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We are in 2020 and we hope to see a good start of the market this year, this year we are hopeful that a bull run could come again due to many big events, one popular one for bitcoin is its halving and for altcoins, Libra launch?? i know some would disagree as they are against in Libra project.

But here's the question, if the market goes bullish and altcoins are pumping, do you think when there is an ICO, people are still going to invest?

personally I believe they will not because there an IEO already but I like to hear yours.

Currently crypto market is difficult to predict and some projects have not attracted new investors so this year we will still face a lot of big risks in investment. However, investing in IEO is probably the right choice for everyone because most well known IEO projects get special attention and the value of that coin tends to increase. Of course, 2020 will be very promising, but also needs to consider many times before making investment decisions.

ICO times are gone for good, unfortunately we had too many scams during its peak season. IEOs are the new thing but even though they usually bring "instant liquidity" (or something close to that) time has proven that this model is not the best one yet. Something like the concept proposed by Vitalik with the DAICOs (https://ethresear.ch/t/explanation-of-daicos/465) would be the best shot in here, the only way to secure funds based on team achievements.

We do have some players that are trying that approach such as W12 or Kickico, but none have really succeeded so far. Let's see how the game is played during 2020, but decentralized funding is definitely here to stay, its just a question of time until we find the best methodology for it :)

I am reasonably confident that we'll see a return to more bullish sentiment this year. Yes halving should have an effect, as should the move towards PoS for ETH.

As for ICOs and IEOs, I would imagine that IEOs will remain the preference due to the fact that they tend to be higher quality projects (or at least a lot of the rubbish and scams are pre-filtered out). However I can't see new projects doing well until we have seen evidence that market confidence is returning. I can't see 2017-style ICO-fever happening again this year.

NO

my answer was a little short

almost all crypto lovers love to see the bull market again but no one when it will happen again. And for me always  a hodler in this times of bear market but hopefully to see some good happenings on the market.

I'm still positive in some top altcoins that they will be able to recover, but in terms of ICO and IEO, this two is already over. Much better if the projects will have a private crowd funding in terms of sourcing from known companies before they offer promote being crypto maybe about 70 or 80% done so there be less risk only for traders.

This DAICOs I think might just work for it will provide risk free to investors. I would put my trust to a smart contract than a team that will just show an MVP and after getting the money will not even report what happen after a quarter while the price is -80% ico price. Hopefully a team must try it and if successful this will be the preferred crowdfunding model for the projects.

most likely, there are still many who will invest in ICO or IEO even though we suggest to stop doing that.
I hope Ethereum will stopped the erc20 token creation feature so that not many projects will appear easily. the root of the current problem is that it's easy to make tokens.

Generally speaking, nope. But of course it is going to be a case to case basis as there might be projects with very strongly innovative products, realistic and useful objectives, and popular team that are interested to launch an ICO. They could still be successful in their ICO. But if you compare that to the previous years when ICOs everywhere raised a lot of money, it won't happen again.

Let's forget about Libra though. It will not launch in 2020.

Basednon my observation here in the forum ICO was already dead and IEO is the popular sice theres a lot of scam project during the popularity of ICO thats one reason why investor stay away from ICO project but still theres some ICO project that introduced in this forum site. Regarding to bitcoin I'm also hoping for a good run since we are near to 2020 halving and theres a lot of good news to bitcoin so Im expecting a big push.

Maybe we should be more careful if we really want to invest in ICO / IEO. Choose indeed projects that are close to feasible for us to invest our money there. In the sense that they are truly transparent in all respects and really hold a large market for example. Regarding the smart contract ethereum is actually like two sides of a coin. On one hand there are positive things they have helped many new companies that issue tokens. This clearly has an impact on the familiar crypto in the world. the other side is true as you say there are too many scams here too. Maybe they should tighten up the rules for new tokens that want to use their platform.

I'm not excited to see Libra coming around, this coin is already dead for some reason. And even the bullish will come, I doubt that investors will look if this coin if ever it successfully launches.

ICO is really popular when we go back to 2017, it was the biggest achievement of almost all ICO and investors are really profiting. But I think that was the last time we saw that scenario, people/investors are so keen on which project they feel good and right for their investment. And even bullish couldn't be a reason that they will rush into ICO. It is probably differentnow and for the coming years.

I’m not sure if people have learned lessons about investing in something that they are not sure about because people have been scammed by those so-called ICO. Maybe when the reputable Facebook company Would push And be Successful in Libra, A lot Of people Would go And learn more about cryptocurrencies.

Maybe more people should make their new year's resolution to ”not get scammed.”

For ICO, i think if the question people still going to invest, there are some people who like to do it. Like they keep do investment although they lose, or maybe they really like some referral rewards although the project in market not really give good result. Some player who play investment sometime i still see join an ICO and promote it to get referrals.

If the market is booming and there are lots of hype, it will be the same as 2017, many people will take notice of the booming cryptocurrency and will have an interest in getting on the train so people will definitely invest in an ICO thinking that they will gain a huge profit.  IEO or ICO are both crowdfunding and many investors or interested parties never had a chance to participate in an IEO especially when it is held in Binance platform.

I dont care too much with Libra project but with BTC bull run it will surely affect altcoins price but we know that it wont correlate in all times.
When we do talk about the come back of ICO's then i dont see for a reason that it would become in hype again.IEO already replaced that thing.
We are all excited for this year because of the huge event that will happen but it isnt sure that it will give out significant impact.

I think investors will still follow the ICO program because not all good projects can take part in the IEO program because when the IEO program at each exchange is held once a month and also not all good exchanges in the IEO program

My prediction is that decentralized project will reach new ATH's based on the fact, that we've seen SO many hacks on centralized solutions (exchanges, premined projects => ERC20 tokens etc.)

The biggest problem with decentralized Dapps, DEX's etc is ease of use, and adoption, but there is no doubt that it's the future, since a LOT of people want to hide their trading history from the governments, for obvious reasons.

Blocknet is a good contender, and a project I predict will do extremely well, not only because of their DEX, but also because they do decentralized oracles. Read up on their Xrouter, Xbridge, and Xcloud, which is hardly mentioned anywhere. :)

maybe the investment model in a new project will change to IEO or IMO, and maybe investors will be more careful because of previous experience with ICO. I personally am quite sure the trend of investing in new projects will return again, but if the market trends have improved as well

It is very interesting that ICO investment is out of people's consideration, we all saw what happens to ICO in 2018 and IEO in 2019, most people seems to have lost interest in them. What I think would drive this year is Bitcoin, how high it would go and also some other pending ICO that are yet to hit the market, like Podakot, FIlecoin, Telegran Ton etc, they are big ICO and hope it won't start dumping immediately it enters the exchange, like Hashgragh

The only thing coming for sure is coin halving in mid of 2020. Rest Libra still facing strong resistance from USA congress, its launch is still uncertain.
Regarding ICO/IEO my stance is that there game is very much over. Not many have given any due return. So there is no advantage of investing in ICO/IEO.

I don't know for sure but it looks like there will still be people who invest in it even with far fewer enthusiasts. IEO is more effective because it will definitely be listed on the exchange, this is the reason most investors leave ICO that is uncertain and full of the words "soon" when it will be listed on the exchange

it all be hopeful for the halving but noot for Libra.
Yes, Libra is so hot when facebook announcing to have their own coin but it vanishes already after the SEC comprising their launches. Having that point, Libra has losses its future in crypto. What we are looking now is to see a positive impact fo halving and for sure, all of us here anticipating already for the possible bullish trend.

I' hope that the market will show good sign in 2020, but i am expecting a big bullrun will happen in early 2021. I know that lots of people still wait to see big bullrun this year, but i think the best time is next year because many countries start to accept crypto and apply crypto tech to lots of real life product. If more project success with this, i think 2021 will be a perfect time for crypto.

Most people buy hype so probably if the market pumps again like 2017 they might still buy it. I think very few projects are conducting ICO’s now most of them switched to EIO a better form of crowdfunding but not the best one.

IEO has made ICO a thing of the past. But they cannot beat what ICO has achieved way back when it was the main way used by crypto projects to do crowdfunding. Billions were raised through ICO.

2020 is going to be much better I hope. It looks like it is better for Bitcoin more than altcoins. Bitcoin reward halving is coming.

I think IEO will indeed be an investment project targeted this year, and ICO is starting to disappear. however, IEO is very good at the moment. other than that, I'm one of those who is waiting for the launch of libra, I want to see whether libra can bring crypto to be more accepted or not. however. the effects of libra will also have an effect on bitcoin. Well, this year there will be a lot of developments awaiting.

if you want to see the price of bitcoin in the next 1 or 2 weeks we will find the answer, not all altcoin will follow the price of bitcoin because usually many projects will not be able to compete because they usually run out of funds so do not get much support on their projects, so please go to old altcoin where they always have investors and communities, talk about ICO it's better to leave it because it doesn't seem feasible anymore because of security as well, more towards IEO by making exchanges as third parties of course exchanges that have good names, stop hoping about bitcoin let's see it in the next few weeks

IEO was effective in collecting KYC from investors of altcoins. During ICO days the teams are collecting KYC data from investors but then someone from the above thinks it must be exchanges who shall take these information. I really thin the ones we should be doing this year is to avoid all these centralized exchanges and put more volume to the DEX.

well time will tell about libra and what this can bring to the market,there are tons of advertisement happen this year about this Libra but many of them are abusive and also scammers so the effect might be negative and positive
for me?i believe that ICO first need to bring proof that scamming is not around and profit will be their first priority because investors are tired for the 2 years of scamming from 2018-2019
though days are gone for ICO i still believe that in some case they can come back if they can bring truthful and real profit again and not just victimizing investors.

ICO would dead in this year. Investor wont get interested anymore in these scam
it would be changed by IEO, so far IEO gets more interest from investor

ICO is drastically down in term of interest. especially in 2019, most of ICO is dead
In this year, maybe all of them, especially shit ICO, would be dead

ICOS ‘WILL DISAPPEAR IN 2020’ AS DATA SHOWS 95% FUNDING DECLINE (https://bitcoinist.com/icos-will-disappear-in-2020-as-data-shows-95-funding-decline/)

Very interesting question.

My answer would be no, in general. People have seen enough of ICOs to realize that the majority of them are simply ploys to make money for the founders and once they do, the founders will abandon the project one way or another and move onto the next one potentially even under a different name.

That said, there is potential for ICOs in the form of angel investments to thrive in 2020 with the institutional space more mature and willing to invest. However, the criteria is obviously much higher and genuine development needs to be seen for anyone to be willing to invest. It won't be as easy as 2017.

People will invest when projects are obviously up and running. One example of this is the Telegram ICO which they gathered about $1.7B. You may not see another project that will collect that much during ICO but probably if big companies are going to release a token.  DAICOs would probably be the future when it comes to team asking for fundings, Vitalik explained it here https://ethresear.ch/t/explanation-of-daicos/465

For me, it might depends on the projects like you found a promising ICO project that will brings you good profit, do you think you will not invest because for me, I will risk my money to invest as long I know I will earn good profit. Even all of us witness different failed and scam ICO's there is still a few ICO project that will have a great future. Not all IEO project are success that's why it still depend on the project whether its good or not. We already enter in the year 2020 and still there is no changes in the market like in bitcoin which is become more stable. But, I still hope for a better market for this year.

Apart from the two big events this year that you mentioned earlier, there is one more big event that until now there is no clarity: "Bitcoin ETF". Hopefully in Q1 this year the US SEC accepts the Bitcoin ETF proposal.
And for IEO I think this trend is not dead, it's just weakening due to the weakening impact of the crypto market, when the market recovers, IEO will also recover.

ETF is always postponed like the previous one and not confirmed yet, and also not many people heard the news. Thr only thing that could make the price pump is the hype, so if people are don't know about the on going event, the price would be the same

ICOs are completely dead in 2019, so in 2020 if the market grows, I think IEO will be the main choice of investors. IEO will help investors be safe when investing and not afraid to encounter scam projects. But we should also choose reputable exchanges to join IEO because currently there are hundreds of lousy exchanges doing IEO every day. And all of these exchanges are just trying to steal money from investors, without any profitable projects.

If trends really change to IEO, then developers will start a lot of IEO and no matter what exchange that they use to held it. And then it is up to us, people who want to make investment to pick which IEO that really good to join. And the exchanges itself can prove which developer is serious with their project and which is not.

Yes, I agree with you that the year 2020 will be full of exciting events that will change the market situation for the better, This is what we are waiting for, Although IEO is safer than ICO until listing projects for IEO on weak or scam exchange platforms may also expose investor money to loss, In my opinion, the conscious investor is the one who can choose the good project carefully even if it is ICO or IEO through the advice of experts and sufficient information about any project through which he knows whether he will lose his money or will his investment get a return.

new project suggestions or recommendations from great people also do not guarantee profit and succeed. it would be better to do what we can and don't be too influenced by people's opinions in deciding your choice.
several events that will occur this year should be able to give us consideration to choose a good choice. don't miss your moment.

It's always a matter of being smart as an investor, you don't need to become a risk taker even if there's no assurance. There's no such safe investments to be called these days, once we can't move on from the recent market downfalls that could happen anytime. Yes! New year 2020 is here, but what's change? Nothing has been into elevation but still remains the same.

I don't think people who have been through this bear market would buy another ICO after they find the truth that most ICO are scam, just promises and ideas that will never get executed. If anyone is buying ICO, it's probably people who're new into crypto. Those people won't be as much as we see in previous bull run though as most people already know crypto by now. So no, I don't think there would be another ICO rush.

Do you think if ETF is approved there's a boost in the Bitcoin's market? We've expected bakkt before to have a huge effect in the market but the unexpected happens because it goes against to our expectations. The price of Bitcoin didn't create hype but instead it goes down and that's the unexpected happens we never thought.

Initial offerings are not what they were. Even IEOs never really reached the highs of ICOs during 2017. That looks like a bit of a bubble now, when it seemed any new project could raise many millions and hit hard cap without even trying. Whilst on one hand it is disappointing that we don't have that hugely bullish sentiment any more, on the other hand sentiment is more realistic now, and if it means that we don't have mega-cap ICOs , then that is for the benefit of crypto in the long-term.

Participation of ETF only makes the market will become worse because they can manipulate at any time and the value of Bitcoin will continuously fluctuate. I think this market should be independent and develop on its own because this is the only way for all investors to make a good profit. I do not like the impact from the outside because it is often the impact that makes this market worse.

What investors need is stability and the crypto market needs to do that in the near term as investment demand is on the rise for the past few days.

We can't move on from t he downfalls? How about that 100% year to date we got in 2019? I think that alone will have the news all over it and soon enough people will hear on the news about that 100% year to date and start investing in Bitcoin again. All we really need is some good, positive news to come out towards Bitcoin and I think we'll be rolling again.

ye people will always keep investing in ICO and IPO or IEO ..
maybe not in the same rate like in the 2017 mania
but there always will be some interesting projects out there
right now i see that there are many private sales for insiders
the next wave of Coinbase listing will be coins that sold in private sales

Those private sales investors are the one who are gaining  a lot from each projects that being held from known exchange. With early day bonuses and
the numbers of coins that being hold, it's easy for them to dumped after it's being listed to exchange. Knowing that they are getting decent earnings
and can re invest the money to another projects privately. This people don't need to hold and take time to wait for the progress of the projects.

Indeed, IEO's popularity had been declining ever since it was introduced in Binance platform.  There are lots of IEO that failed this 2019.  There are also other project that still use ICO method and still successful.  Though as far as I can tell according to my experience, it is not easy for a new project to raise many millions and you can verify that on the announcement board of altcoin in this forum. 


I agree, private investors often enjoys 50% or more discount than the one who is participating in a public crowdfunding.  No wonder tokens are being dump even at a price lower than the actual ICO/IEO price.

2020 begins with a fairly good market condition and the price of bitcoin also does not fall, but if the altcoin season occurs it is possible to invest in ICO projects are no longer popular because the system has been replaced with new and better ones

hopefully this good market will continue to hold on before halving begins. And for ico projects they are dead already ,no one will ever invest in ico projects again cause they already know the risk.

The most important thing is the value of Bitcoin because this is the decisive coin for the existence of this market and any investor will hold more than half of the assets in Bitcoin. In fact, Altcoins and IEO  just a tool for you to make more money when participating in this market but in order to be successful, you need to have an effective investment strategy and always believe in your analysis.

I have stayed in this market for a long time and have a lot of great experience in investing so for me Bitcoin is the only coin I trust the most this year.

I'm really sure there is no realtion between ICO/IEO with the bitcoin price increase, investors won't invest on new project anymore when bitcoin price is increasing, because they already lost hope to new projects which is always make a disappointed result. So i think this year will be a trend for existing good coin will growing

Agree with you, the ICO is completely dead and there are no organizations or investors interested in ICO projects. They know that if they invest, only lose and lose time with it. The current ICO has been replaced by IEO and if the bull run market starts in 2020, IEO will be a great capital raising system and help many investors get a profit when investing in it.

But IEO is starting to die down also as many projects have lost their value even if the project is handled by known exchange like Binance. But I am still hopeful in crypto in general. It is just that crowdsourcing for projects are really not getting much attention anymore because of countless projects that turned either scam or crap ones.

If you see before USA/Iran tension the only thing discussed in crypto community is bitcoin halving and now all of sudden whole focus is on www III, which people like me dont want to happen.
ICO and IEOs are almost over but they are not dead yet. It's a market driven by news. Who knows one strong statement from USA president may revive them.

Invest in ICO ... !!!  I don't think that's a good idea. Investors will continue to learn from previous experience, there are so many Ico that make investors disappointed, some even lose their money because there are so many Ico scams in circulation. For now IEO dominates more, and I trust Ieo more than Ico.

for now, IEO is indeed a better solution than ICO. but when looking at the performance of IEO so far not many projects have succeeded successfully with IEO. most markets are not strong enough and are very easy to dump

I cannot believe people actually still think ICOs can be a good idea. There might be maybe 2 or 3 ICOs that will make money in 2020,,, but I doubt they will be clearcut projects, and most normal investors will not be able to find it.

Save time, save heart problems,,, just go into Bitcoin this year and now before it hits 10k. Then we can be fine.

Right! We are in the early days of 2020. Happy New Year. Good luck to you. We all hope that good things will come to the cryptocurrency market. Congratulations to the Libra project. Do you judge that project? It is still a priority to invest in bitcoin. This is a great opportunity for me to invest.

this year it looks like several platforms will be updating. like ethereum, bitcoin, and libra will also enliven the market this year. there is hope to see the market seem to improve. but we just hope that everything we want can happen this year.

in fact, our view of ICO today is almost the same. based on experience from previous years, ICO pretty much made us disappointed. not only in terms of profit, but even in the bounty issue also sometimes it's disappointing.
however, investing in ICO is not as popular as it used to be. To date, many have assumed that IEO will replace ICO. however, IEO is better than ICO. it will be very good if this year the price starts to recover, and IEO is gaining in popularity.

I am happy that we are finally in 2020, where many people predict that cryptocurrency will rise this year. But that might soon become
reality seeing the price of bitcoin today rising to $ 7500. And followed by altcoins USD pairing rising as well. Hopefully today's increase
is a sign that bull run will soon take place. If we talk about ICO projects this year it is likely investors are still hesitant to invest, even
though the price of cryptocurrency has gone up all. Because investors do prefer to invest in IEO.

Let us just wait for the bull runs to come with full force this year definitely there is going to be turn around for ICOs and IEOs that is my own opinion, the lacklustre or dismal performances of ICOs and IEOs is attributed to the bearish market of cryptos, recalled in 2017 many ICOs were successful then when the market was bullish.

There is any prediction that ICO would dead in this year. I personally agree with that prediction
Bcz we already knewn how shit ICO is. It is better to die

We will change to another offering which is popular right now. It is IEO, I trust more IEO would be bright in the next bull run
I think, Binance IEO would dominance in the fund raising. New great project will be born from that

Investing in ICO and IEO is indeed full of risks, especially with the current project performance, very few successful projects. Very many investors are disappointed because of the results of a project that does not reach the target.
Ideally, for the time being we play for sure, investing in BITCOIN will be a very good solution, and we can anticipate all the risks that might occur. Invest safely, it will make us comfortable.

Don't congratulate Libra for any success yet, because it's not transparent for their plans. In fact it was very unpredictable, and people always wonder when this project be available. Are they having an IEO or something that attracts the public? Nowadays, it's always certain to remain strong supporter for bitcoin, that's why investments for bitcoin became more important than other asset.

not too many now the new project that held the ICO indicates that they have been buried dead, it's time to be replaced by IEO and others where it takes a third party to hold investor funds properly without having to worry about any more fraud or loss as we have passed before as valuable experience to improve in the future and now, the market seems to be slowly bullish

but to be transparent to everyone,many ICo project are still working for their product and services until now,we knew what happened in market last 2018 so ICO team has no other choice but to Hold their project and wait until market fully recovers,there are some ICo now that is still in touch to their investors and bounty hunters and begging for enough time for them to handle all issues and make progress regarding the Project.though i Know there are tons of scammers but still there is legit.

May be there will be a few ones who are still putting hopes with ICO but I doubt that those few ones are going to be foolish. Well, if there will be, they may be new comers or those who are lack of knowledge about investing.


Yes, majority are shifting to IEO however it ain't still a secured stuff for us to invest with. Scammers are doing the same thing, they are as well making their move, shifting to IEO, same motives but pretty sure different approach. There will be no ending there, 'cause bottom line here is that we to furthermore analyze the project itself and not the Initial Offering they are up with.

If we do see the emergence of a bull market this year, then I think it is likely to be more for the existing and well-established coins. The days of huge successes for ICOs and even IEOs are I think long gone. Maybe they will return, maybe not, but for a long time now the prices of good alts have been much lower than their ATHs, and I think that if money comes to alts it will see gains for established coins much more than money coming into brand new projects.

IEO is not a good Solution right now and you must see the ROI chart from the latest IEO that already ended on binance and almost all of them were bringing the investors into the lose.
Invest in an old coin with product is a better Solution than bet on the IEO or ICO. that gives more guarantee

That's the best I've heard in months and I'm 100% in agreement with that.

Yeah, the ico project will continue to work and improve their services to attract investor confidence. Although there are still some investors who still believe in Ico's performance, but the amount is very small.
The presence of IEO increasingly makes ICO overwhelmed to attract investors back, because IEO is safer and the coins are held directly by the exchange, and investors are just waiting for the Open market.

Doesn't matter if people invest into ICO or IEO or STO, as long as there is funding for new coins that means a greenlight to keep continue creating new coins. Sure it takes a lot more effort to get funding from an IEO because you need to get an exchange to like you enough to list you and get you funding but that is good for all of us since that means before we do our own research about a currency, the exchange does it for us and eliminates most of them and only publish some of them.

Definitely, we still need to do our own research but at least it allows us to check out lesser and lesser in numbers which is an improvement to ICO where anyone can do it and we need to check all of them which takes too much time. Hopefully in couple of years there will be even more strict rules to create your own currency.

That's a joke dude, some trusted ico can still run their icos even the market are in the bearish momentum. That depends on how good the developer is. So many icos have hold their project caused by they have no enough skill to develop the product. Even if they have been doing it and as the result they are still become a scam project right now. There is not guarantee if hold the project means such project will deliver a fully working product. That's just a trick for them because they didn't wanna sell their native coins at the bottom.

don't generalize everything mate because not all are the same,it seems that you are once a victim?thats why pure bitterness is what you have about ICO mate? ;D

yeah tons of them are scammers and there is no doubt about that but always remember that there are some good one that has no enough Budget so they are still seeking for investors and development to attract investors.

and remember that we have seen some of this,and Bear is the root of most reasons so just let them do the things and wait for the market to help them boost their project.

If a cryptocurrency coin will bullish this year maybe they have a little increase will have interest to invest to ICO but not more I guess because I really believe even we are experience bull run maybe in the future the history of the ICO will not easy to erase because investors inluding me think the ICO is scam and for sure people will not take risk again to that kind of investment.

Hopefully we see uptrends in crypto this year 2020. I think bitcoin halving events will create a spark to boost up the bitcoin price. About Libra coin i think this will not happen this year because global regulators are against about it for the reason that they are worried because they think it competes with sovereign currencies like the dollar.

About ICO and IEO,  i think long term investors does not care about bullish or bearish market in terms of investing because they are always searching good and legit crypto projects as long as they like the concepts of the project and they believe that the project has the potential to succeed  even if it is bullish or bearish market they are always ready to invest.

In my opinion on ICO, people would love to invest when there's a possible hype on a potential coin to soar high at exchanges. But before it happens, every coin developer should change the system which is more tight to compare from old platform. There should be a strong foundation, which cannot be prone to scammers. Bullish market only became productive, once the project gains strong support from many dedicated investors and holders.

ICO is very unregulated, no guaranty that the team behind the  ICO are legit people, let's not give them a chance to be part of the changes and the bull run it's time to move on, we already have these top coins and they are already profitable and enough for us, crowdfunding using ICO is not a thing of the past, let's leave it like that.

we all hope for the best for 2020, if altcoin once again triumphs this year, I'm not sure if ICO is still in demand. because ICO used to be sold out because it was something new. indeed I admit that the 2017 bullrun alt is inseparable from the number of ICOs that were born so as to make the Crypto market prosper. if in 2020 I don't understand what things will make the Alt market come back bullrun

   I don't think about ICO's, this year I will try to focus on making my position stronger with some Top Coins I
believe in long-term. ICO's will be here, who wish to invest in them will be able to do that, but instead to
grow my portfolio in size with more coins and tokens I will try to add more of what I already have.
   We all hope for the better year. Bull run and new alt-coin season is closer, I can feel that. Two years are
behind us, this or next year we will have another run.

Even during the bearish period, some ICO still became successful, both ieo and ico are the same thing, the only difference is the sure listing of ieo after the fundraising on the exchange, so i personally feel that the success of either of them depends really on what the project is bringing to the table, what partners they have  and how much time and resource they spend on publicity.

So i'd say that bullish season will definitely increase success rates of worthy ieo or ico in my own opinion ..

I think that if the ICO market is not regulated, investors will be afraid of scammers. IEO reduces the chances of scammers, but still does not protect investors. The safest option for investors is STO and in my opinion this year is the market that will develop best.

ICO will never be successful this year because these are very risky projects and you can completely lose money if not careful. In fact, I was only interested in investing in IEO and had made a lot of money from this of past.

In addition, altcoin investments will also be profitable, but should only invest in some major coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum or Eos because these are all potential coins in 2020.

I fear the time for ICO is already over, maybe if staking comes to ethereum there could be some sort of revival but I am still 90% sure even with that ICO will not be as popular as it used to be. Back in the day there used to be a lot of coins that got funded via ICO and some of them made superb amounts of money so everyone started to invest into other ones as well which sucked with the hopes that maybe they could find that good one in the sea of bad ones.

After months and millions of dollars of investing people realized the good ones are already done and only the bad ones are left. So, now people only invest into IEO because at least they know it will be listed right away and it is a decent one prepped by the exchange and they want the trading fee so they wouldn't let it go to waste that quickly.

Not sure about that cause even there's securities scammers are always a scammers, they will see opportunities and take the advantages of
any system that will be implemented. They can hide what's the real intentions by showing good road maps and provide informations about
the team but eventually they can runaway or declare being hacked just like an inside job tactics.

Well, that is a good question, if later the market situation has recovered and the price of Crypto starts to increase then if there a project that makes ICO I'm sure investors will return to the ICO project. Although the current IEO project is still in great demand, investors will think that the ICO project, like in 2017, can be repeated.

You must compare fairly, how many IEO and ICO success and not success. then you can make conclusion
if you just look one/some success project, then both IEO and ICO have them. but it cant be generalized that many successfull projects

the fact, most of ICO is shit project, but I would be fair that some ICO is good
sadly, the good ICO still have bad perception by most of shit ICO  ::)

in that point yeah you are correct but what about IEO?after  booming last year now what?does it seems like what happen in ICO?they only stay a while and not longer like what ICO did in past?

but this is all our call being investors,if we believe on what they say?then its fine but it is our money so keep track and keep safe unless you are ready to lose the amount.

I think it's a good year for cryptocurrency because it has experienced a very significant increase. Hoping that the long-standing bear market will end this year and the bull run will occur this year as the crypto community expects.

How about last year, did you still remember that btc even rise at $15k? but it didn't end up like what it looks to be a good year.
There was a little increase but that's it, not really an impressive year we figure.

This is just the beginning but let's see if this will continue, hopefully what we are going to see it a slow but steady rise.

Indeed. We all do hope for a great start this year 2020 for we have already leave out our worries from the past year which is 2019 wherein it turns out to be a year full of expectations that seems to be nothing have happened to be good at all. Now that we are in this brand new year of 2020, Bitcoin have already kick out the jumpstart of showing us how its price have risen up even at this very early moment of this year which surely risen up the confidence and hope inside us that this year will be a great year for the crypto community. Regarding to the question, I think it can be possible that once the Altcoins do pump and ICOs have existed once again, people might still get invest into it if and only if they will regain the people's trust towards them because of the recent cases of scams that involves many ICO projects. Once it was done, maybe people will get to engage once again into it because having Altcoins do provide us the opportunity of gaining or obtaining income aside from having only Bitcoin alone. May this year be prosperous for both Bitcoin and Altcoins which we will surely all be benefiting on it.

Now that we are in 2020 we expect for a bull run, but i think people will not invest on ICOs again even if the market will go to higher ATH for most coins then no one think about it. I think now people who are in crypto will not invest in blind like they do in past.

ICO's, IEO's, STO's are just ways to raise funds, crowdfunding is a relatively new way to raise money for a start up, and that will continue to exist in some form. Probably we will see something newer, people are inventing new and clever ideas for raising funds for their ideas and projects.
New generations, new people, fresh blood will come up with new and fresh idea, and they will need money for that too. They will have to find a way how to gather that money for their idea, so crowdfunding is not something that has an end, it will last as long people last, just there will be new, better and improved ways for that.

in early 2020, few days ago bitcoin and some altcoins increase price i hope it good alerts for start 2020.. 2020 all cryptocurrency stable in good price is enough and not slumped such happen in 2019. and some people not believe in libra projects from facebook even many people assume that libra is scam

investor will always invest not in token of ico but in bitcoin or altcoins really have potential

since 2019 most people are more confident in investing in IEO because of the many cases against ICOs that are able to erase everyone's trust in investing in ICO. and I'm sure this year then most likely people will prefer to invest in IEO and start leaving ICO because many see a bad history in the past

2020 is my expectation that bitcoin will bullrun and i know many investor are expect that too.  About an ICO i think there will be some to like to invest there because ICO is the first one before the IEO comes. Many can go in ICO because they is much more trusted than IEO.

If we want to see the bitcoin pump price, not all altcoins can adopt the bitcoin price because typically several projects won't be able to compete with each other. As they usually run out of funds so they don't get a lot of support on their projects, please go to the old altcoin where investors and communities are always there. Thinking about ICO, it's better to leave because security no longer seems feasible. More towards IEO by exchanging good names as third parties, of course, stop hoping for Bitcoin in the next few weeks.

Nobody wants to fall into the same hole, so in my opinion the ICO can't do much even for years to come.
ICO is like a scam project that offers benefits but ends in huge losses.

ICO or IEO, at this time, have not shown their quality after entering 2020. I just think that people want more convincing sales from IEO. it's just that, when compared to ICO, IEO is very better for now. I quite hope that in the future there is a new and more reliable sales system, but for now, I only choose and rely on IEO.

The last tales of buyers will be the people who are going to suffer, as soon as the project start being traded if ever the team manage to list
it early investors especially those who are part of private investors will dumped everything it's been what we have experienced and will
continue over and over.

Even if crypto market start pumping there will still be scam projects in crypto space, market pump can't stop scammers from scamming investors so ICO will not stand a chance still, IEO is the only fundraising that people trust now

no, investors no longer trust ICO because there are too many scammers in ICO. IEO has also begun to lose its popularity because most will throw away after listing so in my opinion if there is a large pump maybe some people will only choose investments in top altcoin

They may or may not invest on them Because IEO is more profitable since last year. Especially with how many failed or scammed ICO projects for the past years which make investors kinda afraid to invest their money into them. And IEO, I think they're are fading away. You could see it from the past few IEOs, they didn't really have a good returns. It's profitable, but not that much.

And not everyone ICO becomes successful and it's a different time during 2017 and I think everyone has learned a valuable lesson with those ICOs. Because they are not that good anymore and investors will buy bitcoin or established altcoins if they think it's worth their money.
Like the said events coming such as halving and other changes for Ethereum, this will gather the attention of the crowd and will reduce the attention the ICO gets.

Definitely after 2017 is not only about the bad market but it also gives us a lesson, a lesson that we should be careful when investing and we have to ensure we understand what we are investing. The hype on ICO is now gone, we are not enjoying a more secured platform which is the IEO and hopefully it will grow this year as the market will be bullish.

Not all ICO are a scam, I know there's a lot but there are also who runs successfully and got there market reputation. It is only just their image has been ruin by scam project. Investors will still consider it by then until they could prove that it safe and might give them goodmarket returns otherwise, they will surely skip it.

More importantly one needs to be very careful in making use of the right market condition. Earlier during the year 2017 people never expected for a big growth. Upon the same everyone just ignored the growth and just kept holding for a bigger growth. Then onwards everyone will be aware of market change and will take necessary action at the right moment. This year is really big for cryptocurrency from experts view.