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I see a lots of ICO with the use of their coins are similar. They raised money, got them and ran away.

I don't think so for all ico. if you look at the graph, the funds obtained by ico are currently decreasing dramatically, and I think that is a factor that makes competing with ico more and more. you are right if there is a large part of the development team that runs away in the middle of the road, but I'm not sure they bring a lot of money now. and there are still many ico who survive and the team is still solid to date.

I believe that several ICO's are just fraud or scam. But not that high percentage you give, 99% is a huge number, because there are also not scam ICO's. We cannot generalized that ICO's are just scam, since some are not.

True.

This isn't new anymore to the community. And you are aware of it as well that they are taking people's money for their very own interest. These scammers are just rinsing and repeating what they have been doing. If SEC gives any further rules to eliminate these scammers, they will be minimized.

Not really 99 percent, but I do consider 85 percent of the ICO didn't really perform well in the market. Some are lost because they didn't keep track of their roadmap and maybe their team is incompetent enough to face the market that's why they lose.

I think most ICOs are scams. But not all. In this year, collecting funds and run away is an old way to scam. Now, those scam ICOs are smarter than older scammers. Because they are collecting a large number of funds and they are listing small exchanges, some tokens listing in the ICO period and pump that token in that period, the project is not doing as promised, crypto influencers promoting scam ICOs. With those problems, we hard to choose a good project to invest mate. You have to do hard research to select a good project. In this year most ICOs were failed to give a good return on investment to investors.

During 2017 when ICO's as a funding model gained popularity there were quite a large percentage that never delivered on what was promised or were straight out scams but that is starting to change with the industry now seeking to further legitimize itself in an effort to restore consumer confidence which should see improved opportunities for good quality projects from next year

To be honest that's their main goal, creating money is as easy as possible and enriching themselves. After ico finished they only updated a few times and after that they will leave the project. Indeed there are also projects that survive and make it to the top or popular of the coin, but only a few or a small portion.

not 99%. some projects are in hold because of this bearmarket. there were some exit scams too. but now we can see regulations are starting and lot more good things are happening.

And then have you even considered almost all of the major coins have started from ico? and is there an opinion about that? They have got money and then disappear but that can be applied to the scam ico. Even some icos are still continuing the project whatever how much raised.

most of the ico are not scam they will collect large amount from us and they are listing in small exchanges.

I don't know with 99% but a lot have had a hard time reaching softcap, many of them have extended their tokensale,  but also a lot of them have managed and ended their ICO successfully. I'd say many of them too are scam and those that failed soft cap most probably have not promoted their product well enough.

in my opinion it's not true if 99% of ico are scam. because there are still a lot of ico that are good even far more. it's true that there are ico who only collect money and after they get it they run away. hence the most important thing before we join an ICO, we need to analyze as well as possible the team and the vision and mission of an ico project.

It seems to be true at the moment due to the ongoing bear market op. The current market conditions have forced many ICOs to shut shop as soon as possible. 2017 was something different and is an exception in this case.

The percentage of ICOs that failed in 2017 was roughly around 60% in my opinion compared to the high percentage at the moment. There is no point investing into any ICO currently which is why I advise saving your money and you should look into investing when the market rallies like crazy in the future.

i'd say 100% of them are useless and have absolutely no reason to exist!
the problem is not about them running away, the problem is that they give hyped up promises that they can not deliver. they know it, people who invest in it know it, only newbies don't know it. so they all become worthless and you can even call them scams because basically someone got paid for some hot air!


when your pump and dump is successful, you stick around. as soon as you can no longer pump the coin like before you dump it and give up. eventually all of the creators move on to better things such as jobs with banks, government,... or start new coins to start pumping from scratch...

I can't say that is completely true, there may be some ICOs that are similar but they fulfill all promises to investors well, if you say so, have your results been proven very well? if yes, can you give an example of some ICO like you said

This is true, for these reasons, the cryptocurrency market is getting worse because no investors are willing to suffer fraud! For this reason, they also started to stay away from crypto!

some of them are to be true many ICO'S are facing a lot of problems the present conduction is very crucial due to the drop in the price of many cryptocurrencies.

yes, you see how much bitcoin lose it value from ATH, thats basically how much  failed and scam coin valued.

Of course, until the ICO market is not regulated there are a lot of scammers. you must be very attentive and learn how to identify such projects

Yes, with most ICO this is exactly what happens, to date, unfortunately, not one investor can not be insured against fraudulent start-up projects. But I think the more this direction develops, perhaps these scammers have less chance to Shoe investors for money.

therefore we have to be more observant before investing, everywhere is a lot of dishonesty, so I suggest being more careful, research first before you put your money into investing

as this year is showing, most of ICO are scam. They stop any work if they don't raise money. That is mean that they are not for idea, but just for money.

I think 99% is rather exaggerated. Many ICOs have scammed but some projects are still doing well after ICO. The truth is, many project teams do ICOs just to raise funds for personal need, and not for the project which is awful. A greater percentage of funds in the real sense is not used to develop the product or for listing. A project raised about 50million $ but was still asking for community votes for free listing purpose.

where did you see the analysis that gave 99% failure to ICO. This is not correct unless you can prove that despite the fact that ICO this day are struggling to even make the softcap,there are still some of them that have struggle to continuing with the project development and while some of them that cant proceed to develop are giving back few investors that contribute for the ICO. Although there are still some Scam ICO that are majorly intend to scam people but despite the fact that we have some bad on, we cant conclude that 99% until we see proof

99% doesn't seem right, because there are still many ICOs that are of quality besides there. just thinking just because there are a lot of scammers in ico then you think all projects starting with ico are fraudulent. try giving them the confidence to develop and you will see if the project is of good quality or not

I think its true and there a lot basis about this speculation. ICO nowadays are out of control except those legally follow the rules and local laws in the country of ICO was originated and I think its time to regulate the ICO's to protect the Investors as well. I agree that 99% of ICO's are failed due to luck of innovation.

It's tiring and we can lose a lot of money if we keep on investing in a useless project, and there are so many projects like this in the market, I fear that one day even good project, will not reach even half of the softcap, because investors prefer to invest in coins that are already in exchange.

This year, majority of ICO failed, some succeed but slowed down on the development due to the bearish market. Some are scam, so that is why, most investors kept away from investing in ICOs this year.

The ICO scam caused the ICO market to collapse. I see a lot of ICO scams in 2018 and it makes good ICOs unsuccessful because there is no trust from the investor. Now I'm waiting for something new like STO

I don't think that 99% of ICOs are scam or failed ICO's maybe 80% lol, well only few ICO's were successful even these bear market, few of them already reached softcap, but I don't see yet reaching Hardcap in some ICOs.

lately, there have been a number of ICO projects that have succeeded in reaching hardcap, say PlayGame, they have succeeded in reaching the target but the most concern is that their coins in the exchange are worthless and of course very detrimental to investors. so the conclusion is that the project that is currently successful does not guarantee that the price of their tokens will also succeed when listing on the exchange.

I also think that the ICO has projects that are considered to be defamatory and fraudulent. But not all, or 99% like what you know here. I see the most or limit that max that is only 75%, a lot is real, do not say that is all :(.

Scammers are always present at the ICO, but they are less than the amount that you specified. I'm not participating in ICO, afraid of losing its cryptocurrency.

According to the statistics, the figure is much less, only 50% turned out to be a fraud. And from the second 50% more than half did not collect Soft Cap. All because of the fact that ICO want to do everything. But do not have any experience. So they burn.

therefore we have to be more observant before investing, everywhere is a lot of dishonesty, so I suggest being more careful, research first before you put your money into investing

I do not understand where such statistics came from, I do not think that so many ICO projects are unsuccessful ! If the project has a great team and marketing then I think the project is doomed to success.

It is not happening by every ICO on our market, but you are right. Unfortunately in 2018 the market was overwhelmed with scam projects that presented their whitepaper, collected funds and scammed a lot of investors.

This is not the first time i will be seeing someone make out a figure of the percentage of ICOs that are scam. This to me is not true, although we have more of scam ICOs than the genuine ones. Although, the status quo is now beginning to change, because very soon, there might be regulations to guide against scam ICOs, but before then, we need to take to extra precautionary measures.

It is true that there are so many SCAM ICO and if they are not due to lack of investors are getting failed!
But this is not a 99 percent, that percentage is too much.
Maybe 50 percent or less! If you will run through many project you will see that.

That is not true, it is true that many ico have failed and some of them are scam but not 99% are scam, you need to do some research before jumping into a conclusion like this, personally i have seen many good ico with sensible use case and development is still ongoing.

ICO projects often have no potential or are created to seek profit from the often unsuccessful investor. Most ICO projects have failed after the first trading session because investors sold their Tokens because they saw the project as unprofitable or they realized that they did not need too much profit.

I agree with you that many ICOs are similar with their purpose and technology, but 99% of ICOs are scams is exaggerated, you can refer to coinschedule.com.

It's true for me in 99% of all ico is scam lot of them are legit ofcourse the project will also failed if they don't meet the minimum fund for their project as you can see and explore the whitepaper of every project you will know it.

Today, almost every user of cryptocurrency is experiencing hard times. Based on this, one cannot expect that already in 2019 we will see good results. There should be a market correction and discard all empty and fraudulent projects.

I am not sure with the percentage given because that is too high. But, mostly Ico’s are failed or scam just to get money from the investors. So this is why we should be careful in choosing a good project to get rid of scam.

Unfortunately at the moment almost no ICO is able to achieve its soft cap. People are blindly investing in everything to get at least some profit, but they are only losing their time and money. They need to realise that without a good research there would not be a successful investment.

I may not be sure about the actual figures in percentage but it is a known fact that most ICO's fall into this category, the failure and scam rate was so huge and coupled with the fact that the market was very unfavorable for most listings. Bringing in some form of regulation to the ICO market will help put some check

I don't think that because still there many good ICO's are available in the crypto market which is a great example of innovation. And they have become hugely successful. We just need to select the ICO carefully before joining them.

I think the figure is too high and extreme, we have good projects in the space and good people behind them, because the market crashed and bring the whole space down doesn't means everything ICO is a scam. I will say 90% because it is a natural distribution, some project will die not because they are scam but because of lack of fund, and this seems to be affecting alot of projects now with back treasury management

I would say it's more than 99%, at least of the ICOs from 2017 and 2018. In 2015 and 2016 there were still many good ICOs. Almost all ICOs have no finished or marketable product. Those who already have one often share the market with other ICOs and dig the water out of each other.

I think that the problem of many projects is that they entered the market at an inopportune moment. Even high-quality projects have fallen dramatically in price.

Majority but not 99%.  Many ICO did not meet the minimum requirement to make their start-up successful but they still push it, in return the project failed or stopped at the middle of progress.  This is the reason why I believe ICO must be regulated, to filter it from half-baked plan, fraud and scam project. 

Maybe as you said but I believe that the ICO is fraudulent and fake, and maybe more than 70% as far as I know. But this is not the main issue, because somewhere in ICO there are many delicious projects and terrible profits because we are not looking for ;D

We couldn't say that 99% of it is failed or scam ,
Maybe most of them are scam but we couldn't say that most of them have failed maybe most of them got delayed because of the market crash they are a bit short of funds.
But as long as the dev,team and community is alive and active we couldn't say that the project is dead or it is already considered as a failed project.

I think 50% of ICO is a scam, while the other 50% is a failed ICO and a successful ICO. I think 99% of scams are not true, too much

It seems to me that the figure is slightly exaggerated, but nevertheless the meaning is correct ... A very large number of ICOs did not do what they were going to, or maybe they did not even want to!

The problem is that many projects did not fix ethereum in a fiat at the stage of ICO in January - February. and now they can’t grow because they don’t have enough money

If you take all the projects, you're probably right, but in my opinion 50% of the scam projects can be determined by spending 5-10 minutes on their website, and if you are going to invest you can spend time and contact someone from the project team. Most scam projects are very easy to identify.

obviously, not 99% are the scam. If that would have been the case then you will find no one interested to invest in an ICO. If there is money then you will find a scammer nearby. There are lots of ICO which are fake or failed. But there are good ICOs too.

A statistic for the year 2017 has shown that over 80% of the ICOs were scams in this year. For the year 2018 I have not found any exact statistics, but I assume that the statistics will not have changed much. There is a tendency for even more ICOS scam projecte than 2017.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-study-says-80-percent-of-icos-conducted-in-2017-were-scams

Anyone who claims that 99% of all projects is a scam - probably a bit exaggerating, but i can agree that most of the projects will not fulfill any investors' expectations, however much we want this and however much we try to prove  somethihg else.

Maybe this year that could be true, I still doubt it is %99 because that is a lot of failed projects but if you only accept the ICO's that managed to get funded %100 and than started out I doubt that number is that high. There is a threshold there, if an ICO is funded 100% on their goal there is a big chance they will survive, however if they fail to get funding from the people than yeah all of them fail.

Moreover, the ones that manage to get funded are still doing horrible in 2018 as expected because everything else is getting low as well but last year during the height of both crypto and ICO's, you could invest into ANY ICO you want and still make money from them, there was a dude called "thegobone" and he invested into multiple ICO's last year and always made a profit since everything went up in price.

In most cases, in a market like today, we can say that this is so because it happens that many projects simply cannot collect anything and, as a rule, they simply close their projects or pause or prolong their fees.

Thre are so many ICO who failed and some turned out to be a scam.
But 99 percent is not a good figure to tell.
tehre are also many ICO which is legit and gain the success.

It's not true, not majority of ICOs are scam,  in actual fact we have so many good ICOs with novel ideas and solutions but this bearish market makes it look like all the ICOs are scam or either fail, some get frustrated out of the space because they can't raise enough fund no matter how many times they extend token sale but there are still some devs that pull through and deliver on the roadmap and whitepaper

I think ninety nine percent of ICO are not scam. There is scam ICO out there no doubt but to say ninety nine percent of ICO is scam will be incorrect! ICO time is coming to a close and the regulatory space would be favouring STO in the future!

At the peak of its popularity, ICO really invested money indiscriminately. People did not pay attention to what the product will be developed as a result.

i invested in few icos i have got nothing but a huge loss they are not scams but they are not worthy. I have come accross one ico that is like best ico of 2018 but finally raised money and they not even responding in the telegram. yes i agree 99% have failed but not scams

Unfortunately, some projects raised money after spending ICO, did not continue working on the project, or simply disappeared. But there are also projects that work on projects, communicate with their community, and report news about changes in the project.

nothing good about this market though.
I think 99.9% ICOs are not good investments.
even it succeed, price would be down so much when listed on exchange.

Absolutely YES, 2018 is a bad for crypto currency is not what will expect we are experiencing now , real bounty, airdrop, or ICOs has being done 2017. What ICOs keep failing us.

yes you are right now a lot of ICO scam and many of them fled after getting a lot of money from investor and I really hate ico scam
for that we must be careful in determining bounty and ico so that we don't work in vain or lose all investment we have made

I begin to strain very strongly such statements which say that the ICO is the elapsed time and so on. Today, many projects still hold very fruitful fees. I can confidently say because I see

Nowadays, almost all of the ico have experienced a considerable decline. in terms of quality up to their funding. one of the consequences is that ico is getting worse now

for several months this is true, ICOs if they fail to meet the target of achievement can also occur a scam. that was what I experienced in following several bounty campaigns.

Most ICOs are fraudsters, and if this is a real project, then it’s hard to get up in such a difficult time when people are afraid to invest.

According to various estimates, fraudulent ICO brought its creators from $ 851 million to $1 billion. There are quite a few examples when the organizers of such ICO tried to bring to justice

Yes, that is unfortunately true. I have experienced it myself and have therefore stopped with bounties or investing in icos.  :'(

no, that's not true. some ico are scams but if you say 99% ico is a scam I think it's too much, the number of successful ico real is also not small

I agree, around less than 10% of the ICO coins survived as of this moment, though we do not know when these low collection project will shutdown.  We must do our best to identify legit ICO from fraud and scam project so that we can avoid losing our investment from these crooks.

Now it seems to me to happen too. Why do I think so? because most projects are simply not accepted. Do not consider spreads, do not see dialogs. A terrible year for the last 100 days, only 4 projects paid tokens. And they almost cost nothing.

That really happen in crypto. Some group of scammer making a dummy project just to scam people and doing there ico to hunt money of investors all want os to gain income. These scammers are those lasy people want to have profit by others hardwork. Millions of dollar bring with this people and disappear like a smoke.

the same situation i see. Other projects simply delay payments. The reason is the situation in the market, that what they say. very unfair behavior from many projects. I think we must do something with such projects! Maybe we have to give them bad promotion after another delay

I am not so sure 99% ICO failed or scam. But indeed most ICOs are currently failing because of the downturn in the market situation and many ICOs that have not reached their sales targets, but there are still some ICOs who experience success. I think maybe between 70-80% of ICO failures including ICO scam

This is not a new thing in the crypto space. We will continue to see lots of them, which is why investors need to be very careful with their investments. Coins of these nature are for short term investment and there is no guarantee that you will get back the money invested, let alone getting any profit.
This calls for investing in ICOs that only have unique features and ideas, instead of throwing money into a vague one.

In the bullish market its these ICOs that made the most profit and most of them were just scams. They made easy money and left without a trace. And i think a big reason for this bearish market is those scams also.

Still not 99 percent, but it's pretty close to the truth. The bottom line is that currently, all this year there have been a lot of too weak or outright ICO scams.

ICO where many can still produce. It's just a scam too crowded probably because so many consider that the scam is pretty much at the ICO. If it can be selective and analyze ICO well then the scam will at least be avoided. but many who enter therein are certainly due also less careful in doing analysis on the ICO.

yes, most ico seem to be scam. while there are some serious icos, finding them is not easy. hopefully that will change in 2019 and the proportion of reputable ico will increase again.

It's not true if you can't give the evidence of this number. Although, the fact that most of ICO are scam, and failed, this year there are many successful ICO reached hard cap, Online.io is one of them, raised $50 million.

Quite agree, however once in a while there are gems that want to bring something worthwhile to the industry, and that makes 'ICOs' worthwhile.

If you saw that, then its time to stop investing, and try another investment, nowadays ICO is easy to make so some group of people try to make money by scamming, and a lot of the coin in the market are scam coin or abandon coin, so need to be extra careful when you decided want to invest in ICO, if you are not sure, its better to stay away from ICO

that's right, I know because I'm a bounty hunter and I'm getting tired of promoting a very ugly project,
right now I'm starting to look for real jobs because I feel that making money from ico and bounty has become very difficult.

This is indeed a fact that today must be understood and taken into account. Today there are big problems with ICO projects, so keep in mind, today it is better not to touch ICO projects at all if you do not understand this

if they are not dead yet will be shortly

No, this is too exaggerated. There are many fraudulent projects among ICOs, but not 99 percent. I participated in many ICO projects that have been working until that time. In my practice, some 60-70 ICO projects have remained working. Therefore, the ICO, even with the current fall in the cryptocurrency market, can still work, although it is very difficult for them.
In the activities of ICO, we are waiting for government regulation, only it can solve the current problems with fraud in this situation.

I feel you are wrong if you say 99% scam ICO as long as I take part in a prize campaign with lots of ICO 10% of the rest of my scam is paid, unless the distribution is delayed.

No it is not true 99% so you are saying that out of 100 ICO only 1 of them would make it?
If that's the case then investing in an ICO is useless and a big joke,
We all know that there are plenty of failed ICO's out there and also a huge number of scam but that doesn't mean that almost all of them are scam.

While most of them don't run away with the money but they often don't meet the deadline and haven't released anything since the ico. You can see that there's a lot of icos from mid 2017 that haven't released anything and the same can be said from the 2018 one. They are just hyping people up, collect too much money and are too lazy to run the project now. Older project is better because the fund is limited and the other way to raise money is to raise the coin value by running the projects well.

This year there were especially many fraudulent ICO, which against the background of the fact that the number of investors decreased, they managed and manage to earn and escape.

Of course yes. Most ICOs have failed because this year isn't a good year for all crypto investors. Even those working hard to achieve their aim are not able to withstand the market effect on their proejct. I am not surprised that most project are dead

This is a very sad truth of the cryptocurrency market and I think that this is the main problem at the moment.

Yes, now few of the projects raise funds, or collect and hide , but of course still affects the market that few investors , but after the fall I think the investor will come again

Yes, sad but true, it so happens that ICO's still increasing the numbers besides having a bad market condition that is why the majority are failed and also a scam, we need to be cautious in many ways to avoid being a victim with this kind of ICO.

Concepts are indeed alike but it doesn't mean that one is connected with one another. Also there are indeed projects which are reported to be scam and also, failed projects but maybe it is not as huge as 99%, and also not because for a reason that projects are somewhat the same, but rather due to the negative market behavior this year. Scam projects on the other hand are really just due to bad people.

99% is too high. There are ICOs which scammed or failed investors , but not all, not even upto 99%. There are many projects which tried their best and are on CMC. So to your question, not all ICOs scammed investors.

I don't think so even though it is actually the comparison of scam project is more than the exact project. there are actually still many projects that are not scam or failed. however, I confess that nowadays it is difficult to find good project that are not scam or even failed. as my experience, I have done some projects that are scam and failed. I just do nothing about the result.

The scam of ICO projects recently is due to the effect of the downtrend market. And I think if the market recovers in the next year, the rate of ICO scam and delay will decrease. But now, there is a lot of potential ICO project, Bitcoin Air is the example, I have learned and joined the bounty ICO project, and I think this project is perfect to hold in the long-term.

most of ICOs are scam now. they Running Out of Money With No Products. they just did the public sale, listing on exchange and then doing some pump and dump. they didn't have any products. but i think it's not 99% of ICOs like this. some of them are really serious with their project. you can do some research first before invest your money in ICOs.

If the indicator of failed is that after the listing on exchange then the price is decreasing, yeah, almost all ICOs experience so, however, it doesn't mean that they are failed. they only bear on the wrong time in this bear market. However, if what you say is about running away the money of the investors, they are not failed, they are scam.

nice words here,,
not all ICO scams,, and 99% is too huge,, the truth maybe about 70% - 75% for now
so, investors should invest carefully on ICO project

Not all ICOs are failure or a scam one. There are real projects created by real people and real companies.
But, you should learn how to distinguish them from money-grabbing projects.
You need to do your own research and read the information pertaining to that project.
Check the reason why they are launching their platform. If the reason is weak, it's bound to fail.

Its not a big surprise to us if some people will took advantage on the most growing market today.
Many ICO so promising to look at first and the team is so active from their telegram and in social medias but once they generate money, they just suddenly gone. But not all ICO goes into that and they just give their promises as the say.

not all ICO are scam and 99% was to big of a number maybe around 80% ICO project is either scam or failed.
people should carefully choose which ICO they want to invest.
since there a real project that created by a solid team and company out there.

I think this is true and also not, because I have found a number of ICOs who are serious and achieve something very extraordinary, besides that I also found bad ico and scam. so scam and ico are successful all become half and half.

A ICO not succeding doesn't exactly means it is fraud.
Bitcoin/Ethereum are with low value, which means less interest, and the same applies to ICOs.

But if it is right and really 99% of new cryptocurrencies projects are scam, I see that CoinBundle is the 1% of 2018 that is fair.
They were also "copied' by CoinBase using coin bundles, and they began this form of easy investing. There will be more projects like it, but we need to analyse every project and know which haves potential and a working product

there are a lot of ico like you said but not up to 99% is too big, there are many projects when it has been running for several months he has disappeared or the team that is not serious is also a big problem. there should be an ico regulation to eliminate scam projects

Not all I think, still many of the ICOS succeed in their project, just there are many ICOS today that are considerably scam ICOS, and that makes the reputation of ICO too bad for the investors to invest in their project.

it is true that most of that happens now as you said above. but in my opinion it didn't reach 99%. which I saw some ico projects that did not succeed in collecting their funds, they will return to the fund owners. but there are also those who cheat who don't return it.

There are scammed ICO's but i think not 99%of it. I can also see legit ICO's with good projects. I hope this scammers will be captured because they are one of the reasons fot others to back off from crypto.

No it is not true. I have participated in over 200 ICO's and I have had only one where the people behind the project ran away with the money. Some have done a really bad job of putting the money to work and advanced the project, others are working hard on the project. I don't think you can classify a business where the people do the work but the project fails to take off as a scam.

I think not all ICO's are scam because I still participated a good ICO before that gives me a better earnings. And I think it most of people would that if they are always experiencing that situation which they don't have a plan or a good strategy to know which ICO will they gonna participated in investing their money that's why they always get scam.

Most ICO projects are so bad. I was involved in a very successful venture capital project, attracted over $ 44 million and then they said they did not have enough funding to grow, and then they were silent about it. the investors. It's obviously a phishing project. Therefore, we need to be careful when investing in the field of ICO.

Some are scam , some over promise, some fold up in bear market

A lot of tokens depend on the ethereum and creating a token is easy. People think, firstly explains the target of coins, secondly make promotion,  thirdly sell coins (creator didnt pay for that), Finally team of token will disappear and ICO fail so you were get laid. People choose the invest cryptocurrency directly because ICOs are too risky in bear season.

This is truth like others has said.  Nor of the icos I invested in really give good return and most of them have turned to scam.  I could remember two that I invested in may this year and the teams are no were to be find.  If you want to play safe then study them very well before investing because the 1% is difficult to find.

All ICOs are created for the sole purpose of raising capital from investors. We do not know if it will fail or become a scam. I think 99% is too big and this can not happen. those ico failures or scams are only 30-50% of the ICO market

Please do not doubt the number of fraudulent items. There are so many tokens worthless. You need to learn a lot of knowledge to judge, so I suggest you not to choose ICO investment, novices want to buy bitcoin.

Not 99% but def north of 90%!!

there are projects; there are a lot of them there; it’s useless to argue, but there are still normal projects that simply don’t collect a hard cover

my personal assessment is currently at about 80% that are either failed or scam icos. to say 99% would be a little bit much. but that is just my assessment and it is hard to say which number is right.

Yes, due to lack of supervision, fraudsters can use a small amount of money to create the perfect scam, and they don't have to take any responsibility for it.

it has been waiting for us for a very long time, so it seems to me that scam projects today no longer believe that many projects will be regulated. Today, the best thing would probably be to seriously think about the numbers, in general, I also think that they are very much increased today.

Not yet and impossible all of ICO investment project was die because lower and drop price of ethereum, many ico have success their ICO sale and waiting for opening their coin at the exchange market.

Many ICOs have failed or turned out to be scammers, but absolutely not 99% of them. It looks like the numbers are specially exaggerated in order to intensify the panic in the market and derail the price of crypto assets as low as possible. I would say that the percentage of fraudulent or failing ICOs is about 70%.

Definitely now, many people say not quite correct statistics, because for the most part people simply do not have information that projects really die or just disappear for a while. These are completely different things.

Unfortunately, the subject is 100% true. The thing is that different ICOs are scamming in different ways:
-ICOs which originally produced without any plans to make a product or service
-ICOs which faced with some problems regarding the product development after the ICO stage
-ICOs with an inexperienced core team
and so on. There're lots of the reasons they do what they do, but the fact is this.

Unfortunately, this fact happens and a lot of people face with such situation as scam. But not 99% of ICO are scammers, many ICO is very interesting and persistent on achieving their goals. So don't disappoint yourself, there is a lot of money ahead!

maybe not all ico ends scam there are some who are successful but most for now are not successful. so I think maybe 70% is a scam and why only 30% are successful because many investors who are afraid to invest in ico will make a lot of ico fail.

Well , I do not think that 70% of scammers for me are much more ico that are not successful especially in this market of the order of 90%, I even now have not heard of successful ico for December or November

99% I think it's too much, indeed lately a lot of project scams and projects have failed, but there are also many original and very promising projects, and successful

Sure, 99% is an accurate number for the ICO. All ICOs I joined and learned became scammers after a period of time, the project did not have the product, Dev left the project and the price of the token fell many times over the ICO. There are too many reasons for those ICOs

Yes, there are a lot of failed projects and scams right now. But I don't think that this figure reaches 99%.

I think 99% of the projects being scam is a very high rate. I remember last July, a survey by the ICO advisory firm Satis Group, said that almost 80% of the ICOs launched in 2017 were identified as frauds.