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Please vote. This is for informative purposes.

If you can, please post why do you still invest or why you don't invest any more.

I still invest ico's which i believe they will be success, for example Fetch, Btt, etc. I dont invest fiat money, i invest only crypto which i also have. For example if i have navcoin and i believe that, it will dump, then i sold my navcoins for an ico which i believe it will not dump as much as navcoin.

Whatever happened in crypto market is nightmare. We cannot consider the all projects are scam or anything. We will be able find some good projects in the market. That is how we found some successful ICO has been introduced via launch pad or directly.
I am waiting buy the Facebook coin which gonna be launched soon in the marketplace. I hope you too wish to buy such potential coin.

Of course I still buy ICOs. They make me much money. You only need to invest properly. I know a good pool that brings me good results because they choose good projects and get great bonuses and conditions. The name is Crypto Whales Pool. I like them.

Surprise, I voted NO.

Why? Because it's very hard to make profit today as compare to previous years specially in 2017. So I'm no longer interested, besides scams ICO hasn't stop even though there's a lot of people exposing them in this community so I don't want to be a victim. But I'm not saying that I will completely stop investing them though. Maybe when we're in the bull-run, I might go with the flow, but not right now.

I voted "yes", because if it is the end of the bear market, all ICOs that are now starting (and at the beginning - in the private sale stage are the biggest bonuses) soon or in a few months can be a very good investment. I think it's worth taking a risk right now.

There are a few good ICOs that are still worth investing in but they are not easy to find. As long as the team is committed and they get close to the softcap then it is worth taking a punt and putting some coins in it

I would like to Vote for Both because I truly believe that it will surely depend on the price of the market if it is still not recovering then it is a NO and if we already are in a bullish market then it is again a good day to invest in certain ICO, Because I think that there would be no investors to waste his precious time wondering in an ICO program if he can see the market is in a bubble, And right now there are ICO that are just scam and are aiming to get your private key if you would register in their airdrop of ICO, It is better to be on a lie low for now when the market is still recovering.

Yes I still invest in ICOs this 2019, but this time I invest only my time and data through bounty hunting. Am studying the ICO market for some time and if it gets profitable again, I will jump in.

I still do and will continue to, but we have to speak the truth, the number of people that do, has really reduced and you can understand why. It takes a miracle to find a successful ICO project and with this relatively low success rate, it has lead to less investors, most see ICO right now as a big gamble and one advisable not to delve in.
But i still do because I work with good bounty managers and I trust their project, soon when the market is good, most of this coins will be worthwhile in the market

I am still invest in the ICO in 2019. But, for certain ICO, which have good potential (according to my analysis)
Yeah, 10 voters. Yes (6), and No (4)

ICO is the best way to fund a project and its very active but the only bad thing affecting ICO is the scammers ,since the last bullrun many scammers came into cryptocurrency to deceived people and run away with there money ,sooner or later ICO will be stronger again when people start learning how to detect fake projects

I am not doing it for a while because the fact is no projects is reaching its gola so I am not ready to waste any of my hard earned money into useless shit projects.

I invest in ICO rarely and very carefully. But it seems to me that this direction has not lost its relevance. I have seen projects that look very promising.

I won't invest to any ICOs for this year. It seems that they are no longer productive and each of them has no purpose anymore. If you are going to read their road maps, most of them does have the same vision but with different style of explanation.

Some might be productive but that just can't move me with my decision of not investing to any ICO. Most of them last 2018 has postponed or stopped the pre-sale because they have been considering the market situation.

I stopped investing in ICO for more than a year ago, because at that time began to receive too many fraudulent Proactol and profits were impossible to get.

I have to say NO for this one right now because I can’t afford to lose money again. My recent investment of ICO turned to be a scam so it means, my money will be gone forever. I know some good ICO right now but I refure to participate because of this, maybe in the future ICO will be more profitable again.

Investing can make a lot of profit and invest in 2019 is my goal. I know that the market is in a very low condition, but I still believe that investing can still provide benefits. We must be smart and be able to play quickly. And every opportunity must be utilized properly.

Bounty hunting is not investing, so at the moment you don't invest in ICO's but one day you might. I am doing something similar and I voted yes although I am not investing at the moment but I will when I see something worth investment. I like to join bounty instead and if there are more projects that I am interested in I will invest. It is kind a yes and no answer for me.
I wonder where is everyone, altcoin doesn't look very active lately.

When 2019 came I did not invest ICO but I will back again I think after few months . I updated only the ICO I invested last year 2018 and most of them are now update or pending and other is scam. Maybe I think why I did not invest to ICO because Im tired to the scam ICO and once I feel most of the ICO is legit I will back again.

Yes, my first ICO this year is fetch ai on binance I can say worth it investing cause the price is 5x on its debut trading day. But not all projects will be like this as also fet is influenced by Binance. I suggest choose investing on IEO on famous exchange since listing will be supported there already.

For now I still have not dared to invest in ICO, because the market situation is bad. I will wait until there is an improved market signal, and for now there are not many ico that have caught my attention, most are scams so be careful

not a chance.

i have never invested in any ICO actually. so i wouldn't do it this year either. it is because of the principles that i have. i don't care about the profit of ICOs all i care about is that they are scams and i believe that none of us should give any help to scammers. and investing in their token is like helping them scam more people.

I will always support cryptocurrency, ico like a new company or a new business that develops in the community, we only need to introduce to people around us, so that we are more familiar with cryptocurrency, one day I am sure, how blockchain technology develops and affects the world, ICO is one fundraiser to develop a project that was built, but must be more careful about fake ICO

I prefer to invest in STOs like tap network, vaultbank etc or IEO like beatzcoin because I feel that ICO will become obsolete in the near future because there's no safety for investors and that's why it gained bad reputation (too many scams)

There are still people investing in ICO based on the vote, but for me, I have stopped doing it for obvious reasons that it is all messed up so many scams ICO that if things will not change I will only invest coins that are on the market already.

First you have to find them in order for you to have profit and you have to wait for mote time. I don’t invest on ICO right because I want to hold more top coins instead of new coins. Make effort on finding good ICO, don’t just depend on any ICO reviews better to study on your own.

yes i do even though most of them turn out to be scams and i have lost quite an amount of money currently but i still do invest into ICOs. However i am very cautious of the projects that i invest into. I really do some serious background search about the project and its team member and their use case before investing so that i don't fall into the schemes of these scammers.

actually I've never invested in ICO because I've insufficient experience in analyzing ICO that can provide many benefits and ico scam but if seen from large number of ico that don't reach softcaps now shows that many investors stop investing ico maybe because most investors lose lots of money because ico scam or they are afraid because when price list on market suddenly falls

I do invest but most turn out shitty. Nowadays  I select just very very few an invest, because investing in many is definitely a huge risk. Due diligence should be done properly before buying in, thanks. Don't get it twisted, there are some good ICOs but rare.

At the moment am not investing my money in any ICO for reason being that am currently holding so many altcoins and tokens which have lost market value since market dropping in early 2018 till date. I don't believe it is rational for me to reenforces failure.

I have already invested in some projects in 2019. Of course, I have to conduct a very thorough study, but still I was able to find worthy projects.

There are very few good projects now, but I have found some of them. I only invested in a couple of projects, but I chose them very carefully. I think my investment will be profitable.

Yes, I prefer to follow a clear ICO. Like ICO at Binance launchpad. It's clear that ICO is safe and always sells quickly. Moreover, the ICO was immediately listed at Binance. And this is the additional value that makes me like Binance launchpad.

If the ICO will happen on a trusted exchange they call it now IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) of course, Yes! it gives more transparency Binance is doing that they call it "Binance launchpad" the last 2 projects has been sold out and directly listed on binance after the sale. I missed the feeling on buying coin on ICO sometimes you cannot buy at least 1 coin because of the demand or it looks like the site has been ddos  ;D

Binance Launchpad is a more professional platform in both terms of safety of funds and reliability of the project. I only invest 10% of my BTC holdings to new ICOs and I can't find any good arguments on whitepaper of new projects.

Even without carrying out a poll, with the way some developers are backing out,  you should be able to understand that ICOs are not like the way it was before.
Many people funds are tied up in ICOs project that seems promising yet failed them, some project have even failed to reach ICO price.
As for me,  it's best to buy top listed  altcoins that has potential.

Im investing in the two new icos that called bittorrent and fetch.ai and both of these platforms give me 5x return instantly. just try to invest more and more into the promising platforms that can give me a huge profit.

2017 is very good year because it can get a lot of profits when ICO investment and 2018 are very bad years (I stopped ICO investment) and for 2019 I will still see it if it is very profitable then I will start investing again at Ico

i spend only my time this year and no money in icos. why? there is just too much scam ico and i am scared to lose my money. as long as the scam ico does not become less, i do not invest any money.

Just be careful when you want to invest in ICO and always research the team, read the whitepaper, check their social media pages, be sure about the source of funds for development and more. If you can plan for analysing the project then it is hard to scam you and other people. In another case, it is not hard to trick fools and take money from their air pocket.

Nope. Since many scam ICOs appears, makes me doubt and fear to invest in the ICOs program in 2019.

Yes. I'm still investing on ICO, probably for Binance Launchpad only. Because Binance Launchpad always got high Hype and give me a beast profit.
Look at previous Binance launchpad "BTT" and "FET", they give everyone profit more than 300%  :o
There are upcoming Binance Launchpad "Celer" on 19th March, make sure you don't miss it!

I think in 2019 this is a good year for Crypto. Since the beginning of the year, the market has continued to show a very positive trend. Even though the market price is still very low. Until now the market is very good and coins are able to pump suddenly. So I think it's time to invest in a reliable ICO project.

There is no reason not to invest in ico, although there are many frauds, but ico with a clear purpose still exists, and there is no harm if we will invest in ico for this year because I believe ico in 2019 will be better compared to ico last year

I voted yes because mostly coin in the market is very cheap and affordable including those coin that as of now still showing tends to recover .this the opportunity men so it's good to buy. And of course  automatic when it comes ICO must choose the most trustworthy one and very promising to assure there is  profits at the end. 

It cannot be hide that the ICO is going through a very difficult period at the moment, but to be honest the whole cryptocurrency market is in similar situation. Investors are now looking at the STO more closely. However I'm sure, that when cryptocurrency prices start to grow steadily, investments will also increase in ICO and with STO also.

No, I think I prefer to invest when coin opens a sale on an exchange, it is mandatory if it's in Binance. ICO projects are very bad now, they don't have any quality, but need funds.

I'm involved. Investing is a continuous process, it is interesting to keep track of what is new, whether the assessment is made correctly. This is an experience that must be gained. Sit and wait for what? Life is movement.

I'm still investing, because even now there are many projects after ICO's show a good result (BTT, FET, ANKR).

No risk no reward ,if you think all ICO that will be launching in 2019 will all be scam projects then you are wrong ,you should be able to take risks to see changes ,don't you even think of giving up ,good ICOs will pass you before you know and you will regret later

the market is too quiet this time, yes the price of ICO is too cheap but ofcourse it is just like a gambling, the risks are too high, the risk that the ICO wont be a successful one and the risk that the team might run your money away, there is nothing wrong investing to ICO it is just risky but you can scan the ICO first before joining in.

Yes for me, before I invest I'm investing the project and do some research. Knowing the purpose of the project on the crypto world and also in real life. Knowing if the team is true and state the fact on their description.

If it's good, then why not?

The difficulty now for investors is finding that really good ICO. Given the current market condition, funds are a bit tighter now so it is going to investing on the standout project.

Unfortunately, at the moment I do not invest,now I have no money,and the risk of investing in projects is now very much.

The risk ratio is too big, so I decided not to invest.
I do not invest in ICO, I will use that money to buy BTC, ETH or top coins.

Me too the result will depend on our analyzation and everyone must aware if having a lot of knowledge about that, those are creating a lot of goods analyzation never fall into the scam ico.
Ico still showing a good result too.

Yes I do, I am joining ICO that held in Binance Launchpad. On 25th February I am joining Fetch.ai ICO, and luckily I am able to buy the token while there's so many people failed to participate because of too many people buying the tokens at the same time. And now I've already sold my FET because I already profit so much.

There are still people investing but in my case I stopped I am just focusing on bounty campaign at least I'm not going to lose funds but still hoping that the great day of ICO will be back again there's not a great project worthy of a buzz or investment now.

Given if I still have the money to invest, I will. Only that I already did during the last quarter of last year hoping that there will be a bull run due to holiday spending but it didn't happen so I'll just wait it out.

I will not invest in ICO until the cryptocurrency market has positive signs, especially when the market has better rules or policies on ICO.Investing in ICO will now be quite risky when the market is still in the bull market

ICO is cooling by market crept too harsh.. I still join ICO. It's hard to ignore good projects.

I believe that since 2018, investing has become a very risky business. More and more projects do not even collect soft cap, despite the fact that the desired amount of fees has decreased significantly compared to 2017. But on the Binance Launchpad platform, the new ICO looks promising.

Yes there are still a few good ones. You just need to do your research first

It is better other upcoming ICOs hold on first and we invest more on the already existing ones so we can force the market to BULLISH TREND without having to wait for the activities of the whales. Most investment distributed in new ICOs if pumped into the existing ones to me, will really go a long way in helping the market out of the BEARISH trend.

I even doubt if people will still be willing to invest in ICOs. Like me, I don’t even hunt bounty talk less of investing because they end up wasting 3 months of my time I could have invested in order things to make my life meaningful.

Yes i still investing on ICO, and keep supporting the ICO i trust by participating in the campaign.
I remember IronX is one of good ICO i participate, and they raised some good amount of funds.
Anyway, although the cryptocurrency market in 2019 still at the bottom, i think we still be able to find some good worth ICO.

Though I'm aware that the ico market is not popular as it used to be, I still invest in it with the bounty earnings I got. Being in this space for a few years has taught me to spot a scam (or fail) project easily so I can somehow still manage to profit by investing in good ones.

I haven't invested in any ICO this year and I don't think I would be investing in ICO any time soon until I am able to get profits from the one I have invested already, I bought over 3 ICOs in 2018 and I am still yet to benefit from any of them.

One of them I have bought was EO coin, according to the so coin team, they said the coin would begin to trade on exchange by March 15th and it won't be worth less than 0.5 USD per 1 coin, if this is true then I might resume investing in ICO.

I honestly stopped investing in the new ICOs ever since majority of them became unserious and started seeing ICOs as an avenue to solve their financial challenges rather than a project that will be useful to the community. I don’t blame them, these actions of there is why most people have not embraced the decentralized market system.

Lots of ICO are even scams; they go away with people’s investment without any means of tracing them. Well for now, I am just holding on to the ones I have already acquired till something positive comes out of them.

When you find a good project is still the best bet to make gains after trading and most people especially high investors prepare to buy and HODL so i think good ico are still selling high check icobench for monthly report

Small note, this thread isn't created for forum members to use it to advertise ICO which they have in their signature by the way.
We all know this is high risk investment. It is not information I am trying to get here.

Thats seems easy to say "  find a good project " but the problem is finding a good project is actually a head ache due to the current condition of the market and on the ico's that are scattering around  . we wont know if who is legit or not .  i think investing in ico's is only for professional risk takers because the probability of earning a profit is slim compare to other forms of investments  ( crypto for example )

One more thing  .  depending on the ico listing sites is not good because the site are only being paid and they are not responsible if the ico is scam or not  . 

I have stopped doing that by looking at the big considerations so far that have been given to several new tokens that always make me lose, because so far the price given by this token is very far from the ICO price at that time given and it is more profitable to buy this token when enter the market.
It is possible that if the Crypto price shows a good movement, maybe I will go back to the ICO and have to analyze more about the token.

I surely not ready to take any risk again in this time because we all know that ICO are not in the good stage and we cannot make it the profit from the existing investment this will be more important point to think about the future so if we get the profit from the previous investment then only we can made a trust about this.

Even when currently ico and crypto not in good condition, seems dead but i believe some ico will be succesfull and become next giant tech company, of course if they have innovation or something that really benefit for all ppl. one mistake for many many ico i think because they only target crypto user, and we know there are very small number crypto users in the world. Soon their money will be depleted

I only invest in ICO's projects, which is supported by Binance's team. You can see the success of BTT and FET project when they were listed on the exchange site, their prices are always higher than ICO's prices. This thing can make me dream about profit when I invest.

Many ICOs are just here to gather money and failed to deliver because many have no working products and scammers are busy too ,my own way of investing in ICo now is
1) the ICO must be from a very popular source like binance launchpad cos binance won't dare promote fake or scam projects
2) IEO seem to be trusted source too ,they can't go wrong and I haven't seen popular exchanges promoting fake projects

From the middle of the last year, I don't invest in ICO because I see that I don't have a good chance to make a profit. Although I still hold some tokens, I don't think that soon I can sell in the market. It is too difficult for every ICO to grow in this year because of the market still unpredictable and many of them decide to stop or delay the project.

I think the ICO needs to find about changing their plan and make a new trend for the ICO so they can make a great time of success like what happen in the past. Maybe I will wait for a while to invest in ICO and if I can find a good moment to invest, then maybe I will do it again.

I still invest just investing in some potential coins, and this can be used as one of the good things. but I stopped to invest in coins that still had no potential.

Not all projects are hopeless. It still makes sense to invest. To restore the ICO market and attract new investors, project developers must create truly unique projects for society.

Why not, I have free money that I want to invest, and I'm doing it, but now I have to choose a project very carefully for investment.

The reason for this is not all ICOs are scam and fraud, lets support and invest in projects that you think can survive in this bear market and will continue to develop even after ICO. This is just my opinion and not financial advice I don't want people to follow my decisions, always do your own research.

Even though for projects that aren't scam, under current conditions, it will be difficult for them to reach the targets they expect. Many investors are no longer interested I guess. Indeed there may still be one or two projects that will provide good result. However, to find a project like that would be very difficult. In my opinion, it's better to temporarily not to look at ICO first. Better to focus on existing projects that its toughness has been proven.

There are many reasons to continue with ICOs in 2019. In fact now is the best time for investing because a lot of the scam projects have been released when people found out, and now we have very good projects available with bargain prices. You can buy many coins because some of the ICO is costing less than 1c per coin, which is very good value.

I will invest in ICOs that will be launched on ETH 2.0 only
Why?
Cause this is the only way they can guarantee my money back if they don't reach their soft/hard cap
And also that the devs/ceo/team cannot spend their raised ETH as they want, but as the 2.0 contract sais

Why there are no ICOs on ETH 2.0 protocol? Because mostly are scams

Yes I do, this bear market will end soon.. Just choose for the good ICO and you will see when the bull run starts your investments will start moving up too. Learn from Warren Buffet, buy low sell high!

I still invested in ICO this 2019 but I don't invest much in ICO because most of the ICO is scam. The reason why I invested in ICO is because profit is maximize in ICO.

i do not invest any ico except Binance ico's but it's imposibble to purchase those kind of ico's which launches by Binance.

I joined only three ICOs this year. And when I find with new projects that have a beautiful team and vision, I will continue to participate in their ICOs in those projects. Because there are ICOs that can still make more profit in the market although they are few in number.

For the end of 2018 investing in an ICO project is a loss for investors, but that does not make the reason that investing in the ICO project will always be a loss. In fact at the beginning of 2018 investing in ICO projects was very profitable for investors to get large profits. So I think investing in ICO projects is very profitable now, but we have to choose a good ICO project.

I still invest but not to as many coins as before this year I only invest in Liker because this is a good project and I'm glad I made the right decision to invest, after I liker and after reading a lot of bad things about ICO I stopped investing and will only do once there is a solution to these scam ICO.

For me i dont have any issues with ICO's STO's etc. as long as it has employing protection mechanism againts fraud for the welfare of its investors. Its a very important matter so it need to be discuss properly. Regulation on any crowdfunding activities must be pursued and implemented in order to gain back the trust and confidence from the future investors. Im still invest in ICO's in the right project and right time.

I will invest in the IEO, and I will never invest in the current ICO. The IEO will help me to be profitable if I can buy them at public sale. And the traditional ICO is dead, I will never waste money on those ICOs, Definitely losing money

No, I have not and I am not planning to invest in any ICO till the bulls are back in the market. I lost so much in the last bearish market in 2018 and  I am yet to recover from that investment. I am voting NO for investing on ICO for 2019.

Sure I am still investing in ICOs and a lot of them are still profitable. I am always trying to push the orders on Binance Launchpad and sometimes it works. Such ICOs are giving x5-x6 profit within several days!

I also tried to invest in the IEO at binance 2 times before. But unfortunately, I couldn't buy anything, it was too hard to participate because there were so many people interested

I still invest in icos but not to the point that i go with my full money on it because i had learn my lesson with several icos that is not performing well after they finish the icos. It's not like 2 years ago where ico boom at it's peak where i invest on several icos that gives so much return but now it's not happening  so investing a little and spreading my money with different ico is good.

I have doubts about investing in a number of ICO projects in 2019, apart from the fact that prices are falling, there are also many projects that only commit fraud.
therefore I decided I would not invest in some ICO projects this year.

Yes, as i am investing in a legitimate ico that has a big potential and the like of the ICO's in binance we can say that a project that they accept have a good overall project potential. This time it would best to invest in this kind of ICO's that maybe soon an exchange and ICO launch on it. The way ICO's are hitting the market gradually changing so to invest we need to adjust on.

The reality is very bad, projects are getting a lot of failures and very negative feedback from investors, almost all investors commented that the projects are no longer profitable for them, they only receive loss or only receive a lot of garbage tokens after participating in each project. Although the situation is like that but you should also look at the positive, the market still has good ico, typically ico on binance recently, it brings a lot of profits and investors welcome it, I believe we will soon see such good projects when the market comes back

If I see that the project that collects funds for the implementation really solves a global problem, then it seems to me that today many people will do it much faster and more profitable.

It has been a long time without good and promising projects. Analyzing the market in 2019, I did not find anything good. From all projects smells of fraud. If the project is not collected softcap then you can not count on the fact that you will return your money. But if you return them in a very small amount. Do not invest in ICO in 2019.

I will not invest if I need to evaluate today's market conditions. Even if the options proven on the market are constantly losing value, unfortunately, the success of the projects that are not yet in the market is unfortunately controversial. On the other hand, although the investments made directly for the project are not profitable, the new trend of 2019 will be ICO projects carried out through Binance. Although it is very difficult to buy from these projects during the ICO phase, I think that all ICO projects via Binance Launchpad will be profitable. Generally, I do not intend to invest in a new ICO if a positive situation does not develop this year.

I honestly don't I don't see any sense to invest in the cryptocurrency market under ISO,that Sach a dream right time and projects here in minus X10 is make the ISO prices immediately after listing on the stock exchange,and I think it is not complete without participation of the staff of the project who spices merges to the course to drop and investors to buy at lower levels,but that's got GAME!!!Now everyone is afraid

It looks like this year there are still many big and good ico. With hardcap achievement, of course. This investment in ICO in 2019 is very enthusiastic. And some projects have also reached sales.

Well since the emergence of Binance Launchpad till date those who invested in either or both of the ICO's held in that platform have been able to make up to ×7 from their Investment. I think this is a good way to start the year and I can't just wait for the next ICO project coming soon in same Binance Launchpad. It have been able to revive the ICO's Marketplace and Investors are smiling all over again because of this.

now I think ICO has been very difficult to succeed because many investors who have been victims of fraud at the ICO make investors afraid to invest in ICO again. So investing in ICO is not a good solution

There are actually still lots of ICOs out there with viable project that will run for a long term just that the bad ones are destroying their efforts, thereby not making the public see their project strength and invest in them.

In fact, most of these good ones end up returning the money back to the investors when they don’t meet up with their target. The only savior now is for this BULL RUN to happen so people can have more money to pump into other new and trust worthy ICOs with viable projects.

I have not invested in Iico for more than 6 months. I see a new project now that has no quality and is too risky to invest in this bear market. even if there is a good project I might just follow the bounty campaign. Buy ?, I don't think because I know buying when on the market is cheaper than when ico. so I don't want to risk that much.

Ten days and only 66 users voted including my vote.
It is nearly 50/50 for invest or not to invest and I can't make conclusion from this poll.
Thank you everyone for your time, locking.