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Either ICO IEO or STO, this shouldn't be what you will rely upon to get great benefits from new projects,what makes a difference is the thing that the teams are attempting to construct ,the inquiries you should begin posing to yourselves is what innovative idea will the new project offer crypto space ? Also, how great are teams records.

Many investors are complaining that they are at lose investing in some IEO projects ,these investors believe that all IEO projects are good and should be able to double or triple their ROI which is not possible unless they actually do good research on the projects first ,lack of research will always leads investors astray

Sometimes even good project you invested will not give what you are expected and the reasons can be not enough exposure of the project or bad market condition so we have to find that project is good and also their strategy of getting many investors or else we are the person needs to be blamed.

Well to be honest, research does not provide any guarantee too but i agree with you to the extent that due diligence about the project is important and each and every aspect of the project should be examined before investing into a new project.

If we will look on the team members record then there will be no chance for the game changer whose into cryptocurrency for the first time.
Though they intend to have a great project that will develop and add more great in this community.
What we should look is a team who are willing to give great future and not their past!

Actually, from the start, there is certainly no guarantee that when we invest in the IEO or ICO it can benefit. Because the project's features are good, the development is also good. And that will have an impact on the profits you have when investing. So don't ever say investing in the IEO or ICO "must be profitable"

You can't just blame investors for it. No one would want to throw away there money. The amount of time investor spent on researching about the project may be different but they do look into it. And even though they did, it would mostly depend on the project itself. Some promising looking project may become scam while a less flashy one gets a high price in exchange.

Reading through this post, I was trying to feast my eyes to any solution or at least what best ways or a particular item to watch out for that investors should be looking at as a red or as a positive but unfortunately, no one was provided by Op. Maybe, op thinks that investors don't do research, they do but that doesn't stop a scam project to achieve their wicked motive.

I wouldn't have merited this post because it is not the fault of investors who have actually researched before investing to be blamed for being scam.

I agree.
Perhaps most investors do not do a quality research. Some do not do this because of laziness and misunderstanding how to do it. Others see no point in this after the experience of 2018 - no matter how good the project, it was a dump. And vice versa. During the big hype, any shitcoin will make X's.

This is very alarming ,any newbies that just come on here hoping to be lead by ranked members might actually be mislead ,this means that not all up ranked members knows what's right from what's wrong so my message to newbies is not to depend on any one on here either up ranked members or not ,let your first priority be to learn how cryptocurrency works them you will find your way

WHat is the fault of investors? it is just that they trust the project without knowin the real score.
that will also comes with bounty hunters. if you want to be productive then you should investigate and study.
That is the first rule in cryptocurrency.

If an investor is a newbie then it is might their fault.
By just investing of a project but there are so many good and best investors who knows what to do.
there are so many SCAM issue in ICO and i am thankful that IEO is here!

We all know that IEO and ICO are same. The only advantage IEO gives is to ensure the security of your money that you will not be scammed unlike ICO. So, investors must have kept it in their mind and only act on the project base type.

Regulators are using the notion of investor protection to undermine ICO's buy placing burdensome compliance and kyc requirements ICO issuers. They are treating small ico issuers as large multi mullion or billion cap companies undertaking a full fledged  IPO. The regulators are in the pocket of investment banks, who fear that ICO's may undermine their monopoly over access to the capital markets.
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You can't just blame the investors because no one would like what is happening to them. It is just they know the risk already yet they still gamble because they know it's worth it if it succeeds. But sometimes things aren't always the same when you imagine the outcome and turns out that the reality will just gonna slap you with disappointment. Some projects may look too promising but lots of factors that would change the outcome of every project.

Surely, investors are the people who have full responsibility about their investments. IEOs are the current trend, But that doesn't means investment is safe. investors should do more and more researches before choose any project to investing. As well as considering the exchange that launching IEO, investor should have good idea about project also.

Sometimes? Always? These two words shouldn't be in same sentence :) But I agree all fault belong to investor mostly. Because they are buying tokens cheaply from ICO or IEO and they are sellint it 1/10 mostly!

YES YOU CAN BLAME THE INVESTORS, ITS CALLED SELF RESPONSIBILITY.
Anything else just provides an excuse for a bloated paternalistic state to undermine risk taking and ultimately competition for the benefit of a established cartel.  Do you not realise the greatest fraud was enabled by so called regulators that have duty to protect the public.  Check out the SEC's response to Harry Markoupolous who uncovered Madoff's fraud. So far the largest crypto investment scams have been in the low millions, compared to inestment fruad in in industries under the purviewof regulators, which generally amount to hundreds of millions to billions. Examples, include Libor fixing  Madoff, credit default swaps, toxic CMOs and ABS's.

The lack of regulation was key to the growth of crypto and the ease at which private companies could bypass investment banks  and raise capital directly without parasitic investment baking fees.

You've said it all. Investors off late are lazy and some have the notion that since it is not an ICO, either IEO or STO is perfect for investing but that is wrong. Making your own enquiries and researching, I mean a good research on projects before will surely let you whether to go in or not. Don't be led astray by doing your own research.

right on point! i had an experience investing in a very promising ICO but turned out to be a disappointment. though they are not considered to be scammers, but the development is so slow after their token sale, their coin is almost worthless right now. lesson learned = not all great, promising projects with mvp will become successful in the market.
and most of the time, once the token sale ended, expect that progress updates will be slow as compared when they are raising funds from the public.
 it really depends on the team. how aggressive, motivated and dedicated they are in realising their objectives. not only the money that they can get from the investors but how far they can go with the trusted funds.

You can't blame them with their actions because they take the risk and definitely they know how dangerous with this kind of works. There's no assurance of success and it takes guts for them to gamble their investment. Everyday there is always new which I prefer they probably doesn't knows how to deal with it. There's nothing we can do about it because we can't control people who participated in that kind of investment. So it's always been expected that there's always been a victim and it will continue to happen.

And I think luck still plays a role in every project you try to invest on. I've been on different projects and I see them as something that is going to be good for the future but it ends up as something bad. There are also times that because of failure of marketing strategies, things go bad and the project does not get enough recognition it deserves.

You are right but mind you any project you do research on might still up end been a failed project but its always a wise idea to do better research on any project before investing a penny to get a higher chance of positive results

Well, many projects has a good purpose so dont blame people particularly the investors because for sure investors were also doing a deep research before putting money unlike hunters, investors are the most keen on how the project will move towards the roadmap so it is all depends on the team whatever the purposes of the project.

There is no people who got wealthed from the investment that he choosen based on luck, it is impossible thing. You need a knowledge to start investing if you choose a place (coin/token) randomly then you will find a huge loss in the future. The potentialty of the project based on its function, so as every investors know that the project will bring them to get wealth.

Yes definitely. Those people that lose their investment are the people usually don't research about the project or the new coin that they will buy. The most important to see in the project for me is the product or the unique services that they can provide. I don't invest in those projects that don't have that. Also, those services and products that will be needed in the future and not just simple product but the product that can help other people.
Investors needed time to research about it so that they will not regret in the future when the value of the coin that they bought will decrease its value.

Let's not be too quick to point fingers on investors, because even the market condition plays a big role on this things from time to time. By studying whitepaper, you won't be able to know which project will perform and which won't as majority has beautiful whitepaper with no product.

Indeed. As an investor I take time researching to the project that I want to invest in, its my hard-earned money so im careful where to invest it.

But despite this you just cant predict what will happen after, the project that seems genuine will turn to scam and no one would want that to happen. Its not the investors fault always, there might be investors who are looking for easy money and too good to be true offer but not all investors are thinking the same. We are different when it comes to choosing or what to consider before we invest hence dont blame the investors.

The thing with IEOs now is that it is very similar to ICOs in 2017. Everything, particularly the IEOs on Binance, is hyped up beyond all sense and reason.
It is more important than ever to DYOR on these coins rather than just jumping in blindly out of FOMO. If anything in crypto is a bubble waiting to burst, it is IEOs.

There is not much difference between ICO and IEO ,the only difference is the fund raising will be on crypto exchanges and STO on the other hand claims to be a security token but all this doesn't state the fact that you won't get scammed so no matter where a project is coming from always do your own research

The success or failure of the project is not due to luck, but because of the real factor of the development of their team. If the development is good then it will produce a higher ROI, if the development is bad then ROI will be the opposite. The concept of each project also influences it, and it's useless if you have a good concept but the team is not good at developing the project. So the concept and the team must correlate with each other well.

This is passing the blame to the victim rather than to the culprit.

When a scam project, or one which is a little less than a scam, is there, well marketed, promoted in several venues, offered in an exchange that has been operating for a while with a good volume, complete with a whitepaper, website, and the like; in other words, a project that looks legit, the possibility is that some people might be drawn into it despite them trying to do a little review of its products. Now tell me, whose fault is it?

In the first place, these scams and poorly-made projects should not be allowed in the market. Many of them are only there tricking some gullible investors.

Investors are already doing their best to get a good project. However, they are indeed less fortunate and this can be experienced by many investors. For me don't ever give up because more and more projects are there going for sure there will be some that can be successful. But keep checking and you should know the purpose of the project.

I think investors are only easily affected by a number of projects that look good so there are a lot of investors who have been hit by scams by some projects, but I am sure that the IEO method organized by large and trusted exchanges will not make investors lose again.

If the certain ICO is a scam then maybe its an investors fault but if the certain project did not become successful because they failed to raised fund then i think this is not an investors fault as it was very difficult to find good project now a days. No matter how hard you do the research to ensure the ICO products are feasible to the masses but still if some people don't like the concept then it will not be the fault of investors if the project not meant to be a successful one.

sometimes these errors do come from a lack of interest in analyzing. although the IEO can be fairly good, but I think this might be an added value before investing

Actually there is no need to blame anyone in this matter. Investors or project teams all expect 1 thing, success. Too many projects continue to be present, of course the competition will be increasingly tight right? At present more investors are choosing the IEO, and many have left the ICO. One reason is a frequent scam. Let's reflect together.

Each investor should soberly assess their capabilities and prospects for your investments.  you also need to live in reality and get a little distracted from the virtual world.

You just need to be more selective with the projects choice, because a lot of people are not doing any investigation before participating. After doing this, they are most likely to complain that the whole industry is a bubble.

Yes. I do agree that sometimes the fault is from the investors because they do not do their research well. Sometimes too, doing research doesn't guarantee you fully too. I think luck also comes to play sometimes.

It is investors attitude toward a project that will ensure a good or bad returns. The ability of investors to value a token either holding them for a long term or offsetting them early is a major cause in how a coin behave.

If these people think so, then they are stupid. Although, this technique works only with IEO which are held on the Binance exchange. :)

The success of the transaction depends on the project in which there is a product and on the investor who invests in this product is also very important the time that is chosen for investment.

That's why when we first want to invest on some project it is highly recommended that we need to make a research first on what the project is all about and we also need to investigate if they only copy paste their white paper on some legit project. on constantly reading a project white paper we can really distinguish a legit project from a fake one.

Indeed, investors and traders at the same time want the same results, in fact this is not wrong, but of course it will be difficult, because on the one hand. Trading activities if we look deeper, there must be a loss (will lose) if there's someone who got some profit.

Well, people are easily taken over by hype. Few are taking their time to research into the projects.

 ICO exposed a lot of problems which should have been solved but instead, alternatives were created which offer no solution to the ICO problems.  They repeat thesame problems, when things dont work out, everyone begs for government intervention and the cycle continues.

What do you mean with alternatives? There is no guarantee about the profitability of the project, investors simply speculate around the project. Governments have power to rule the teams and ask about the anti money laundering requirements, nothing else can be done by governments.

You are right to at least somehow protect your investments, you need to conduct a more thorough research of projects in which you are going to invest your capital, but even this does not guarantee you any profit. Therefore, investments in cryptocurrency are called highly risky.

Yes as good as IEO fund raising idea is doesn't mean all investors are safe from bad projects ,infact many scam projects are using IEO fund raising to scam investors and this is just the beginning ,be very careful where you invest your money

100% agreed with research project doesn't guarantee you fully avoid scam, I saw that a lot of the same cases before. Most of them think that IEO is safety than ICO right now, exchanges will guarantee the project is legit and trustworth, but I think IEO is already become a new ways to scam investor money.

Not all good projects end up been successful but choosing good projects have higher chances to better outcome unlike choosing fake projects that the result will only be zero ,DYOR very well

The first step is to know the plans for the ICO project, With a solid team and always providing the latest information, it is one of my ways to be more trusted for investors who want to cooperate..

Yes the investment decision is very important in determining the fate of your crypto journey. If you invest in the right coin, you would be able to get good returns in future and this motivates you more and more to reinvest. However if you make a mistake, it usually discourage you and can lead to loss. This is why it is suggested to have good knowledge about something before investing your money in it.

Not every revolutionary idea can bring you profit. If you invest, thinking only about the benefits, then such an investment is likely to bring you nothing. You need to think about the perspective of the project in the first place.

The only aspect I fault investors is just the part of dumping project too quick without giving the project time and opportunity to develop to standard, and we all know that once a project has history of dumping, it tends to limit the participation of other investors who are new to it, which they judge the coin from the part of investors dumping it because they cannot be trusted, although we cannot completely still judge investor in this part, because we have so many projects too that are very unserious about their project.

The moment they lay hand on that fund, they also tend to choose the money over the project development. So developers started this nonchalant attitude towards projects too, making investor to lose in the end. Researching for projects is not also easy man. There are too many useless projects in the market for you to even know where to start the research from.

I agree, sometimes investors assume that IEO must be profitable even though it all depends on the project itself and also what exchanger who organizer IEO. More bigger the exchanger, more likely the price will rise because the demand for tokens will be high

Every investment made is risky and I think every investor is aware of this. A good investor will certainly do research on the project or the developers team because investors are definitely looking for profit from each investment. Profit or loss is common in the investment world and I think it will be an experience and make investors more experienced to make a profit

In this instance its very important to do your own thorough research to determine if a startup has a good quality offering and long term viability and a decent strategy to achieve adoption and develop a sustainable ecosystem, and always ensure its not over-valued before you invest

The hype about crypto and the pump of prices of some have made some investors assumed that whatever project there is always gains. so that is why some of these investors don't make proper research and investigation about the legitimacy of the project. Sometimes it's our greediness that makes us fall to the trap of scams.

This is why I keep saying that you should not just invest anywhere for the sake of investing unless it's in a big and reputable exchange like Binance because they have a reputation to uphold and would always deliver too quality projects.

It amazes me how so many people are still investing in ICOs and IEOs when clearly those markets are no longer profitable.
There is so much evidence that shows this.
So when someone ignores it all, or doesn't take the time to research and loses money, I don't have much sympathy.

I think the most frustrated crypto traders are the ones still acting like its 2017 to early 2018.
The market has changed drastically and it is important to trade based off of the reailty of the market.
Instead of of the IEO game, do you realize how much crazy profit there is to be had on just BTC?
BTC was around $3500 last december, look at it now.
The most profit can be found in the biggest coins, not speculative new ones.

There is a contradiction on your statement which is "sometimes" and "always". I think that it takes two to tango and I encourage you to refrain from blaiming others or even ourselves.

No one wants to be scammed or anything. It is true that some investors become greedy or careless but we should not put the blame on the victim solely when a crime is committed. In Crypto, we should always be thinking ahead and we should always be cautious.

Personally, I don't believe in this blame game of who is at fault. If investors have done their scrutiny on a project and decide to invest, that's up to them; every investment comes with some degree of risk.

And for the project team, it is their primary responsibility to ensure the success of their project through any available means.

yes, we often see it on a number of successful projects this year. even though the sale is successful, but after being registered at the price exchange below the investor's purchase price and very far away. reasonable for investors to confuse it.

For me, I knew not all IEO are good. Just like whats your opinion is, I saw that when I found out that there are some project using IEO with the exchange in which I know that has no good volume in the market and some are making just a fake volume only in the platform. Just like what happened on La token where most frequently happened the coins turned into zero volume. I knew others observed and noticed this things also.

That's true! I think project success depends over developers mind, if they want real marketing and real business then they will develop their project perfect research and by perfect way! other then ieo just for show!

Sometimes investing in projects is not always looking for profit, some do it because they like the purpose of the project for the future so they support through investing and for profit it might be a bonus. for investors who complain a lot because they feel disadvantaged, it is not 100% project error but indeed the risk of investing in cryptocurrency is greater

Not looking for profit? Investing is always about profit dude, no one will risk their money if there's no advantage for him. Because finally after that project success, then they will getting profit.

the fact is that when the investor invests money in the project, he is already confident in it and expects a profit.  another point, if you do not study the project yourself, and listen to the "experts". investments are a big risk, and you need to study all the projects yourself, so that in the future you do not shift responsibility to third parties.

The major problem of all investors is that they are not doing enough research before investing in any new project. People just do not care about the project itself and their only goal is to achieve the best possible profit.

People invest in coins expecting huge profits. But to get that huge amount of profit, you need to hold the coin for at least a year or more. I believe at that time, the team members would have reached a point where they can get a use for the project.

I don't think so if someone would just invest in a project because they don't want the profit, that would be a plain stupidity. No one is giving a free money to someone without making a profit, unless it's a newbie who doesn't know what they were doing with their money on other project because they just put their money somewhere without making a thorough research of the project.

The major problem is that a lot of these investors are looking out for a scheme to get rich quick without any due diligence, they get promised with unrealistic returns on ivestment and they do not bother to query if it's true, so they invest blindly. It's no one's fault but theirs.

How can it be sometimes and always in the same time? :D

Despite the poorly constructed sentence I agree with OP. It's not the teams fault that the project failed and investors lost money. Sometimes things just don't work out and you have to be ready for it.

I won’t blame the investors about this
I blame the project devs:

When you have a bonus round of 50% or 30% of tokens bought; that’s ridiculously high

Either at ieo price or ico price or above it; investors dump and get lots of returns; then abandon the project

I agree with your point and the main cause of it is laziness on the part of the investors, because they fail to make research about the project and see whether it is good or not before they invest in it.

definitely in sometimes everyone made the mistake but these things are not a huge problem for everyone because if your mistake is happening the reason for that will be  misunderstanding in most of the time so I think if we made the proper decision after mistake correctly then it will be easily solved by anyone.

Of course when this happens. the error lies not only in the project developer team but also in investors. We know that plunging or participating in a new project is not as easy as we imagine. We need to understand if analysis and DYOR are very important to know how the project really is. And when we fall into a scam or phishing, we cannot blame others. Didn't we participate in analyzing it before participating?

I read there is a new crowdfunding investment that is a combination of both IEO and STO, this is to make investment profitable and safe but we have proven that ICO STO or even IEO is not 100% guaranty that you will get a good return of your money, the project looks good, the team are ok and it passed the exchange criterion but still couldn't get the support of many investors.

we have always different kind of mindset in our life if some kind of problem is going on then we will say that the problem is not on us it is all about the situation that is the problem here if we feel that we made some mistakes then we realise how to change that into a good situation so everyone needs to accept their fault in their life.

Whether it's IEO or STO, which are the trending form of token sales now, investors should never rely completely on the fact that the exchange must have done verification of team, or the company doing the STO is approved by authorities, that's not enough.  Have you made findings on the project and values it will add to crypto and the world at large? Have you checked their token economics and other relevant aspects?.  We should be mindful of these vital aspects too, so that we don't blame ourselves when we lose money.

Its sad to say that many investment are losing their investment in the end because they invested into scam. Most of the time we say that the investors failed to research and understand what the project really is. The reason behind arev investors is relying on what they read in their white paper that is well written script. but not in physical thing or it is truly work as what is written. The best thing to do is to know the people behind the team that you can rely.

yes, it mean they are not make research about project, just believe that ieo is better than ico doesnt mean will multiple your money.
investor must be independent, and dont make decision too quickly.
increase your knowledge about investing, so it make you feel confidence for every act

l find your replies very useful. l do agree with your opinion. it is only fraud and more than that, it destroys my believe. l can say it is bilious, when l don't get, what l'm expected. l really know, it is misleading. It is not rewarding to believe such as this projects. The solution is when you absolutely believe this project, firstly you have to research.

This is very true. its about time people who invest in crypto projects need to understand that, it is not fixed that you will always gain profit whenever they invest into any project. Crypto investment is currently one venture with a lot of risk potential where people are highly vulnerable of losing about 50 to 100% of their investment capital within the matter of minutes or hours. Its about time investors learn to understand this aspect of crypto investment..

Sometimes or always? You'd better define this more clearly  :)
Of course people are always in charge of their behaviour when we talk about investing in some suspicious projects. But that' not the reason to defend ICO scams...

It's very unfortunate when we want to invest in a coin without the research that is really done. If someone is hit by a scam, then he cannot blame others because it is the fault of the investor himself. In this case, doing research privately on a new coin or a new project is very important. No matter where the project is from. What is clear, we should not regret later. Because once again, the error will lie in the investor himself.

That’s true, doing some research might not be enough because there are multiple unpredictible aspects which effects the success of project. Advertising, timing, hardwork of the team, current situation of the market.. every single thing has an impact on the project. So, research will never be enough to make sure that we’ll get some profit from the project.

As an investor, you don't have to easily trust the IEO project. You have to keep checking from different aspects, and this is very important to do. Choosing a real project is difficult and requires struggle. At that time you should also check with the team and they should have a good prospect for the future.

The IEO has the advantage that the coin or token is ready on the market, increasing the value of investor confidence. And the OP is correct, besides that there are still many things that need to be analyzed, especially about the project and its long-term plans. So investors have a view on whether this can be used as a long-term investment or not.

Sincerely,  this thing is not investor's fault. As long as no scam project wears a particular coloured flag to tell everyone it's a scam project, theres really no way to know which one is legit even with all the beautiful wrote ups about the project. It's actually not investor's fault at all. Those setting up scam projects just needs to have a rethink so that the confidence of individuals in this crypto space can be guaranteed in whatever investment they are making

From the beginning, nothing can ensure that ROI will be of great value. Investing is risky, investors always know that the higher the risk, the greater the risk. However, when the value of the currency is listed high, investors sell their tokens, they invest in short term, we cannot blame them. The project needs to have solutions to prevent investors, such as tokens and gradually pay into their wallets.

It is better for today's investors to be able to control the ego and really choose convincing IEO, ICO and STO projects. and investors also have to research and analyze smartly so they don't get trapped from IEO junk. investors must fix the current mindset.

Researching before investing is a great idea to avoid resulting in suffering losses. I can hear that many investors are only complaining instead of making their efforts to adopt ways to avoid losses in the crypto market. We all know that there are many scam projects. So we must try out efforts and research before investing.

Well, if you invested in a project that did not bring you profit, it is always your fault. Because investment is always a big risk and you take it when you invest.

right buddy . investing is given to be risky but whats more risky is that when you invest on uncommon assets because you think they are new and cool or you simply think that they could be a new hidden gem but the complain starts oncebyou saw them dropping  . its actually your fault on this one but if you only invest on a coins that are legit ( ex. btc )  then you have the right to say that its the fault of other investors on why the price is falling because they are selling thier coins without reason .

This is true, but we also must remember that even if a project is brilliant, with a great use-case, great team and professional approach... if it is an initial offering, then it is a young project and it can't be expected to turn a huge profit straightaway. These things can take years to develop. If you are looking for a coin that has a big price rise at launch, then that is not the same at all as a coin with huge long-term potential.

It's true that ever since the IEO craze, many investors have been reluctant to do proper due diligence before buying in. Let's not always rely on the fact that the exchange hosting an IEO must have done required research since they will also try to protect their own image, or rely on hype of the project. A good investor will always do proper research on Team, product, tokenomics at least.  Also do not say the price per token is cheap, then you buy in with huge amount of money, be aware that sometimes the total supply of these tokens are very large too. In essence, due diligence is mandatory if you must invest in any coin or token.

You're right.  Only you are responsible for your actions.  And it's really your fault.  You do not have to complain, but simply learn a lesson from a particular situation.

The real problem is that every second project is trying to scam investors. Even with a good research it is possible to be a victim of scammers, so always tripple check everything and if something bothers you, just skip this token sale and move to the next one.

Many investors are not analyzing new projects in more detail, most of them always go with the flow when there are people who think that this project is good you have to invest in it, here some investors are easy to trust without analyzing the project in greater detail, what about the team and the innovation it carries get less attention and when their investment fails, they will start complaining.

Maybe it is the investors fault while investing as he has invested more funds than required for a single project. That's why after the project ICO completion when he felt that the ICO has fake he get frustrated due to high volume of investment. So, it is adviceable that always make a portfolio in a diversified mode.

I will say that we are taking a great risk once it comes to investments.  Sometimes the project's we think will do better, flops and the ones we don't expect makes much better advancement than we expected.  So you can't really blame the investors

The importance of carrying out research on a project before investing cannot be overemphasised. Investors need to understand that its their responsibility to carry out due diligence and not depending solely on the information in circulation by the team because its not sufficient and could be biased.

Sometimes it might not necessarily be the investors fault this is because after so many scam projects last year, many investors have taken it upon themselves to do research before investing, but at the end, a project they see with potentials could turn out bad this could be because of the present market conditions or from the team. So I don't think I will blame investors for investing in a project that went wrong.

Most studies do not work properly. However, there is a need for diligence before investing. I say one thing all the time. Think before investing. Do not think after investing. So before investing, there is a need for perseverance.

A must thing to be done and it do sounds very basic but people do still fail to follow such rule.Always DYOR and always check before putting up money.
Risk is always there and the level of it would vary on how well you do avoid those fraud or no good projects.Things are only being just hyped up
and people do easily get fooled with it and believing those false hopes on making easy ROI but in reality it do still like a gamble.

Some people just want to invest in a project because it is a cryptocurrency project, things don't work like that. Always make good of balanced analysis before investing in an ICO, ieo or STO. Investors need to stop jumping on every project they see, rather they should focus on why the project is starting up, what solution are they bringing to the space, and their working products.

Very good points and I agree that some investors just jump in the hype train of a project without doing any proper research at all. IEO's are good and all but it's good to go with big exchanges like Binance. They're listing quality coins (https://www.contentos.io/?utm_source=lx) that have completed real partnerships and not fake promises (like what other projects do just to get some of the investors' buy in), which will pay in the long run in terms of profits. Researching on the project is good but you have to play it smart.

Everyone that makes an investment has an aim of gaining profit. Any percentage of profit should be fine but everyone would have loved to gain like three or four times of their initial investment. as investors, we don't have to be greedy but be content with any percentage profit we make.

It is usually the investors fault most of the times because most of them are lazy to do their own research and just join any project because it was rated very high by an ico rating website or analysts.

Some project looks very attractive and promising at the start, it makes a reason to try and find a piece of luck over there.
I disagree that investors are lazy, they'll have their own strategies but somehow not really that effective with the market situation today. There is something they need to improve their strategies and look for another one.

The new wave of token sales mislead inexperienced people about the ongoing scam projects, the sources of information is not clear enough, shady exchanges took advantage  after the  lack of the information Investor confidence level is also down after the increasing trend on the scam ICOs, but this rate decreased after the new token sale mode called IEO.

Skipping the current token sales is not an efficient solution to the mentioned scam projects. There should be another solution for protecting the investors' fund like Binance SAFU and IEOs alone is not enough for this.

It should not be a surprising thing, seeing investors in such situation. It happens when such investor is still a newbie, who is still learning on how to invest, there is every possibility for him to make mistakes.
Do not look down on yourself when you make such mistake as an investor, because it is a learning process.

It is us who make our decision, hence we can't blame anyone if we failed in choosing the right investment.
Making a research is just a basic requirement, and actually it's not hard since we have a good community where we can read their feed back and that could help us distinguish which projects are bad or good.

As for me, I will choose IEO now, but like I said, I would always do a research because once the money is invested, there's a already a risk of losing to that and as an investor, our goal is to multiply our money as much as possible and we to have a short ROI which is possible with IEO.

Always need to study the projects before to enter into it , since so many scams , but with the advent of ieo many scams are gone , and a we value our reputation and take only those projects that proves to be good.

To come into the realization that crypto market really needs time to correlate more ideas before making steps inside. The common fault of many (not only for investors) is that they know nothing, they never look around and observe the market behavior. They'll the taking the risk without back-up knowledge to help it out from losing.

This is very true. When IEOs started popping up, a lot of investors thought that was a refreshment for ICOs and they were going to offer them the ROI that ICOs were not offering them. They forgot that price of a coin relies much on the real life value of it and not just the hype or where the token sale took place

usually those who are like that are tempted by sweet stories of other people who get money from the cryptocurrency business easily, especially when they know the nominal benefits, so they enter the world of crypto without enough knowledge. and finally they gamble and what is expected is not achieved. and the spread of negative news comes mostly from people like this

Think very true. Quality research has to be done before joining any project. If you think the project does not have a good prospect, why join? But there are however, times when some projects look bad but they end up being good projects. Another thing one can do is to ask questions from people who know better about what is needful be for joining a project. But above all, its always good to know so much about a project before deciding to join

Yes, you should be careful while investing. I think that with a proper check of the background of the team and their intels, every fraud and failure can be avoided, but they have their limits. You can prevent most of the frauds, but even the most experience may once in a blue moon face a scam. So always do your best then keep hoping for the best.

Yes, I agree with you. Research is fundamental in regards to your investment. Not just blaming the ICO is everything. Sometimes you yourself are to blame for not doing proper research and not getting adequate intel on the project team and their whereabouts. You are investing your money so you should be extremely careful while doing so.

Undoubtedly, without a good study, profits from participating in the IEO or ICO can only be obtained by chance, if you are really lucky.
But don't count on luck, the crypto market is not a place for betting on luck, if you really want to make money, you need to work hard and constantly, which means that you need to study new information and conduct ongoing research and analysis. There are many projects on the market, but your task is to find only the good and the one that will be successful.

First hand information can not be leaked to the speculators in the financial markets, the market can be a battle between the traders without the clue what is going on and the investors who got the leaked data with shady ways. The luck factor is usually the excuse of the losers and volatile crypto markets don't like the investors that always stuck in the wrong side of the market trend.
The bounty rewards have the big effect on the price discovery, the system cannot detect the source of dump and the investors don't see the difference by volume of trading. The guilty people can be found in each side but the obvious causes can become a next barrier for the development.

You are right, without analysis, just as we bet, relying solely on luck is not the right investment strategy. To invest there are many factors that are analyzed, both technically and fundamentally. If you lack experience, it will be easy to panic so that you are less optimal in managing your funds. The good, first understand the ecosystem, understand the risks, and always on your safest path. DWYOR.

Some investors didn't have a strong foundation in dealing with cryptocurrency trading, that why they're falling into the trap which isn't an appropriate way for them to be panic at all. Most of them were affected with fud and other bad news speculating agains bitcoin and other alts.

If a person is a newbie investor, then he should generally refuse to participate in such sales until he becomes sufficiently experienced to participate in them.
But in practice, everything turns out to be completely different. Usually newbies, deceived by someone or in the wave of hype, invest their money in something that they don't even understand. Sad...

The problem of research is solved by exchanges where IEOs are taking place. It is hard to admit, but no IEO on Binance was unprofitable and I can bet that 90 percent of all investors do not care about the project itself.

If people want to play the game of luck, there is a place specially create for that, and that is gambling section, but if we are to talk of the real world of investment and earning, one has to really work for it as said by you. It is not so easy to come by a very good project, any project that we want to have part in has to be thoroughly checked and researched in to be sure that we are personally convinced about the project, a project we participate in without a string conviction will only end up being a failed project and we will have ourselves to be blamed for it .

I perfectly understand that finding these projects has never been easy because they could really be convincing, but in every bad project, there will always be their weal point, which is what we are there to find out and be using as a criterion to getting them off our portfolio.

90 percent of investors who participate in IEO on the Binance, but investors on other exchanges are required to research the project because all the other IEOs that I saw have not yet brought any profit

IEO solves only a few investor problems. At the same time, exchanges only partially check projects for prospects and the absence of fraud. However, they cannot guarantee this, and they do not have such opportunities. During the IEO, investors register on the exchange, buy new tokens through it and have the opportunity to trade these tokens when they appear on the exchange. The normal and successful development of the IEO project does not guarantee. Therefore, with IEO, investors only have the opportunity to quickly sell new tokens on the same exchange, and then, if there are buyers for these tokens. IEO practically does not give anything else.

I agree! I always say, holy cow, who gave you any guarantee at all, from peaceful living to ICO being profitable all over the place?!

There are some people that are still investing in everything and hoping to get the best return, but we have already arrived to the point when quality should go before quantity. Research projects, team members, products, exchanges and invest in proven coins.

I would reconstruct the word "sometimes" to "always", no matter the fundraising type of a project if it doesn't have a real use-case and the team looks shady. It will not bring you good profits, always do your own research in investing. In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is an IEO or ICO as long as the team is active,transparent and hard-working.

I think that now the quantity can be better than quality. in such a market it is very difficult to understand which of the 10 projects can really survive the difficult time in the market and therefore it is better to invest in 10 parts in different parts

For me, I think the fault of the investor is they are expecting too much profit in investing in ICO's and IEO's to the point that their expectation is very high already. I know how tokensale works already. They will launch a token sale mostly on reputable exchanges and then after the sale and the time comes that it will be listed, the team and the investors will dump the coin causing it to plummet and then they will buy it again to pump a bit. This happens all the time with coins after listing on an exchange.

I agree with your opinion, most investors only hope to be able to multiply their capital in a fast time without paying attention to the IEO project in detail and caution. including me. it must be before starting the investment, must find out first whether the project will be profitable or not.

Where should we start? on the SOMETIMES or the ALWAYS?
Remember that those investors made their own research before putting good amount in their investment.
But sometimes even good projects failed due to lack of number of investors and amount raised.
Those who succeed are still need a long wait for the project to launch the product and be successful.

I have an argument that at the moment there are many new projects that ultimately deceive is one of them because it has the great support of investors who without research and put their money into the project. and it turns out that not all projects have a good team record, and take away the money that has been put in.

in my opinion, right now don't be in a hurry if you want to invest your money into new projects that can't yet be declared to have a solid team.

not really, the point is no one knows that the project they are taking part in can be successful or not. on the other hand there are no investors who want to lose money quickly, of course they have tried to do research before putting their money into the project. if luck does not take sides, what else will you do? complain? contemplate fate?

Investors should hold back on greed and invest wisely. Whenever a project boasts of 10x or 100x returns, they should realize that such guaranteed returns are not possible. They should ask themselves whether it is an intelligent move to invest their BTC or ETH in some other asset. My opinion is that Bitcoin itself is a great investment asset and we don't need to invest it anywhere else.

It's fortunate if they'll buy it again since in most cases, it doesn't happen. It's really difficult to judge what will happen next to every project since the fundamental analysis doesn't work as always. This is why choosing which to invest in is the most difficult decision does an investor can do. An incestor really need to look for every possible thing to happen.