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LendEDU survey:

25% of Americans know about ICOs

15% of them plan to make investment via ICOs!

15% of 25%= Around 3.75%

https://www.initialcoinlist.com/how-do-americans-feel-about-icos/ (https://www.initialcoinlist.com/how-do-americans-feel-about-icos/)

when some kind of regulation of the ICO market by the government appears, the numbers will be completely different.

It will probably go up..

Only 3.7 percent. We need to work on this number to get more investment. Also in large countries like Russia, enlightenment is also not higher than 3%.

If so, then I think that global financial institutions will not be happy to have such opportunities. I think that now the SEC is considering many options in order to be able to regulate. After that, there will be an opportunity to really legalize cryptocurrencies.

Americans are not the most widely users of cryptocurrency it's has a bit of ban in the US and most ico project put some restrictions to US citizens so am not so amazed by that statistics

It should be understood that such surveys should be done among the target audience. I think most people in the stock and financial markets know about ICO. It would be nice to know what their opinion.

It is true that most investors are interested in ICO because of the large profits that it brings, but with this bear market, it is difficult to attract them, as well as their willingness to invest in ICO.

Damn it. A lot of persons are there. I think there has a lot of corner for a good idea to be funded through ICO. The only problem now is the scam ICO. We should get out if it.

I think most of the investors now are more careful about the ICO they choose when investing. 2017 was a crazy year where everything was just flying.. 2018 gave us a good reminder of what kind of market we are dealing with. Time to be smarter...

Scammers will always be around. If there is million or billion of $ being moved, someone will try to grab it one way or an other.

of course you would expect such fabricated results from a website that its whole existence purpose is to advertise ICOs and live off of them! otherwise such stats would have been closer to reality 2 years ago where the ICO hype was still ongoing not like now that it is already dead and gone. nowadays people either don't know what ICOs are or if they know about them they also know how scammy they are.

The survey is not made by InitialCoinList.com but by https://lendedu.com/

Also, have you seen binance launchpad?

The ICO hype was the same as the crypto hype in general.. The current slowdown is no different than the current global cryptocurrency state..

ICO is not dead and it won't be for a while.

ICO will be back but better than before. Not that they are gone, but with smarter investors. Binance is helping ICO to shine a bit again

What Binance does is just a manipulation. All this is done to increase the cost of a BNB token.

These surveys are usually wrong. If even 1% of them invested the market would jump up by a few billion. 3% would probably take us above the last year's ATH.
Don't take it serious. I'd like it to be true and I wish the market all best but there's a big difference between wanting to invest and really putting money where your mouth is.

i think are good percentages , it seems that many americans are informed about the topic of ico, but i think that the percentage of those who are willing to invest will fall dramatically when the kyc will be mandatory

I hope that after America has a good view of the ICO, it will increase ICO investors like last 2017. And I hope there will be a platform that oversees ICO to avoid a lot of fraud

That's too bad since all decent ICO-s ban US members from participating.
Sucks that the land of the free is the first to ban people from taking advantage of something new and exciting.
I'm sure they have their reasons but US members will likely confirm that it's not cool.

3.75% is a really big population of USA is 325.7 (from 2017) so if they will do it then big money would come to ICO market and maybe it could survive but i dont belive it. 

Agree on that but still USA could be huge for ICO and crypto in general. Banning crypto but yet giving gun to anyone who wants one :)

Americans are ready, but ICOs are not ready to invest. In addition, it makes more sense to choose the safe STO created by the SEC. In any case, 3.75% of American population is not small number, and and it would pleasure to us that these figures are correct.

This is the major problem with all the surveys, they just take a small portion and come to a conclusion that the entire population think like that, the more number of people taking the survey these numbers will change drastically, either way if you like it or not you are not able to invest in any ICO if you are from the US and if you overcome those restrictions there will be some problems when it comes to paying tax and being transparent when you are filing your income.

I don't think it is allowed for Americans to invest in ICOs. They have very strict rules and Trump is a man of punishment. I hope for all Americans to have an opportunity to invest in ICO if they want it, it should be a decision to everyone which risk they are willing to take.

americans are still banned on participating ICO unless if they are accredited investors although they find other ways to invest their money but it would be good if their government allow its citizen to freely participate in ICO.

It would make absolute sense since it is supposed to be the land of the 'free'

What study is conducted that you've concluded about that? I don't think the crypto is even mostly adopted in the US, even here, few are believing about the worth of crypto, in that case, they didn't know more particulary what an ICO is.

The study had been conducted by LenEDU as mentioned in the article

ICOs are still going to be the future but scammers need to be under control from authorities. Surveillance on them!

I think this data cannot say it all. Most Americans are only interested in profit when that ICO project is truly potential and can help them earn good profits. I often do not trust these things because the market is currently in a downtrend and many new trends like IEO and STO will make ICO disappear in the future.

Derive from the current america population even a mere 3.75% is consider a huge market for crypto to absorb. If the 3.75% really goes into the market most probably we will see a new high make.

ICO still has a lot of problems with SEC compliance and the only way for them to do that through use the 3rd party service but it's still impossible. I thought that will start to learn it but I can't even believe with this survey.

I am not too believe with that presentage like this.
Usually, expecting and reality is so different.
As we now, ICO looking so bad for now and i don't think people want to try ICO in this time.

If getting the perceptions, well yes they are called the land of free and for sure they all have different ways how to make themself free from this,
for sure some of them already inside this market, if its illegally they are taking the risk, we knew their supremacy so it makes sense if we assume
that they already here and playing around the market.

The survey only indicates interest for them to be legally join this particular investment venue.

That was not a great idea if you simply put that 3.75% of american ready to invest in the ICO because americans know the risk of the investment in the crypto

This will only become possible if the regulation will be in place, until then it's hard to expect that good percentage to invest in the market.
It will be a big help for adoption of course, Americans are earning better compared to some countries so they have the capability to invest and in overall this will help to increase the marketcap and the trading volume.

I agree with your opinion that the ban on Americans who are prohibited from taking part in the ICO,
perhaps for the foreseeable future all restrictions will be a slight change for Americans

hope this will bring great news for crypto, and also we can see about this month,all crypto going stable.
but i think this not really good because so many ico ban US citizen, i dont know why, but i guess ASIA is the biggest holder asset for crypto,specially china and korea.

if this were actually true then we would have already seen some signs of it which means ICOs wouldn't have been failing as hard as they are failing nowadays.
you can't claim people are willing and ready to invest in ICOs while the reality their actions shows that they no longer trust them let alone want to invest in any of them!

Well, in America, where very strictly with cryptocurrency is a good indicator. When the state legalizes the ICO, the number will increase more.

SEC is not created STO but SEC just release regulation frame work for that, It's a lot of number but the strict regulation in USA was creating a very bad situation for them all. Just try to hope there will be a market that will be free from manupulation that makes SEC can approve it.

If you hoping the crypto market is free of manipulation, I don't think the SEC will ever accept Crypto, because in my opinion the crypto world will continue to be manipulated by the big players

So almost 4 out of 100 Americans are ready to invest in ICOs? So this means 1 in every 25? It doesn't sound very right, especially since they should know by now what happened to over 90% of ICOs. I thought Americans were better with their money and especially with all the conditions politically and economically, I would think Americans are more interested in storing wealth than investing, meaning Bitcoin over ICOs. Then again, maybe they think they can borrow money from their banks to invest. Strange isn't it? Pouring fiat into ICOs.

Now, when the market is dominated by bears, the credibility of the ICO is severely undermined. This percentage will increase significantly when the bulls return to the market. In addition, the ICO may be replaced by a more perfect way of crowdsale, namely STO.

Planning and actually investing are two different things I don't know if the survey includes knowing the risk involving in Cryptocurrency because if they knew the figure will be lower, but if we have some form of regulation it will become higher than the above statistics.

There's no assurance that these people will invest to ICOs. I think this is mindsetting for the people when the boat of ICOs are ready to go again. ICOs are likely to be dead now and people are scared of investing again so before buying to anyone, you need to verify if that project is worth taking and you can go on with the risk that it has. I don't think that there's a certain amount of Americans that are ready to invest in ICO and if they really are ready then we will see.

first of all you say LendEDU as if it is a reliable source for this type of surveys! well it is not.
secondly what you are failing to mention in your own website (the article that was published by you on Match 2019) and this topic (which is again in 2019) is that the survey result was published in October 2017 which means it was conducted right in the middle of the ICO hype in 2017! NOT 2019. that hype my friend is dead and is never coming back.
if you do the same survey today the percentage is going to be closer to 0

before all this the same hype was going on with premined shitcoins. and in the future there will be new hype like there always is, in a different form with a different type of scams. they are trying to push STOs but they are failing because they are exactly the same as ICO and people aren't going for them.

Even much more than that are ready to invest in ICO but the government don't make it easy for the american citizens to participate in ICO or even invest in any kind of crypto project that haven't been registered by the government, this is why a lot of companies that carry out ICO and create exchanges always restricts American citizens from participating, so that they won't face any kind of issues in the future.

I do not expect anything like that will be possible in near future. Because, this forum is purely decentralized in this regard hence we need to take ourselves secure by our own not by any authority hence no law will be possible to bind ICO operators. It means those number may change slowly as regulations is very unlikely to happen.

This is quite a large figure, in my opinion, given the fact that the market has been under the influence of bears for more than a year. I think that soon the market will grow again and the number of people willing to invest in ICO will increase. Therefore, continue to believe in cryptocurrencies and continue to look for promising ICO projects.

I think when governments start talking on TV about cryptocurrencies and introduce regulation then these figures will grow significantly.

if the government can give a statement to support cryptocurrency until it is broadcast on TV then that will make the condition of the cryptocurrency price go up again, but that is not possible in an easy way.

This is very good data. I am sure it will do the crypto markets a great deal of good. However, the USA is a very funny country. Their regulations may stop the citizens from participating in ICOs.

A good percentage for the start. Considering that the economic power of USA citizens is good, the contribution of these investments may be big.

Governments rule the media and society, so expecting to advertise by governments is not a good idea. Total market cap will grow but the help of governments can accelerate the process if it happens.

And I thought that ICOs are forbidden in the USA by SEC. So how can they invest into ICO when most of ICOs require KYC?

wait, aren't US citizens allowed to take part in the ICO. or am I missing something?
so how can they invest in ico.

Most ico usa does not accept citizens as investors. The law's been blocked by it. In fact, many countries like this do not approach positive.

America is one of the richest country in the world and that country once they invest to the projects they invest more than millions dollars or billions of dollars in one project.  I hope the population of the American people who ready to invest to project in cryptocurrency is will become 10% in the total population of the America. It can help to the market to rise if the percentage that willing to invest to ICO will rise.

You said that american people plan to invest, not that they invested right? So it means, that ICO boom will happen again if bull market comes?

I believe they will definitely learn to accept crypto currency because it already beyond their control and since they have no major influence over it, they can only look for a way to come into the industry and align with it and I guess that is why they came up with the STO idea and to also fight against these ICOs coming up with lots of project that are not viable and affecting lots of investors that ought to have invested in through IPO.

10 years more of crypto, and I am sure the sec will also be fully into it no matter how stubborn they proof now.

It is sure that the bull market will prepare next crypto boom in ICOs. There are a lot of opportunities that waiting on the corner and bull market will stimulate these teams for creating their next projects.

I hope that it will happen soon with the emergence of a new project, I'm sure the bear will appear for the latest project

The latest platform will only follow the movement of the major coin, especially bitcoin. it can create its own bulltrend through give a big update to the speculators about the development progress that already achieved by the team before.

What about you all?

Did you stop investing in ICO?

Would you invest in a bull run or it doesn't matter?

It seems to me that everything will depend on the information policy for all users of cryptocurrency. If there is less negative information and if a positive Aura is created around the cryptocurrency for investors, then we can expect a real surge in the investment in the cryptocurrency market.

if it's true, then I'm sure this will have a good impact on cryprocurrency, because I'm sure cryptocurrency price will increase very high and of course it will give investors big profits, besides that everyone will believe again to investing in cryptocurrency and making cryptocurrency as the top choice for investment.

I think that much will depend on the regulators. If they do not fight with cryptocurrencies, then the number of investors will increase. I think that this is an important factor.

In fact 3.75% willing to invest is a big number and  I do not think it is based on  representative survey.
If it would so, we could only imagine what would happen and how it would increase  in case of a bull
market and a new hype.

is the data valid? if so then that is a very surprising fact because with technological advancements and with high per capita income, there should be more Americans who know about ICO and plan to invest in ICO
if the data is valid then this indicates that crypto and ICO are not very popular and the advantage is that crypto still has many opportunities to be able to have high prices because later when everyone knows crypto and ICO then there will be more people who want to invest and it will making crypto values very expensive

I still think that now is not the right time to invest in ICO, because most likely you will just lose money, or rather you will lose money. It's very risky.

So, what we can do to improve the number of possible investors? Actually, it is a good idea but I cannot find the real efforts that we can do.
It is entirely the tasks of American/Russian crypto enthusiasts to make it happens. We only can give a little support.  ;D

This is a surprising number if you ask me! Seems like Americans are quite in favor of unconventional investments. It is not a majority of people, but hey, the crypto is not going through its best time in terms of capitalization and any kind of attention should be appreciated. It is great actually, as people are entering the market not because of gold rush/ hype, but rather a significant development made in last months towards the global adoption. We are not there yet, but comparative advantages will not be ignored forever  ;).

It's already a big number and a good achievement so far, 1% of the entire population to invest in crypto would already push a good start of adoption.
Of course the value will also increase since that demand will be created. For now, we cannot expect small countries to adopt easily since we are still in the early stage, hesitation is still their and some are not even aware of crypto yet.

I think not just 3.75 percent. it might be bigger than that.
Though the problem is that the country is restricted in most ICO projects.
Due to their law, but soon once this been lift then the ICO will be better.

3.75% This is a pretty good number at this point, but I don't see any data on the number of people who participated in this survey, whether or not to ensure the accuracy of this survey.

That data has released by ledu team and i can say it's 50% valid and 50% not valid. Most of americans have known about cryptocurrency. I thought that it should be more than it. There was a lot of report said americans interested in cryptocurrency.

This number does not include the people who want to invest in existing coins. Once ETFs and other easier methods of investment into cryptos  become available, that number can grow big fast.

I hope that could be true because if that news is true, then we will see the crypto market will rise again and maybe it will big than the last year. I think that people can accept cryptocurrency now and they are curious what inside of the crypto and if they can feel comfortable with the cryptocurrency than I guess they will stay for a long time. But I don't think that is a good idea to invest in the ICO since there are too many of the project was just scam people.

It takes time tho, don't talk about ICO and lets see about real invest instruments
I think less than 50% people actually do invest in financial instruments like stocks/ETF and so

Most people are more towards a conservative type which they think that FD is better
At some point, FD really did better compare to crypto in 2018
If you actually bought btc/eth in 2018 and you hodl, your valuation of your portfolio would at least drop by 50%

Hence, there's reason why people are being skeptical towards the ICO

Math checks out but I really doubt that is the true number.

When you make polls like this you do not ask 300 million people what they think about ICO, no you select a few, at best couple thousand (usually not even that much) and than you make an assumption from that. These guys asked about 1000 Americans what they think about ICO so consider the fact that we have no idea where these people came from or their backgrounds and so forth it is eas to say this 1000 people were more inclined than the next 1000 you could find.

Ask what people think about ICO's on palo alto and you will get a lot of positive reviews, ask it on Louisiana and you will get weird looks from people. That is why I think we should not take these kinds of polls that seriously when it comes to expecting a lot of new investments towards ICO's.

Of course that this information is not valid. Many people here said that Initial coin offerings are not allowed in the USA. So what we are all talking about?  ::)

It is a good thing we have upcoming investors but this percentage is not enough to push the market really high because we also need to consider the percentage of major investor from that 3.75% and the market they intend entering, which ever market coin they decide to get involved with is the one that will really experience a good uprise in it price and I do hope it’s Bitcoin and not some other coins that will not make much impact on the market.

%25 is huge amount, i wouldn't predict this amount, those kind of news gives us positive energy about crypto recognization

Of course, this is a very small percentage of all Americans. But I think that these people understand that the value of cryptocurrency is still there and today they are ready to invest serious money in cryptocurrency.

I believe that this is very small as cryptocurrencies are distributed in many countries at high speed, but I hope that in the future the authorities of the countries will legalize cryptocurrency and the demand for it will be greater.

Oh, it is an interesting information. Interesting persantage. In case it is really so, it is good, because it may show the interest to crypto currencies and projects, of course, the indicator is small, but it is not bad. But it seems to me that it will be the indicator only and nothing else because the government of this country will not allow to invest, there are to strict rules, as we know.

I calculated and it turns out that more than 12 million US citizens are ready to invest, even if we take from this number only adults working people, the figure and the potential amount of investment is impressive!

is this a good sign with the emergence of investors who in my opinion are quite large? need to be examined more deeply to find this answer and I personally hope this can be a big thing to crypto and grow the price back and can benefit a lot

I would still not invest in an ICO, since the chances that you will just lose money are much greater than the chances that you will earn money.

It depends on us alone in analyzing each ICO project that will be followed, because not all ICOs have the potential to fail or just scam if we are really careful in choosing, of course, the opportunity to get profit can be greater.
indeed it cannot be denied that with the current market situation there are many ICOs that have good potential for the future to fail because of the lack of interest of investors to invest in the coins they make.

Even if they can't join in icos but they can still buy that through use centralized exchange site, Just curious about how he was doing his research for that and that looks a bit shady for me without know any fundamental reason that backed the research and i doubt about that.

I think because Americans today have started to look at Bitcoin as an investment tool, most Americans only know Forex investments rather than Bitcoin, so this is good news for Bitcoin.

Current surveys are not really done in an honest and true way but only want to increase the electability of the ICO itself.

Honestly, I am not interested in the USA for the ICO Market. Recently I have seen statistics that many ICO came from the USA and they are in the top position but still, the USA is not a well ground for the crypto market. I would be much happy if I see China and India accepts bitcoin widely! If somehow the USA goes to accept it widely, then the crypto market will be very large!

Because bear market is great time to buy, if hold about few years will give so many profits than we buy it when bull market. So i think not because bear market to prevent them invest in crypto but because of the regulation. So many projects prohibit US citizens

I believe that there are much more people from USA that wish to take part in crypto industry in general, but the stupid thing is that any legit ICO cannot accept them. Hope within several years we will defeat such barriers.

Most ICOs currently restrict Americans from participating. So if the above ratio is correct, we can see that the potential for ICO is still very large, because 3.75% is not a small number compared to the US population.

That would be a significant number if future ICO projects could be deployed in the US, because all ICOs currently prohibit Americans (except for the recent Blockstack which is the first case with a SEC license). Then a large amount of inflow go to the market, which is a positive signal for crypto.

they ready BUT they dont do it! More they are prohibit it! but when they realy will invest maybe something major will change in crypto currency world

Where did you find out this info? Those figures look inflated to me. I am happy about it, we need investors. Let us hope the investors educate themselves properly and don't feed scams. Many projects will be in need of help.
Legit projects that succeed will push us further and further towards where we want to go and having actual working projects running on the blockchain.

The roles of Americans are quite important in the adoption of cryptocurrency, if we really need adoption rate to grow very fast, I wonder why most ico’s are excluding Americans from there project when the technology of cryptocurrency is meant to be a global one, when satoshi started this cryptocurrency, he never segregated never thought there would be any country that would not need to take part in it,

It is better for American themselves to openly declare they are the ones not interested than for projects to seclude them, in fact, sometimes, when I see projects that do exclude Americans. Those projects looks to me like they are scam projects, and would not want to do anything that will involve scamming Americans easily and trigger investigation into their scam activities. Imagine what that figure would really do in the crypto market too.

25% of Americans know about ICO, that is pretty high, this just shows that Crypto has made inward road into US, I just hope there would be a clear regulations soon about ICO/token sale because this muddy environment is really telling on the Altcoins market with BTC dominance now around 64%

I believe in such statistics, because now many ICO projects are very bad and do not cause interest from investors

Thank you. ICO projects have failed due to lack of trusts from the project team. I wouldn't want to blame the investors when they don't invest in ICO projects anymore. The interest is gone.

Even if they want to participate in ICO, most project will not accept them except some few ones. This is because of their laws guiding many of their citizens. Most project dev believe ICO investment is very risky and they might get more in trouble when the accept US citizens and the project end up unsuccessful. We have seen in the past where project run away with investors funds or refuse to return investors fund when the sales is not successful. Such project won't want to involve US Citizens

How many are owning stocks?   got this answer on google 51.9 percent of families owned stocks  So if lets say family have 3 members that means that 17% own stocks.   This is number that is possible.   Now you add that ICOs are unregulated securities, then you can imagine how number will be much lower then 17%.

The Americans can stay away from cryotocurrency like the lilly hearted Chinese, and see how we grow to mass adoption. Even, some ICOs do not accept Americans for whatever legal reasons. I do not want to know what population of Americans there are in cryotocurrency. With or without them the community will continue to grow and adoption is just near.

The percentage could be higher if there were no scam ICO, investors are losing millions of dollars of money in scam ICO and hacking and because of these some of US investors are hesitant to invest in ICO, but when the market is up and there is a regulation, the number will definitely go up.

if it is true that 3.75% of Americans will invest in ICO, I am sure there will be many successful ICO like in 2017, because as we know America is one of the largest countries in the world and has a good economy, so that it can have a good impact on ICO and cryptocurrency in the future.

3.75% is a  good thing for the USA residents as these projects are banned in America. However, not so many people invest in ICO and IEO projects also. Most people know that many of them turned out to be a scam, and no one wants to be deceived again. However, the same statistics say that over 12% of the US citizens own cryptocurrencies, and this is cool.

I think its is so perfect investation,

The US has its own laws and its own economy. Cryptocurrencies though not prohibited, but there are strict laws that do not allow you to do much. Apparently the Americans consider the ICO not a very reliable investment.

Americans are always looking for a chance to increase their wealth. Good news but only if the US government less hell-bent on regulations, KYC then maybe we could even more Americans plan to jump in crypto.