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Hi all,

I have some dead tokens in my MEW wallet that I don't know what to do with them.

any ideia?

Thank you all

I saw here a few threads where people offered to sell them such tokens. You can try your luck there.
If not, you should hope that in 50 years they will acquire a numismatic value ;)

Let them be on your wallet or you can search them on COINLIB if they are listed on exchange or not as sometimes some tokens are not listed Coinmarketcap. This has happened with me the ENUMIVO token ( I was condering it as dead token) was in my wallet for 6 months one day accidentally i was checking my all dead token whether they are listed on exchange or not than I found ENUMIVO worth 175$  ;D ;D 

Oh you mean tokens that aren't in any exchanges or is an abandoned project right?  Nothing. You just store them and wait for a miracle.

It isn't impossible that someone could buy them, maybe in the hopes that it'll be listed even in dexs, that price could somehow surge. But i don't really think it's that popular so you have to lurk on different forums and i bet the buyer would demand a very cheap price.

you could trash them by sending to "burn" address but you need to spend gas :P
or just leave them there and move your ETH to a new address
but save the old private key, just in case those tokens worth something in the future ;)

Out of interest, what dead tokens are they?

Someone mentioned that they could be exchangeable later on DEXs? Is this a market that could exist in the future? The buying/selling of unusable tokens, almost like antiques :) ?

Dead Token as d name implies is dead, so what do you do to dead things? You bury them or you keep them hoping that it will some day come back to life.

I would just make a new eth address so you won't have one that is flooded with junk tokens.  They still might be worth a lot someday so don't lose the key, a lot of good projects take years to develop.

Hmm. But if you say, "dead" do you mean that the project is no longer running at all or that or they've just devalued so much that they are worthless?

There is three things you can do:
1) Do nothing and just leave them as 0-value coins in your wallet. If you're lucky for some reason they will have value in the future and you can sell them.
2) Sell them to someone who hopes/gambles or knows something about this coin and is expecting the value to change in the future. Maybe you can sell them for minimum value or at least at a price so you dont lose on transaction costs.
3) Create a new Wallet on MEW and send all the coins with value to that wallet.

In my opinion option 3 is a waste of capital on transaction costs and i dont think there is a good market on dead coins for option 2.

I would just hold them long term, a lot of good projects were declared dead by the public while the dev still worked on it, then it ended up being worth a lot in a couple of years, be patient.

For you to have declared it dead, it means it should not worth anything to you and since its not disturbing you in that MEW wallet, I would suggest you just leave it there and keep you access to it because nothing is more painful for you to see yourself lose so much money on a coin that you have declared worthless only to worth a fortune six months down the line and by then there is nothing you can do about it.

Since I learnt my lesson, except the coin does not have any trace on the the internet again, its not dead even if the developer have stopped working on it, you might be lucky all of this pump and dump group might pick it up for their selfish needs while you might be fortunate to be trading at the time. This would pay for your wait time in ways you cannot possibly imagine.

Just forget them.i have 200+ Token in MEW,but only few of them are live.i dont care because they are not on my head. 8) .

There's nothing you can do it with them. They are good for nothing. If you throw it to another wallet, it will only cost you eth, because of the gas fee. So better keep it forever, or hope that the devs of the project would come back and resurrect it. Anyway, there's no limit to the number of tokens a digital wallet can hold.

just let them resting and look at them in few years from now
maybe the value will be 0 maybe you will become rich :)

You just say it was "dead" so basically they are not functional nor have value. Since it will not harmed your MyEtherWallet in the first place then let it rest there for long time since after all, you can't do anything to them.

The only annoying thing is here if you hold lots of dead tokens (not by quantity but for each tokens), it will be a long list on your token list whenever you are viewing or checking your ETH address at the explorer.

But for me, I don't mind. I also have lots of "dead" coins on my address. If they will soon revived then good although most of them are impossible to be brought back based on my own view.

If it doesn't worth anything anymore just simply leave it on your address.

You can forget that wallet for good if those tokens are dead or you have dust tokens there.

We all have plenty of those, nothing to worry about :) You could send them to the graveyard (some address with many zeros I believe) or just keep them hoping that miracle will come one day and they will arise...

I think I saw that there is a project (or a few of them) that tries to gather their members' coins from multiple airdrops worth a few cents each and then actually sell them (because it's quite impossible, plus pointless doing this yourself with coins worth a few cents). I think this is a great idea because anyone who was ever involved in any type of airdrops has such coins, but it's mostly great for whoever is taking fat percentages out of this, not much for people who are sending them millions of coins basically hoping for nothing. But I might consider this one day :) Not sure about the name of the project, sorry, try to search the forum.

If the meaning of dead token is not listed by any market then there is nothing you can do but save it in the wallet.

but you can try your luck by offering to sell all your dead tokens to some forum or community, because maybe there is somenone who are interested in a

certain price.

and what to do with SuperCoin's i put 1 000 000 of them in my notepad. Sometimes in good mood i add another zero to it. Im Supercoin billionaire :P
sorry about that little side note ;), i have bad news for you, they are worth nothing. When something is worth nothing and you can't use it for anything usefull just leave it, forget it, let the loss motivate you to invest better next time for example in one real actually revolutionary cryptocurrency. Its called bitcoin.

First choose which Crypto you wish to exchange, If the coin you need to sell isn't right now on a trade and on another wallet, for example, Myetherwallet send it to a trade since we will offer it for Bitcoin. On the off chance that the crypto that you need to offer is as of now on a trade then no issue.

Edit: You need to know that the token has been added to an exchanger.

There's nothing to do . Just save the SEED and sometimes look at the course .It so happens that these tokens can will  pump.

the only  thing you can do to those dead tokens is to stare at them every tine you login on your accoubt, and if your already pissed seeing them then create another wallet.

Thank you all for the feedback. I only want to have some more feedback... some of them are complete dead the dev team abandoned the project other simple doesn't came to any exchange yet...

Only thing to do is just keep them like said they are dead and you don't have any way of selling them. Unfortunately this could be the future of many coins and tokens.

Dead tokens are dead, you can follow up their official website to see if the devs are still active ,if not just forget it and move on maybe someday it can resurrect.
Some coins were like that in the past.
Cv2 rebranded to Colx
HTML5 rebranded to HTML coin

I do nothing. Some token's name are so cool. It made my wallet more beautyful  ;D  Sounds austism but I think it's a litte happy sometime.

Hold it. I think that you will become a millionaire 10-20 years later.

I think you may be able to write off your loss. Check with your CPA if it matters to you.

CPA? can you translate?

Dead Tokens is bad. Try not to collect them. If some tokens you hava, find any exchange and try sell it.
Think there's nothing else to do (
I have too dead tokens(

My advice: create a separate wallet, call it "shitcoins" and move all these tokens to it.

you should store them in your wallet and wait for something. Maybe those dead tokens worth something in the future. That's my idea.

What you mean with dead tokens?
Blockchain is not moving? No nodes?
Not added at exchange?

Best coins for holding are BTC and Ether. They will never die.

Well, for me dead tokens adds up for the decoration of my wallet, it gives me pleasure when seeing them having no values ;D. I can't do anything, only staring at them hoping to have some value.

i think i have some as well.
i also need to dispose mine. help please i even buy some of them

Between now and the next bubble is going to be very, very interesting as there'll be a shit ton of projects that die a horrible death.

However when mania returns there's no telling what will be brought back from the dead and pumped. It's a complete and utter lottery but I'll wager that people sitting on 'dead' coins may well get a surprise from a handful of them when someone presses the 'pump' button.

If they're still movable I'd put them on an exchange with an unfeasibly high sell price and perhaps one day I'll get a surprise.

This, although I'd prefer to keep them offline for time being, until there is actually a bullish altcoin market again. It could be years, after all.

Lots of dead coins from 2013 and early 2014 saw resurgences during the 2017 altcoin bubble. When the mania gets crazy enough, the market eventually starts buying up anything that hasn't already pumped. To be fair, that may not be true next time around, now that there are so many more altcoins. I really wouldn't be surprised, though. "Irrational exuberance" to use Alan Greenspan's expression, is a very powerful thing and most people underestimate the degree to which the market will get irrational.

It'll happen again, eventually.

Once something is dead, the next thing to do is to bury it, just dig a grave, lol

You don't have to do anything. Just keep them. If they themselves do not rise in price then sooner or later with the growth of Bitcoin (BTC),Ethereum (ETH) these coins ,tokens can also rise and make a profit.

Antiques are rare that's why they've become valuable but shitcoins aren't rare and its developers just used that to create money. So even you keep those shitcoins it won't have a decent value unless its developer is active and paying attention to their product but if it's not, don't hope for nothing.

But you can keep it and look at it so there's something that will remind you to be cautious in buying. Treat it as token of appreciation. ;D

Theres nothing we can do about it mate specially if the project is abandoned or not listed to any exchange the coin will remain in your wallet forever ! If you are annoyed to see those dead coin then make another private wallet

no, there is nothing you can do with them. you could trash them or you could store them in your wallet and wait for some miracle. Maybe those tokens worth something in the future, it isn't impossible that people will buy it.

Maybe the development team has not continued or is it a phishing project. You hold them a while longer to see how

You keep it because it's free. Many people think dead tokens but the development team is still working. We should follow TW, FB, Telegram for more information.

Such dead tokens in your wallet may be as a result of failed project, scam project, both bounties and airdrops. All or some of them may remain dead forever, especially when they are no longer on coinmarketcap.com. If you got these tokens free of charge, then you have nothing to worry about. Otherwise, your money may have gone finally.

i don't think you can do anything with dead tokens, maybe you can store them in your wallet and somehow those tokens may worth something. that is the way to do with the dead token, or you can trash them.

Dead tokens is dead tokens ,nothing to do with em any longer ,I will say you should leave them where they are and just move on with your life ,moreover its free money

Due to scam and failed projects of last two years, eth, wave and neo wallets will be the cemetary of death tokens in the long term. For now holding them at your wallet is the best choice. They may have a small value in the future. Who knows? Some people also like to see hundreds of worthless token at their wallets.

I don't think there's is anything to be done with dead tokens or coins.
For a project to fail, either the team is inexperienced or negligent or did an escape scam, if such tokens were to get listed at any point, I doubt they would garner any interest in the market.

Buy more tokens and sell it in exchange.
Just let the token in your mew if not in exchange list or design in your myetherwallet.

These tokens are unuseful because you can't sell them and you can't have any income from them so you can't do anything with dead tokens

Do they annoy you? If yes, you can hide them in your MEW or send to a random adress.

As for me it better to collect them and May be one Day they Will be listed and worth some thing) at least wait till the next crypto boom. And don't waste your time ;)

Just keep them for now, do not send them to anyone, do not delete anything, just save everything and bury it somewhere on the cloud. We all heard too many stories about people having lots of bitcoins in start and just abandoning ton of them on old PCs. So you never know  ;D

I have dead tokens too and I hope that  one day the coin will grow.
I think there is nothing more to do with them)

I can recommend how I work. I have 2 wallets, the first one is public, I receive bounty tokens there, the second one is my cold wallet.
As I see the token as a good one, I send tokens from the first wallet to the second one.
Such way i don`t have trash in my wallet and it is secure protected

I do not quite understand what you have under the dead token. In the case of fraud, the tokens of the scam project are turned into dust, but there are also such projects, but the flight of the project team does not always mean the imminent death of the token. For example, the Confido project's coin, which is recognized as a scam in the crypto community, is still being played on the stock exchange. So, as of the end of January, the capitalization of the CFD coin was $ 1.5 million, and for one coin they gave about $ 0.13

let them be in your wallet, if one day the price will be there then sell it quickly but if there is no save keep it until you don't know when it will stop to play bitcoin

There's nothing you can do about dead tokens in your wallet. If only the tokens you have are from airdrops then you can get rid of the tokens in your wallet by buying more of it and eth for transaction fee.

What did you actually mean by dead coins? Scam coins or what? If your coins don't have any exchange and the coin's team is gone away, then I think those coins are nothing. Though you may try on decentralized exchanges to sell them. Forkdelta, Etherdelta is good for selling this types of coin, but you will not get good money!

Well, dead tokens mean it's worthless, but before judging about it, do some research and find some information about that tokens, because there is a chance that the tokens are listed on some market exchanger, and if that happens, your tokens will be worth something.

Before you pronounced them dead coins, make a little research on them. Find out if the dev are active, dormant or dead. In whatever category you find these coins, you can decide to keep hope alive or forget them. However once they are dead, there is nothing you can do with them than to leave them in your wallet.

 I think this article will be useful to you. [GUIDE] How to sell erc-20 tokens when they are not yet listed on Coinmarketcap? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039707)

If the coins are not listed then what you said is useful but if the coin got listed and then got delisted then nothing can be done and just forget it in your wallet and move on with other projects coins.