really nice and real ICOs around and joytoken is one of them. this is going to change the gambling game for sure.

a lot of good ICO just need to explore and choose and are afraid of nothing

From last 1-2 months market crashed big so all coins came down almost 70-80% of their ATH and in current situation all altcoins in bearish mode, as soon as new ICO list on exchange it comes down and most coins trading way below from their ICO price, so people are facing big loss in investing ICO. And some people have no time and no knowledge to research about the project. So most people do not faith ICO rather than they are now investing directly in good coins like Ether and Bitcoin.

what you are seeing is competition among ICO with almost the same aspect and platform although there are some people that are just too negative about ICOs since most of them had a scam issue in the past.
No worries because i can see a lot of good ICO these days and with a team that is dedicated to their project, hopefully the negative vibes on ICO will vanish soon since it contributes to the reputation of cryptocurrencies.

Maybe because every 21 years kid with one year experience in the university take a picture of himeslf put it on Linkedin, put it on his site and then call himself CEO of a world changing company.

if bitcoin has one trillion of coins supply? would it still worth 20k? obviously not.
same with ICO.

Poeple are always after the moeny, they really don't care about the idea of the project, they even barly read the white papaer they just invest in it, because someone told them to or just because they see peopel investing in it, just like bitcoin most of the users in here don't have any idea about how the bitcoin works or why it was created they just saw its price and people making maney from it so they joined in and as soon as the price went down they started complaining, cryptocurrency is just more than investments and the projects that are made with ICO are hard working people who want to make their ideas come true and without support they can't acheive that, so before decieding wether a project is worth investing in try to read its white paper.

over 90 percent of ICOs are scams or just terrible projects that will fail.  You have to be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS when in vesting in ICOs if you choose to do so.

I myself became very skeptical of many ICO because of the scam, because people lose faith in projects and the fact that they are not made by scammers

I think that ICO is good idea but with bad rimplementation. There are a lot of easy scam. And people can do nothing with it. When there will be some legal regulation with ICO it will be very interesting investment.

It is not far fetched most of the ICO  are like scam. Only very few of them that has a project well articulated in their white paper. It is only when you did due diligence on them that you will appreciate how shallow most of them are. One need to be choosy this days to survive it.

I see 2 interrelated reasons here:
1. Most of ICOs turn out to be scam or shitcoins (unsucsessful, unworthy) and people who lost their invested money become disappointed.
2. There are always critics or negatively thinking people on every forum. And after dealing with p.1 ICOs the number of such people only increases.

Investment is shrinking because previous ICO projects were created in an uncontrolled way and many inexperienced investors lost their money because of many scam projects. Or even their investment projects can not increase prices for several reasons affecting the entire market.

The reason people are not trusting ICO’s nowadays is because there are many projects and ICO’s being launched that are scam or ponzi scheme. They just collect money through pre sales and private sales from investors in bulk and then the coin is never launched on any exchanges and is neither listed on coin market cap. Though people earn those successful and good ICO’s no doubt, but people also lose money when the ICO is not legit and is just made to rip people off their money.

indeed many of the people who do not believe in ico because for their opinion or about ico most scams and maybe also the cause of their disbelief of ico can also because they have not or less understand because for ico we must have extensive experience in order to know where ico is really good and nice to follow

When the prices of coins fall people receive a loss and are disappointed in ICO. But it is necessary to understand what has to be long-term investment and if the project not SCAM that after a while it makes profit.

I don't think all people don't trust ICOs. Some have already earned from ICOs so I think they still believe in it. I think we should continue supporting ICOs so that earning will be continuous.

why would you claim the people have no trust in ICOs? Amounts raised by the ICOs are saying exactly otherwise. Your post is just another funny fud attempts for whatever reason...

A lot of people do not have faith in ico because a lot of them turn out to be a scam. It takes time and money to develop the project, and people expect a quick profit. In my opinion, it is worth supporting good projects with perspectives.

Due to that circumstances that's why many people find ICO's are not worth to believe with and also ICO's are prone to be dump and this factor also added some bad reputation to this kind of offering. But as you said its so good if we let our eyes opened for some good opportunities and better we should wear some better understandings on ICO since In this scene we need a hard balls to earn since sometimes solid ICO project pump when their platform officially launch.

because now a days, most of the ICO's are scam, and nothing more. but there are few ICO's that are really good to join/participate. but it is hard to find one. for me ICO's are something you regret after joining, because you got loses and wasted time, but as i said there are a few ICO's that worth it to participate but they are rare to come out or to find.

there are too many scams now and most projects are just air, its nothing strange that most of them have a truely bad performance after hitting exchanges, why should we give our money to them?

It's not like what you think. There are different people who think differently about investing in ICOs.
For instance some think they are all scam becuase they would have already invested in some ICOs which would have scammed them. Some think that ICOs don't generate enough profit because of theire earlier investment in some ICO would have resulted in a loss. Some think ICOs are a good way to earn huge profit in a small amount of time which is why they invest in them. So in most cases, the people who are against ICOs are becuase of their past bad incidents with ICOs.

ICO's image is a little bad because people think it's a fraud. This idea will change one day, but first everyone has to trust ICO.
If the number of participants increases, ICOs will succeed and nobody will be afraid of it.

Since there are no rules and regulations to check and govern the listings of ICOs, any one with an idea regardless whether it works or marketable or not will want to have an ICO. Naturally not surprisingly more than 70% of the ICO fails and with many scams among them. It is obvious in order to instil faith and confidence in investors the crypto community has to work together to put in place some rules and checks for future ICOs.

Most of them aren't really investable, are scams/frauds or simply don't deliver. I'm very picky with the ICOs I get into and I've got 2 on my horizon, the one in my signature and another one, Atonomi. I kind of want to have coins in my portfolio that I can hold on to for a couple of years such as:

ChainLink
Universa
Skycoin
and those two ICOs I just mentioned. For example I think the Ncash project is a good one altough very niche for high end clothing stores and what not. I don't see that stuff being put up in the more low tier clothing stores.
I also don't think it really needs a token, imo they could have found a private investor and just start knocking on the doors of these clothing stores. I'm pretty sure VC's would be interested in a concept like this. I agree they should use blockchain because of the data security though. I can be wrong but its just my opinion, so I rather invest in the platforms/infrastructure projects as they have a wider scope of implementation and usecases. Universa for example has already signed Ernst&Young for blockchain implementation for the public sector and are working on more deals, besides that Universa can host all kinds of stuff that can be tokenized such as stocks, derivates and more. I saw an ICO that had patents on 3D printing models and whatnot and I thought they had a cool idea regarding the tokens. They fundraise the amount to get started which wasn't a lot and in the case of an IPO your tokens get converted to shares in the company. I think a lot of ICOs should go a similar route. An exchange like HybridBlock trying to raise 50M and in return I get an utility token that people can use on their exchange doesn't really get my engine warm. If such an exchange is succesfull they would be raking in billions but I don't really ever get a share of that. Sure tokens going 10-20x is all a lot and very cool but you don't know when this stops. Unless I really think the token makes sense such as with Chimaera where the token features an integral part in the games and gameplay developed on their blockchain/platform I don't really care. Utility tokens are by far one of the worst investments you can make. There's a reason most top coins have their own platform and blockchain.

Cryptos have made everyone suddenly a financial whiz.  They read a couple of tweets that sound smart, and they think they have knowledge about the market.  It is sad that people assume expertise in a field where truly few have real expertise.

Simply because faith is not necessary needed in every thing where the one that should play is reason. Faith is about religious concern and cryptocurrency world is not religion but financially matter.

I don't know about others, but I have absolute faith in the ICO model.
I think it is one of the greatest developments in the crypto world.
I understand that people are suspicious because a lot of startups flat out suck, but this keeps you from seeing the truly outstanding startups that would never have been able to form if it wasn't for the ICO model.

For those that got burned by an ICO, they should be blaming themselves and no others.
And coming on to bitcointalk and screaming FUD or SCAM is behavior that will guarantee them making even more mistakes in the future.

Instead, learn from your mistakes and make more informed decisions next time.

For me personally, I have not lost yet on an ICO.
In fact, the vast majority of ICOs I have done have been huge returns.
Proportionally, the amount of time I spend researching projects is insane!
But all that time to whittle down potential ICOs has definitely been worth it.

People have no faith in ICO because majority of ICO are scam while others dump so hard by the dev and the value of the coin plunge and go deep. Those are experience of majority of the investors who tried and lose in ICO. But there are still good ICO that you can count on, you just have to do your own research before you invest in  ICO.

There are too much scam ICOs projects who want only cheap money. One more argument is too little people know about this market.

Exactly. The phrase was well put. Its like finding a needle in a haystack. There are so many poor ICO’s nowadays that its hard for people to do research for all and find the right ICO to invest in. So, people usually invest in the existing projects with good technology rather than getting into an ICO that might prove scam. Research is at most necessary before investing in and ICO.

There were also incidents when bitconnect shut down its website and ran with the investors money. Such incidences have made people aware of ICO scams and have made them to invest in existing crypto currencies rather than taking risks in new projects.

Most of us are already used in ico's, most of them are just scam or fraud, I've witnessed many ico's and most of it failed but i also saw some good ones and i regret on not investing on them.

I give a few factors here:

- The guy really does not know how ICO works
- Oran is just listening from someone's failure
- The person is retired as an ICO Investor because it always fails

Yes, people read to do all the background check and research before investing some significant amount into an ICO. People investing in ICO must check their whitepaper, must follow their telegram ground and twitter page to get regular updates about their work, must check their existing partnerships and whether it is legit and with well know company and must check the team that is working on development of such project and ICO. If all these are properly checked and considered, people would be able to invest in the right ICO’s rather than some scam or ponzi schemes.

Not all, but many ICO’s are just scam to rip people off. There are projects and ICO’s that are being launched, but don’t even have any utility or real world applications and are just based on theory and no technology is there. People have lost their faith because of such scam ICO’s. yes, there are also good ICO’s that have technology and potential. I would like people to do their own research before investing in and ICO and invest in them if they seem legit though one can never say exactly.

Well, existing cryptocurrencies, it is also not an option, some are not even supported by developers but are still traded. The presence of any coin on the market does not indicate its success

Because there were too many ICO's, some were fraud and others ended up being worthless, but ICO is still a thing as real companies use it to fund their product. These are known as ICO's with "security tokens" because such tokens actually worth something, people just need to give it a further research and don't trust at any white paper it is thrown at their face.
For such reason, I believe as ICO get unpopular the requisites to start one are going to increase, and in exchange, it will be quality over quantity, but as mentioned before, alt-coins also still have ICO's as a good mean to advertise, so everything is up to how they are going to face the untrust problem, in order to succeed and launch in the market, such alt-coins actually need to offer something new too.
I hope I didn't get too confused here.  ::)

Unfortunately it's true. People do not believe in projects, because so many projects want only one thing - to get your money, and that's all they need.

Trust - may not be fully limited for ICO projects, but there are some people who complain because of the very low price when entering the market.

i think that it is becoming harder and harder to have a faith in ICOs every day. and it is very logical, because there were and there are so many scam projects, that just fool investors.. and there are so many projects that don't meet people's expectations.. so i am not blaming anyone for being devastated in ico. i am almost one of these people....

and it seems to me that the market is now being formed and stuffing mistakes, the players become experienced on the mistakes! so there is trust, but many teams are not professionals in this sector!

Because for people most often new is not clear. And they are accustomed to work at the plant and receive ordinary paper money.

There is some people don't believe in ICO's projects because they have bad experiences in their past, or because they see many scam projects online, or heard about bad stories about such projects. But I think many other people still having faith in ICO projects because the number of investors in this projects keep rising with time.

My fingers are itvhing for this one!  ;D

Let me give you some ideas:

- Because it's not normal that you give complete strangers 100's to 1000's of dollars in advance for some mediocre idea that might work out in a scene which is completely filled with mediocre ideas of which none actually are used in any way in real life but some went to the moon in pricing/valuation.
- Because people don't tend to be the most productive when they launched an idea, just got 15 million for that idea before they needed to achieve anything.
- Because investing in ICO's is not regulated (today, THAT might change tomorrow actually).  Nobody needs to be transparant about nothing.  You even have ico-generators.
- Because these days ICO-builders don't even speak English, just build a website, get some bounty army ready for them and start earning.
- Because this whole circus will end soon...

(and before you get some crazy ideas about me being frustrated on missing the boat: I made some good money on ICO's, I just think that the momentum has passed.)

People have no faith in ICO's becuase some projects don't have a clear goal. There are also reports of fraud and they don't pay in a signature campaign that is why advertising is very minimal.

People are afraid of being scammed. SOFT  and HARD CAPS  in majority of ICO's is more than 10-20 millions as usual There a lot of businesses,that can picked UP with such money.....

of course in the past  we had bad experience many times. All of us remember BitConnect. :(  And now we can see that less investors trust altcoins.

     Most of the ICO are good and only few of them are considered scam,They are the one initiate the project,They have full knowledge about the project that's why investors are really depend on them.
     Several ways of checking the credibility of ICO or the knowing the project itself, I suggest to join in their telegram first before joining the project. 

The word "scam" has practically become synonymous with the abbreviation ICO, meaning croweding of projects through the release of its own crypto currency. The format itself is not to blame for this, and there are enough decent and really worthy projects among the ICO. But the novelty of the topic, the heat of easy money and the almost complete lack of regulations turned this market into the Wild West, where no one is insured against fraud, neither by crypto-investors, nor by the ICO itself.

In reality, a lot of people wants to invest in ICO. Why? Because ICO is more profitable than bounties. But why they don't want to invest? Simply, because the developers of ICO are just communicating investors in the token sale but afterwards, they will gone instantly. Investor usually hang up in an ICO.

ICOs looks like startups in 2000-2005 every projects want light money. They haven't  any development but have good promotion and still nothing.

even though I was just beginning but I believe many people have successfully invested and I am interested, many people do not believe but many examples of people use ico and I am very confident

Maybe they became too skeptical after so much scam

Yes, I have faith in ico. After the scam falls and the token value losses after ico. I am fortunate to realize that tokens also have a huge impact from market fluctuations. In other words, incremental bitcoin and crypto would be like strings attached to the majority ico pulling its value if you have enough patience and watch the market go through. Now, I believe in those ico bounty programs that have good and reputable bounty managers. Scam is almost eliminated and the opportunity to succeed with big profits.

There are a variety of reasons. It could be just people don't know and haven't tried so not to believe. or anyone ever tried to follow but it turns out that the ICO scam because it used to be an awful lot of ICO scam than the original.

People do not believe in ICO because they very often lost their money. The one who lost her money once becomes a very suspicious. He can not be sure that this will not happen to him again.

Many people either have no faith in ICOs or that faith has diminished. The reasons are (1) You are exercising "blind faith and trust" in the projects of someone you do not know. In an ICO where there is no transparency and revelation of the identity of people behind them, you might as well give your money to a stranger on the street and tell him to go buy you a loaf of bread. Odds are high, you will not see that bread. (2) Many ICOs are scams and Ponzi schemes that are no different than "Lending Platforms" in their "Modus Operandi." Grabbing your money and running off with it.

Many ICO creators understand a basic character defect many have: Greed and the desire to make a lot of money. Those two things are the bait and lure. Many are caught and left gutted and filleted at the end.

There are some good ICOs, however, but are difficult to spot. Yet, even with them, you are putting faith and trust that they will deliver.

EVERYTHING in crypto is a gamble and a risk. It is important that you know that if you decide to play in this space.

You would win big and you could lose big.

Nothing is guaranteed.

This.

This is due to previous results and bad track record of some ICOs. Many people don't analyze a crypto project and do not read whitepaper, they just invest directly. So investing without any research causes problem. Some ICOs don't give desired result and after that people hate ICOs and don't like investment in ICOs. But some ICOs with good project and strong team may give good returns. But finding good project is difficult. You need to differentiate gold from sand. But if you find a worthy project, then you may get good results.

I think that is because many media always mislead ppl about the success rate of ICO, actually there are many fake projects influencing the market. That's why ppl start losing confidence in good projects. I recommend MovieChain project led by Xender, and I think it will be a huge success. The website is: www.moviechain.io. you can follow to know more

In vain you say that people do not believe in ICO. I see and see the opposite. Many believe and invest, the main thing is not afraid and everything will be fine =)

ICOs are cool if you know what you are doing, if not they will be your worst nightmare and will suck all your investment into the wrong hands and projects. And yes, is easy to be scammed.

I myself became very skeptical of many ICO because of the scam, And people can do nothing with it

People who have no faith in ICOs have probably been scammed before. There are some good projects out there who are serious about their project. What most people who participate in ICOs refuse to do is they do not research enough about the project. They do not consider the feasibility of the project and do not analyse the website to predict the future.

Everyone loves reliability, therefore, at the slightest suspicion, they blame the project for weakness or fraud. This is due to the fact that people are afraid to lose their money when investing in an unsuccessful project.

Remember Everyone that blockchain ICOS are a var new concept to many, so until people are seasoned investors and they get used to choosing the creme de la creme of ICOS, it might seem a little daunting, especially for newcomers. Also it is so much easier to invest in an ICO than it is in traditional investments, so people are  confused about the plethora of ICOS they see randomly popping up, so the feel overwhelmed and discouraged. I also think that the negative press hasn't helped, countries banning ICOS and also some hackers and scammers in the mix, all have made this ICO sector a very difficult place for many people to trust and park their hard earned money.

Of course be afraid of losing your money. It's a normal feeling. I think there are no people who would not be afraid to lose money. No matter how much money they have.

I didn't really notice people stop believing in ICOs. Usually many are supported because they are the way you can get Bitcoin, but of course it can exist some doubts about them and this is completely understandable considering how many people have been fooled by certain projects that were scams.Maybe that's the problem, or maybe simple ways to earn BTC have been discovered.

Why do people have no faith in ICO's? They're probably afraid of it because they do not comment on it. They have no fear They know what they are doing.

There are very good projects, and people in them still believe. But there is also a lot of frank scum. Therefore, it creates the impression that people do not believe in ICOs. The main thing is to be able to distinguish good projects from divorce and everything will be fine :)

unfortunately, because of some scam ICOs have some distrust  in that industry and aslo don't forget that a big percentage  of  the participants are sadly only in it for profit..., i cannot deny that there is a lot of legit ICOs with a great product that could benefit the crypto market and the community and i think that what should we focus on not anything else

First of all, earning money in ico is very long.
You have to have a lot of patience if you want to earn.
The duration of every project depends on how many week until it end.
And people tend to doubt ico because you have to wait for months before getting what you earned.
And there are many scammers out there.
They may be afraid of that.

Because there are just way too many ICOs projects in the market right now, and the developers who are making use of ICOs projects to scam investors money have definitely caused investors to take a more safety approach when investing into new ICOs projects.

People have no patience to wait for results from the project in which investments are made during the ICO. It is necessary to understand that investing in ICO is a long-term process and only after a while it will be possible to judge about the success or failure of the project.

maybe because a lot of people think that there are a lot of scam or fake ICOs, and it's a big risk for anyone to join one not knowing if it's fake or legit. They're just trying to play safe.

I personally still believe in icos a lot because when you choose you projects right, it's the best form of investment in this space

This is because once a person gets burned with a  project, he starts seeing similar projects with same opinion. Most of the fraud projects are harming genuine ICOs as well .

People doesn't believe in ICO because only 10% of all projects are really succesfull. Just some time before I have read some information about it. It must be some kind of service for ICO investors where it will be possible to find to find right project.

People have no faith in ICO's because they think that almost all of the ICO's are scam and not legit. That is why the number of investors are decreasing.

Hi, One can`t disagree that ICO attracts a lot of scammers: Because there is so little paperwork involved in ICOs it attracts many scammers who can simply create a bogus white paper and make off with a lot of money.

Hi, As for me, when you are investing in a project in an ICO you are investing in the idea of the project. You read the white paper and if you think that the team is credible and the project has promise than you invest. So, basically, you have no idea whether the project will even be successful or not. Over 90% of the startups fail and blockchain projects are not immune to that as well.

That's not completely true. People are still joining bigger ICO's in large numbers. Only difference is that they are getting more cautious because of many fake ICO's.

This people who don't believe in ICOs are the people who were once a victims of scams,due to some factors,specially lack of knowledge about what it is,sometimes we cannot blame them also but the truth to myself is that,we must not worry about it,as long as we keep on holding crypto together faith will always be there.ICOs are always good as long as you have to know what it is.I know about it and I still holding my faith about it.

maybe , They heared from other people who got scammed from some ico.Also they are not educated enough aboujt the project.Before investing ,we need to read, research and observe the ico or project if its legit and the people behind are real by just checking their social media accounts.And always remember  invest the money where you  can afford to loose.Dont invest you family badget.

As is known to all, there are too many ICO projects in the cryptocurrencies and most of them are scam ICOs which would let people distrust in ICOs even if it still has great projects. What's more, there is a long way to earn money from ICO and full of risk. Not everyone has enough patience and wait till coin has reached up to the great price.

what do you think ? I think you are not a newbie like your rank.
talking about ico investment, one must be well aware of what he is doing. even more so in funding his money on some crypto projects. yes, knowledge is the most important part. if someone does not have the slightest knowledge, how will he be able to believe in an ico?

ICO's image is a little bad because people think it's a fraud. This idea will change one day, but first everyone has to trust ICO if the project is promising and good. If the number of participants increases, ICOs will succeed and nobody will be afraid of it.

Everyone has their own experience and someone got a loss from participating in the ICO and then does not want to take any more risks. I think it is necessary to approach the elections of ICO more carefully and not expect a quick profit.

Now more and more information is coming that the ICO has more than 80% of scammers. Although in reality it is not. Because people are rowing with the same brush of scams and projects that just are unable to start. Are two different things. Not all startups survive to their birth. There's nothing weird about that. Always wins the best offer. Just learn how to filter ICO by their usefulness in our world, as well as study teams. Just study the information about what you need to start the project and compare it with the information on the ICO. Because to run the project we need not only the IDEA of and MONEY. There are a million other important factors that fundamentally affect the ICO.

The first answer in this topic was exhaustive. Of course, if you invest money in all projects, you will necessarily encounter fraudsters. Researching projects, I have no impression that 80% of scammers. Not even 50%. But scammers use agressive advertising.

People nowdays not really know about what is cryptocurrency and hownit works.
Thats one of the big problem why they dont have faith to crypto and also ico.
They have to believe to cryptocurrency to build the trust to it.

the ico have scam many investor and no body trust the ico now, they are only give good promised when they are release their coin and their ico when they are talking about their ico is potential for the future, but everything was bullshit and they make many people lost their money, where their coin have not price and there are nothing the exchange wanna sell their coin, so it why all of investor stop trust the ico and the united state not allow the ico transaction.

probably because too many ico scam are popping up so many people are fooled and lose their money ..
one more that i see from an ICO that is when listing price is far below ico price which make investors lose their money also that is why many investors do not trust ico

Because they lack of research and reading. Before joining any ICO please do urself a favor. Research, research, research.. Or else it will be worthless.

Some people in the community are thinking FUD about ICO's. Maybe because they are already become a victims of scam ICO's. Their faith was losing to trust again with ICO's but these are not the end of them. Maybe in the future if they will move on and find the good and honest ICO with promising project and they will succeed and paid off. All their negative experienced will disappear and strong faith back to ICO will remain.

Most people that have been into cryptos for a while has been involved into scammy/failed ICO's.

Plus nowaday there's a billion of thoses a day.

Personnaly I kept faith cause even if only 1/3 of ICO i get into are sucessful it's still greatly worth it.

Because mostly ICOs are the scams and people do not research on the ICOs so that's why they lost their money.

Because unfortunately most of them became a scam. Now I'm in a project that I think will come to success, Vreo.io https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2886707 . They took a good niche in the market.  They are doing dynamic in-game advertising and going to create marketplace for developers and advertisers. I carefully studied all the information about them, it's all open and accessible. You just need to carefully study projects, using criterias.
The main ones
1. Uniqueness, necessity of idea
2.Clear target
3.Scalability
4.Transparency, properly allocated budget
5.Concept
6.Team
7.Distribution of tokens
There is more information on the Internet about the criteria for choosing ICO

It depends, same as all other ICO giveaways, it varies widely for instance the bounty/airdrop provided by Marinecoin’s ICO is actually going to be quite worth it on the long haul, the plans are good and the goals are reachable while at the same time pushing the envelope of what a crypto-currency’s are defined as. It has a ICO in which you can earn up to 20000 mtc by completing a task and it’s repeatable every 24h, it’s focused at the community as a whole rather than specifically miners, the community is healthy, and it also supports app making specifically for the crypto-currency. Afterwards the Artificial Intelligence analyses the post for Proof of Promotion. It’s the first machine to machine transaction network since it’s based on AI and uses time dilution technology, you can read up more on it in their whitepaper.MTC additionally has its own exchange which is safe and secure so no need to worry about being stuck with a non-exchangeable crypto-currency.MTC is controlled by the community, the market is quite stable and is growing consistently, so all in all yeah I’d say that there are worth while bounty/airdrops out there, it’s just a point of finding them.

why people have no faith in ICO project ,you can check the ico project price when hit exchange ,90% will below ico price ,people who invest lost their money quickly ,why not buy from market that's more profit then invest ICO

Many promote good projects, but this does not mean that these projects are doomed to success. People lose faith in ICO projects because of the huge number of scammers.

The shear volume of ICOs out there has to make you skeptical. Statistically, a majority of those ICOs will fail, and the ones that succeed will join a large pool of existing cryptocurrencies. A majority of those coins / tokens will also likely fail in the future.

A lot of ICOs don’t stick out of the crowd with very similar projects popping up at the same time. Projects often market with crazy hyperboles too. “Change the world” “connect the globe” etc. There just isn’t a whole look of trust in the space right now, especially with the downturn in the market the last few months. It seemed like everything was a moonshot in 2017 and that isn’t the case right now.

What are you talking about? People are crazy about ICOs and are going to invest even more now that the market is showing signs of bear movements during this month,

Maybe the person has a bad experience in following ICO. They are exposed to a scam ICO or when they follow ICO the results they get are very small and harm them. Or they may not know the ways to find good quality ICOs so they do not believe that ICO can provide real profit and income for them.

Because it is hard to find good ICO that will make some good profit on it for an experienced guy who is in crypto world since beginning, not to mention all new people in this world.

Investors don’t believe in ICOs because there are a lot of scammers in this industry. Look at the statistic, nearly 90% of projects are launched for fraud and money collecting. Also, only a few amount of projects list their tokens on exchange platforms, but all of them raise money (no matter how much).

I think the reason lies in the fact that they are afraid of losing their investments. besides, no one has canceled the prosperity of fraud. at the same time, many are invested and do not even know themselves what.

Just people do not know how to choose an ICO, conducted on those where they offer more, and then sit empty-handed. Greed is everything.

There are tons of reasons. Some ICOs are scam, a lot of investors have learned their lessons the hard way. Some run after the ICO have finished or successful. Another thing is that, you can actually buy cheaper coins once coin get listed on an exchange, so it is why it is safer because you will know that a project is legit once they list their coin in a decent exchange after the ICO and buying there is sometime cheaper than ICO price.

Most investors are disappointed that the investment ico has lost money in the last few months, which is the main reason why the ico market is cold.

More and more projects turn to scam, plus you can work hard but the project could still fail or the exchange rate of coins will be low. But I still believe in ico.

Name me a handful of ICOs that have a market ready project and are successful and by successful I don't mean an increased market cap but cash flow or huge numbers of users.

For that reason they know that ico's is a scam, they can lose their money because of it. They do not have enough knowledge about ico's or they do not care about it. We do not have the right to force them to believe in ico's because each person has their own decision.

Not all ico are scam  there still few ico project that have a real product and developer all you need is do research on that project check every detailed of the project dont put your money if you see the project have a high chances to turn into scam, one reason why people have no faith in ico because their scam in some ico.

People are drawn to easy money; the get rich quick idea.  Greed clouds their judgement.  Unfortunately, getting rich quick does not exist.  There are ICO's out there that have merit.  Your job is to research which ones are real and which ones are scams.  As long as you have done your part in vetting them, you stand a chance for earning a profit. 

Think about this.  Do you remember the initial offering price of Google?  Amazon?  Apple?  What is the stock price today?  How long did it take them to get to where they are today?

of course it requires knowledge and experience, for involvement in the crypto industry.
if you are a beginner, surely this will make you ask questions. and you need to know, not all ico is good and will succeed. especially for the moment it's so difficult to compare the recognize ico that leads to a scam action.
That's why many people are not sure of investing in ico.

Most of the time people misinterpret the coins/tokens as dividends to the project's revenue not knowing and reading that it is a utility token which can be use the proposed platform. And if you are an investor that expecting high value after an ICO and the team will list on an exchange then sometimes you will be disappointed because of this ignorance. Please bear in mind though this tokens are tradable it still a has its general purpose and its actual use should be promoted so that project will be in industry for a long time and not like any other platform that after ICO and pumping of price, they're gone.

Many people doesn't really do analysis about the fundamental of ICOs, even they don't read the whitepaper of ICO mostly of them just read the title of ICO, when they got scam all of the ICOs be blamed and they don't believe in ICO projects any more, actually the problem is on the investors, they don't really learn more about the projects and unfortunately they don't know about it.

because many ICOs are not that trustworthy enough and due to bad past experiences of an individual user to certain ICOs because some are fake and some are real. you just have to be very specific to what you want and be systematic to picking an ICO you want to work with it.

All this is because they lack the proper knowledge of investing..... sometimes they easily gets attracted towards the ponzi schemes and then when they incur losses they discourage other people too to not to invest in other upcoming projects although they are good...

I think most people do not really read well before investing maybe some of them (especially the newbie) think all project is profitable if it is not scam. I think the major thing to do first before investing is to study well what you want to invest into and ask yourself what is your chance of profiting from the project. most investors do not really do this but I think it is better to have in mind the area that interest you most in any ICO. is it app development project or real estate or mining or alternative energy having it at the back of your mind that you are investing on something that will be generally be acceptable when finally hit the market.

Lack of knowledge, because some of investors don't investigate or trying to see if its legit or not then if they scam their belief is gone so wrong they did not think before investing in a project  the  they complaining why they scam.

Now a days people are losing faith on ICO'S because in last few months,there are many ICO'S which were failed to collect required funds and windup their  projects.This create huge negative affect on ICO'S.

In last few months so many ICO's are failed to collect the required funds from the market, and they shutdown/postpone there projects due to continuously downfall of this market.I think due to this reason people's loosing there faith on ICO's.

ICOs tend to have cycles.

During the hyped period when cryptocurrencies prices are soaring, new investors get tempted by stories of how ICOs can quickly give them returns of several folds. It creates irrational exuberance where people start investing in all sort of projects, even those without a proper product or actual use case.

Unsurprisingly, these short-term flippers quickly find that there is little demand for the projects that they invest in, and prices fall below the ICO price quickly. During such a time, ICOs go through a trough, where there is a lack of investors and even good projects find it difficult to raise funds.

It is also during the trough where investors who are still investing in high-quality projects obtains returns of several folds as the high-quality projects deliver on their products and hit milestones. Stories of such huge returns bring back newbie investors which repeat the cycle.

Some people have already experience with ICOs wherein they have high hopes for the project but after the ICO, the developers either disappear or didn't follow the roadmap that's why the get discouraged and if the developer aren't active then there is a tendency the investors would pull out their investments. Some ICOs are good but end up the team behind it run away with the investors money that's why some don't trust ICOs anymore. With the ICO boom in 2017, majority of it are below ICO price now so some just choose to wait until it is listed in exchanges so that they can buy it cheaper.

there are so many reasons as to why people lost faith in ico and one of which would probably be because of the fact that there were icos that were not able to deliver what they promised. other than that, there are also some people who are completely skeptical about icos that also influences other people who are still in the process of gaining more knowledge about it.

I think that over time there is a situation that should apologize, because many users have learned to analyze information and distinguish the swindler from real promising projects. home study all the documentation and see what kind of people are engaged in the development and based on this draw conclusions.

Crestonium just scammed a few million dollars recenetly, another ICO scam.

Sincerely there are still some good ICOs around that have good roadmap and also have a solid team. If every investors are of the opinion that all ICOs are scam then all ICOs will die. The coming of new promising ICOs keeps hope alive that the future of investing in ICOs is bright.

the whole ICO world just need a more stricter rules against all these ICO to prevent any kind of scam. Just imagine if there's some kind of authority that verifying every single ICO appear into the surface of cryptocurrency world. Even if it's centralizing ICO, it'll be good for the people's sake.
But however, only verifying won't make us losing the point of being decentralization I suppose.

And as a rule, in the news for some reason, the most attention is paid to unsuccessful projects or projects where the team deceived investors. This creates a general negative background.

i understand your point of view. Many peoples spread their investment because they are not sure which one is the most profitable for they.
more over there are many ICOs that turn to be scam. it will makes peoples lose faith about ICO.

People don't have faith in ICOs since they are able to tell no one actually needs $100 million to develop a beta of a product. The Merkle just yesterday published a list of top 4 projects not doing an ICO and building the product first.

1. MARKET Protocol - their dApp will be out in 2 weeks, project funded fully by founders
2. Masari - they have a token, no ICO
3. ChanCoin - currently building, 0 marketing, just developing
4. Elixir token - already listed, great and large community already supports it

https://themerkle.com/top-four-upcoming-cryptocurrencies-sans-icos/

So they are a proof of not needing to do an ICO at least until you have a working product. Grin/MimmbleWimmble is another great example, and there will be more and more to come!

Cause most of the scam ICOs are hyped by large number of shills and there is no way to differentiate between them and the good ICOs. Also most of the ICOs launched last year have already failed so I don't see why someone should have trust in the ICO future. Also most of the ICOs are being valued at crazy prices and aren't worth even one tenth of their valuations.

People have no faith because most of the ICO's here are to make money fro themselves and they just wanna run away with it. This is happening since a year now and thats why people has started doubting every ICO that comes out of the black hole. I mean if this keeps happening then the day will come when people will not even have 1% trust in such projects and there wont be any ICO;s anymore.

Its the ICO who are making it scam not the people! People are here to earn money or profits by putting their own money into their projects but if they kept doing scam stuff then how can anyone risk the money anymore?

Maybe they do not have full knowledge about ICO, they think it is very risky. In fact, ICO is a new form of investment, with potential for investors, it is technology projects to develop different products to make a profit. However, many ICO projects have recently scammed investors, they take advantage of everyone's trust to do bad things. Besides there are many ICOs that have not been able to develop successfully as they have promised people. I think it is these things that make people have no faith in ICO's

Because most of the ICOs are scams nowadays which is why fewer people are risking their money thri these ICOs,theres much scams compare to the legit ICOs which is why less and less people are joining ICOs,because you will need to do a lot of research before joining these ICOs so that you wont regret your investments,if you have found redflags do not try to join or you will lose your investments.

I agree , ICO's got a really bad name because a lot of people scammed with it. So when people see ICO now they will instantly refuse it, but they forget that there came a lot of solid projects out of ICO's. I think if you just do your reserach and know what you are doing it can be profitable to invest in ICO's.

Bad rep some ICO's are getting recently is actually a good thing for cryptomarket and future ICO's.

Why did people lose faith? Lack of transparency, mostly - as well as lack of responsibility from some ICO companies.

It will get better with time, there are currently a few ICO's I have enough faith in to invest in them.

Many people does not have a faith in ICOs becouse 80% of them are scam. You just dont want to loose your money after all, so you would make an investments with care.

When was a lot of talking about cryptocurrency and ico, a lot of people decided to get in crypto and started to invest in ico. And they did't even try to find out what is the projects, they invest in. As we know majority of ico is scam, so many people lose their money. That's why they don't believe in ico any more and don't want looking for good projects. Everybody should learn more about crypto before starting to invest.

Yes exactly! Such people do not have enough courage to take the risk in participating and supporting any ICO because they think it is a scam giving no chance by making a research to a particular projects. Well, we can not judge them or force them to try even just once but we can help them to have a good realization by making our all effort to success but too risky. It's OK 'cause risk is always in every opportunity.

Some people do not believe in ico because there are also some ico that are unclear and likely already experienced with a hoax by an ico and therefore some people do not trust ico.

not all ICO altcoins that have good mission vision and roadmap guarantee that the project is good. It depends on the people in the project. Because I personally better follow the project in which there are already people who are experienced and have a good track record in the world of crypto. Because of the project's tendency to succeed depends on it. Writing a vision of a brilliant mission is easy, but to realize it will not be as easy as it is written, therefore some experts need to help realize the mission's vision.

considering how many real life startups fail within the first year, that combined with the current ico atmosphere(tons of scamming),
aswell as all the "pre-pre-pre sales" for whales, it's unwise to throw your money around unless you really know what you're investing in.

ICO need to choose carefully. There is a saying, "To make money it's not worth investing in ICO." I consider her true only half. Because it is well chosen ICO the success of income and prosperity.

Because new ICOs nowdays are mostly scam proejects,i didnt say all but most of these projects are just being launched to raise funds and then eventually going to runway from the investors which is why i am not joining these ICOs because even those good looking projects might turn into scams which is why it is too risky.

Because many people do not really know about the ICO project. You should research and learn more about ICO projects through books, magazines or websites written about the ICO project of the cryptocurrency market. I am sure it will help you get a good ICO project for you to invest. Good luck.

We found that misinterpret the coins/tokens as dividends to the project's revenue not knowing and reading that it is a utility token which can be use the proposed platform. And if you are an investor that expecting high value after an ICO and the team will list on an exchange then sometimes you will be disappointed because of this ignorance. Please bear in mind though this tokens are tradable it still a has its general purpose and its actual use should be promoted so that project will be in industry for a long time and not like any other platform that after ICO and pumping of price, they're gone.

a lot of ico disappointed in 2017)) there is a prerry big risk compared to the profit, it is easier to buy on the stock exchange the asset you need. You have less money, but you do not have so much risk

Most of them struggle to even get listed on exchanges. I remember there was an ICO named sharder protocol, couple of months back, it was too hyped. And now whoever bought in is crying. It's not even trading. I have been burned by football coin in the past in the same way.

some projects are really good and promising, we just need to be more careful to avoid scams. At this moment i am looking at Ambit Mining ICO, and I believe in this project.

I think they made bad investments earlier, and bad examples and experience resulted in lose of faith.

it is not about faith it is about the facts. faith without the support of facts is not good and the end result will be very bad. it needs facts first before you believe in that project or else you just blindly following that project. also many ICOs today are scam and they improve their way of doing scams and sometimes what you see that you believe to be true might be false. so it is good to ask others if you don't know if the ICO is scam or not.

This person right here says everything, because of scams, a good ICO needs to be REALLY good and CLEAR, with supporters and everything.

People who don't understand or underestimate the value of the ICO's will have no faith. People will have their own opinions they need to study and understand before having faith or coming to any conclusion.

there is no faith, because there is a lot of scum and garbage, it's hard to find good projects among this mess

ICOs are unregulated (99% of them) and there are many scammers out there.

A very large number of ico is a scam, unkind people do this to raise money, suddenly stop ico and delete all data from the Internet. And investors who have participated in such ICO and lost their money, and mostly they think about fraud about all the ico that are going. It is very difficult to find a really high-quality project.

Scam ico are common these days, it is no easy to find a real project. That is why many investors are so scared of investing, it seems investors have no faith in ico anymore because of that.

People dnt have faith in ICO's as there are many scams involved but there are some ICO's which are genuine are are pretty different from others. There's this ICO going on for an Australian company called BlockGrain.io  They’re aiming to automate the supply chain with Grain and later on Fruit/Vegetables/Wool. The sale has started.


You might also be interested in their BlockGrain.io bounty thread  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3332256.new#new

i think it is because too many icos already scam many investors.
it will affecting the investors. they will be more careful to invest on next ICO.
resulting many small ico not collecting enough funds to succeed.

I personally think that person may have a bad experience in following the ICO. They get exposed to ICO scams or when they follow ICO the results they get are very small and harm them. Or they may not know how to find good quality ICO so they do not believe that ICO can give a profit. So Too many people are starting to claim that it is all bullshit. Yet it is clear that many ICO is successful and thus only the problem becomes a little selective.

This people who don't believe in ICOs are the people who were once a victims of scams,due to some factors,specially lack of knowledge about what it is,sometimes we cannot blame them also but the truth to myself is that,we must not worry about it,as long as we keep on holding crypto together faith will always be there.ICOs are always good as long as you have to know what it is.I know about it and I still holding my faith about it. :)

And why should people believe in ICO's? This is a completely new movement, with money and associated with increased risk. As a roulette - today you are a millionaire, and tomorrow a beggar. Far from all seek to risk what they have, for the sake of a possible win. Today read the news that bitcoin again fell in price, amid allegations by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway head Warren Buffett that the crypto currency is "badly finished." If such giants claim this, then what kind of confidence can we talk about?

Many people know very little about cryptocurrency and ico. But they heard about scams in crypto and about investors who lost their money. So they think that all ico is scam and don't want deal with it.

IT's because there are too many cases that has been reported that people were get scammed on the ICO stages that's why I don't buy coins through ICOs but instead I do invest only when that new altcoins bumped on coin or crypto exchanges and more especially when it's get listed on coinmarketcap.com.
I have fear that I may lost my hard-earned money when investing on ICOs that will take away my money and my investments.

people have no faith in ICO becase there are more scam in the past, and it's hard to tell clearly ,so  before investing in Ico, you need to study the company, read the white paper and make sure its business is legal.

I agree, please who do know about Bitcoin, altcoins and blockchain technology but still they have lack of knowledge when in terms of ICO investments.
there are too many crypto young investors today that are eager to invest on ICOs but they lack knowledge and experiences that's why most of them aren't earning higher profits over experienced investors and traders.

one of the scam bounty campaign that I joined early this year was Denaro.io.
scammers bagged investors' investments worth of almost $10 million and has reported to authorities but until today there's still no news or updated regarding the scammers and their whereabouts.
THis is the main reason why there are now less ICO investors except for those ICOs that have best dev and marketing teams.

ICO start the same people like us. Someone is greedy, and its purpose is not a project, but simply to make money, or a banal fraud scheme. Further, no one is insured from marketing and planning errors. And once again, when you come across such startups, you look at further projects with caution and choose more carefully. Well, someone just makes a conclusion that all of them is scam is and doesn't participate into them anymore.

Because of the ICO myths people believe in. Myths like all ICOs are scam, if you invest in ico you will lose, investing in fiat currency is better than ICOs and all that.

The reason why people don't believe in ico is not only because they have been scammed, the second reason is because projects developing for a long time. People are waiting and sometimes think that they have been scammed.

Because of the ICO myths people believe in. Myths like all ICOs are scam, if you invest in ico you will lose, investing in fiat currency is better than ICOs and all that.

Past experience of some investors who have fallen  victims of the ICO scam. Some ICOs just dupe their investors after realizing much money from their so called pre sale and cart away with the money. Not all ICOs are scam though, we still a good number of them like PEP NETWORK.

Many of them already know that they can lose money and time on ICO's. When I was new I was believe on almost every ICO , then I find out that many of them are just made it to take your investment and then dissapear. Example: I was participated in signature and social media campaign for one ICO , that was over 01.03. and till now I didn't get anything because they just extend token sale 2 times. First should end in 10.04. , then 16.05 and now they extended to 14.06. That's why I don't really like ICO.

there are too many scams now and most projects are just air, its nothing strange that most of them have a truely bad performance after hitting exchanges, why should we give our money to them?

A lot of people lost a lot of money and time in some ICOs, that could be one valid argument why people are not into new projects

I want to tell you about ICO Vireo. Project Vireo is very promising and reliable, that’s why you can invest in this ICO and be sure of successful cooperation! Try it!

It's just simple, FEAR. Fear of been scammed, fear of losing, fear of choosing a good ico, fear, fear, and nothing but fear........

A large number of people have already lost a very large amount of money, since there are a lot of scam projects on the market today, people should be more attentive in the market, because scammers are starting to make very good projects, so they can not be determined.

I have kept hearing it's all in the approach, and that there are ways to tell good from bad, I don't know how things really work around here but is that something people would be willing to share?

I agree that it is hard recognize a good ICO and its harder to not get scammed with ICO's. But it doesnt mean that all ICO's are bad. There are many which does have a meaningful platform and started trading very soon.

As far as I know this year the results of ICO are much worse than in the last 2017 year, so disappointed people are becoming more and more. I hope this does not become a problem for the market. On the other hand, such results suggest that investors should be more qualified.

Other people don't have faith in ICOS because they don't have knowledge, ideas on what should they do. Others are scam why others are not investing in it.

because not all ico's are scamming their participants and there are really successful campaign who is paying a huge amount to their participants that's why people can still catch up today and start a new life using cryptocurrency.

Really hard to recognize a good and trusted ICO. There are ICOs that we think is trusted with videos of the team but after if the funding will not be successful they'll be gone.

Some people don't believe in ICO's projects because they have bad in the past, or because they see a lot of scam projects  But I think many others still have confidence in the ICO project, because the number of investors in this project is increasing over time.

Most likely, people have already invested in a project that turned out to be fraudulent and they have lost their investments. Therefore, they are afraid to repeat their mistake a second time and at the same time discourage people from doing the same.

People are afraid of being scammed. SOFT  and HARD CAPS  in majority of ICO's is more than 10-20 millions as usual There a lot of businesses,that can picked UP with such money.

because many ICOs are not that trustworthy enough and due to bad past experiences of an individual user to certain ICOs because some are fake and some are real. you just have to be very specific to what you want and be systematic to picking an ICO you want to work with it.

But it doesnt mean that all ICO's are bad. There are many which does have a meaningful platform and started trading very soon.

According to my personal view, Why do people not believe in ICO. Not everyone who does not believe in ICO. There are still many who participate in ICO sales because participating in ICO sales will benefit if we invest in the ICO.

Because they are always looking for the quickest way to make money, it's a good idea but they has no faith in ICO because they invest in that they do not care what their project is, what it will do, the only thing they Attention is money

Because 99% of them are useless, scams, have nothing new to offer to the crypto community. I rather prefer to use and invest my time with an established coin. I am happy with zencash and bitcoin currently, why would I start to read about a crap ICO

Those people without faith in ICOs are the ones without any knowledge or expertise in ICO investing. They are just stuck in limbo without any idea of how to choose right projects from the bad ones. Perhaps, they once ventured into one bad one and now don't know what to do. The best thing to do is to try and do a massive investigation about any ICO before you consider on joining. Better still, you can seek the advise of experts here.

some people don't have hope in ico because some are fake and some are real and they might have encountered those fake ones before, but there are lots of real ico

I believe the reason why they don't have faith in ICO is because they initially and generally thought it's not legit. They don't realize the benefit they can get from it if they only find time to learn and acquire needed information. On the other hand, maybe because of the negative news they heard and read. Different opinions are arising but the main goal here, either its legit or scam, is to think, inspect, and do research before making any decisions.

People have less confidence in the ico, as more and more projects do not justify the desires of the investors, I recently met with one project, tokens INNBC will be spent on purchasing the cult classic the complete set of cars from our online INNBC JDM garage, which began shortly after IOC, so the markers INNBC based on the values of the specifications of the car. in my opinion, a promising proet, read and give feedback, if something I'm gne right!)

Indeed! They lack faith in ICO's because of controversies around that ruin its good image, they might have forgotten the fact that not all ICO's are scam, for some it may sound new to them or have a bad experience in it. No single factor that can be considered why peopIe have such point of views, we can't somehow put the blame on them. I believe that strong willingness still is a consideration for someone to decide in joining. If a person is truly willing then no hesitation and lack of faith will hinder him or her.

Maybe because many ICO's will fail! Most people get tokens only so they can HODL it and buy more bitcoin and Ethereum in the future! Is that all that your tokens are worth? If you do use tokens for your business, then you need to completely understand its role and maximize its utility. You have to understand that tokens can be multi-purpose tools which can bring in a lot of “oomph” to your business. Your business model should be such that you are exploiting your tokens to the maximum possible limit. If you are a developer then it is your responsibility to you, your potential investors, and to the future of cryptocurrency itself to use the ICOs as a means of creating something truly meaningful rather a method of making a lot of cash.

ICOs are one of the most unpredictable section of Cryptocurrency, the projects some of these ICOs are awesome and promising but might not really go far.some of them turn out to be sacms, hence the huge mistrust

I don't think all people don't trust ICOs. Some have already earned from ICOs so I think they still believe in it. I think we should continue supporting ICOs so that earning will be continuous. ;D

I don't know if what you specify is all people, but for me it's only few who don't believe or have no faith on ICO. Only those who have less knowledge are faithless to ICO because they don't really know what and when it will bloom.

Personally, I only earn on the fact that I participate in new projects at the stages of ICO. If you know how to choose the right projects, find the best ones, then you will necessarily earn in my opinion much more than on trading!

Well than what would you do when more than 90% of the projects are nothing but shit and scams. Also there is no way you are going to find out if an ICO is a good project or not as the whitepapers can be made to look promising and the hype can be easily faked using shills. Its better people invest in already established coins.

I disagree. People have faith, but some do not have logic, because cryptocurrency is the future, and who is not interested in the future that will not live in it for a long time. Someone just lives one day that's all.

I think because they've had a bad experience when they've joining in ICO or investing on it so they don't trust it anymore. So you need to find a good ICO project so you can't experience it again. To choose whether it is good campaign read their whitepaper and roadmap if you saw that they have a unique and great ideas then joined it i swear it is worthy.

A large number of people have already lost a very large amount of money, since there are a lot of scam projects on the market today, people should be more attentive in the market, because scammers are starting to make very good projects, so they can not be determined.

Because there are some ICOs that would just scam or take away people's money. And also dumping of prices are common after a certain coin has been listed to the Exchange that is why others dont like icos.

there is no faith, because there are a lot of monsters and garbage, it is difficult to find good projects among this disorder, besides no regulators

to tell the truth, I think it's a little bit stupid to loose faith in something, if you have negative experience in it. I believe, you are responsible for your own success. If you lost, it means you did something wrong, for example you made a wrong choice of ICO. It often happens, it is a motivation to learn on your mistakes, and next time put more efforts, be more accurate. There are lots of examples of successful projects, and lots of people who earned money by investing in them. So let's look at the positive results, think positive and do our best to pick right projects. all the best.

most of the time the majority of ppl have no idea on what they are "investing" in so they give all the good ICO's a bad name bc now many think they are all crap coins. Do your research ppl!

Most people have been burnt so it depends on your experience. I have been burnt in some but also made large profits in others so overall I am good.

A lot of people have gotten burned by Scam ICOs so they are afraid to invest at this point.  There are still some hidden gems out there but you have to sift through a lot of garbage to find them.

There are good ICO's, you just have to find them amongst the more common poor quality ICO's. Its probably because too many ICOs have already failed to deliver and even some have actually ran away with investors money.
Finding a good ICO is like finding a needle in a haystack

Cause not all the people beleive in ICO, some of them believe that ICOs are collecting money and disappear, another people think that the project  only collecting money band run away)) But i  recommend you to look carefull at the projects, there are lots of potential ones, but it's challenging to find such ICOs, but still, it's worth it.

Icos doesn't give same huge return as it use to do years back. People now invest in icos now with the intention to flip once listed on an exchange which is bad for the survival this tokens.

just like me
now more and more ICO is not qualified, and not serious
I am vacuum from ICO and focus on altcoin trading
I will re-plunge into the world of ICO if there is clarity for all projects

this is a silly question!!!!
most of ICOs are scam so why people might be scared???
ahahah who knows??
come on dude, what kind of question it is? please be serious in this forum!

There are scams everywhere. It is hard to get hour hands on good ICO. Then when finish and start trading the price is drooping. IMO people are just careful, because of the current situation.

Beginners tend to be scared of investing in ICOs since I do not think that they know what they are going to be up to. If they knew what they are doing, then the fright of investing would simply be a matter of how much risk are they going to take. Another case is when some people are scammed, which is really the most popular reason that people are scared.

Yes offcourse there are plenty good ICOs around and there will be more .market condition is bad and thats the only reason why everybody says that ICOs are gone but believe me everything will be fine very very soon

In my opinion, those people felt that they are investing into something they don't know. If you think about it, those investors doesn't have a guarantee on what will happen to their money. Contract is non-existent, just web page and investors won't have anything in case the ICO run away. They are just hoping to get something more out of the its original price. That is what ICO is about and its that simple.

people expect fast results from icos and once the ico is the listed in exchanger they start expecting the price skyrocket but it wont happen ico need time to grow and develop their platform

Many ICO projects are scam, no product and runaway with your money so many people don't believe in ICO's. But there are good ICO that has working product and still developing.

Currently investing in ICO is no longer a trend as it was in early 2018 as most ICOs are presently not potential. I used to participate in Shivom bounty, and now the rate of cryptos is 10 times lower than the price when purchased at the time of ICO. This makes investors more cautious with ICO projects.

The poll's responses are funny. I guess it seems like a lot of people just think you're a newbie haha.

Anyway I don't think the problem is that people aren't trying to push good projects, the problem is that the reality is MAJORITY of the projects are really crap. There is no reason to push or support a project when most obviously are just money making scams designed to make the development team richer.

Because ICOs waste a lot of money on marketing and paid ratings and reviews instead of development. And a lot of them are just a crappy scam.