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Hello , What do you think about ICO as a way of raising money in the next years? .Specially after all the scam projects we have seen before,like last time  the team of a project called elementh(https://icobench.com/ico/elementh) claimed that they have to quit the project since they did not have enough resources eventhough they raised about 8M USD , and after ICO no single step forward the development of product has been achieved.
They wanna return the money to investors as btc and eth after all this bull market (btc was about 10K usd ).

Not anymore it better to get hold of your money and do something with it, like day trading.
ICOs have been infested with scammers and manipulators and i wouldn't advice anyone to invest in any however promising it looks.

in a calculation, investing in an ico project gives us the opportunity to make a big profit. but for now ico projects are high-risk things, some projects fail and that certainly makes us suffer losses. so choose the right ico project and don't lose it.

They are such idiots scammers, have you seen their contract or address if they have raised that amount? it must be proven because how much fund raised can be manipulated by the team. That should be the main concern. I always choosen the right project just like BTT, Zilliqa, QKC and i never get scammed by the scumbag. Man, you should not trust ico bench.

Absolutely , But there are some projects that really get you some money (like binance ICO), what I see is that ICO have to be regulated or managed bya trusted third part

Unfortunately, most projects are failing. Even the authentic ones are suffering.
You will observe that their prices once they got listed are very low as compared to their private sale or ICO prices.
Dumpers will always be there but come to think of it, they have very small percentage of allotment as compared to the total supply.
So a strong project can't blame it solely to dumpers. If they have robust system, they can easily rise from that dump and achieve their stable price.
And from my end, ICOs are not good way to raise money or get profit from. Very few can offer you that kind of return.
STO are now becoming the new trend. The reliability is better than ICO.

I think new projects should have a new way of raising funds to support it because ICO is no more profitable. The numerous scam incidents is deterring people from participating in it anymore.

Yes it is before but now I don't think so, some investors is not interested unless you have already a reputation or you have a big and legit partnership. Like Bittorent there are so many investors because the tokensale happen on binance launchpad given that binance has a reputation too. But there are still some investing on not well known project.

If the ICO is legit it can help to the market to raise money but once the ICO is scam and failed for sure it will cause for the market to dump again because you know the collected funds maybe converted into real cash that can cause dropping value of the coins and tokens. I hope no more ICO scam so we can see the market rise.

Agree with you, but I think the year 2019 is not good for ICO project because the trend of investing in the cryptocurrency is no longer exits. Now there are a lot of ICO scam project and I think if the market does not go up, ICO will die in 2019, in my opinion.

Some ICOs are capable of explosive growth from the first days of listing, but for this, ICO must have one important factor — a high level of hyip, otherwise there is a risk that the price will not shoot.

They are honest to return the funds, investors have shifted to trading and buying more stable coins or coins that are already in the market, because they are guaranteed a profit once the bull run starts, on ICO they could lose all of their investment.

I think ICO is not a good way to raise money anymore. Many potential ICO projects are live now but they can't make enough raise because of the negativity about ICO scam, dead news and the bear market is another reason. Some projects shifted fro ICO to STO to raise enough funds. I support them because they are really good projects but they couldn't raise enough money because investors are not liking the ICO project at this moment.

I'm afraid it won't be that best for now cause mostly ICO's never shows profitability since last year due to scams arise in the market. Many investors have losing their funds and it is sad that many ICO's were failing due to inconsistency of the market demand and tokens were losing their value once listed in the market which it turns into horrible declines.
It is better to invest coins were already establish good market exchange and we certainly be making money by then.

You are correct mate. Most projects are now becoming useless and coins they produced became shitcoins. If we are going to pour our investments into ICO the risk could be very high nowadays due to what you have said like failed projects and some others became scammy ones. As a bounty hunter I even experience a hard time now with ICO's because the payments are postponed, no value and just a waste of time.

If the reputation of ICO has a good image, it means that it is far from the SCAM-like action that occurred before it, of course ICO is the best place for investors to get super big profits quickly and quickly. What has happened has happened, most of the user community, and investors have considered ICO as a defective innovation and are considered already inappropriate to continue its development.


Only this is the only best way for ICO developers to restore their good name, even though what they will do, may not be able to recover their reputation quickly.

ICO is not always good. So, make sure you make the right choice before joining ICO. ICO is not a field for making money for small investors. We recommend that we look for a safe way to trade crypto. You can manage your investment every minute, hour or day. And from there, I'm sure everyone will get the experience of trading.

actually if the project is good, ico is a great way to increase money. the ico team gets income because their products sell well in the market and participants or crypto influencers also generate income from what they do when promoting their products.

ICOs are a good way for companies to raise money. Individuals can be seen as trying to scam these days. Lots of ICOs are legit and require identity verification and things like that before you can actually participate. I have been looking over www.airdrops.io and www.airdropalert.com to see if I can find anything worth while.

ICO is one of the ways for projects to raise funds to finish up with the development of their products and other marketing plans but due to the number of recorded cases of scam ICO projects, investors have become very cautious and most of them have refrained from investing in ICOs at all. For ICOs to get back on the grounds as it used to, there must be regulations which will govern its proceedings in order to put the security of its investors at the topmost priority and also serve as means for checking the scam projects.

If we want to join in ICOs, better choose ICOs which have partnership with big exchanger. Like what happen on BTT token, having partnertship with binance exchange and its profitable when start trading in exchanger

Based on what I experienced on joining to ico's project sometimes their an ico's that give me a 2x to 5x project but I lost more money investing to ico project. We all known that several project that launched last year are turning to scam if you have a high hopes in ico maybe you should be aware on what kind of project will you invest, because ico's not guaranty to double or back your money it's better tobe safe than to say sorry in the end.

It's getting tough choosing project to invest your money, with how the market behaves and how things are showing till now, picking the project
is very hard as chances of being scam is much higher than selecting the right one, it will need some time extra research and studying with how
the team works and how the project will progress and be supported.

If you are still willing to take some risk, best to make deeper assessment before investing your money.

2017 is a really good year to raise a lot of money from ico but now it's no longer because now there are so many projects scam or die after doing ico but have very low value when the list on market

Indeed, i think right now it will need another way to collect some fund, perhaps a safer way that any scams will cease to exist or created. Maybe by making some regulation than that ICO or something similar to be safe, and investors will like to make an investment again.

It WAS a good way in raising money for a project and I agree if we will go back to 2017 but have you seen an ICO that last for 10-22secs? Yes! There is! Fetch.ai, it was unfortunate that I tried to participate and I even leave for work today but they are fast enough. I hope it will be listed right away so I could grab some.

It always depends on the ICO project that you want to invest mate. If you're preferred to invest in any finished projects then its a good idea to put money and for sure you will become profitable with it.. Rather than investing on some fresh ICO projects which is even though it's very promising it still not safe because mostly nowadays are infested by some scam project and the worse thing on it is .. It's to hard to determine what the real intentions because of copy pasting strategy nowadays of some ico project.

In the beginning yes, but for now I think its not, to much high risk, because to much scammers or manipulators join ICO. Maybe you can do trading for gain some profit. CMIIW

Yes and no, when there were a lot of good ico, there were many investors involved and ico was running smoothly, but now the condition of ico is not as good as it used to be and many people are rethinking investment in ico, I hope that in the future ico will be able to develop as well before there will be a lot of people investing in ico

Ico is indeed one of the good ways to get profits, especially in 2017. But in the following year, a lot of fraud occurred, many ico failed, scam, making the popularity of ico declined and investor confidence faded, moreover the market situation deteriorated. Getting profits from Ico is quite difficult because you have to do an in-depth analysis of the project so you don't get caught up in fraud. This requires experience.

Does it not effective? Even Scam projects are entering the market because ICO's are gaining allot of funds from investors. That is enough to say ICO is the best investment platform.

Well they just used the money to make a profit from the bull run, they are fast to received but very slow to return, sometimes they don't return the money at all ICO is a great way to raise money for the legit project but not for investors who falls to scam ICO.

They collected that money in btc or eth right so after that there is huge price drop on all the crypto currencies which makes them to afraid of continuing their projects because they may end up with not enough funds for complete development process and you need to thank them that they are returning your money because most of the time it will never reach our wallets again.

Many way how to get money with crypto and investing on ICO is the best solution how to get much profit with altcoin investment, but today we find many ICO always delay for listing their coin and make many problem with lower price after listing on exchange market.

The success percentage has come down raising money from ICO. Reason behind, too many scam projects, complete dry market even if a successful projects comes into the market, the values falls to the ground once they pitch into the market. Analyze and select an ICO with best project and team.

ICO in my opinion the best way to invest and seek profits from these investments. Even with the risk that I think is high if investing in ICO. But many people like to invest in good ico. with that maybe people can look for big profits there.

Yes, that's right. ICO is a good way to raise a LOT of money. Almost every people join ICO just for multiple their money and don't care about the development process of its project. If you want to invest in ICO, make sure only invest in a good project with a good team behind this project so you will not get scammed and it can bring benefit to you...

          There is no need to generalize. Not all ICO projects are full of scammers. It is true that there are many ICO Scam projects and the idea of ​​investing in an ICO project if you do not have a vast experience on the cryptocurrency market is a suicidal idea. Normally, in a market full of good projects, ICO would bring a big profit to investors as they have the potential to raise very high prices. Unfortunately, a lot of scammers took advantage of this in order to trick people. I think it's best to invest in the top projects already listed on the exchange if you do not have the experience.

When ICO introduced that time its good for ICO to raise fund Many project raised much money like Bancor Protocol,ETH and more now many people used this format loot lot of people money I won't think now its good.

not all ico can give a lot of money, the last few cases are a lot of ICOs that enter the exchange but the price is below the price of the ICO, so if you become a participant of the ICO it will not be able to guarantee a profit.

ICO is still the most effective way to raise funds,the problem facing ICO now is not raising fund issue but not too many good projects that will surely deliver,many ICOs are just repeating projects we've seen already in the past and they always end up failing. We need projects that will bring something new to crypto space and the funding won't be an issue

Right now, ICO still become a choice to rise some fund, even though right now many ICO having hard time to reach their target, but it still be a good choice to collect some fund. And it proven to be an easy way to collect some fund.

for now it is no longer easy to raise funds from ico. we see now investors are very careful even holding their money to invest in really good ico and the potential for profit. this is because too many ico scams are tricking investors, and that affects other ico who really need development funds.

The ICO may be a good way to raise funds but it depends on the beauty of the project and the size of the ICO as its price is also converted by investors through their sell and buy method. so if now you join the ICO be sure to have a good platform with good platforms to earn money and not to lose.

icos will find it increasingly difficult to raise money. the whole scam ico has ruined the ico market and therefore also sto will have a hard time collecting money. i hope we can trust icos or sto sometime more than now, otherwise the ico market will die.

if you already know the ICO conditions that are circulating as they are now, I suggest that you should not enter to become an ICO participant first, wait until the market conditions improve because if the market conditions return to be expensive then ICO will be often successful.

This is a very good point, markets could dump right after hitting an exchange, better to buy after it' starting to gain a price point traction.

The advertisement strategy is importat on raising fuds through ICO,lot of projects run bounties which shows that they don;t want to invest any money from their hand but if they need to prove their worth they need to run paid advertisements and it will surely have some changes on their investment.

it used to be back in 2017 that you only needed to have a website and nothing else to raise millions of dollars out of thin air because the market at that time was filled with a lot of foolish people.
but slowly they all went out or realized their foolishness. nowadays nobody trusts any ICO anymore.


again it used to work like this, but people stopped falling for the scam so they can no longer succeed no matter how much they try.

ICO's were a good way of raising money 1-2 years back. Now with the new flux of scammers there is not that many people that invest in ico's anymore. Even a good and legit project is going to have difficulties in rasing money because of the scam projects.

Definitely, ICO's were booming when the market was in its peak. A lot of them in this forum made good money from this, due to a lot of scammed projects even genuine projects are facing difficulties and not reaching the soft cap. I am holding my tokens and waiting for a good return and hopefully I believe it will not discourage me as things are under the track.

Unfortunately, this is the case, but I still see that not all investors are ready to give up investing in ICO, they are ready to risk more than usual, hoping for a quick income or a long-term perspective, but is it worth it

There is currently not better way how to raise enough money to finance the project.
ICO concept is the most easiest way how to get money without any regulations, restrictions and so on.

I still think ICO's are a very good way for start up companies to raise a lot of money which they would have no chance of getting from anywhere else. If you look at traditional ways of raising money for new projects nothing comes close to ICO's.

The ICO was almost over, so many projects failed at this time, they could not even collect softcap funds for months, and that a vain work.
ICO requires new innovations, must be able to convince investors about the projects they are running, related to the number of ICO frauds, some people begin to feel disgusted and only a part that still persists, if conditions remain like this in the future, there will be not more people who want to invest in the ICO.

There's possibility that ICOs wont be the good way to raise money for new project in the near future is high because most of the ICO project are not up to the level of expectation which crypto investors need and the crypto community feel disappointed with the turn out of some ICO project which is why some cryptoneir believed the future of new project belong to STO.

Surely ICO was a good way to raise money. but now a day, to raise much money it's so difficult. as we know the market condition still not stable, but I still have a faith, good and trusted company (it must have a best product too) will raised much money if doing an ICO.

for the security and safety way , STO are the best for it. and that's not easy, much company are running utility token. security are token are the best , but the regulation and SOP it's very hard. so based on the condition now , and many scam case : running investor money by ICO, STO are the answer.

Today I woke up with a nasty mood. Because yesterday, one of the promising projects announced liquidation. Urun collected 36-40 m $ Not taking steps turned the project. Is it interesting to return the money to investors?
Recently the projects are not fulfilling their obligations at all. Is this cryptozyme influencing them that way?

I think ICO is still a good way to raise money, though it is not that easy as it were before. Times have changed, In the past,  people made money investing in ICOs without research, and they made at least double of what they invested now some factors affected the smooth flow of this ICO trend, one if which is Scam, they collect funds and give excuses  and then disappear into thin air,  also, the cryptocurrency market, fell to the bottom,  this also affected the ICO market,  many investors for fear,  left the market and many more factors.

People still make money on ICO but then, they need to do full research, if you do proper research, then you should should be able to find ICO projects that will help you raise Money.

I think ICO is still the best to raise money that you will use in building your project but building ICO this season its very hard  ;)

Yes i guess Ico is a good way to raise money. If we have some experience and patience So through Ico we can earn more money in less time.

For me, ICO is the fastest way for you to lose money. There are too many ICOs in this market and no ICO is really successful in 2017 and 2018. I never trust ICO to invest, care about altcoin top coinmarket. You will have a lot more secure options

Although initial Coin offering isn't the only good way to raise money but that is one easy way for the upcoming projects. Project can have private funding from institutional investors or as well do self funding

What is iso today? 1/10 projects that really work. All other projects do not make a profit, and even say more they steal our money.

ICO is the field that focuses a lot of scammers. The Ingot coin mobilized over $ 44 million and they said they could not develop the project anymore and wanted to refund it to investors. then they left and there was no refund.
So before investing in ICO projects, we need to analyze carefully before engaging in it.

in general now it is very difficult to believe in some kind of project. even very good ideas cannot find any money for the realization of their goals

It is still a good way to attract investment, if the team consists of honest professionals who clearly understand the concept of their future product. The whole difficulty to bring it to the investors

Honestly saying ICO was very good way to raised capital for a promising start up projects, But these status was only before when ICO's was not infested with greed and scam by selfish individuals , But these year  2019 i think its very rough for many ICO's now due to many factors that involve including scams and the ICO market situation.

Didn't talk about the scam projects,even the legit projects needs advertisements plans or they won't get enough recognization which will result in prject failure as well.

Of course, if you don't invest in a scam project then you will definitely be profitable. Like ICO BTT if you are lucky and you can buy it, you now have 10 times the amount of money you invested, and many other good ICOs also give us a lot of profits.

If you're investor and want to double your money, I don't think so.
ICO nowadays is not profitable again for me, cause usually when enter market, the price is automatically dump, I don't know why but usually many of them ended like that

Well, it is not the best way to raise money, there are many other better ways to get your project to be funded, but ICO is definitely the easiest one, and that is one of the reasons why many people using it as a scam method. And as for the Investor, ICO is also one of the easiest ways to make profit, you just need to buy the right ICO, and hold it and sell it on the right time. You, don't need to look at the chart everyday, or working on anything.

Well whether it's scam or legitimate, the money coming in to icos considerably decreased over time mainly because of people being more doubtful and wary. I think you can still raise funds through icos but not close to how much you'll be able to raise 2 or 3 years back.

ICO is one of the most effective ways of raising money for your project.

If you plan to run an ICO you will have to have a great project (needed, preferably untapped market) which can scale globally. The second part you will need is a great execution plan to achieve various of your goals. Thirdly, people will have to like and trust that you will develop it and are capable of doing so.

In the past, ico was the best way, but now it seems no longer. a lot of fraud in ico makes everyone start not believing in this method. As a result, many good projects failed to get development funds. but now there are changes because there is a new method, STO, overall STO is almost the same as ICO. the difference is that at STO there is a guarantee of the security of funds from the institution that oversees the new project. so the possibility of the project committing fraud is very small.

When i hear this three letter i would run away "ICO"! In last 3 years i left my office job and working in bounty campaigns at home. So far i could manage to make my living with bounty hunting and made some invest too. I did found project which about Food Ecosystem on Blockchain and i really liked the idea and trusted their team(!) and invested $3.000. The project sold around $5 million and after that they vanished in just 3 days! That was beginning of 2018 and i have lost my money, my hopes and my beliefs to ICO's and i would never ever invest to another. By the way the project name was "CIBUS"

I believe its one of the best way to raise money from every investors around the world who wants to invest the only problem is whether this ICO owners are legit and comply with the regulations before starting to raise funds what is happening now is a big mistake letting many scammers to conduct an ICO with no authority and runaway the collected money its should be corrected and regulated ASAP very to stop fake ICOs. 

maybe, but now it's like no longer. many projects failed to raise funds from the ICO. the failure was caused by a decline in the level of investor confidence in the new project.

Perhaps a year ago it was a good option for many, but today it is a difficult path and it does not work for everyone. Although if the project is strong, even in a period of major crisis, hardcaps are collected, so for the strong there are no barriers. But I think that ico itself will change, because as it is, it works poorly.

maybe because it's so easy to make an ICO so that scammers are free to do it.
so I think ICO creation must go through a critical stage so that the new ICO that appears has been guaranteed authenticity.

It's a great way to raise money for the platform and because of this, scammers are abusing it because in the past we have seen many projects that are now being used by the community comes from ICO, now it's all messed up.

Before, ICOs are good way to raise money but now I can say that it is now impossible. There is now a new trend nowadays and it is STOs. Investors are now preferable to participate in STOs than in ICOs.

Yes,  it is easy to copy the works of others and we can used it for scamming others but it surely won't last for long. That is why we should take time to look for its legitimacy and the team behind such projects,  cause anytime they could have their victims.

It is difficult to say in general, because today there are so many examples of the fact that people simply collect money for themselves and do not fulfill their duties. Therefore, I think that today it makes sense to say that people are going to actually use these or other tools to implement their plans, and what plans do they really pursue is a question.

yes ico is a good way to raise money because there are a lot of people that likes to invest and sometimes it's easy to invest here in the crypto. The only bad thing about it is that some of the people use this opportunity to grab some money in the investor which makes the ico thing so bad.

It seems that most of the investors are doesn't have anymore care to ICOs. They say that most of the ICOs are worthless so they are now making investment with it. If you are focusing to raise your money, then it s better if you will not participate in ICOs and find more cryptocurrency investment.

ICO still is a good way to have funds for the project, you can ca;ll it that way or it may also mean ICO is a good way to scam. if its that good that a team with a questionable project  can collect $8M, a scam that can collect just $500k is successful enough and they will keep trying to extract money from unsuspecting investors.

Yes, I think Iico is still the best way to raise money, whether the project is fraudulent or not. investors will always buy on ico if they see a project that is hype.

for projects that return investors 'money because their projects don't work I really appreciate that and I hope it does happen because so far there is nothing like that, most investors' refund systems are if their projects don't reach softcaps, but if I think the funding problem isn't just need to make ICO but making STO, IPO, ITO etc. can still get funds

Precisely no ICO can get to the level of 2017,but when there is bull run we are going to see next level prices for cryptos.But other reason is people got tired of scams.

putting resources into an ico venture offers us the chance to make a major benefit. in any case, for the time being ico ventures are high-hazard things, a few activities fall flat and that surely influences us to endure misfortunes. so pick the privilege ico venture and invest.

I have not been investing in new ICO projects for several months, because I am afraid of losing my money. The fraudsters have learned to disguise themselves as good projects, they spend money on advertising and exhibitions, imitating the vigorous development activities of the project. However, after the end of the ICO, they steal investors' money and stop doing their project.

Yes, ICO is the good way for raise money from the public. All these happen due to the full consent of the public for the private company. In recent days there are many start-ups who have no money but have the best and challenging idea of the concept to become the entreprenure globally. So, ICO is the route best for them.

I have elementh tokens from they ICO bounty. when looking the white paper that they described at the beginning of the ICO I really believe the project they are working on is very visionary. but after ICO their tokens were only sold on one small exchange. until now I am still have elementh token. because I believe in their project. but after a few months the price of their tokens fell below the ICO price and their project was stopped. this really makes me disappointed. I really hope that the upcoming ICO will be more serious in working on the project after their crowdfunding is finished

I think not all ICO projects is good to raise money, unlike in the year of 2017 ICO projects are really good in raising money because there are many upcoming great projects. But for now, most projects always face a lot of problems that is why they always  distribute tokens very late and most of them still don't have exchanges.

It depends on how good the ico projects is, because if the ico is not good and doesn't have a good team and good platforms they will not get investors to invest on the project so the ico can't raised money. the best icos are most interesting will raised a lot of money because it will attract  an investor.

Nope. not a good idea joining ICO if you are just a day trader and not an investor. better wait for the project on an exchange and bought it there much lower than the ico price.

ICO is not a bad thing but it needs a bit of regulation. And by regulation i don't mean the govts but instead we, the crypto industry, needs to have some kind of their own authority that can monitor this.

I don't really understand the context at which the question is being asked.
Are you asking if ICO is a good way to raise money as an investor or ICO is a good way to raise money for creation of a project.

If you are asking as an investor, then i will say ICO is not really the best way to raise fund due to the experience we have seen in the past of how many ICO crashed. It is also not the best way to raise funds for project this days because people are losing hope on it already.

I think more careful in the future in looking for and investing, because there are many fake ico teams and ico who aim to scam, for the future be careful

For me ICO is a good way to raise money but I don't think it is still a good way to make money right now. Many ICOs are failing and many are scams. However, there are still paying ICOs.

It all comes down to what your project is. Is it a good way to find funding for your new coin ? Sure, if you believe your coin is to be trusted, however if you start out with zero than ICO will not help you, I have seen people with zero dollars in their pockets trying to make as much money as possible from funding in order to build something and they meant well however without any capital you will not get your name out there.

All the ICO's that got funded spent thousands of dollars tens of thousands of dollars and had a team of people working on it before they got funding. If you are looking to get more funding for something that is already running, like a website or a product you already run and want more out of than it could technically work quicker since its already proven and has a good track record.
 

It depends on time that you have invested to research these projects. If you are blindly investing in each single ICO that is live on the market, the only thing that you will achieve is the lost of all your money. Select projects carefully and you will be able to multiply your deposit.

ICO is still a good way to raise money. But only if all activities are conducted honestly and transparently. In order for the project to succeed, the developers must show that they already have a ready-made work product and an established strong team, as well as a community that will be interested in the project, before conducting an ICO. Such tactics will attract investors and return trust in ICOs.

Of course, it's a great way to raise money, today when people see the word ICO says something in their mind: be careful, be very careful ... Somehow some malicious people have taken advantage, like swindling people, for Now, new rules for ICOs have been implemented.

We must not echo the bad, there is still much to develop using technology and there are very good ideas that can be carried out if the necessary funds are raised and progress is continued promoting the world. And knowing that this is an excellent way to raise money, we can give a vote of confidence, after having thoroughly researched the project and decided to invest.

ICO is a great way to earn money. But it is always depend on the platform and the mass adaption of the project. If the project sounds very interesting it can easily raised a big funds but if the project is not interesting it will be somehow failed. So I think it is always depend on the project it self.

ICOs are done for fundraising since governments started implementing tighter regulations. These startups would probably be better off raising capital through a security token offering this time.

I think that at the moment the ICO does not bring earnings. It seems to me that such investments are very dangerous and worthless now. I prefer to earn in another way.

Investments at the ICO stage do not inspire such confidence in new projects as it was before. I think there should be an evolution in the actions of developers of new projects in attracting investors with a more responsible approach, offering safe investments.

Yes ICO has been the only medium used my many project to raise fund for there project but as the case maybe, the case turned around and ICO started turning to something else as ICO is profitable for the investors again as many scammers as used this medium to dupe many investors their penny. So I think project managers to look for another way to raise funds for there project aside ICO maybe it'll will also be acceptable.

In my perfective, ICO's is the main way for the project to earn funds to support the running phase of the project and it became like a default but after all the scams involving ICO's its hard to raise funds now because investors might loss their money by being scammed

I think ICO is still the best way to raise funds for project development. Yes, now a lot of scams, but I think that if the project has a strong team and a good idea that they can find investors.

ICO is a way of crowfunding where restrictions are lifted and therefore available for much more people, not just technically savvy blockchain weirdos ;D. Some are abusing current situation and actually making profit just from setting up a company, raising money and disappearing later. This is unaccpetable and we have seen many potential investors leaving the space beacuse of them. This is a great turnover though. Newcomers know they have to bring a real and useful product to have a chance to collect money needed for their start. Quantity going down and quality is raising. Not a bad scenario at all  ;).

The fail of the ICO project due to the bad price and market cap of cryptocurrency market. So that if you want to raise money, I think you should invest in altcoins and hold for long-time, some potential coins you can buy that XRP, EOS, XLM, LTC.

If we can eliminate the scam ICO projects with some sort of verification before they launch ICO then it will be really helpful for everyone as people.are.scared of the term ICO itaelf because of the number of scams which has taken place in the name of ICO in last 1 year.

It is a bad way of raising money from investors because if you returning the money to the investors based on the Dollar value as at the time that Bitcoin was $10000.
So many scammers see ICO projects as a means of raising money for their own personal interest and for not the company and investors which is very bad and this act has tarnish the public image of ICO projects.

I totally disagree with the idea of using ICOs to raise money. Whoever that wants to have a cryptocurrency project must also ensure there is enough capital to start up and complete the project. You must not rely on others to raise fund for your project.

I think that though the very bad period in 2018, ICO will still be a very popular form of fundraising. Certainly a part of the market will be taken over by STO projects, but for sure many developers will choose this way of collect money for realization of their ideas.

It will take a lot to actually pull off ICO in this current market and I don't trust any project that has to wait for the next bull run before they can do anything. If they want to return investors funds back to them, they don't have to wait for a bull run except they have actually used the funds they raised and it's just an excuse.

That's very very good statement but the problem on this situation harder to identify the legit icos project is almost the same whitepaper and roadmaps offering from the legit and scam project so at this moment it's better to wait the ICO regulations before to back investing if i have a proposal for the regulation.

Sometimes I wish there was never ICO at all in cryptocurrency. It is very obvious that over 90% of the negative or fraudulent acts that have happened in cryptocurrency has been through the ICOs. If you also interviewed most people, they will also tell you that their losses have been through ICOs as well. It is not a good platform for raising money.

I think ico is good enough to increase money, because if the project or product is good, it will be supported by many investors and the ico token will go up in the market. it will be a mutual benefit between investors, teams, and bounty participants.

Despite all these recent factors is goings-on
, we can't  said  ICO is bad just cause a lot of scam exist ,it like to say that the Internet is not benefit, cause a lot of hackers may thief your information.  it due to be  awareness and your tact of the market. I believe that if you have a fund & you study about ICOs, you should buy a good one of it .

Only the ICOs are legit to raise our money they are giving a huge of bonuses for their investors and that is a big help to get more profit when they listing big exchanges.

how do you rate legitimate ico who gets your money to succeed? profit will come to you if you invest in legit ico? all that does not guarantee you will benefit. do not override concepts and markets, which is really the most important.

Raising our money in ICO it is always risky it is because many of them are scam ICO and it is hard to determine which one is the real ICO, i believe that if you invest the good ICO it has good profit you get from them because they giving bonuses for their investors.

In the current condition of Iico I think this is not a good place to make money, it would be better if you invest in coins or trade, I think that is one effective way to make money, but you still have to be patient to get results as you want, because everything needs a process

You are right, even though Ico's image has been bad lately because many are a scam, Ico can still be an alternative to get profit as long as you are able to analyze good projects and market interest. The risk is indeed quite large, especially many people who try to commit fraud under the guise of Ico. Later, many ICo began to achieve success, hopefully, this is a good start.

the investment in ico or coins in exchange is equally profitable I guess. it all depends on how we choose the right assets. even though we buy assets in exchange there is no guarantee that we will benefit. as well as investing in ICO, we do not know whether it will be sold or not. all are at risk, so from now on choose assets wisely.

In some way it is true that ICO is an easy way to collect fund for a project, but it also being used by many bad people to cheat on other people by creating some scam project, and many people has been scammed with those kind of project.

In general, ICO is a good way to raise money for a project or an interesting idea.But at the moment,it seems to me,investors are afraid to be deceived and lose money,they want to have a guarantee or need serious regulators that will protect their funds.

It is a pity that at the beginning ICO was great, but like everything in the world, at some point, it was used by dishonest people. So now it is very hard to find really great ICO.

I think it is hard to know which ICO is good ,most of the times they just write a peace of sheet and call it whitepaper , hire a designer and start asking for money because their project is gonna change the future  :-[

yeah sure. but must make a good way. if any ico is good quality then can get too much support and market also can increase. all investor can invest with faith. so future ICO is a good way to raise money i think.

There are two ways to raise money if you don't have money. Bank loan or crowdfunding.
If ICO fails returning money to investors should be less problem than returning loan to bank with huge interest.
Lol, that is point of ICO.

before 2017 we will think like this but it will not anymore to make confidence for ICO investment and the development still not been successful here to move on with any possibility that survive the existing top and still not valuable right now.

ICO is bar far the best way to raise funds. managing the funds and ensuring they are used to implement the projects is where many fail and accountability sometimes is missing.

Almost all valuable projects passed these stages and I don't remember a single team who complained about ICO. If a project is solid and the team is strong then there is no excuse for investors to bypass ICO. We all know the scamming issues from dark people and no matter how strong they are we will beat these guys sooner or later.

Yes they got the money in the wallet , But I dont know if it is their money (like sending 5M from their own money to give a good impression for the token sale and get some additional 3 M or whatever)

ICO has always been the best way new projects and  new developers raise money to help develop the product and launch it. It has also been the best way investors get to know about crypto projects to which they invest in some of them with the hope of making some amount of profit. But now ICO is not a good way to raise money due to the current situation of the crypto market.

Indeed ICO is a cool way to make money. I have alot of testimonies to that. At thesame time it is a high-risk investment, you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose especially these days that it's been infiltrated by hungry scammers. Are there still real ICOs? Yes! but since you can't be so sure anymore, it's better to trade with caution and do not invest what you can't afford to lose

It is a good way to raise money if the project is legit, has legit team and with a working use case. Sadly, ICO became the place for scammers lately and this made a lot of investors to lose interest to it. However there will be time that good projects would be back to it and ICO is going to be their way of raising funds for their project.

I think that most of the projects are run by professional teams , like they only care about getting the product or service done (if they can) and just don't care about token price strategies

Yes I agree with you , STO is much better than ICO since it is more secure compared to an ICO as SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) only allows projects that are reasonable and serious about the aim

It has become noticeable that recently ICO projects have become popular again. The amount of investment in them has increased significantly. When listing on crypto exchanges, the prices of ICO  tokens are no longer declining several times. For example, the other day the SERV token listing on the exchanges and its price remained at the rate of 10 cents, at the level of the tokensale. BitTorrent brought investors 10x profit. I think the pessimistic moods are gone and the ICOs is becoming attractive from an investment point of view once again.

Agreed only few ICOs survive in the bear market and some closed due to lack of raising money for their projects. But it is quite surprrisingly that ICO in binance are very much in demand even investors loses chance to buy some tokens.

I think if your company is real or your team have a good reputation and you have a good intention to expand your business, ico is still a good way to raise money. Look current available ico, there are still a few project who can raise at least soft cap even in the current condition which is ico mostly scam. I am sure many people don't want to just hold their crypto asset, they still try to find a good investment but maybe this year more selectively than previous year.

ICO was always a good way to raise money for new projects. The problem is that ICOs got a bad reputation due to the huge number of scams last year, and now even good projects are suffering as people are much more reticent about ICOs.

But they dont have the rights to trade collected BTC or ETH , they should convert it to fiat and work on developing the product

Yes  Indeed . I think we should have a third part to manage the  fund raising process , so even if the project failed the money are always safe

It's not a good way anymore. Beside if you wanna get information about any ICO project, you should stay away from website icobench, it's a scam website give fake rating for ICO projects and ICObench account in this forum already tagged. Maybe in next few years, quality of ICO will be better but at the moment it's very terrible.

totally agree , reputation is the key or at least a good ready to deliver product FROM a non experienced team with good money they can do something, but asking for money for only getting an idea and writing a whitepaper is not fair

Good point  ;) 8M btc converted to fiat is a big drope in volume

We can not say ICO will die in 2019 or in 2035 , even in this bull market there are  some ICO which ends tokens sale after 10 min from start . I think It is more about regulating this kind of fund raising so not every one will be able to launch an ICO

Investing in ICO projects is indeed very risky, even almost all ICO projects are scam and harmful. But there are some ICOs that can generate profits, when crypto prices climb some ICOs were well developed and made investors profitable. But still there are still many ICOs that are scam, this is like garbage. I don't think ICO is the best way to raise money because I'm sure if you try it will definitely experience a lot of losses, your loss will be more than the amount of profit you get. It is better to invest in coins that have experienced and developed well, this is more profitable.

Of course the ICO is not the best way to get money, the ICO is for those who are big capital investors. I think the best way to get money from cryptocurrency is to trade. You can take a little profit every day from trading results.

I could say yes before but for now, it something aren't giving much profit and it even give losses for most.
Scam projects will be a reason why people were having doubts of putting their money into ICO as they usually heard that mostly investors will suffering losses after. And we actually knew that, their token's value will simply goes down straight once listed causing a huge losses.

Elementh project is abig disappointment ,after they raised enough money they claim they don't have enough resources?well they should have enough resources in the first place before launching the project ,I don't understand developers this days  they tend to always start what they can't finish ,so automatically funds is not the only issue ICO faces

ICO easy to raised more than 5M in 2017 because cryptocurrency market stay at peak price, after one year price dip, a lot of project fund manage is too bad, such as play2live project claimed that raised 30M in ICO, current project latest update is owner out of funds and stop the development 3 month, really funny lol. However ICO still is a method to raise money in 2019, but be careful scam project.

Maybe. Because there are too many fake ICOs, we don't know which ones are good and what aren't. Although this year there are many good ICOs, one of which is BTT and FET (because BTT and FET, I get a lot of profit), we still need to be more careful in choosing it.

I think ICO is not anymore a good way to raise money because a lot of ICO are not that successful anymore and most of them are scams, that is why a lot of people starts to quit and leave joining ICO projects and bounties because they don't recieve any profit.

If the ico now is the same what happened on 2017, I could say yes it is a good way. But since the market was not in good shape, its hard to say that, although I still believed there are few ico out there which are good to raise money, as long as we know how to look for a good project here in the forum to determine on which of them are scam ico or not.

Ico is still good way to earn huge profit. But in this time maximum icos are scam and not legit. If you want to earn profit, we should find legit ico. Then will be able to raise our money.

Obviously ICO is a good way to raise your money, because there is better chance to get profit in 2X, 5X sometimes even 10X.
But in these days you have to choose a good ICO carefully for investment, because market is down & mostly ICO’S are not achieving their targets.

Problem are newbie investors who invested money without prior knowledge and funded blind promises without doing due diligence. They probably though crypto will make them rich if they invest in any kind of projects, they were wrong, lost money and exit this market.

We see just few ICOs these days raising money for good will, except some. In fact, most ICOs do not have good product to develop and after raising fund, nothing will be spent on the intended project. I also believe in raise a moderate amount of fund, instead of the team looking out for what is not feasible.

I think that ICO will no longer be able to raise funds. At least as they were before. Changes are needed in this market: tightening control, some kind of regulation and so on.
It is possible that the STO will be able to somehow change the situation.

You might be right and yes many blockchain ventures who seriously intend to introduce their own coin in the market does offer incentives to the initial investors but people are fed up now. So many frauds on the name of ICO. Weak projects and so on. There are alternatives to make money. Day trade could also help you make it. Besides, investment in stocks and shares by the companies having zero default risk is more appreciated.

I think it is getting harder every month for ICOs to raise enough money because of the alarming rate of ICOs scam, even good projects struggle to raise money to execute there project. I think could be the end of ICOs unless something is done about it. I think the best solution to curb this fraudulent activities is to introduce regulations for ICOs. This will help genuine projects raise money from the public and accomplish their aims with investors trusting in the project.

Yes that’s true, it has been a good way to raise money for new projects and finding one bad egg in the basket doesn’t mean all the eggs are bad. There are bad ICOs and there also good ones. So I don’t see why we should start seeing all of them as scam when there good ICOs out there. The problem is that some of us don’t do their research very well before buying it.

Yes, ICO is a good way to raise money provided
if you can be lucky to involve in good ICO you will make money.

Yes, I had a big hope in Elementh project even I thought its coin price can go up to 1 USD if the good time comes! When they announced they are returning back money to its investors, I was totally disappointed and left the telegram group. The same thing happened with the Ingotcoin ICO! They raised 40 Million USD and then they gave back money to its investors and they are gone without paying its bounty hunters, Elementh at least paid to its supporters.

Yes all that has happened but I don’t think it is going to change anything . ICO will still be there and people will still be investing in it. This has always been all about risk, you either win or you lose and when you’re winning there is someone else losing their money , same as when you’re losing, someone else is winning.

I can draw an analogy of fundraising in ico with the collection of funds in any investment company and conventional HYIP projects, which despite their deception work and people willingly bear money there. I see that ico for many is the best opportunity to raise funds for the realization of their product or service or platform, another thing is that under the guise of ico there are a lot of scammers or unsuccessful projects. But this is in every industry and nothing works and develops. I believe that ico will still be relevant to the fact how the cryptocurrency will be regulated. Further, most likely fraudsters will leave this niche themselves and it will be possible to continue working.

I think ICOs can be a good way to raise money, but should be harder to do... these days anyone can easily issue a token and make a shitty/scam project

I think this is a good way to raise money for any project. The problem is that now investors are not interested in ICO. Also, the problem of a large number of scams in the field of ICO, make ICO less attractive to investors.

I'm not generalized all ICO but this is what I have seen now on some ICO's project.
https://i.imgur.com/j2SFZ2T.jpg
This is what I have said before that ICO's must filter those project that they think a shady one or those having a fake team and copy pasted documents like white paper and roadmap. We know it's really hard to choose a project that good and legit through your deep research you may know which better.

That is funny but true and sad at the same time, projects are raising money, they raise millions and development of their product cost thousands dollars and it looks like that horse on the picture.
ICO is collecting money and trading is something like high risk job and ICO isn't for little profit.

Ever since I got scammed in an ICO, I have disliked the ICOs and concluded that I wouldn't put my money again. I have to wait for the tokens on exchanges to buy if I feel it is nice. ICOs should not be used to raise fund.

I fear to participate in ICO because of the large number of scammers among the new projects, and until the legislative regulation of this activity is introduced, I do not plan to participate in ICO again.

The purpose of ICO is to collect funds and the funds collected aim to become project capital and usually the minimum ICO target is called softcap so that when the ICO cannot reach the softcap it means that the project has not received sufficient funds, so the project will not be realized due to lack of capital and wrong one solution for all of that is to extend the duration of the ICO
and such problems were experienced by the ELEMENTH Project, even though they seemed to have received a lot of funds but actually they still could not get enough capital so they could not develop their projects

It is the only way that these developers can fund their project, other than that they don't have any resources unless they got a back up from private company, but right now the project however good it may seem will not materialize if there are n funds for the project.

I think yes, because usually when ICO the price is very cheap, besides that there is usually a program of discounts and certain bonuses.
maybe you are interested in the ETHA project, for more details about the ETHA project information, try check the links at signature that I use  ;D ;D

actually not really the only way since there are also crowdfunding, kickstart and many more.
ICO is one of most convenient way to raise money without any complication but the project will still need to comply with the regulation of each own government.

It is very fortunate if the developer wants to refund the funds of those who have invested in the project, well even though the price drops but all are risks that we must accept as investors in the ICO, so we cannot call the ICO a scam because everything can happen to the project especially regulatory issues many projects are not eligible for this.

The ICO for now is almost scam it was a waste of time and money to invest if you want to have a high return of profit you must study how to trade because many exchange now is handling ICO, STO, IEO, ATO something like that many CEO wants the best for their project so if the project was legit then you will see many people invest on it, like binance many legit ICO was there and you can buy coins when you are approve in your kyc.

Are you not reading the content and just replying? he is asking about ICO projects and not starting his own project to make money  :P.

I would like to see ICO if it is a legit project and with all the scams that took place in the market, majority will have a bad experience when it comes to ICO investment one way or the other and i think it is difficult to convince people other than it is a legit project with legit team.

I think ico is still better way to raise money to develop project.
for banning scammers , i think cryptoworld need some new rule to act about this.

Most people really think so. That a good and appropriate way is to invest in ICO. Maybe with that it can benefit easily. If the project is good, if you don't, you will certainly suffer losses. I will also do the same if I have money for investment.

It used to be said that ico is one of the best ways to raise money because there are still many good and potential ico, but now many ico fail and scam, so now people think about investing in ico or not because the conditions are not stable

In the old day, it is a dependable way to raise some fund for a project, but today it getting harder to collect fund from doing an ICO, the reason would be many investors getting hesitated because there are so many scam ICO being created.

I think for now you better become a daily trader, because even for ico the guarantee of a successful project is very little so it's better to become a trader now than to become an ico investor

I do only not think there is anything wrong in raising money through ICO, but the agenda or notion behind it is what makes it to be either good or bad.
It is quite unfortunate that some individuals these days have started makes ng wrongful use of that process and this has made some people to loose trust in most ICOs.

If it's being used as a scam, definitely not but a lot of people and projects are getting down because of the fraud that surrounds it. I have seen a recent project that has something to do with plagiarising content and editing photos of real people to scam people. That's just absurd and a lot of work to be done to scam. They all want is to have easy money, and that's not good in any country. You can never get rid of them. Just create projects that are legitimate and prove all of it is good.

As long as the project is a high quality one, it would highly possible to collect fund from ICO, but at this moment it would be little harder with the market condition that keep on going up and down very often.

in my opinion the best way is generated from Ico because we only work by promoting a project without capital and we are paid (if not a scam project). basically if we want a lot of profits, of course, we need capital money and capability in the world of cryptoqurency, both trade and investment.

This is one of the reasons why scammers are targetting those ICO investors because it is easy to raise money, you only need a good design, whitepaper, and people who will hype, your project and presto you have money easy money with much effort.

ICO is a good way for what it is meant for, which is to raise funds for projects. However, I don't see it becoming any more sustainable or guaranteed given the many bad experience encountered by investors in the quest to invest in ICOs.

For a long time, participation in many ICO projects has really been a good way to collect money. However, the situation has gradually changed, and this is primarily due to the falling prices on the crypto market, as well as a large number of scammers. So now participation in ICO is like a lottery.

Now it is very difficult, the project should cause great enthusiasm among investors and pull money to itself like a magnet, only on such projects now there is a chance to earn.

It was an amazing way to get profit back in 2017,  today it is getting harder and harder to find great projects. Right now the only ICOs that are really profitable are those that are mentioned on Binance launchpad.

If they really know what they are into and see the future to be successful then i don't really think depending on ICO's to raise monies is not ideal since it might never come into fusion if the ICO target is not reached. True and real projects should have other source of funding.

ICO is only for scammers. They love to create fake ICOs to easily raise money from investors, I have seen many ICOs scam from 10-50 million $. And obviously ICO is very suitable for scammers making money

No, I do not think so Because now investing in ICO is all a loss. Because most of the ICOs are fake now. Most ICOs cannot be successful. All ICOs now scam. So I do not believe in investing in ICO now. There was a time when everyone invested in ICO and benefited. I too used to invest in ICO and earn a lot of profits. But now it is the time that investing in ICO means putting your money in water. Now there are many fake companies who can get new coins out of ICO but their coins cannot be exchanged at last. That's all, the Loss project.

Thank you

Yes, I think that ICOs is still a good way to make a profit quickly. Check the new upcoming ICO called UNCLOAK and the AMA of the CEO of this project with Ian Balina!

Well I think if the basic of the project is strong then it will raise money. The team of any coin must be strong to create a good believe among the investors.

ICO become a failure due to many scammers and the condition of the market.
THough, i will not tell not to invest on an ICO again, you just need to choose the best one.
You should study them carefully. there are so many good iCO in the community!

Ico till date the most successful business model and even in a bear market we are seeing some good development projects are coming so ico for crypto is most successful project we can say

For now investing in ICO projects is not recommended. Crypto's market conditions are in poor condition so there are many possibilities for ICO projects to fail. But when the crypto market conditions start to stabilize, the ICO can be a way to gain profits. Currently the STO project is more recommended for those of you who want to invest, because the STO project has a clearer legal entity.

Of a truth icos was one of the Best and good ways of raising fund from the public for cryptocurrencies projects developments but the scammers and fraudsters has see this as an opportunity to scam people and investors of their hard earned money and in turned it creates distrust that we are witnessing in the cryptocurrency market now.  I will said this because I have lost so much fund to scam projects that used icos to raise funds from the public and I have decided to avoid investing into any projects during icos completely.

ICO was really a good to make a profit went we buy at first listing, every ico always getting a really dip price after they hit the first exchange and that your opportunity to make some profit for bounce back price.

ico is still a good place to find money fast, because there are still many enthusiasts from here but this is the moment to pay attention because it is often misused to seek instant benefits by some people

It is getthing more and more expensive to run an ICO because of compliance. It is near to some other things already.

but in my opinion for some time ICO was not as profitable as possible because the market was dumping. so I think it must be careful and maybe if investors are doubtful they will secure their funds until the market improves and start investing again in the ICO

Yeah, raising money then run it all away but I'm surprised if the development team would really return that 8M money that they accumulated to raise. Most ICO these days are considered to be a scam that's why it's so hard to trust them.

What's the purpose of proposing projects when they don't want to finish it anyway? There's a lot of shit coins stack everywhere aren't these developers tired of making a new currency? Investors would be divided because there are existing currencies already yet most of them are lack of support after being dumped.

Yes, there are many scam projects. But there are still good projects ongoing. Mostly ICO prices very small. so if you invested in a good project still have a chance to raise your money. I just following the ETHA project. They have a good project idea and a good team. Another thing is their bounty managers are trusted. So I believe this is a good project.

now it’s not as interesting as it used to be, there are a lot of fraudulent projects and most of it’s falling in price

Ico could have been the best way to raise funds for your projects and in 2017 many people and investors has made good profits investing in projects through icos but in 2018, it seems the ico has been miss used by scam and fraudulent developer.  Many investors here have different story to tell base on what has happened and I in particular has lose money investing into abandon projects.

If you come up with everything positive and a good prpject, I think it still have the chance to raise fund with ICO. You can also escrow the raised fund and spend later once you got whatever you promised to the ICO holders.

Can you share a link of their telegram or ANN thread?  I would like to verify your statement.
I am interested to know because I am holding this token and were not able to sold it since the price is so cheap.

Its really hard to trust ICO nowadays because of what we have faced on the previous years. But still ICOs are a good way to raise money but always be careful on picking the right project to invest to protect your funds and investments.

Collecting money can be done in any way. Not just the ICO. Depends on you comfortable where to find the money. Turn on the ICO or invest in a well-known altcoin. So it all depends on where you are looking for money. In my opinion, a good way to raise money is at the ICO.

It is like any investment, it can bring you money in its potential if you understand and invest your money not to guess, but after a detailed analysis, drawing conclusions and determine the exit point beforehand, at what price you need to sell the coin, so that greed would not hurt you do it with a profit for you.

ICO is a tool for raising money to promising projects, for them, this is still a good way, but because of the large number of scammers, investors are afraid to invest.

Scam projects meaning earning money but it is not the investors that will going to earn instead it is directly the team who brought the project. Take time visiting the scam and accusations section, there are many projects being mention as scammer. ICO is just like robbing a bank in an easier way without forcing you to take your money. They just collect it offering you "heaven and then run away leaving you like a hell"- (Credit to the owner of this statement)

I think this is the worst way to get money now. It seems to me that the ICO industry is causing great losses to the investor. I do not risk.

ICO can indeed make money but this is not the best way because the risks are big especially when a lot of bad things happen, so you have to be very careful when investing in ICO.
You must be able to arrange all the plans correctly so that you can run well.

Yes, they must go on a long-term vacation. On the sea. Where the sun always shines. I think this is not the worst project. I saw 100 m $ 36 $ m which also stated such. To invest in ICO today, a project must have a finished work product, or at least beta.

It used to be but not anymore, people have lost trust in ICO that it's hard for ICO to reach even their softcap, even a good project can attest to this, they paused their project until investor's confidences goes back, some of these scams ICO are faking their sales to make it appear that investors are trusting their project.

For me ill think it is a good way raise money, But we need to make sure if we invested ICO are have some good opportunities  or a potential ICO that in the end will be success of their cap they mention.

if you are think you want to get the money back with profit it will not been given by any ICO that we have previously made because lots of investment will going not valuable but if you just hold it at any time it will give the profit for you.

Yeah right, same deal as investment you need to know all aspects before you place your money inside any ico projects that you are targeting to join, there's specific information that you need to understand before making any decisions, try to analyze and observe the quality and the usability of the said ico coins.

It's a good way if you know what project to invest with and trust your money.

To raise money for what?
For your profit? Then the answer depends on how long do you plan to hold it and on what project would you invest.
To raise money for their project?Maybe it could help them but that doesn't mean that they would get a lot of investors specially now that there are so many scam project,
People are being afraid to invest in ICO.

For a good project that is being developed without fundraising, subsequent fundraising can guarantee great success.

Let's say you have $ 10,000 and a protatype. After receiving $ 10,000,000, your project will develop at a tremendous pace.

Yes, it's great way to earn profit but remember there are a lot of ICO that consider to being watch because not all ICO are profitable.
Personally I just focus on local ICO that fit with my vision so once I believe on their project, I can start investing on them and start for a profit.

My current local ICO was TEN !

Yeah but now this is getting more tricky. As most of the ico are unable to raise funds so they proove to be a scam. We have to find another day so that fund is raise and investor fund also secure who invest in ico. I think one way is self financed  and ask the investor to join at later stage. By this both parties get satisfaction   

In my own opinion, ICO is not anymore a good way to raise your money or profit because since there were a lot of scams and unsuccessful project who didn't reach their softcap. A lot of people start to not believe and participate in ICO anymore.

They no longer believe in ICO since 2018. But now there are some good and profitable ICO from Binance, it may help ICO to revive in the near future.

Very well, it is a good way to raise money. If you do a very good research and find a good coin, then trust me, you are Definitely going to make profit from ICOs, people loose because they were unfortunate to have invested in the wrong project. There are lots of good ICOs out there.

I don't just know, I see it today. Many people are already very much abusing this and the source is simply drying up, you understand that the trust of people in the ICO is simply terribly reduced. You just need to stop investing in such projects.

Despite the current challenges as regard raising money through ICOs, it is still the easiest way to raise cash.Angel investor or venture capitalist are not as liberal.We do however need a more sanitized space that makes it difficult for scammers to operate

ICO is a very good way to raise money. Especially this was so in 2017 :)
But this is the best way for ICO's team to earn cash, not for the investors to get profit ;D

They are so funny) to recover funds when the course has already dropped almost 3 times. On the other hand, thanks to that, at least we decided to return the money invested in them)

ICO is the best way for investors to throw money out of their pockets and make it easier and free for members of ICO to earn money :D

yes, maybe it is true that in the near future ICO is not so profitable but in seeking profits you can invest in medium-term or daily trading in the market so always take advantage if there are things that are profitable in crypto especially to increase your capital

Ofcourse most people prefer to put their money on safe deals and safe coins but some ICO coins has doubled the money of their investors But they are rare now because of unquality teams and unquality projects , everyone can run an ICO and ask for money and that s the problem

No, the ICO is the bad way to earn money, if you invested in the scam ICO, you sure lost your money, even the ICO is successful, but they have not listing in any good exchange, you possible lost your money, so don't invest it now!

Yes, even of the darkest of times, the market despite of its condition is still good for ICO's to launch their projects. In this case, if the project do really exhibit a promising characteristics, people will definitely support it.

Yes ICO is the best way to raise money but it only happens in 2017 and 2018. For this year, I don't think it is because there are a lot of ICOs that are scams that make investors afraid to invest.

ICO is both raising money and all losing money. Because of ICO the market increase because they use bitcoin which is the people buy bitcoin and invest to ICO that can cause for the bitcoin value to rise the value but it can cause too decreasing the market when the ICO are scam it cause dumping market like what we experienced last year I hope this year more ICOs are good to invest so they will helpt to the bitcoin community to recover it.

Although we can still see some good ICO projects that are working in good faith and are trying to contribute to the development of cryptocurrency, and in particular, their individual product, in general this type of ICO activity is going through difficult times. Apparently, now we need government regulation of this activity to resume the normal operation of ICO projects. Need to eliminate fraud. Indeed, in general, ICO is very useful for the development of cryptocurrency. Fundraising through ICO projects can still be quite promising.

I think everything is the same, ico is a not so good way to get money. ico is very much at risk, 2017 and 2018 I think it's the same as this year, it is now very difficult to find ico who is really good and can give us benefits.

Investing in ICO is much more profitable than you think. ICO with the great idea and high potential can help you to make a good amount of profit rather than other sources of investments.

Yes that is true, but it must be known that ICO is currently very unprofitable, but many ICO projects have caused fraud, a lot of research is needed before buying the current ICO project. So that your money does not fall to fraudsters.

Yes of course Investing in ICO's is really a good way to raise money and the growth of our investments to them is really satisfied me. But still hard to choose which one is the best to invest with our money because of some scammed projects that launched this past year and soon.

I think that this is a simple and good way to raise money for scammers. Since at present 99% of new coins are frauds.

ico may be the best way to raise money. but now ico cannot be chosen as a scam. ico is still a concern for some people who have not been able to choose the potential ico.

The fraudsters pumped all the money out of the investment, and they have no money left for good and progressive projects. I think if there would have been fewer scams, the ICO era would have lasted longer.

In 2017, thanks to the ICOs, we were able to achieve good profits. But after the fall in the market, many ICOs started to be canceled. In addition, many token prices have fallen  more than the ICO price because of the market. And the worst thing is that the market has much more scam than the years passed. Therefore, we need to do a good research to join the few successful ICOs. Because I think that until the market rises again, the number of successful ICOs will be very small.

As long as there are enough investors to give money, then why shouldn't it be? The more fundamental question should be whether investing through ICOs makes sense.
You are buying utility tokens. Somebody invented the steam machine. You are not an investor in it, you just have tokens for wood.

I also believe that ICOs are considered to be potential and develop in the future. But the result is that after listing at the exchange, its price has fallen by 5-10 times compared to the ICO price. So these projects are like scam ICOs

It's not only a good way it's the only way to raise money for a project that is related to cryptocurrency, but the bad part is so many scammers are using this, to scam crypto investors, now investors are leaving many potential good project, because of this.

Till date, even after in bear market ico fund raising is still successful business model in developing blockchain asset so we can expect the future of crypto fund raising is ico

This is so, although they are now having new regulations for ICOs, which reduces financial fraud and allows them to continue to flow with technology-based development, many people are already in the final stages of the projects and are having a great acceptance , due to the fundraising through the ICO, new jobs have been generated and a large number of projects that open up on this path.

It is definitely a good way to raise money, but as there are plenty of scam projects many investors are not very enthusiastic about it, so these days many ICOs have been having problems of raising funds.

For ICO project creators, this is definitely the fastest way for them to earn money from the community. And for investors, this is the fastest way for them to lose money

yeah, ico still be great way to make money. but scammer be the number one to make money.
if you hunter or investor you will know, how this day pass. you know many scam project and we still try to do best. you know how hard or how easy making money in here. and ico maker know that many scam's ico and it will decrease believer.

The processes that were previously used for the normal collection of funds that were collected for the implementation of great ideas for solving large human problems. Now a very large number of people do not use the ICO for its intended purpose. Today it is just a deception of people to a greater extent.

At the moment, when I reply to your post, the ICO project is not a good way to earn a lot of money because of the lousy situation of this cryptocurrency market. So I recommended you to trade and invest in big coins like BTC, ETH, XRP and hold at least one year to wait for the bull run of this market.

The majority problem of those people creating these icos is that, they're not fully prepared about what they are about to do thinking of the investors fund the most, even though they're more important but most of them don't make any physical move than post a write up online hopping it will be easy as they say.

I think when you want to develop technology and new projects, usually founders need a lot of money to be able to create a solution that can benefit many people. so don't be surprised if there are so many ico created and try to find funding to develop the project.

I think that ICO as it is does not have the future. It will be transformed to something more stable, regulated and efficient like STOs. The latter at the moment is the real hope for the whole industry as well as the launch of Bakkt, Fidelity, ETF and TON. All these things together will give a great boost to the crypto world and make the community active again. 

it is a pity but the truth is that lots of ICOs nowadays after the final period of the collecting money mostly do nothing in order to develop the project, but in most cases ICOs nowadays do not collect even the softcap, at least im most cases. So very often investors or participants of the ICOs complain and try to get their assets back, because lots of people believe in the developing project or want to see the rising profit after the ICO. It is a typical situation.

Make sure to invest in a right ico and do a full scanning of the ico you want to invest to protect it from scammer. But investing in ico is not effective as of today because of the bear market that happens a year already and ico running is most failed and not succeed. Everything is risky in crypto but you can take the risk go for the profit.

It is interesting what the ICO from some last ones gave a real high and profit after investing for the last period. May be in was in 2017, but nowadays most of the projects hardly collect the soft cap. It seems to me that nowadays it is not very profitable to invest.

I think it is still a great way of how to earn money. But I agree that there are too much projects that will not give you any profit. Just wait for another TGE on Binance launchpad and try to test your luck, because these projects give at least x2-3

There are some trusted ICOs project that you can support the project by raising funds but to able to choose those trusted ones you need to know the source of these projects specially their territory, the project team or the board so in case there is fraud you can lodge complains to the police. But there are bad ones, they are the bad  knut that destroy the whole foods in the mouth.

ICO is not just raising money, it is bound to support the project to make is more successful.
It is one way of inviting people to grab the opportunity of the future.

ICO is one of the best way to raise money, For scammers this is the fastest way to get rich!

it is indeed very difficult to be able to determine which ICO can be successful or not normally seen when it is nearing the end of the fundraising period, usually they will not seem too concerned with some investors in telegram chat and there is no development at all.

I think that now ICO is not an investment for beginners. They are easier to lose than earn. However, if you are experienced and know exactly what you are doing, ICO can bring you a lot of money even now.

Exactly, because ICO's stories are very complicated as most of them are scammers and even they are good. Bounty hunters are not paid as it was before, it's always better to invest on top coins as they are popular in the market. And I feel it as more secure.

Scammers may always think it is a good way to raise money :D but we know honestly that 90% of ICOs are just intended for the benefit of the project owners and they decide what to do. I do not even read the whitepaper of late because they can choose to change it any time they want to suit them.

Nowadays it is really risky to invest money from ICO as there are lots of project that were scam. I Would rather invest my money for eth ot bictoin rather than spend on ICO.

for me not. because in other ways we can still get and collect money. moreover we can find the money in any way not only with ICO. but many hope that ICO is a source of income. but for me at this time the ICO was declining and that made the ICO fighters increasingly retreat.

Raise money for what? for the project? I guess its a very good way to raise money for the project who want to launch either way they need to have a partners and sponsored to continue the project. If you are an investors then why join ICO if you not trust the project you are investing.

If we take into account the stable situation in the cryptocurrency market, which was in 2016, then the ico market of companies gave really very good chances for all investors. Investors invested their money in projects using even 50 percent bonuses. This gave very good opportunities for income after listing of coins, as well as with the further development of the project.

I think that before it was one of the best ways to raise funds, but due to the fact that this method was based essentially on the trust of the investor and the developer, there were many scams and now this method has ceased to be as relevant.

Ico being a Way to raise money. This has made people see initial coin offering as a heaven to scam people and has cost the downfall of ico. I think we should clear our mentality on that belief

Absolutely, I mean, that is the main reason why projects undergo ICOs. Most projects see ICOs are a Way to raise some funds to begin project development. While some have been very successful raising funds from ICOs, others have found little success and have had their plans suspended. In all, ICOs are a great way to give project developers a head on start.

Yes, in 2017 the ICO was a golden period, because at that time most ICOs were successful and rarely heard of ICO fraud, in contrast to 2018, the more Bitcoin rose and was very valuable that's where the initial ICO fraud sprang up to lie to Investors.

Right, because of that people make and run ICO everyday with kind of promotion technique and project plan. ICO for the first time is a great way to raise funds, but unfortunately right now it has been polluted by scammers. At present, ICO is a laughingstock for some people because it is highly likely that it is run by scammers.

Imo ICO has become obsolete.. I believe that a project should start with private sale like tap network did and then maybe do a IEO like beatzcoin. Things are similar in the traditional market and I strongly advocate that we should continue this way

ICOs are not safe anymore for both investing and raising money. Scammers collect money and run away after the end of ICO. Intrachain is a perfect example for this case, they don't even answer to messages on social media and their telegram group are full of crying people about refunds.

It is still a good method to raise money, but it has become much harder. You need to put more effort into your preparation in order to convince investors and the is a good development.

if not for the fact that some bad nuts in crypto are using ICOs to scam innocent investors raising funds through i
ICOs was one of the cheapest ways and also very fast ways to seek for financial support all around the world. Some folks have tarnish the ICO image and now most folks see STOs to be secured way of raising funds other than ICOs.

Well, at least they are offering to return money.
There are many who literally just disappear.

Overall, I still think ICOs are a great way to raise money.
The biggest benefits of blockchain tech is it allows p2p interactions that are secure and globally distributed.
Going straight to the buyer through an ICO is exactly what crypto is about.

However, due to the market conditions, I think it is just foolish to rely only on ICOs.
From an investor standpoint, ICOs haven't been profitable for over a year now.
From the developer standpoint, it is not a reliable way to raise funds anymore.
So the fund raising should be combined with VCs or angel investors.

This way long term success can be guaranteed and everyone wins.

Yes , if it is the end of the bear market all ICOs that are now starting  soon or in a few months can be a very good investment

but for now ICO has not improved and a lot of bad things have happened when investing in ICO.
ICO is currently bad and many of them fail and there are also many ICO frauds, so if investing in ICO it is very worrying and must be very vigilant.
yes ICO will not always be like that, so maybe in the future if the market has improved and fraud has declined, ICO will be good for investing.

ICOs have been the best way for crypto projects to raise some reasonable amount of money to support their project, ICOs give investors he opportunity to invest their money with the aim of making profit  but due to the fall of the prices of the top cryptocurrencies, investors are scared to invest their money in ICOs. this is because, they are scared losing their money. 

Not much advisable. If you are more sure about their product and its demand, its team and how strong they are at their business. Not every ICO would yield a good profit. We really had so many ICOs last year. Few were legit and few were scams. Better to invest in the existing coins. Choose the best coins top rated with good volume. The more you invest, the more profit you would get in return.

You can either go with existing coins or with new businesses that have a revenue sharing token.

Well I guess it's quite effective? Projects and ICO's are really achieving success and though the market seems not appealing, still, we can consider that ICO can be successful when investors are present. What is too bad is that, scam ICO's actually gain millions of dollars of fund.

It is obvious that when a project create a utility token for just one app and expect it to succeed , It is difficult unless this app succeed whith a wide range  users from all around the world and Now we are seeing that there are at least 3 ICO announecement each day which make most of them unexpectable to suceed

What is your point in making money thru ICO, is that creating ICO and in the end the money that you collected will not be send for those who invested and put their efforts on it or investing in an ICO and wait for the return on your investment? It is not good if you are planning to create an ICO for for your own sake.

So it all depends on the project. If a good project is true, the way to get profits is in ico. If the project is not so good, of course you will not easily benefit from ico. So the most important thing is you have to see how the project is.

It is a good word to say companies , So we have to distinguich between companies and teams that wanna get money from people for just an Idea , Sometimes or mostly you cant even find the CEO talking about his project and why investors should take step toward it.

if I am not good enough to be an investment this year, but if the ICO project is indeed good to raise funds for investment capital because of the campaign bounty I can get funds for free

In most cases, the problem for small companies that have collected several million dollars during the ICO is that they do not have a qualified employee controlling the expenditure of funds.

It was a great way to get fast profit, but at the moment, the only projects, that can really be profitable are those that are held on binance launchpad. No other project can guarantee such a fast way of multiplying your investments.

Yes it is good way but if the project is not good the ico will can not attract investors to invest. so oco must be good amd the investors will insure they will earn money from there investments.so raising a money in ico is difficult also if the ico is not good.

Asides having seed funds from private investors, It is the only responsible and popular way to raise funds from the public for crypto project developers

100% ICO is not the right place to get money. Because at ICO we will take a big risk we can lose or make a big profit. ICO is a place for those who dare to take risks.

It will be difficult for ICO to survive any longer. This stage is like the death of ICO. Many people believe that it will die soon.

Are you in any doubt if ICO is a good way to raise money? JUst ask people who raised money through ICOs. They are laughing. With millions on their pockets. I mean wallets.

Since the introduction of cryptocurrency into the mainstream financial ecosystem, ICOs have been the way crypto project teams  raise some amount of income to support their project. Usually this is done to give investors the opportunity to invest into their project. But now, ICOs are not a good way to raise money to support crypto projects due to the current situation of the crypto market..

ICO might have been the best way to get money before. But now a lot of things has nullified the fact, many people will prefer to make exchange of there money and ho on physical business to get the profit and most especially those who have faced this bear market and some other trading losses.

Buying the ICO token will be a huge profitable way in sometime but the time is can't for everyone because a lots of people are still stucking with their investment in recent times so I think this will be the not right time for investment in ICO.

Maybe the Elementh team is fed up with the market trend. Some projects raised more than 8-10 Million USD from their sale when BTC price was 12k-10k USD. But in this market BTC price less than 4K USD! So, the project team did not cash out, because they thought the market will go up at the end of 2018! But that did not happen, so some projects like Elementh wants to return back the money to its investors. Projects like Yumerium, Pdata stopped developing for the bear market. Actually, the bear crypto market is not supporting anyone at this moment! So, I will suggest everyone to stop investing in ICO projects, because you will fail to make back your investment money, and forget about your profit. You may invest in established coins or STO projects. That's it.

Hardly any ICO will make you rich. Those times are gone. There will be very few projects with outstanding ROI in comparison to the huge number that will be launched over time.

I think so. Lately, even it is hard to reach softcap. After reaching softcap when they are listed, the price goes down many times. Instead, you should busy with trade. This is not as profitable as it used to be, but better than ICO.

I think that at the moment investments in ICO do not bring profit. It seems to me that this situation is due to the fact that the cryptocurrency market is in decline.

Maybe they should lower their soft caps and reconsider how much money they really need to develop the projects.

Now there is no sense to participate in the ICO, most likely you will lose your money. Very few projects are currently raising funds. New perspective is very profitable!

ICO still a good way to raise money or to get profit. Because if it is not a good way for sure ICO now is not existing anymore. But as you can see there are more and more project arise in this business, and I don't believe that there is no sense to participate in the ico project too, that's not true actually. Though, I can't deny were most of it are scam project and ended up into nothing.

Since it is a good way to raise money, every single person tries to raise money even with bad ideas. That's a huge issue.

Yes, now ICO is not as good and interesting as it had been years ago. Majority of them right now world merely for their own profit maximization and are scams.

People losing their money and confidence into these scam ICOs can no longer trust them and have on the other hand found other ventures and opportunities to invest in and make money with. So I think that it is time to move on and switch to something more profitable.

in my opinion ICO is the best way to raise money and also a profitable investment if you choose the right ICO. most ICO now is just imagination and does not reach the desired target and many ICO frauds. be careful when choosing an ICO project.

In my opinion, for now, I say ICO does not guarantee to collect money because lately there have been many ICOs that ended in fraud and some did not reach the target.
ICO is not like it used to be, which is proven to be paying and profitable, and for now it must be more careful to participate with ICO so that it is not in vain.

In any case, now there is an opportunity to do a lot in the ICO process, so I think that there are still really great opportunities for this. I can still say that there are a large number of projects that work very well.

Each ico has a different concept, so winning a soft-cap or hard-cap does not guarantee that ico will succeed, so investing in ICO will not always be profitable or successful, because it also has to look at the development of products offered, if the product cannot build prices tokens or collapse, it is possible that ico failed even though it has achieved a soft-cap or hard-cap during ICO.

Of course this way to raise money acting. Many have such teams that raised millions and vanished. And as a means to raise funds for your project is a very good way.

If you want to make money, do not waste your time in participating in ICOs because you wouldn't get the promised ICO price which is very discouraging. I have participated in more than 3 ICOs and only 1 is above ICO price, the rest are below the ICO price like -70%. SO the best time to buy is to sit and wait when the coin is listed on an exchange.

I think with the right approach, you can easily make good money on ICO, however, you should understand that it is dangerous and not to get into efyhoria even after the first successful ICO.

today ICO is not a good way to raise money because investors don't believe the new projects. there is a need for some kind of framework for connecting these two sides.

I think that every project have way to make their project successful and raising money is their choices but it's hard to make it sometimes, because we can't please people to invest. Much better that every projects in crypto have a good product and the their project is  have funds than to do raising money by doing ICO.

Yes I do, but ICO is just alternative way to gain some profit, I prefer do trading because it's more profitable in my opinion. Lately ICO is on it's hype, what just I mean is the Binance Launchpad, as you know BitTorent and FET are multiple times it's ICO price.

Is it for the project or an investor?  Formally I will have said yes without much taught but present dwellings has made investing in ico's so alarming that only few do that and with extra caution tape

It's only for shitty project and for the project which has already created a lot of cooperation with companies or even major exchange site and it only needs a few minutes to collect the hardcap.
You are only not aware about this dude.

I think ICOs are still a good way of fund raising. The problem is not with the method, rather with many scam projects,
and the bearish market situation works also against them and they are not profitable as they were before.

The good times for icos are over, but it is still possible to raise money. I think only very large and already known projects can still collect money with icos, but for small projects it is very difficult to finance with it.

that's right, ICO is the best and fast way to raise funds, already many companies have successfully made money from ICO although many also fail and scam.

and the problem is the government still thinks that ICO is an illegal method and has a high potential for fraud.

ICO is the best way for crypto project developers who want to raise funds with global investment. To support the ICO it should be accompanied by a search for partners who are capable and in accordance with the project you are going to run. And of course if someone wants to run an ICO, they need a big responsibility because they hold investment money.

ICOs are good way to raise money but you just need to know what anything with an advantage can also have a disadvantage. ICOs have seen a huge growth recently and were able to surpass $550 million in funding. They are a way for a rapid funding and fewer regulations .

It is not like the traditional model that you will have to go through long process.

Yes, I am sure that ICO processes now still have serious opportunities for fundraising and the implementation of the project itself. I think that people continue and further people continue to raise funds and solve large problems.

I think ICO as a way to raise money in the coming year is a good way to make a profit from it. But, not all ICO projects will give you big profits, so you need your own observations and analysis of some ICO projects that you think have great potential to be able to provide you with benefits if you feel hesitant to invest in ICO you can buy top 50 coins.

This is a good method, provided that you do not make a mistake in choosing a project, and the project itself will be successful, and not unprofitable. A lot of factors affect the potential profit.

I think that we had an ICO bubble , then everything went down so only High quality project are able ro resist

ICO remains a platform for scammers. 45% of business running ICOs are scammers. the best option these days is an IEO. join an exchange and launch your fund there. when your fund  is totally colected, you can come back for trading. it very simple. we have lots of exchanges these days and IEO is take over the ICO model.

Right now, IEO is the best way to raise money for a project. A lot of potentials project are doing it. Recently today binance launchpad was sold out, and also in Probit Exchange. IEO is the best option right now for a project to raise money.

ICOs were only beneficial way back 2017 but not this time. Now projects are failing because it is difficult to achieve softcap. I think there should be other means of raising funds to support a project.

The above ICOs are rather an exception to the rules given the negative trend that has been going on since the beginning of 2018. And given the agiotage that is accompanied by every ICO on the binance, there are chances that we are waiting for the revival of the former popularity of this type of fundraising.

Binance had a lot to do with this , all ICO projects launched on there got quick coins sale

When you see bear market like this one , even Bitcoin is struggling to gain value, dont expect from an ICO project based on some utility tokens to resist or even get 10 percent from ICO price

I think even nowadays there are good ICOs that i bet if the started in 2017 they can reach soft cap in few days , But now they cant even complete Pre-sale. So it is not about ICO quality , It is about the process itself as a way to rais funds

Good point man , thank you for your opinion

be more careful in the future and I think ico will still be many and many also ico projects that really are serious about making projects because only a few projects are scam, you need to be careful

ICO is the worst thing that ever happened in the crypto community. It is what has caused the burden of trust on cryptocurrency today. I wish it was never discovered as a means of raising funds for projects.

Thank you , It is still good , But It needs some regulations.

But even now there are some good projects that need funding methods , and ICO can help , But we need to do some regulations , some funds always go to the right place

Good details , Thank you

nowadays people are more interested in IEO, see with just a few hours all the tokens are sold out. this proves that ICO has not been too attractive, investors and developers have begun to like the IEO. maybe this year the ICO will be abandoned and the IEO will be popular, maybe even more popular than the ICO in 2017

It was ,But now all ICO  projects are struggling in gathering funds except IEO from binance

ICOs is a good way to raise money if you can choose the good and have a potential to push up their project at the top, there are some ICOs are still  scammer only they want is to stealing the money of many investors.

I think not this time, it's too risky now to raise money in an ico project since most of the ico's now are unsuccessful. It is also not profitable when you invest on an ico now because of this market's situation. I think it is better to trade, or buy and sell for a sure profit earnings.

the best way to get money is by trading. so if in crypto the best way to collect money is to buy and sell. it is a method that is always used by everyone if they want to get large amounts of results.

IEO more trusted because backup by big exchanger and its listed assurance. IEO could replace ICOs in near future but i think ICOs still alive and offering an alternative. Only qualified ICOs can survive in the future because most big exchanger will launch IEO

Whoever owns that project needs to shift to another business because he don't know how to handles it. That $8M is already huge in this bear market and they are thinking its not enough. I even saw some ICO projects that did not reach their softcap that is just $2m but they still continue it because they know their efforts will someday be recognized and get more investors along the way.

its depend on the team
if the team can manage and handle their community to hold i think they can survive on the first market
the price will not go down from their ico price

Yes, ICO can indeed generate big profits. And what happened during 2018 many ICOs failed. Until now it still happens and investing in ICO is indeed risky. But that all depends on how you determine the ICO project selection.

Ico will always be a quick way to raise funds for any project, what should be taken into account when investing there to avoid falling into scams, is the team, study well the Whitepaper and do relevant research to know the veracity of the project .

Many projects have been marred by the mismanagement of some project owners, however, there are already some new conditions to avoid these problems, some speak of STO, and great legal requirements.

I think the requirements are very necessary, since at the end of the ICO must be done if the promised thing is finally being carried out. Only in this way will the trust in investors be recovered even more, and the real reason why technology should be used and that it is worthwhile to continue with this type of money collection through ICO..

Currently there are projects that have become STO, which, I think is very good, because they are backed by recognized companies and have their legal documents under the law.

Definitely not worth it to invest in ICOS right now people lost confidence because most of them are fake or scammed, even the legitimate ones are having a hard time raising funds because investors are skeptical and also we are in a bear market. Strict regulation must be implemented on ICOS so that people will trust again and raising funds will not be that hard to achieve.

Many coins excelling on the market now become successful through ICOs where funds were raised to support the development of the platform and product. However, ICO is not the only factor for a coin or project to become successful. Factors like experienced team and good product which is highly in demand are very crucial in the determination of the success of a project hence it is good to research into these areas before choosing to invest in the ICO.

I think working on an ICO project is not the best way to raise money because now most ICOs are scams. if you want to get money it's better to do daily trading. although the benefits of trading are not too much. it depends on crypto market conditions, but this is more profitable than the ICO project where the salary payment is unclear.

Ico is a good way to raise money for the devs that has a plan on making a project but that was before when the time that ico do still have a  good reputation but now that there are many fake and scam ico's , the reputation of legit ico's were also got affected in which they cannot really obtain a good amounts of cash from potential investors  .

For now the ICO is difficult to get money, the number of scam projects is the reason that ICO is difficult to accept, but I hope that very strict special regulations will be made to regulate the ICO so investors do not hesitate to place their money.

in my opinion currently choosing ICO to raise money is a very small possibility because we all know that many ICO projects failed when they entered the exchange so that ICO investors suffered losses. if in the future the ICO can improve their system so that there is no more fraud, then we can take into account again for investment in the ICO.

this requires cooperation with the government, where we can see the Korean government that regulates the procurement of their ico projects. indeed it is not necessarily special and their project success but at least the regulation of the project is clear because there are regulations from the government. if all countries do that I think it will end well.

Not anymore. It was a good way to raise fund back in the day but now it has turned a shit way because investors care about their money. Most ICOs raised fund and scam or raise fund and don't develop what they have promised. ICO are getting worst day by day.

Yes ICO is a good way to raise fund for a project but that was before when investors still have confidence in it. ICO has been abused and many has lost hugely into it, though there are still some successful ICOs today but ICO success is not gotten on an easy lane now. You will need to do more to convince investors why they need to support the project.

Maybe they didn't have enough resources to move on with the project as stated by them. The most important thing is, will they actually give investors their money?  If they do fine and that's not scam. There are projects that's exited without refunding the investor's

No I do not ever think of it. Because ICO is the worst way to increase money. I personally think that it is never possible to make money by ICO. Because all ICO's are not successful right now. If investing in ICO, the money will be reduced. So I do not even think about raising money through ICO. Investing in ICO means waste time and resources. Good to stay away from ICO. ICO will never help to raise money.

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well, the right ICO will certainly be a very profitable thing. not all ICOs are profitable, but good and honest ICO is definitely profitable. but to be honest it's quite difficult to find ICO like that right now. You must be careful to find it.

Well I guess, ICO is one of the major things reason for us get profit. Especially it is very effective way to raise money to those who don't have any capital if the ico have a bounty campaign for their project as well. And I knew lot of investors believe in the ico though their there are some projects on which are really scam, just all we have to do is be very careful in choosing among of them.

Developers blunt money through ICO and this method has often happened before. And as a result many ICO projects have experienced success. But throughout 2018 many ICOs had difficulty collecting funds so many projects failed and scam. Maybe this is a consideration of many people, that looking for a project must have sales of tokens that have achieved a minimal Soft Cap.

   For us to get profit? And how you get the profit? I think you missed a point here, earning your paycheck in tokens for some tasks and ICO`s raising money
for their company is two different things. Nobody force you to sell your earned tokens right away and take some cash, but some of us hold chosen tokens
for the future. I think ICO is just like start-up company, they are small, trying to get money for development if they succeed they can become huge and
make some huge company.

There could be many other ways but for for now ICO is the only best way raise funds. Currently there is an IEO which is about to prove the test of timeslots just hope it works out fine

Icobench only publishes the results of the ICO funds that have been reached during the sale but the rating on Icobench must be reconsidered because some of the previous highest ICO ratings turned out to be just stupid scammers

maybe ico is not a good way to raise money, because ico is a lot that ends in fraud and gets worse ico. if the market is in good condition, it is possible that within a few months funds can be collected quickly if the team is serious. but unfortunately nowadays it is difficult to get funds through ico.

For my observation generally since we are just in the 1st quarter of 2019 I think the ICO's was still thriving. But the struggle is real and its very challenging to raise even just the softcap thats why most of the ICO's was reduce its target softcap and Hardcaps. due to this ICO Market situation.

Indeed, ico has been an ideal place to make money for everyone in the past but now, we are too hard to make money from it because creators only know how to constantly create projects, they lack creativity and do not create perfection for the project, no products, that is making garbage more, instead of good and quality projects. But we can only accept that and live with it until ico ends, and I think the end is near when many projects have started to link with exchange, exchange will be the person who directly advertises the project, the projects will need quality if they want to approve

I also experienced it a few months ago I invested in the ico project but, maybe I took the wrong road because of the ico project that I was living in. It turned out that my scam project was sad about it, indeed, if we correctly chose the ico project,
big profits would come to us because, ico is a big project.

Allright , I also think that we need a more safer way to raise funds,so we can protect investors and help projects at the same time

this is my opinion, ICO is a good way to increase profits or invest
but this ICO is not like a HYIP or trading which only takes a short time to get a profit but this ICO takes a long time to get a big profit

Not anymore due to the current market situation and also investors are smarter now. Why would invest in an ICO if you can buy their tokens at a cheaper price once they hit the market. 2017 was the best year and hopefully the upcoming years will be just like what it was in 2017.

Well, ICOs used to be a way of raising money, investing in ICOs back then was profitable, but now, so many scam projects out there to rub people of their money without any use case.  If you are lucky, you can still find a good ICO where you can raise some profit.

I think ICO is the right way to get money, indeed not all ICOs can make a profit for us because some end up with uncertainty and scam. It may indeed be necessary for us to know more about their project and their goals going forward, whether it will go according to plan and be successful or not.

I don't think ico is profitable anymore now.
IEO is a good choice if you still want to make a profit, I think ico will die soon.

you are right. however, currently not all ICOs can really be a good way to make money. well, first maybe it's a good way. but currently only certain ICO can make that truly happen. I only hope that there will be good developments in the future that make ICO again a good way to make a profit.

Deep point , thank you

Indeed , they took profits from bull market then return the money with 1/4 value

ICOs are a good fund raising option but lacking in confidence nowadays with reason. They are not regulated and
because of that many investors lost their trust and not investing in them anymore. They are not profitable as they
were before. Regulations or some kind of KYC is needed for ICOs as well not only for the participants.

I think it was but right now it is not anymore good, at least not until someone takes responsibility to clean all this mess that exist in ICO market. Hundreds of scam ICOs that steal millions of dollars from people. The whole idea of ICO is destroying right now if someone is not going to take action soon.

Honestly, the profitable projects taked back all the winnings like in gambling session. What happened in bull markets is not question here and there is no more such thing called reliable ICO.

Its because too many ICOs last year. I am agree that regulation needed in ICOs because many scam happen in 2018 and with regulation, it will prevent investor to invest in scam ICOs. KYC is good thing for investor and developers team

all there is a risk, if we make money through the ICO project then the risk of failure still exists, but our losses are not that big different from gambling if we fail we will lose everything, but perhaps the most attractive option is to make money through trade capital that we will use and we can get out of trade if things are going bad.

ICO was a good way to collect funds from investors around the world, but it used by scammers to steal people's money.
So, the ICO won't become a good way to raise funds, unless they can prove that they are a real company, not fraudster.