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in this time is ico is the secure way to invest or all the icos are scam ?

There's no assurance that an ICO whether scam or not will make you profit. There are some legit ICOs that can lose you profit because the token or coin is undervalued when introduced to the public. I suggest that you do invest in tokens or coins that has already proven its performance over time. Here are some of the tokens or altcoins that I can suggest for you to invest in. Make sure to do your own research as well with regards to its technology for you to build trust and have faith with your investment.

Here is my top 5 favorite altcoins:

1. IOST
2. EOS
3. Eth
4. XMR
5. LTC

Invest at your own risk and always do your own research with regards to its performance. Remember to always invest an amount that you can only afford to lose.

There was one article and speculation where the numbers were shocking about the scam ICO's. Almost 80% of the ICO's are there who turns into scam without our notice and run away with our investment. Some of them reach the exchanger but gets the dead volume and thus we loose the money. Many of them dont even complete the ICO sale and go blind at any time later.

So I dont think that there is any time when the ICO's are legit one. You have to keep trying many of them and try to hit the best one. Unfortunately thats what you can do.

Not all ICOs are scams, there are definitely some good projects which are very promising, but even in this case there are some risks, for example if investors will not invest in such a projects they will not be able to be implemented. Now very good project is live, I think it will work  - Ambit Mining ICO, take a look you will like it.

It is difficult to judge in general, you should study each ICO well and make sure there is no fraud or scam , and I suspect that it appears from the team

Your security depends on you, participating in an ICO is great experience, you get to encounter new ideas. And search for that "idead" that you think could worth billions :) keep in mind the bigger the risk the bigger the profit.

If you invest on your own, the best way to protect yourself is to check everything that can be checked, carefully select candidates for investment. This is your money, and on how thoroughly you study the project, it depends whether you will gain or lose investment.

So far they have been secure and people have made a good amount of money from investing in ICOs now, people are just now worried about the sheer number of ICOs out there and since some people have realized that they can make a lot of money from it, they have decided to use it as a way to scam people out of their hard earned money so although it is still very secure, you should be careful about the ICOs you invest in.

there are a lot of ICOs today and many of them are scam but there are still good ICOs. finding them is not that hard you just have to research well. investing is risky and it depends on you on how to secure yourself.

nowadays, there is too many scam ICOs, they all got what we can say the best Whitepaper, a good roadmap, and a good theoritical product! but in the end it turns out a scam!
well lets just be mindfull on where we invest, be aware and get more good background on ICOs that you are going to invest!
but still not all ICO is a scam, others they call it a scam because it fails!
but surely there some good ICO right now,
just search for it! :)

not all ICO secure and not all ICO scam my friend
if you can choose the best ICO project to invest, you will make huge profit
but, you need a lot of things to do, such as research, learn and know the team behind the project before decided to participated in ICO project  ;)

Many projects are simply unsuccessful. Scams is also more than enough.  No one will tell you precisely, most of the projects reveal their potential after at least a year.

There are a lot of potential ICOs you have not found yet, but the sad truth is that many scam ICOs are now so many scoops of ICO scams is outnumbering potential ICOs. And in the future, if there is no control and tightening of the ICO, there will not be any investors interested in this market anymore. So the current time should invest in the top 5 cryptos instead of investing in ICOs.

Just think of them as in-game currency; and don't sell your house to invest in them.  Only bet what you can afford to lose!

ICO's may be secure or scammy; but the market is choppy, and downturns could be sudden and swift, with devastating results even for those 'secure' ones.

Consider the case of 'Kin' the ICO released by Kik, and considered fairly safe.  It was good at launch, but its languishing now.

So, caveat emptor!  You are entering a mine-field.

 

It may be good or scam, you need to do research. If you are afraid you can wait after it is listed on a exchange and buy then. It is usual for the token to dump in the first days

you should have a basic knowledge about cryptocurrency before invest in ICO project
so, you can minimize the risk from investing in ICO
all people only predict that the ICO is good, but everything is in your hands my friends

Investing ICO is the most easiest and profit making method. But there is a risk if you do not have enough knowledge to research. So we should be more vigilant before investing ICO's since there are so many scam projects. I follow simple several procedures to identify the genuine ICO projects. These are the methods.

1) These websites are publishing good ICO's and we can select the good projects.
    www.icobench.com
    www.icotracker.com
    www.icodrops.com
2) After selecting ICO's from the above sites normally i read all the whitepapers to get the clear idea.
3) Then i read their road map and team members as well
4) Follow all the social media channels and join the telegram groups to know the updates
5) Get the ideas from Cryptocurrency experts

Securing your money? not all of them are secure and there are ICO's that are scams.

In what meaning does secure is to you? Secure in terms of making money or secure in terms of your money is safe with them?

personally i don't believe with others people or group analysis,
sometimes, they right about the ICO but sometimes not
because, no one know what will happend in the future

the most important think before investing in ICO is doing a deep research before buy,,
a lot of thing we must know about the project before make any decision

I think ICO is safe to invest. Because there are so many ICOs, it will bring opportunities for bad people to commit some fraud to steal all our money in the guise of ICO status. Because ICO is now more in demand by crypto enthusiasts so it provides an opportunity for people who are not responsible for committing crimes. So, as long as we can choose a good ICO, I'm sure we can get a quality ICO.

ICOs are definitely not secure.

You should always study a lot and count on the experience of other people. Some pools like cryptowhalespool.org (http://cryptowhalespool.org) can be a good start.

To know if the ICO is secure is that if a crypto token derives its value from an external, tradable asset, it is classified as a security token and becomes subject to federal security token and becomes subject to federal securities regulation. When the offering went public with the Ethereum smart contract contribution address, an attacker switched the official contribution address to the attacker's own anonymous address.

If investing in bitcoin is not really secure, let alone on ico. But the risk can be minimized by doing research on ico that we will support. But in general ico is a risky investment.

Probably a lot of really good projects but not getting enough support as it should. It is this situation that makes more than half of ico fail. So if compared with the existing altcoin, of course ico greater risk.

Depends on the team. Check their roadmap and be sure that they don't have bounty program.

I think not all ICOs are scams. I think ICO is promising, but it is easy for people to use and cause people's money to be deceived, but it does not deny there is a good ICO.

Not all ICO are scams, such claims are improper. There are a lot of good projects which are disqualified because of such opinions. I can suggest to look at Ambit Mining - this ICO is live now and it is very good project, go through it and you will understand that not all ICOs are scam.

I think that currently there is not a single safe project in the world in which you can invest your money and get a refund. Even the largest companies can fail and declare themselves bankrupt, in the end you will lose the invested funds. Even a friend you lent money to might not get it back. Therefore, all investments in ICO envy of your decision whether you are ready to lose these investments in case of failure of the project. There are plenty of them, both good and bad, who to believe, you decide.

You know what if you suspected that all ico are scam may I suggest you better leave in crypto world in order to avoid yourself from negativity. Basically if all are scam then why some of our fellow in this place testifies about they are so thankful for this project and bla bla bla as it was successful and they gain a lot of profit.

 Lot of really good projects are there and still coming to market we have to search and find which is good and we have to made some internal research, at this time i will refer a project caller "Egretia" i do some research for me i feel it is safe to invest in that project.

ico security has been a problem for investors in recent times on the exchange of cryptographic currencies. because frauds and scam ico counts increased. new rules must be introduced for this situation.

many of the ICO and appears almost every day there is always new. a lot of potential but also a scam there is still among them. comparison of the real and the scam may be the same. Thus the selection of the ICO obviously should be heeded because if it comes to wrong choose ICO to invest would be very unpleasant.

There are some risks to ico, especially on ambitious projects. In addition to the risk of consensus, there are cases where the project essentially fails because of legality issues by the local government. So for now maybe ico has the highest risk in the crypto industry.

I believe that there are still so many secure and legit ICO projects to invest in although the amount of scam ICO projects is also great as well.

But the only thing I don't like from ICO project at the moment is KYC. We need to provide our identity to be able to invest in ICO project nowaday and it's really risky cause my ID or passport can be sold on the dark market if ICO informations leaked.

At the moment, I think that it is not worth investing in ICO because there are so many fraudsters who just steal your money, I think it's better to buy an already existing coin on the market

There is risk in everything. ICOs are supposed to be clean and legit but lately there are growing number of scam projects so we better watch out and be meticulous in picking which ICOs we want to invest. Join a community in order to have a good brainstorming and websites that rate ICOs are also good basis.

Very unsafe.

Obviously not all ICOs are scams but they are not for the faint-hearted. They take time to research and choose wisely but they can be worth the while.

Yes I think is proportional to its potential. Of course, ico prices can be said to be very cheap and there is a chance. But this opportunity is often used by speculators to pump certain coins and certainly very risky.

Of course, we can not answer this by generalizing for every ICO. Some ICOs are well trusted and promise the future. Some are SCAM and the risk is very high. Some of these SCAM projects can somehow survive in the long run, but it is not right to trust them from the beginning. The SCAM project can always disappear, it can hurt people. So be careful and have a good search. It is always cautious and we need to make good use of the sub-plan especially when making a deposit. Not every ad is accurate. For this reason, many advertisers can also be SCAM. You should not forget this.

no, ico is very risky and even potentially lose your assets you invest. and not all ico are scammers, depending on your knowledge and experience to research and analyze in any speculation. but ico has advantages and offers multiple benefits rather than investing in exchanges.

To speak of all ICO as a scam is like saying that all swans are black. If you want to understand the phenomenon of crypto currency, learn how to invest and trade profitable, you need to understand that you can`t make unreasonable and generalized conclusions. There are many different projects. There are decent, but there are fraudulent. Nobody makes you invest in scam. You should study the market, monitor its changes and choose those projects that meet the criteria of a successful project. This requires time and your efforts in studying and analyzing information. This is the only way you can learn to work with crypto-currencies.

Secure or not of ico based on the owner it self, we have know many owner have trust in the ico, example or trust owner in ico project, where their coin is not sold out they want to refund their money investor and they have really trust their ico was failed, but they have most respontsblity to refund their money investor have bough ico. But if we found the scammer owner of ico always delay their ico to sell in market exchange.

Investing in an ICO is risky but you can always watch out for the red flags. Always do your research about the project so that you will know what you are getting yourself into. To choose a good ICO, check their whitepaper if it is well-written, fluent and can be understood by those who don't have PhDs. Also, check if the team has technical experience relevant to cryptocurrency, blockchain, decentralization. One example of a good ICO is VLUX. It is an integrated P2P energy trading solution, which combines cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology with blockchain. Learn more about VLUX on their website https://vlux.io/

There was one article and theory where the numbers were stunning about the trick ICO's. Very nearly 80% of the ICO's are there who transforms into trick without our notice and flee with our speculation. Some of them achieve the exchanger yet gets the dead volume and in this manner we free the cash. A considerable lot of them dont even entire the ICO deal and go dazzle whenever later. So I dont believe that there is whenever the ICO's are genuine one. You need to continue attempting a large number of them and endeavor to hit the best one. Shockingly that is the thing that you can do.

Not all ICOs are scam but I don't deny that most of them are scams
ICO is a high risk investment for beginners, to reduce that level of risk you should have an understanding of potential technology, assess the potential of their concept, and should investigate what the team has prepared before starting ICO "make sure the team have prepared their product, do not invest if the team only have a concept"

in fact not all ICO is safe, nor is it all scam. there are also successful ICO projects, and investors can reap huge profits from the ICO project. Unfortunately, there are currently projects that are deliberately scam, to trap new players in crypto. Therefore we must always be careful.

I don't think it will ever be 100% safe to invest in ICOs. Even if in the future there is a way to eliminate scams, there will still be good and bad projects. Bad projects means that people will lose their money thus it will not be secure.

It's very hard to tell whether an ico will be successful or not and it's really hard to find a good one because almost ico's are just scam. Uch better if you just invest in popular alts.

I think that many ICO projects are fraud, but there are also good projects, you just need to be able to choose good projects from all the rest of the slag. But even this will not guarantee that everything with the ICO will be good.

Both are are not correct in my opinion.
Sure, there are many ICO-scams, but some good ICOs, e.g. Smart Containers.
If you invest do your own reasearch and be careful.
If you unsure, don't invest.

no, ico is very risky. but ico gives many opportunities for you or investors to get profits abundantly. but of course not all ico will succeed and succeed. as well as with ico that leads to cheating and scam. this should be realized by new investors who want to be involved in the crypto industry. experience and knowledge play an important role.

There are some icos which are secure while there are also some which are scam. Moreover,there is no assurance that an ICO whether scam or not will make you profit. There are some icos which are legit but you can lose your profit easily because the token or coin is undervalued when introduced to the public. I suggest you invest in tokens or coins that has already proven its performance over time and when deciding on this take you time to access the project or carryout your own research about the project before investing in it.

I think that among the ICO projects there are good, but unfortunately statistics show that a lot of ICO projects is a Scam.

you must have an idea about ico. you can research basic information in different search engines
or read topics related to it here at the forum.

It is secure as investments is happened through smart contracts but you know how many people lost their money to scammers when investing in ico.

Yeah scammers are every where, so ICO is not secure for me, if you want to invest in ICO make sure that you know everything about the project and the team and of course about their roadmap.

My friend, here is how it goes. You don't wonder if it's Safe to buy gold. You go to a specialty store or a trusted pawnshop and buy. Here also, it is necessary to acquire logic by which you will distinguish "shop" from " baryg"

Of course, not all ICOs are scams but since there are scams out there and projects that are not well structured, makes ICO investment a risky business.

Recently, most of the scams concentrated in the ICO industry due to the ease of organizing a campaign to raise money while maintaining anonymity. The ICO Scam demonstrates how investments can be a disaster rather than a profit. Therefore, be careful when participating in such projects, do not take promises for granted, do your own research and follow your intuition to stay safe.

I think that now there are more and more scammers. people realized that everything turned out to be quite simple. You open ico you find sponsors, collect money and leave. And no persecution, obligations. Poetmou, in my opinion, investing is harder and harder, so do not be mistaken.

I agree with you that every year more and more fraud in the field of ICO, but good projects is becoming every year more and more. People are interested to develop their projects, getting support from other people. We by and large no one is forcing you to invest in one or another ICO , we make all decisions independently. It is therefore important to choose the right project.

Nobody will give you a guarantee ICO is secure. The project may fail for various reasons. It does not necessarily have to be a scam. Investing in ICO is risky, and not all are scam.

There are a lot of potential ICOs you have not found yet, but the sad truth is that many scam ICOs. Investing in an ICO is risky but you can always watch out for the red flags. Always do your research about the project so that you will know what you are getting yourself into.

This form of investment really attracts newbies, the pattern was so easy as they will try to compare such successful project and let newbies believe that same fate will happen, organizing many features and good promises together with alots of advertisement, its really risky placing your money from this type of business, we need to be more precise and keen investigating first before placing our money to avoid getting scam.

I think most are but not all

Of course, there are certain and fraudulent companies, but certainly not all, and therefore investing in crypto projects is profitable, but it is necessary to carefully re-read white paper

Not all ICOs are secure. For every secure ICO, there will always be a scam one. But to truly know the scam from the real ICOs, one has to do a lot of research on the project to see how workable it is and most especially, research on the team. Scam ICOs will always put up fake personnel and tag them as part of their team

It will never be completely safe to invest in an ICO, it envolves a high risk but as long as you make sure you check a few important factors that separate the quality projects from the scam then you should feel more confident in investing.

Not every ico safe i think
So many ico becoming a scam
With a nice promise they leave their investors
At the beginning the price were so high
But at the middle of the way
They leave without any reason

Will for me yes!... ico or a intial coin offering is a safe and secured to invest your money. As long you wont invest your money in a wrong way. What is the right way? For me the right way is make a investagation on a ico. Ask some profissional or your friend that has more experience. Then read there whitepaper it may help you to decide the last is the population

 Ill suggest innovative bioresearch ico
Check there ann thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3378302
Or there website http://innovativebioresearch.com/

I've known people who already earned using ICO so I think it is secure. I heard only one circumstance that an individual lost his Eth earnings but I think this is only an isolated case. I believe hackers are targeting only targeting the Eth holders.

I say, yes and no. if you invest in ICO at that risk. You should know the platform information that issued the ico, see its roadmap, product, team and others. it is one way to invest in ICO. The policies of each country are different and that is also what often interfere with ICO companies, especially in the field of cryptocurrency.

Many people are afraid of ICO during these times. Scam ICO processes are constantly increasing.
Everyone should be careful and not be disappointed. Right research is very important.

I'd suggest you should do your research before you invest . Wheather it's a ICO or an existing project better to look at the key aspects. This is similar to invest in a IPO or a Equity. You need to identify the long term prospects of the company and the industry sustainability. Traditionally we analyze these aspect based on ration analysis like price earning ratio, divident yield , net asset per share NAV, Debt t equity ratio, etc. This can be done by looking at the introductory document the company publish before the  IPO.But in a ICO you can not exactly d that. You need to read the white paper to get the much information as well.
I think lookinig at the team and the industry impact of the project, past record, the problem they are trying solve and whether it is achievable would be good indicators to take into consideration. Once you are satisfied with these fact then i guess you are in the safe zone. Like in every industry there are scammer who would try to grab your money. you need to do your wn research not to burn by those scammers

First of all, not all ICOs are scam.
Secodly, it is not secure to invest in ICO, as you have to analyse the project will.
and if you do not have enough experience, your analysis can be wrong.

I would say that ICOs are the best way to earn easy money. Of course, you need to do some investigation before investing, but there're so many useful resources where you can find ICO ratings, reviews, disscussions and AMA, so it's not so difficult to select a good ICO for investment, what is more challenging is to get whitelisted and be eligible to participate in a token sale.

I believe that ICOs are at the moment a safe way to invest in crypto. Yes, of course, as in every industry, there are fraudulent projects here, but they are everywhere and you need to be careful not to invest in fraud.

Investing in ICO is always very risky. But this can be offset by very good profits, it often compensates for the risks. But if very carefully selected, the risks can be minimized, I think

Yes ICO is very secure all we have to do is be very careful when dealing in the ICO. We should do well to read about the ICO and understand what the project is all about, reading the whitepaper is a very good way to know more about the project to deduce what it is all about so I can say if you deal in a good ICO then you are secured and shouldn't panic but once you deal in a fake ICO you make get scammed. Majority of ICO out there is very real and genuine so I will say ICO is secured

In a market with potentials of profit or making money, it is only normal for there to be the fakes that wanna strip you of your money and make themselve richer and the real that are really concerned with creating value and delivering its promises. So as an investor, it is your duty to be able to carefully study the market and seperate the fakes from the real with indepth research and deep analysis before investing or parting away your money.

Most ICOs are held to let founders make money.
You should do your own research and look for reliable information on icobench, icodrops etc.

You should be cautious when investing in ICOs. ICOs are full of pitfalls. You can easily fall into the trap when you are not careful.

I think that the vast majority of ICOs is scam. Therefore, you need to be as careful as possible when choosing a project for investment.

Not all ICO is fraud, but there is a lot of scam - you have to be careful. There are sites that collect a rating of promising projects, for example, ICO Drops - you need to listen to such sites, then you are unlikely to lose your money.

NO, ICO is not secure to invest, and not all the ICO is scam either. In order to be successful when investing in ICO, have to choose it very wisely. Unfortunately most of the ICO are not good either because it is a scam project or launched too early and not good enough to conquer in the competitive market.

It's not secure and I don't think it can until there's regulations in place,  the rate at which new Ico are coming up each day is quite alarming, majority of them are scam, so it's better to do good research about Ico you wanna buy

Everybody want to earn money with the very trusted and Secure platform but in this online industry there are too many platform and all platform is not good for everyone because there are too many platform always scam. If you want to start ICO program you can do it because if you know how to analyses ICO program so you can do it without any hesitation because if I say success you can make a huge profit for your ICO program so you can start invest your money with ICO program

If you invest in the right project - YES.
If you choose a wrong one - NO.
If you are interest to invest in safe project - Welltrado.

In my opinion ICOs are definitely not secure and people tend to lose more than win if they invest blindly or following suggestions from unknown people who got nothing to lose.

You should always study a lot and count on the experience of other people who got something to lose in case of failure. Some pools like cryptowhalespool.org (http://cryptowhalespool.org) can be a good start for such new investors.

You should check and evaluate it your self before investing. There are a lot of scam ICOs, so you should do your own home work before investing in any ICOs. Even ICOs that have a good white paper and a credible team sometimes lack in competence after a successful ICO.

Everything depends on the ICO project you need to get acquainted with the perspectives that the organization offers ...

Deceptive ICO is now a lot, but there are also some teams that are really doing ICO projects, which requires us to analyze, to understand the project Caixing, not all ICOs are false, just fake projects too Many, covered our eyes! However, the real thing will eventually overcome these false items!

Of course not all , but a very high percentage of fraud. Investments can not be guaranteed in luck at 100% especially here

Need to rephrase. ICO is a good method for scam, but among them there are promising investment projects, which can be very profitable. It is important to find these projects.

For now all that happens in cryptomarket is definitely wild west and nobody can guarantee you investment return

The ICO is very ok if you find a good one. if you have been following ICO you will discover many ICO do not make soft cap not to talk about reaching hardcap and some that made hardcap are trading below ICO price while some ICO are locking their token for a period of time to prevent massive dump of the token. However if you are planning of investing in ICO I will advise you to invest in anyone with working product because those one are not likely to turn to scam. however I normally invest in token that are already listed in trading platform. mostly after massive dump. And I do follow well the roadmap. I currently did the same for NLX token which I bought at 0.00000412 per token and I sold it yesterday when the price went 0.00002000 on cryptopia. next is Zap  ;D. hoping for moon next few weeks.

YES! But most ICOs are the scams If you have to invest in the ICOs I prefer you to have to first research site rating, platforms & products.

Of course not. ICO is not a safe investment. If you understand the crypto currency and know how to analyze, then you will find a good project. But since you ask about this, you probably do not understand. I would not advise you to participate in ico. Compared with last year, there were more scammers

I agree with you. I just participated in SciDex’s community program. They are building a new marketspace for scientific data and their goal is to accelerate science. Has anyone else been following them yet?

No, I don't think the current ICOs are safe. Most of the ICOs are now scams. They use people to scam ideas about ICO's riches. I think we should stay away from ICOs....

of course ICO for us is also safe we use for investment in the long term, because for us the price of kaoin in ICO also so cheap compared to the price in the market, so we can stand several years kedepanya with high price. so we'll get a good profit.

I always think that investing in ICO is very risky because some ICOs are scams. You can't believe ICO recommended to you by anyone. You can only rely on your own judgment on ICO. If you can't determine the ICO you are about to invest in. Whether it is true, you should take care of your money carefully.

It is secure in case of investing in right project, take a look at Ambit Mining ICO, very promising project and it will work for sure.

Of course not all ICOs are secure, there are a lot of scams, so you should select good one, first step is to look at comparing and rating platforms, to choose some well rated ICOs. I am often looking at ww.icoguide.com; and then you will look at ICOs themselves.

Not all ICOs are scam, many good ICOs and have good potential in the future. Sometimes join on good ICO give us big profits when that token landed on exchanger. We should always research on their dev team and research about their whitepaper. Its better join on ICOs that already have working product because i think its more safe

there are a lot of ICOs today and many of them are scam but there are still good ICOs. finding them is not that hard you just have to research well. investing is risky and it depends on you on how to secure yourself. :)

Many of them are scam but still Ico's are still worthy to invest. Invest only on those worth project to grow these may challenge to all users because it may scam or get profit. It is secured just put your effort to make research about the Ico.

I don't think it will ever be 100% safe to invest in ICOs. Even if in the future there is a way to eliminate scams, there will still be good and bad projects. Bad projects means that people will lose their money thus it will not be secure.

All forms of investment have risks, including investments for ico projects. There is no guarantee that investment in ico projects is safe or not. All you have to do is always be careful in starting the investment. You can check everything related to the project, exploit the benefits, goals, potential, the existence of the site, the developer team, to the white paper.

Investing in ico has always been unsafe. Many people do not want to perform their duties when they collect money for the project. Many projects are also fake. We should always be cautious about choosing the ico, as long as there is no proper registration by the state.

no, no ico is safe at the same time ico is successful. of course all of these contain risks and high speculation. so that's why we have to be wise even more in every analysis and research. and not all ico scam.

Oh hey, I love IOST also. I just invested also to it lately in another address.

Anyways, when it comes to ICO making standards isn't that easy anymore on what should you look into at. A team might look legit in their faces, those smiles that asks for a runaway money. You can never be sure who are gonna see you on the other side or the one who will let you down after the succession of their project. No securities, but you can reduce it however.
Not all ICOs are being joined by such adviser but you can search up the whitepaper but wait?
Do you understand what are being written in the whitepaper? Get ready to learn technicalities when you start reading though. Don't just read, but also do a comprehension in reading those. Your 20 minutes of reading the whitepaper could be wasted if you just keep reading it without understanding every piece. But wait there's more.

You understand what is being written in the whitepaper, you know how does it utilize the blockchain technology BUT, is it relevant? Is it gonna be practical of use these days in our modern life? Remember, your ICO might be legit but do you expect a lot of investors to go with your path? It still depends on the succession of the project on its legitimacy. An ICO could be legit but still failed, buddy.
Level up your standards in investing, imo.

all ICOs are NOT the scams. Why should they be all scams? Are all companies on the world scams because some companies are trying to deceive people? I don't think so

Of course, far from all investments in ICO will bring a high income, but if you carefully study and choose a good project, the chances of success will seriously increase.

I can say that ICO is secure and i already prove it to my self that it is really secure and it depends on you,how will you secure yourself,even if ICO encounter a lot of problems but it still prove to us that it can stay whatever scammers do to it to continue produced our income and all we need to do to help it,is to continue trusting and believe of it,and we also protect our coins to all scammers and to avoid being scam is to choose well the ICO you want to invest in to make you comfortable.

Investors investing in ico recently have been afraid because the number of cheaters has increased in the market. i need to be new rules about ico security

That is true, their are ICO which is scam others are can be trusted. Although it is very risky try to look for an advantages that drag you in upper portion. Yes their are a lot of circumstances to be considered but yet not to the point that you are not good in investing although it is a challenge. For me ICO is secure enough to go through.

Yes. There are still ICO's who are secure and ensures that it is not a scam, but there are also ICO's that are just there to fool people and to scam money. Well, it is inevitable to see ICO's like those, it is very important to read and research about a certain ICO, in this way, you can decrease the risk of having SCAM ICO'S.

No. Ico aint secure at all but not all ico is a scam. You asking an obvious question which been asking so many times. Goverment are trying to regulate cryptocurrency so the ico is. So many ico are canceled in last month cause of regulation on their own country that makes them cant do ICO and country such china even been ban ico since last year. I do think we do need regulation so there will be no more Scam ICO and cryptocurrency development will be more secure and safe for investors. There is many good ICO out there that are good to invest your money but you need to be aware and choose wisely.

ICOs are a secure as you want to make them, that is, you need to make sure that you do proper research and that they have reputable partners and teams.

Don't think negative about ICO. Sometimes ICO are good way to invest but due to some of them are scam people often became afraid to invest. My overall impression on ICO is still positive because most of them are legit and has a promising platform.

Certainly there are ico good and not scammers. but there are also non-payment classes. so we're also careful about our ico contacts and first acknowledge those who hold it.

ICO still has the potential to produce. but to be able to find it then it must be very thorough in choosing because the scam also started much in ICO. Despite the promising but many are making use of this to get funds easily and dishonest. always be wary of any ICO. Despite the promising but there is no guarantee of security.

You know what if you suspected that all ico are scam may I suggest you better leave in crypto world in order to avoid yourself from negativity. Basically if all are scam then why some of our fellow in this place testifies about they are so thankful for this project and bla bla bla as it was successful and they gain a lot of profit.

of course, ICOs are not scams, at least not all of them, of course. So do not give up, just be sure that you will not give you money for nothing

Do not let scammer disappoint you in ICOs or in bounty projects or in altcoins. Just take care and continue your attempts to get what you want

not all ico are secured, you need a lot of research about their project plans, know and investigate the team behind it.. because nowadays there's always a evil minds people to collecting funds from their victims. must be careful choose the real one.

In my own experience, there's a lot of ICO is legit but it depends on the bounty manager and their team some ico are a scam because of the team and the bounty manager are responsible to that issue, review first the ico and their team behind of the project before to participate to prevent scam.

Yes must be thorough in choosing an ICO.
There are many ICO projects and also many scam to get money easily but most of them are really profitable especially the bounty participants that will earn free.

the good question is that if you want to invest in ICO, it is good, because you have invested in ICO, but on security we can not trust and ensure the security of ICO, because there are also complain and mesara deceived, but we also be careful for the security of the goods we invest.

I think only a few are an actual scam. Set up to take peoples money with nothing in return from day one.

I don't think all are scams. Projects that fail are not scams. Outside crypto millions of projects fail yearly and maybe there are as much reasons why they fail. No point in calling all projects a scam, they either become a success or they don't. Shit ICO's became huge MC projects. Perfect ICO's ended up in the garbage after the first real fud attempt. In the end it's a bit of a gamble. You can research all you want, you can't control what goes on in a project.....

I do not dare to say investment in ICO is safe, but 80% of ICO can be trusted. And we should not say that all ICO is a fraud, the foundation of many successful investors from the investment of ICO.

Of course the ICO is safe, indeed there are occasional ICO projects fail, even including a scam. However, most of the existing ICO projects are original projects. The project of selling tokens or coins to investors in certain destinations according to their respective platforms. Therefore, in investing altcoin in ICO TOKEN SALE, choose wisely. Read whitepaper, see terms and who are the members of his team. Find the rating of some websites, eg trackico and icobench.com for consideration in choosing ICO. They rated ICO based on experience from altcoin and blockchain seniors. So ico project can be safe and get big profit.

Not all ICOs are scam but most of them are. Just let me remind you that when it comes to investment there is nothing like secured money, because you are trusting that company in exchange of a coin or token that still dont have any value until it gets listed by an exchange. If you invested on ICO they can change the rules, they can run with all the money, stop the ongoing crowd funding without having a hard time doing it,because they all have the control. This is why it is always recommended to have your own research before investing.

There is nothing secure in investing. There is always the risk moreover investing in ICO which more unstable and many scams. But do not worry, because some ICO is very profitable and secure. So what is needed is the knowledge to choose which ICO is good or bad.

certainly not. nothing is really safe when you try to invest your money in an ico. this requires research, research and try to analyze. why should it be? to know a ico is potentially and brings a brilliant idea with its technology. and to try to find a gap in the ico that leads to a scam or do not have a good chance in success.

Investing in ICO is a good investment but a very risky one. Requires a lot of research about the project and the team running it as majority of ICOs nowadays turns out to be scam. Also you must consider the projects sustainability when launched in the market. As long as you do your research and sure of the project then go ahead. It gives you a lot of returns

ICOs are not secure so you should know before you invest that you are putting money in something that is very unpredictable and very likely to fail if the project falls apart. ICOs are very unpredictable, with so many scam icos out there now there is no way to tell which projects are best for investing in, so when you invest you should accept the fact that you could lose all of your money if it fails

Most of the ICO projects are at an early stage, and I think most of the ICO projects will disappear.
So it's just gambling.

I think that now there are more and more scammers. people realized that everything turned out to be quite simple. You open ico you find sponsors, collect money and leave. And no persecution, obligations. Poetmou, in my opinion, investing is harder and harder, so do not be mistaken.There was one article and theory where the numbers were stunning about the trick ICO's. Very nearly 80% of the ICO's are there who transforms into trick without our notice and flee with our speculation. Some of them achieve the exchanger yet gets the dead volume and in this manner we free the cash. A considerable lot of them dont even entire the ICO deal and go dazzle whenever later. So I dont believe that there is whenever the ICO's are genuine one. You need to continue attempting a large number of them and endeavor to hit the best one. Shockingly that is the thing that you can do.

Investing in ico can be said to be safe if you start or do research first before investing in ico. Because there are still some ico scam that will only cause you to lose money. So if you want to avoid ico scam then do your own research. That's the advice I give hopefully help you.

Nowadays, the different ICO project are spreading and some of them are not legitimate because the project they promoted was copied by others and it's too confusing right now but in this matter to be secured in terms of that ,before starting to decide investing money make some research about there projects and read there white paper, also be more vigilant to choose a good ICO .

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is a US government agency for the supervision and regulation of the US securities market. Today, the SEC is one of the authoritative ICO regulators that guarantee the protection of American investors. The result is that startups who want to go to a token are required to register their "currency" and follow the rules of the law; investors are officially protected from scams. In the US and similar countries, ICO is safe, and this is a fact.

No, investing in ICO is a big risk. Before investing in such projects, you must carefully choose some of the most reliable projects.

For now I will say yes it not secure... 90% ICO are scam they try to gain the system using business strategies and giving hopes. But if ICO are register under an organization.... I think it will be secure because they can be easily track down. Since it is registered.... As for now ICO are not secure.

Depends on the team. Check their roadmap and be sure that they don't have bounty program.

Some ICO’s are secure and there are also some that are not.Criminal minds right now uses the tactic to disguise as an ICO company issuing tokens for everyone;having free airdrop and sometimes if they are really believable to see then they do bounty campaigning.The way to avoid them is studying thoroughly their whitepaper and teams.

There are still very good ICO in the crypto space. This depends the project you are investing in. The most important thing is for you to carry out your research before participating in any project. I always go for real projects with a working product instead a project with just hype.  have learnt my lessons from so many projects and i now know most projects that work better and last linger.

Not always, there are often good ones, and simply we do not pay attention to them, we need to look at the team and the managers who took up this project are doing a lot of things!

ICO is not secure and ICO is not a scam totally at the same time. I don’t think that it has sense to try to find absolutely fair project. It is much more important to invest in different projects which looks perspective.

No it is not and most of them were scams and others were the tokens will never listed on any exchange so it involves more risk too but the return also can be high so we ha e to decide based on our expectation level on profits and skills on picking the project.

Not all ICOs are scams, but the risk of investing in ICOs is high, so I don't recommend that you invest in it, although if you are lucky, you can get great benefits, but the odds are small, you You can invest in some excellent cryptocurrencies.

Despite cryptocurrencies’ high security advantages, there are cases where people can get even through the safest things. In the last months, security in the ICO projects is gaining a lot of attention. But, many people are not aware of the risks and holes that can appear in the ICO world.

You cant tell that all icos are scam but some yes. It is very risky to invest in some icos these days. It is useful to be careful.

actually, if we follow the scam ico then it's not secure, but if we follow a good ico then it will be secure and we will get profits. not all ico is a scam, in fact, many ico are good and successful, and certainly, it gives big profits for the investors. i think it all depends on how we choose a good ico.

ICO is just as risky as any other investment that you make into cryptos, which means that you should always be ready to lose your money to it

ICO scam exists, there are also real. ICO is currently rife once used for things that are not necessarily like to take advantage of its own from others and take her run. of course this needs to be controlled and should be made so that attention is careful in choosing to invest in ICO.

I think as long as you research the ico project before investing there it is safe. You just need to do your research and find out as much information about the ico project. Then you will avoid the scam ico project. Stay cautious about the scam ico project. And avoid something excessive.

ICOs isn't secure, but not all of them are scam. Be careful with choosing ico for invest. I hope problem of scam will be solved soon.

At the moment if you invest in really good and hyped ICOs they will never be scam. You always need to be very picky with projects where you invest your money. Always check project team and what they was doing before launching this project.
Regards.

Definitely not all ICO are scam in this time. We are just in bear market that's the reason why after ICO l, almost all coins/tokens listed in exchanges now got below ICO price.

I think you should be cautious when investing in ICOs. ICOs are full of pitfalls. You can easily fall into the trap when you are not careful.  :)

there are ICOs who are not scams like the ICO bench have said that it is a non-scam and good part because they are at high rates here I am looking for a place to join.

Nothing has changed, there are scammers, there are normal projects . it all depends on what you choose

I think, if you want to invest, how to protect it is to check all that can be checked, carefully choose the candidate for investment. This is your money, and how thoroughly you study the project. Invest your own risk and always do your own research in relation to its performance. Remember to always invest the amount you can only lose.

I agree on you, to avoid any loses just review and study the ICO youve investing for.Scammer is always active and mostly found in ICO. Investing on this is a highly risk so its better to be knowledgable enough to avoid loses.

I think it is not worth the risk to invest in ico if you do not understand anything about it

Based on my experience, that not all ICO scam and not all ICO profitable. it depends on many influential factors.
The profitable ICO in my opinion is still a lot nowadays. it is evident from the various ICOs I know and they are good at developing the project.
As for the ICO scam, they do not provide all the criteria that must be a natural project, eg whitepaper or even the absence of an advisor.
so, to invest in ICO is still safe but still must be selective in choosing a good ICO.

Iso has its risks. You have to be careful. Not to trust anyone except the official admins in groups. Look at the links of sites whether there is a secure icon. Use different email for exchanges and ico.

You are wrong, at the moment there are a lot of good ico , scammers have always been ...but you must be able to determine who is a fraud and who is not

The ICO process is not completely fraudulent, but it is also not safe for investors. A significant part of it is fraud or simply not prepared projects. Therefore, there are big problems in the activities of the ICO and they should be resolved through regulation by the state authorities. This problem has ripened for a long time, because of this ICO partially lost its. popularity and is considered very risky.

Most icos are secure , people should investigate and research before investing in any ico , icos are best in terms of giving returns and getting the best project in early stages and be the part of the change , icos are risky for those people who don't do research and investigate properly

Not all ICO are scam , if you doubt about  ICO. We have plenty of good ICO  as of the moment. You should simply  invest your valuable time looking which one really suited to your investment style.

Finally be mindful to all the scammers and phishing link pretending to be admin.

there are some people who use ico to get money in a fraudulent way. it causing many investors are afraid to follow an ico. but please note that there are still many good and successful ico. so there are still many investors who get benefit from it. it's just that the current price of coin in the market is down and that is causing the investors are less interesting to following the ico. I hope the price of the coins will rise again.

Yes there are many ico's still in the market which afe secure and safe to invest in you just need to put the time and effort to find it there are still ICO's which have a promising deal
take a look at ASURA it's crowdsale is on going and its target is the esport gaming world and I truly believe it can join in on the wonderful journey

There are really a lot of scams on the market, but not all ico are scams

try to make some study whether is this are good ICO so you may not have some regret for other people for listening on what project are you going to join for best is you already knew and make your own , that you dont have to based for other people.

all ICO are not all safe to follow.
in my opinion because it can hardly be differentiated by the layman, how ICO scam and ICO is good so now new investors hesitate to invest in it.

For several years, nothing has changed, scammers have always existed . I think beginners should not invest in ico ...

ICOs are generally risky with a potential to get high gains in return. If you're looking for a good project then try ZNAQ. Here is a snippet of information to help you, then you can study the whitepaper yourself:


https://icobench.com/ico/znaq (https://icobench.com/ico/znaq)

determining which ico is good or a scam is difficult, but I think it all depends on the management team

Today the majority of the ICO scammers. And I think it's not safe. You need to work only with proven ICO. To avoid losing your assets :-\

Learn to choose projects, in which you want to invest money. Analyze the projec tand the team, will the project be in demand? There are always risks, but you will minimize them.

Investing in an ICO is risky but you can always watch out for the red flags. Always do your research about the project so that you will know what you are getting yourself into.

All icos are not scam and it is a good time to invest in icos that are potential. It is better to do a proper research about a project, its community, and its manager before investing in it.

I think no, ICO is the way the developers raise capital, Can be successful or not, there are projects set up to deliberately deceived. Investment should be carefully considered before deciding to participate,

Both your questions no. It is not secured no one gives you guarantee, tons of scammy ones but some really interesting.

The ICO market is now just teeming with swindlers of different colors, but not all of the ICO are fraudulent, you have to be very careful when choosing it, otherwise you will be left with nothing

It is always a risk when you invest in an ICO. Any ICO can scam. no matter how good it is. No one knows. So if you invest in an ICO, be prepared. The scam rate is very high.

No, it is not the best time to invest into any ICO. It is a good time to invest into high potentional altcoins, ICOs (some of them only) or Bitcoin.
But keep in mind that return of your investment could take years ;).

Not all  ICOs are secured but really need to understand the ICO you wish to invest in and do the proper research about them before putting your money.

Nothing is 100% secure. To my mind, it is better to take risks than to do nothing because you won't get profit without taking risks. The only thing you should remember is that risks must be reasonable

no, not all of them are scam. Now it is extremely hard to join the crypto market and there is a big difference between now and December. I remember those days when any project could give you at least x2, but the time has changed. Now it is harder to get profit, but this doesn't mean that all the projects are scams

There are legitimate ICOs and there are a lot of scam ICOs. It's difficult to tell which is legit and which is not nowadays. A lot of developers want to earn instant money, so, once they are finished with the ICO, sometimes they run and disappear. Some fail to use the money properly for project development, that is why some projects die just before they carry out their road map.

we can't say that all the ICOs are secure nor all the ICOs are scam. There are good ICOs that I think is secure and also there are many ICOs that are scam. Inorder to make sire that you are into a good project you need to do your research before investing into it or joining their bounties.

I don’t think it is really secure. There are so many people that have lost their investments.. I would not even try..

Unfortunately, there are a lot of scams on the market now . but esty and normal guys with good projects . Only Analytics will help

Not all ICOs are SCAM, because around 30% of the ICOs are successful.
If you are familiar with the Bounty Manager then you will know which ICO is SCAM and not.

I hope you ask more in this forum to see your future brighter again.

Investing ICO is extremely a risky method. There are so many scam projects as well and you should be aware of this as well. If you follow below mentioned procedure correctly you do not need to get any risk.

1) Use below mentioned websites to find the genuine ICO projects.
    www.icobench.com
    www.icotracker.com
    www.icodrops.com
2) After selecting ICO's from the above sites normally i read all the whitepapers to get the clear idea.
3) Then i read their road map and team members as well
4) Follow all the social media channels and join the telegram groups to know the updates
5) Get the ideas from Cryptocurrency experts

Your security depends on you, and not all ICO's are worth investing in.

The best way to protect yourself is to examine everything that can be checked and carefully select potential projects.

now, there are some ico who are a scam but it doesn't mean that all ico are scams. there are still many ico legit that we can follow. it all depends on how we can choose an ico. if we can choose ico well then we will get legit results, but if we can't choose well we will get ico that is a scam.

If you have done some research, you will know that crypto doesn't have any guarantee in earning. Every investment has risk so as ICO's.  Not all of the ICO's are scam. Some of them just have a poor product failing to sell their coin. If you go to a listing site, you will know that there are ICO's who were able to succeed and got listed. Its all about choosing the right ICO to invest. That can be very hard to do but its better to research than lose your money.

now it's difficult to determine whether investing in IO is still safe or not, but in my opinion, maybe now it's risky because of the many scams IO have lately, and distinguishing between where IOC is good and which ico is bad is also difficult, because of the quality ico, who is a scam and ico, who succeeds is inversely proportional, there are some ico who are scam but have a good rating, and there are also ico who are successful but the ico has a rating that is not too good.

Scammers have always existed. It is true. However, with the growing interest in cryptocurrencies, the number of ICO scams is growing rapidly. This can be seen, for example, by the number of posts or forum threads about ICO scams.

I think ICOs are just getting started.. It's true that the popularity some ICOs are just inflated from hype, but with the launch of Menlo One's ICO marketplace, risks will be lessened significantly through their unique guild and proof of reputation system.. Link to their whitepaper: https://www.menlo.one/

ICO problem !!!
I do not think there is an organization up there to protect and protect investors.
That is still a problem and investors are thought to be venture capitalists!
But to reduce some of the SCAM projects, you can refer to some of my comments:
You need to find out the project information, visit the developer and refer to the many years of experience in assessing ICOs.

There is no way to tell if icos are secure. Reasons being that there are just as much good ones as there are bad ones but they are just like any other cryptocurrencies, in the end it is the creators of the coin which decide if the coin will be good enough or not. If you are investing in icos, just be careful and make sure that you do not put too much money at a time in them.

not all ico is fraud, many new ico are also recommended, for example rock, the ico has been successful and the coins yesterday got up to the moon, until it passed during the campaign

There are many good ICO which can give profit in long term. But you should read a lot of information about it and make your own research and only after that make a decision about taking part.

ICOs are not so secure. Not anymore. There are too many scams all over the place now, and it has been a burden to a lot of persons as this is quite challenging and puts everyone on their feets. People need to be more careful about their investments in ICOs so they don't fall for scams nowadays, and this is bad for the market.

Answer somewhere in the middle. :) I saw many scams and hear more from bitcointalk users. I'm sure that it is really to find cool project, which will bring you good profit.

Indeed a lot of ICO fraud but I think behind the many glass there are still pearls. That means there are still ICOs that are truly trusted and responsible among these ICO frauds. It's just that as a smart and wise crypto currency player, we have to look for the good ICO very carefully. We can explore each white paper from the ICO so that we have a deep and detailed picture of the ICO. We don't want to take part in the ICO because it affected most people who also flocked to join the ICO.

Not all icos are scams and not all failed icos are scam too.  But there are many fake ico and the only way you can avoid them is by doing your own research and not base everything on what icobench says.. 

Don't judge that, because not all ICOs are scam and they may come with real product.
an assessment whether an ICO is secure or not, may be found through your research in selecting it.

ICO investment is risky indeed and there is no guarantee whatsoever that you will recoup your money!  You can still invest in quality project and make profit if it go on to be successful.  Invest wisely!

If you find a good project then investing in ICO is a good way to increase your own profits. If you do not have a large amount of money, ICO projects are a great way to get involved in the digital money market. Before you decide to join the ICO you need to keep an eye on the news. from the project to avoid the risk.

Truly. There are as yet ICO's who are secure and guarantees that it's anything but a trick, however there are additionally ICO's that are only there to trick individuals and to trick cash. All things considered, it is unavoidable to see ICO resembles those, it is essential to peruse and explore about a specific ICO, along these lines, you can diminish the danger of having SCAM ICO'S.

no one can guarantee to join ico safely, because we only hold the principle of trust, and there is no guarantee whatsoever for the owner of ico

Not all of them are fraudulent. There are some good ico, so consider carefully before investing

of the many scam ico, it can be concluded that currently investing in ico is not safe, because it determines which ico is good and where the successful ico also becomes difficult, and even ico which looks good is not necessarily going to be successful and ico that seems bad not necessarily going to be a scam, so be careful if you want to invest in ico.

Nothing is secure to you if you didn't use you brain on that. It's problem of us we judge a thing like based on youtube video, marketing material, bonus etc. It's not working for real project. So apply your thought , compair with real life the project you can definatly diffrenciate good vs bad.

secure and it is not the same comparison. ICO is not safe for investment but if you could choose the ICO is good then the results could be promising. but of course, it would also be at risk if either chooses ICO so that it will lead to results being bad even involved in the scam.

Nothing is secure in the cryptoworld especially that cryptocurrencies are risky because it's volatile in nature. You can invest as many ICOs as you can but you can not be sure that all of these ICOs are legit and are promising as what they claimed in their website and whitepaper.

Nothing is secure on CRYPTO world but some ICO can make you rich only if you can make a good research about the ICO you wish to invest to see if truly, the project and the team are legit.

Secure or not an ico project is depend how we can know detail is good or not ico project for investment, like we can find good ico with have higher ico rating and sold out their token by investor, we can follow how investor invest their money on ico, they have know which ne secure and best ico.

Not all ICO are safe and secure and not all ICO are scam. Because there are still lot of ICO's that are legit and you can earn out of it. You just have to be very diligent in researching what it is or what it does about the project you are going to enter.

The price of Ethereum is being very low, so if you choose good ICO and invest at this time is also good choice, because when the market go up again, you will get double profit

Today's ICO is not very safe. there are still many fraud and fraud projects. there are still many projects that die because there are no investors entering. I think the ICO is now different from ICO in 2017. Because until now the ICO has become the main topic in the discussion of projects that are scam in several forums. so be more careful for users who want to jump into the ICO.

There are some legit ICOs, scidex is one of them. It's very promising project. Recently, it's start volunteer program and it is the time to being a part of good project.  :)

To a larger extent, I don't think that is a secure investment. Yes investing in ICOs are good, and could be considered a smart move, it is an even riskier move because it is easier for an ICO to fail. This is one reason why many people will not consider it to be a wise investment. If you can take the risk, then you can go ahead and invest in it.

Investment in ICO is still quite safe, but now people are very cautious when investing in ICO because the crypto market has fallen sharply over time. I also note that ICO investment is currently very difficult to make a profit because ICO, despite the successful sale, but its value when it is listed is not really good. I suggest that you learn some technical analysis to evaluate the market and daily surfing trading. Or you intend to hold long can choose some good altcoin like NEO, EOS, XRP, etc.

ICO investments has become black market, this year has recorded worse ICO conducted, most of the ICOs projects enter the market way below the ICO price, however  we still have good ICO but it's very few of them. Therefore, ICO investments is not secure anymore.

Nothing in this world is 100 percent secure. You should know who you give your money and what for. Otherwise you can lose everything you have. Do a good research and only after that invest in ICO

Depending on the ICO, maybe you should continue to communicate with your community about the ICO.
Because if you don't ask a lot, maybe you will get stuck in the wrong ICO.

And I emphasize that the ICO is not full of SCAM, maybe around 30% of the total ICO that will be successful in the market.

70% REAL
30% failed to complete Softcap.

please be patient for all, because it needs a process for it.
You have to study for all, find friends to discuss about a REAL ICO for your future.

Icos are dangerous from the one side and it is hard to find really worthy one for investin, so I offer to invest in cryptocurerncies, there are much more reliable.

I know that there are projects that deal with the cybersecurity of ICO projects. They can protect projects from hacker attacks or audit a smart contract.https://hacken.io/ (https://hacken.io/)

For this question to be all over the forum, shows how much faith people have lost on icos. This doesn't just paint icos bad and scams, its paints the whole cryptocurrency a scam. Imagine if a new investor falls for that, what will he his motivation to invest again?

Not always ICO is a fraud, sometimes you can invest in pretty good projects, but it's rare!

ICO is a very profitable type of investment, in the past year I was able to get profits up to thousands of percent because I followed several ICO tops like Populous, Bitquence, Internxt, Monaco, Wetrust and so on, but this year there were too many ICOs so that many could not reach the softcap so they stop the project.

I have learnt that nothing is actually guaranteed in crypto, always do your due diligence before participating in any ICO and pray for favor to be lucky you made the right choice because we have seen some seemingly good project not shutting down at the end of the day

Right now, ICO investment requires a lot of investigation from your part in order to get into a project that is worth it, something like the 70 percent of them are kind of rubbish at the moment.

maybe there are good projects that are not fraudulent. and Yes, most of the projects are scams. so it is not safe to invest in ICO.

Most of ICO right now are fraud but not all of them, we really have a skill atleast to detect and know the behaviour of Scam ICOs. Also the ICO rating website didn't give any guarantee that if they list the ICO, those ICO will working on. Yup more likely a gambling to know its scam or not

For me, i wouldn't risk my fund to them anymore, only take a seat on 1 or 2 ICOs is more than enough.

Honestly not all of them are secure. Sadly to say most of them are actually scam. But to prevent joining those scam, you must investigate the ICO first. Look if it has reliable people behind it.

Can not generalize
There are many ico of scam
There are very serious and important projects
But in fact the whole market is bearish
Do not wait for x5 x10 as before.

It is safe if you are sure in it from the side of its white paper, which is very significant in the working with ICO. Read it with much attention, there are too many scams today.

I consider ICO to be the most dangerous place for investment. First, there is a chance not to get tokens if the ICO is scam. Secondly, with a high probability, after entering the exchange, the price for the token will be lower than on the ICO.

I'm not sure the ico project is safe. many ico projects have failed in their project development due to inexperienced teams and many scam projects this year.

Every day it becomes more and more difficult to understand which ICO is a fraud and which one actually wants to create a revolutionary product.

ICO is never a secure one, it is investing at your own risk.
before jumping on any ICO project you should first study, reasearch and investigate.
in just one ICO scam your money will be gone and there is no turning back once you sent the amount.

I think ico is safe to invest if you do research on ico that you want to invest. Because there are still some ico who are scam, then you need to do your own research and find out which ico is potential. So it depends on you choosing it. Choose ico that you have done research.

It is difficult to distinguish the ICO from being safe or not because 70% of the ICO now always ends in failure and the remaining 30% is successful until it reaches the Exchange.
Maybe it's better if you take part in an ICO under Vitalik Buterin's control, so that the ICO can be trusted.

You must try to look for it and examine it, the rest you try to analyze one by one as you wish. there is a lot of understanding and knowledge that you can get. and not all ico scams or useless. some ico are good projects and can bring multiple profits to investors.
well that's why knowledge and experience play a role in every quest for speculation.

I cannot agree more. Go to the projects community and ask questions if you have doubt. I have been doing this, getting to know the team myself is really helpful, as it helps me identity who are really care about what they are doing and plan to stay in the game for a long time.

Give an example of such icos for the last half year. He is now full of work, occupying another position in the next team, will not be the wisest decision.

NO. ICO's are the most insecure invesment you can do. There are good ICO's and bad ones. A good one was Crypto20 and many others as well.

A bad one just started is @NurveRhino. Bad ones are hurting the cryptoworld with their ICO scam.

Mark Rune Karlson is a notorious #scammer. He did the #rimbit #scam (I lost many Bitcoin) and now he is trying the #NurveRhino scam.

Read here http://rimbit.dk/thread-893.html

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2702813.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4992271.0

Investment in ICO is the one of the profitable investment. but it all depends on the ico that we follow. if we can choose ico that is legit then we will get a big profit. but if we get ico that is a scam, then we will receive a big loss. we must be careful in choosing ico by not hurry up in making decisions.

ICO is a good way of investing in addition to crypto. This can be a beneficial or harmful thing depending on the option selected in the ICO invest. ICO many scams going on this course and obviously that sometimes started making investors reluctant to enter into ICO again.

Sometimes you can pick up really good coin, but what for? There are plenty of finished ICOs and majority of them are traded below ICO price. Why don't you pick up some of them eliminating risk to become unlisted?

No, all the ICOs are not scam, but it is true at present, the ICOs are too risky to invest as current market is very bad.  When good altcoins are down more than their ICO launch price, then how can we trust any ICO with good returns.

Currently, most of the projects are fraudulent. To find a good ICO-project, it is necessary to conduct a thorough analysis and selection.

I do not think all the ICOs are deceptive. There are also very successful projects among them. But ultimately, the market volume and the success of the team are important for the rise of ICO.

As long as we can find the right information, we can get profit from the ICO, as we know that there are currently hundreds of ICOs that make many users confused, but by choosing the right ICO we can get big profits.

Such investments have very big risks, because at present it is very difficult to find a worthwhile project.

Really  bad. ICO is very risky, specially when you are newbie and investing in some ICO. You may end  losing your hard earned money if you invested in the wrong ICO, most f ICO nowadays are scam, you need to know the basic knowledge for knowing if ICO is scam or not.

I would not invest in any ICO right now. Many coins can be bought after the ICO on the exchange at a price below the market.

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My advice is that if you invest in ICO projects then you should carefully choose before investing in that ICO project. You should consult the ICO project evaluation pages. Wish you soon select good projects.

to work on customs with initials on point on objective as managing expends to put with less on indication as disputing use of resource on potentials on possession and gains with returns as the run on goes with the rise on price with the value.

That's true.

All the coins cannot be scam, Some ICOs are good projects and secure, while some are out there to scam their investors, the only thing is one needs to do proper research before investing in any project.

its much risky, most of the icos are scam, and even if it is not a scam ico, the possible price of a certain altcoin when it hits the market will be low, that's why you might lose half or more than half of your capital.

Most ICOs are held to give the founder money.
You should do your own research and look for reliable information on icobench, icodrops and so on

Investing in an ICO is risky but you can always watch out for the red flags. Always do your research about the project so that you will know what you are getting yourself into.

There are definitely great ICO projects to invest in, but most of them are sadly scams, you need to search carefully and maybe try to wait for a couple of months until you see some recovery on the market.

ICO is safe, but you will never be able to know whether the organizers of the project scams if you do not know them personally. Now people who earn on ICO is very small, as most tokens after your first exchange you lose in price several times. Trust your money?

I think the percentage is 50:50. Many ico projects are failed and scam due to unstable market conditions and competition between the ico projects this year. imagine there are hundreds of ico projects that sell tokens and coins. it's better to invest in the top 10 coins listed on the coinmarketcap.

You should look for projects that atleast have working prototypes.  Speed Shopper's token crowdsale will begin at the end of this month and we have an app in the Google Play Store, and iOS is pending approval right now.  Our project is the most promising ICO of any at the moment.  Check it out.  www.speedshopper.io (http://www.speedshopper.io)

All investments in ICO only of your decision whether you are ready to lose these investments in case of failure of the project. There are plenty of them, both good and bad, who to believe, you decide. To choose ICO should be very carefully.

It isn't secure to invest in an ICO. A lot of scam ICO's are coming out this day. And it is hard to choose which is the real one. So I guess if you are planning to invest in crypto, better invest in cryptos which are already listed in the coinmarketcap. Much better if you chose those coins in the top list.

All  the ico's are not fake or scams. But you need to be careful choosing real ico.

It is not necessarily all ICO are scam, there are still ICO who can produce profit and pays. It is about playing smart in where ICO to invest. You need to be wise in choosing because there are lots of ICO who only wish for their pwn benifit and it is not good. Threfore you need to be smart and wise in choosing where ICO to onvest.

Not all scams but obviously they're risky. All of crypto is risky, ICOs are probably the riskiest investment of all.

There are some ways to make you investment safer including the ICO which you will have to do researching about the team. Most of the time though I rely on what people are thinking here in the forum and if I saw some high ranking users who join the ICO and making inquiry in the ANN thread or the bounty campaign, I tend to also make some research about the team.

Not all of the ICOs are scam but the fact is that a large number of the ICOs that we have now are scams. There is always a significant amount of risk when you are investing in coins and ICOs are no different in this vein. Although now, with the large number of ICO scams making the rounds, there is significantly more risks involved with investing in them

We must always be careful. I don't think it will ever be 100% safe to invest in ICOs. Even if there is a way to eliminate fraud, it will still be good and poorly implemented projects. It's very hard to tell whether an ico will be successful or not.

What I do most time is to go through ICO review sites. This will reduce your risk. Not all crypto are scam genuine one are still out there

I'm not so sure about that anymore. Before now, ICOs investment use to be a really great option, but with the invention of scam and failed projects that we have littered all over the place, I would like to think otherwise now. They are not so safe anymore.

You better see the ICO directly from every event he follows.
Suppose AMA or Meet and Greet etc.
And try to know the ICO headquarters, so that if there is fraud you can claim to that place.

Investing in ICO projects may present some risks but may give you a great opportunity to make a lot of quick money. It is important that you know the knowledge involved in ICO projects. Find out what the ICO is for appropriate investment strategies. Is everything public to the community? The website, address, logo, brand, source code. These are all mandatory information ICO project must be public so that investors know the project seriously. Who is the development team of the project? This is also one of the factors that make up the reputation of an ICO. Prestige, influence, and creativity of the people behind the project always create a trust for investors. What is the communication strategy and form of calling? Often phishing projects will take the form of multi-level capital calling. Offer attractive promises of profit and commission earned when engaging other participants.

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Investing in an ICO is a risky one.But anyway all types of investments are risky. What matters is how you make your decisions. Weigh things before making your choice. To help you decide you must study before getting into it.

It is safe, for myself, it also depends on you, seeing from the background, whether they are new in the world of crypto currency or crypto currency for a long time. second, we look at their partnership, see how many investors participate in the ICO, not only invest by looking at the bonus given, we also have to see whether the coins / tokens will be in demand or not.

Right now, i am prefer not join in any ICOs. Market condition is not too good to join, i am better waiting. Some ICOs are good to invest but i am prefer waiting it landed on exchanger.

for me, it also depends on you, looking from the background, whether they are new to the world of cryptocurrency or cryptocurrency for a long time. looking at their partnership, seeing how many investors participated in the ICO.

But we can choose to risk less or more. For me, investing in ICOs is the highest risk because more than 80% of ICOs are scams and we will certainly lose money if we invest at this time. ICO is not a good choice in the current situation, Hold and trading a lot safer

Not all ICO are scam and not all them are secure so the best answer to your question is to dig for more knowledge on what ICO you would like to invest.
All investment are not secure, sometimes we gain profit and sometimes we lost but we can lessen the chance to lost our money if we know how to research about the ICO that we like to invest in.

ICO's are never gonna be secure until its regulated properly, lots of scam ico's are in market which are stealing investors money and the ratio of scam ico's are 90% approximately. So invest in ico's after doing your own research.    

If you are just a newbie, you have no experience in the cryptocurrency market, my advice to you is not to invest in ICO projects because you can lose all your money. Now many ICO projects are scam, if you do not believe that , you can do bounties.

I think not all that appears ico is legit because ico is also a scam and few legit ico are now more ico than legit scams because many scammers now and the only one they want is to bend over another So I can tell investors to take care of the ico so you do not get your investment or investment money.

sometimes the work on developer side to depends with supports of token investment as they prepare more with returns of beginning initials of terms and works as the better to release within the minimum excess on schedules on offers with the public audiencies as referring goods and service on merchandise.

Now investing in ICO projects ,you must learn to identify whether the project is authentic and reliable.

approximately 80% of ICO is a Scam so it is not safe to invest in ICO. to reduce the risks you need to study the ICO project in which you are going to take part

ICO is one of the high risk high return investment, so you have to use money not more than 5% of your money for it. In this bearish market, some ICO failed but also there are any ICO that success like UBEX ICO that was give return multiple times. If you want to make invest in ICO make sure you have more times to analysis the fundamental of that project.

Most ico claims that they are legit and secured also they are promising a high gains if you invest thats the time to be more careful.