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Hi guys, please tell me my plan is terrible.
I have gathered that Mina and eco are two solid projects based on my research and general sentiment and also analyst opinion.

I have never participated in an ICO. I figure this is the best way to get in early.

How would I prepare for this ICO. I hear they sell out quickly. Can someone give me a checklist or gotchas that you wish you knew your first time?

Thanks

On their telegram they advice people to log in 1hour earlier, after that i would like to know too because i never participated on Coinlist ico, i opened account recently just to enter Mina sale.

First of all you should pass KYC procedure on Coinlist, it is required. In case you have done it, so it is good, because it will be very soon, in a couple of days.

Any sentence with the words ICO and good idea is an issue.  Do yourself a favor and stay away from any ICOs.  Yeah can some of them be profitable sure but more times than not you are just left holding the bag. 

It's been so long that most of the investors have stopped ICO, they're no longer a thing today but if that becomes successful, the only piece of advise is to take your profit as quick as you can when it's already on the exchanges they've promised to be listed.
Most of the investors and devs would take cash from it because that's the usual thing that happens.

So I checked some few details with Mina project here.

https://cryptorank.io/ico/mina-protocol

During their seed round, they sold per Mina at $0.07 while their pre-sale price was sold at $0.15.
Now, they will be doing community sale priced at $0.25.
Though they will be unlocking over the period of 18 months. Still if you are a buyer of this upcoming comm sale, you need to be careful as the earliest buyers bought it at a cheap price.
They can even sell it at $0.20 and still earn profit. But if you do believe the potential of Mina, why not?
As the OP stated, he already did his research. So you already know what you are up to here.
And by the way, browse their wp, and it is a very technical one. So they really did put their effort into this project.

ECO, also is somewhat promising if you are talking about this project - https://www.eco.com/
But you need to dig more about their capabilities and plans. It says, they already received $35M.
Most good ICO projects before were also abandoned after raising high amount of money.

Both will be sold out within less than 3 minutes.

Eco is only available for US continents and that makes the only people from US will able to join.

Mina is also a very good project. The only problem is you need to be luckiest person to join in the sale dude. You will compete with a few hundreds thousand of people in the queue list.

On which launchpad they are going to be launched? If in any popular exchange, I guess it won't exist more than a minute; probably less than a minute. That's IEO though.
On the other hand, ICO holding on project website have hard times to collect the softcap and hardcap. People have lost interest due to the scam ratio of ICO.
Nevertheless, I would recommend you to get in with the trend. IDO is the latest trend and IDO on polkastarter are having great ROI. You can try with but that needs to hold 3k POLS in your wallet to be eligible to participate in the IDO.

Umm both of them is the most anticipated ICO currently, Eco Backed by some big entities like a16z, Coinbase, etc and it's i suppose it's little bit hard to even buy the token on Public Sale same with Mina i suppose, it's Offering an unique concept with faster Network. From my perspective both of them will sold under 10-15 Minutes or even less, If you are asking me is that a good Idea to join Both, The answer is Yes! but don't expect so much, DYOR!

If it is backed by Coinbase, then that will makes it a good deal as there is a guaranteed to be listed on one of the top exchanges. Look at the team competency and there Git HUB for development progress. Just do your own research before you commit your capital

It will be launched on coinlist and i think that you are not familiar with this one, right? IDO is only giving small spots to the investors and all of the shares were going for the major backers. it's not worth wasting our time in IDO.
coinlist is far better than IDO.
So many major projects were coming from the coinlist launchpad.

Mina seems a good choice for your first ico as long as agree with kyc requirement on coinsbit. As per their website, Mina is bringing solutions to blockchain technology where they offer a super small size of blockchain, while others blockchain have 300gb, the entire Mina blockchain will have only 22kb ( https://minaprotocol.com/ )
For, eco, never heard it before to be honest.

All you need to do before joining an ico is to do some research about the project; the team behind it, the technologies, clear roadmap, partnership etc. Don't jump to ico just because someone said it's good.

If you are planning to join Mina protocol ico should have prep for this week's ago as their KYC process is quite strict actually and take longer to be validated. Yeah me too gonna join this one but I am not hoping to get slot eventually as the demand for this project using coinlist platform is so intense and the competition is very tight. If you knew casper and you would know how hard it is to be able to participate on Coinlist sale.

I have participated in the casper and you must log in 1 hour before the sale to get the random ticket. That's called as queue, coinlist was using this random pick up to anticipate the massive trend for mina protocol sale.
When you are entering the queue portal and you must wait until your ticket number will be appearing in your portal.

I do believe there will be more than 600k people will have participated in the mina token sale. That's a crazy demand as anyone wanna get in.

Thats right. I wonder if you got in on any options? Try my luck on option 1 and 3 but both didn't able to enter though even I used the process they inform.

Im sure mina protocol will be a disaster again on this type as only few can enter with a slot like this. They should have make the tier very low value on participating so can accommodate more.

You are free to do with your money whatever you want however you need to be very aware that a great majority of icos that you see in the market are scams, the fact that you have never participated in an ico and yet you want to invest in two different ones is simply terrible idea, my question is have you invested any money in some of the more traditional currencies that we have like bitcoin or ethereum? If you have not then that is the first step that you need to take, you are trying to run before you learn how to walk and that is never a good idea.

Mina seem to be rated quite high by many people with their lightweight blockchain that said could revolutionize the whole blockchain thing but that's just their claim. Personally I think it's good idea as well to make the whole blockchain size as light weight as it can so not only people with handful of free disk space could sync with the blockchain but also those people who have low free disk space. However, be prepared to be dissappointed with this IEO though, the hype is high while the slot open for the investors are kinda low, so just don't set your expectation too high of buying this coin at presale or IEO.

I stayed away from graph ico and lose 100x potential. In bull market ico will rise, in bear you will lose $

I wanted to buy casper at coinlist but was 100k in quene. bought only 100$ with 18 months lockup

will try to buy mina and its only 500$. You will not cry if you lose 500$

graph ico was 0.0015$ and 0.003$ presale and public sale 3 cents and still pumped to 2.90$

Solid? Huh you are on your own here mate, it's your money your risk so asking people won't change anything, you are only going to get everyone talking about the coins they favour or are holding, as for me I've move my funds out of low market cap coins into top 10 altcoins, I believe it's more safer this way

Im not sure that ICOs in 2021 is a good idea in general

It's dangerous to invest in ICOs. A lot of people lost money investing in ICOs in 2017 and 2018. I got burned and now I only invest in projects with fair distribution, like RVN and 0xMR.

Just so you know, your plan about invest in ICO is terrible because we are in bullish market season and the best thing every cryptocurrency investors should do is to invest in long existing coins that are doing well in the market, have good market data, and real life product which will make it gain the attention of the crypto community in a long run. However, most of this newly created coin will only try to get the attention of investors for now and major investors won't dare to invest in it.

I'm Done with ICO thing and i will not consider this as my place to bet in.

I would rather gamble than Invest in ICO nowadays.

or at least will spend my Time in Airdrop that has no funds to invest  but chance to earn is there.

to do this when you are just starting, of course, it is more reliable, but in order to make money quickly and increase your bankroll for investing in the beginning, it is better to take a risk.

When an investor is still a newbie it reliable for him to invest in an existing coin but if he want to make a quick profit which will approximately increase his bankroll it better to invest in an altcoin? Please explain what you particular because altcoin investment is never for once a good investment for newbies and having the thought about making quick profits is what causes greedy in most newbies.

for example, he recommended to his friends who entered the crypto market to go not to BTC and eth, but to near, dot, kadena and so on. These tokens made a lot more xx than btc and so on.

I just want to say that you are off to a good start and better than a lot of people in this market, the projects that you are directing are all considered as future products for So it will be difficult to buy it because there will be a lot of people like you, and the competition helps the price go. But now I think ICO is just the past, if you want your money in this field, because learning about ICO, you will find it easier with IDO, IEO to reap great profits.

And it's over. Have you got a spot on mina? I were participating in mina and I got nothing from there lol

ECO is only available for US investors. It's not available for global investors like MINA and ECO already funded by some big ventures capital as well.
I hope OP can get into the mina sale.

There are more than 300k investors participate din the mina sale. That's crazy number. I doubt he can take a spot on the mina sale.

Yes, when I saw the number of investors to participate and the number in this endless queue I was shocked. Sometimes it seems to me that participating in such events every day is going to be harder and harder. There are too many people that wanted to be the luckiest. It is not a surprise, Mina looks very perspective.

I think good ideas if you try to participate on MINA ICO in Coinlist, how ever many time ICO there always success bit you have ready early because many participants and your chance to get MINA coin on Coinlist ICO very tin, I hope you can get coin ICO and price raise up after trading begin.

When you are investing after enough due diligence then there will be no point of crosschecking your decisions  with this community. Because different people must be having different opinion but after making investment, you cannot undo yous decisions. Before investing if you would have asked same thing then that would be the different case but after invested, I guess you're probably telling people to copy your decision. I am sorry I might be wrong as well.

Personally I have stopped investing into ICOs because of the lots of bitter experience with the many ICOs and their bounty programs. When some projects were not able to reward its bounty participants then how they are going to keep their promises with investors. So, I stopped contributing in ICOs.

Yes I tried to get in and register and everything, but I did not win the lottery. 

Question: what is the best way to know when Mina is listed on an exchange and ready for the public to buy?

It may not be $0.25 but still on the cheap. I firmly believe that the best strategy, above everything else, is to get in early.

ICO on this forum? Or anywhere else? I'm just wondering still ICOs and IPOs are going on? I heard after the boom of IEO, this forum based IPOs are greatly suffering due to lack of investors and early contributors. After a long period of time, I am just hearing about a question on investing into ICO. If you're okay with their whitepaper, team members and roadmap then you may go for as per your decision.

Personally I will not prefer investing into ICOs anymore. Because, I'm just happy and profitable with my long-term holding coins. Why should I risk unnecessarily into new things?

I have not participated in ICOs for a long time because it is difficult to find a good ICO.
If you have participated in these 2 ICOs you should be careful with your investment, do not over trust the promises of profits.

As far as I understand they will lock the buyer's tokens for 18 months, right?
If that is true then everyone should stay away from such projects, most of the money-lock projects of investors are scams.

Good luck if you success get MINA coin on coinlist ICO because price going up more higher price, I think hard for me to buy ICO on coinlst because more than many trader and investor are waiting for with this ICO moment. Maybe buy on first time listing for MINA coin is the best option and hope price still worth.

Investing in coinlist token sales are very difficult and daunting task to carry on. As if the queuing and waiting time to even enter the site isn't enough, we still have to compete with over 200K+ people. I tried it first during Casper token sale and I was unlucky not to get in. I thought I would have better luck with Mina protocol since they reduced the maximum contribution limit to $500. Yet I was still unlucky. I haven't had any lucks so far. Has anybody been able to participating in any of these sales? If so, how did you do it?

- Arriving before the sale to get a random spot in queue?
- Arriving exactly or immediately after the sales start?

I would love to know. Need to find out what I am doing wrong.

If you think those are good projects, that's okay for you to buy the coins. I am sure you have analyzed the two projects as a whole and details. Also, it is a correct way to choose the coins yourself if you already have sufficient knowledge to determine proper coins/projects to join. You are better to not rely on the people to choose coins/tokens for investment.

I admit, almost the ICO was either lost or could not be of any benefit to the investor.  But if with HoLD, you can still find quality projects in the long term.  I pursued my dream with Mogul and Sovryn.  Hopefully it will be a huge success in the market trend that has opened the door to this new history.

LOL seriously, are you joking with your statement? Flow, Solana, nucypher were also doing the same thing like MINA. MINA has been getting the highest rating project in this month. I think that you should try to take a look at the project again.
Do you know that? so many people who know nothing about the project were always generalizing and call it as a scam otherwise it's a legit project.
Any icos on the coinlist were doing it to avoid the dump from the participants when the coin gave them big ROI

1. arriving before the sale at least 1 hour before the sale will be started. that will give you a spot in the queue and you will give you use the random number to participate in the sale
2. It's not recommended to arrive after the sale already started. coinlist was prioritizing the users that were coming 1 hour before the sale or already joined in the queue to get a random spot on the sale.

I participated in the Coinlist IEO several times, but I never received an allocation. Given the fact that now you do not even need to keep USDC on your balance in your Coinlist account, participation in such IEO has become available to everyone. That's why there are a lot of members who use hundreds of accounts to get an allocation.

Mina is a truly great project. Those people who already entered on their ICO and got listed on the pre-sale, I am congratulating them now because Mina will make them rich and gain a huge profit. As far as I know, $0.25 is the pre-sale price of Mina and when it is in the market/exchange, it will reach $19 market price. But there are other projects that should be taking an eye like CLV and TOTM.

i hope your predications can come to regality, because i was able to buy mina  8)

Then you don't understand the intuition of the crypto market surge in price, you just see those coin market surge in price but in the realtime they are all lagging behind BTC and i will advise you not to be blind by the x256% surge in price.
This altcoin is highly manipulated and can dump in price just as they gain pump in price.

The IEO was crazy, in the telegram group there's less than 100K people but in the queue was the people participating was beyond 200K if I remember correctly and it could clearly reflects the demand, though there's some rumour going around that the coinlist queue could be tricked somewhat and one account could get multiple queue number but idk whether that's true or not. when it got listed in cex for trade ASAP. I was planning to buy mina at IEO and man I got the queue number of 143K guess my only option is just to buy through cex though it's gonna be like race of buy order because a project like this could go up so easily with the flash pump at early listing. Hopefully though I could still buy some.

i think we can buy this on https://www.bitz.plus/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mina/markets/

Almost coin IDO listed on coinlist always pump more than 10x and most profitable if raise 80x, the best way if can participated and qualified to get ICO on coinlist. But you must working hard and keep the first participant join waitlist because many people looking for to buy coinlist verify account to participants on IDO.

Mina was really weird, I have seen as much as 180k+ people I think, the estimates were from what I hear from friends (not proven data, just gossip) there was as much as 400k. If that is true about mina, we are talking about a project that can literally start from top 10, it is just insane, right now it is already 10x higher in OTC market because it can't be bought. Obviously over time it could drop if the interest drops down as well, but it is really something special to see that much request for something.

Remember DOT didn't started at 1405th spot and slowly grew bigger, they started with an amazing offering process and the first day they started they were very high, in fact they are not as highly ranked nowadays as their first month. Which is why I believe Mina will be very valuable, but I couldn't get it and I am not willing to pay 10x for it now.

I don't know about eco. But mina is a pretty much good project. But problem with CoinList is. There are too much people to buy CoinList projects. And that's fully lottery based. So if you got a chance then you will made good profit from CoinList ieosm but it's hard to get in. I was trying from casperlab and never got chance to buy one. If you got one you will make good profit from it.

With the TLM coin, a similar situation occurred when this coin was registered on MCX, and before listing on Binance, the price of the coin was about $7. But after the listing on the Binance occurred, the price of the coin dropped to 40 cents. The same thing will happen to Mina when it gets a listing on one of the top exchanges.

Mina ICO was conducted on coin list platform, and I heard over a 100k people registered, although the allocation got finished and there were still over  50,000 participants remaining, I hope you were among the first set cause from what I heard everyone who was able to get an allocation have all became rich since mina pumped from $30 to $100, the pump was really something else,i don't know much about eco, I will check it out now you have mentioned it.

that only IOU and you should read the red notice on CMC. IOU means the futures token. This token is full with speculation and when the real token will be distributed by bitz and you may got a big lose caused by your real token will be traded below the IOU price. that's the worst way to buy mina coin.
The time to buy mina already passed and keep in your mind wait for the real token to be distributed.

I'm not so sure about that. Mina protocol is good and has potential, the current price of Mina is over 100$ and thats a literally a dman good price with its ICO price of 0.25$, everyone that entered must have been so happy now. That's how many percentage. With regards to IOU price, I remember dot and avax having the same price when launch on exchange, maybe this will get close to that. Who knows, I'm not able to join Mina but congrats to those who got in.

Oh really, congrats to you mate there is a huge opportunity waving for you hehe. Do you check the value of mina in cmc and coingecko? It already has a $175 ATH in just a few weeks. But based on the mina telegram channel, that market value is not yet sure because the coin for the investors are still on locked and not yet distributed.

I see on 28th April is the schedule for new ICO on cointlist but I am not participating because chance to get coin very tiny. Better I use my money for trading or investing and hold there is not worth with many investor from other country use bot to get coin ICO, I see every day they buy new coinlist account to join ICO.

The options and strategies you are running at this point are actually good enough to earn more profits, so forget about new ICOs if the potential income is very small, because there is a lot of other work you can do and can earn in a short time.

None ask you about that but we have been talking about whether MINA and ECO can be considered as good icos and the answer should be both were the most reliable ICO for this year.
The bots should become the main problem. This has become the main concern that already complained by a lot of people but again joining the ICO that runs on the coin list totally depends on your luck.
I have been participating in the MINA and i was not so lucky to be able get a spot on the sale.
Mina is the most anticipated project this year. If OP was making it and he might get instant profit

Mina experienced a high rise after the ICO on the coinlist. Currently, many ICOs on Coinlist are successful with high ROI. I myself didn't get the opportunity to buy Mina yesterday. ROI of more than 1000% was obtained by participants who had the opportunity to buy. for now if you are really interested in getting a successful ICO I suggest registering on the Coinlist because there is a lot of information

Many ICO success and get more than 1000% ROI but very hard how to be participants and qualified for joining ICO there, I remember almost worth ICO project like on Upbit, Coinlist always limited participants received and qualify for joining ICO, this why many ICO success here and now will get new ICO on coinlist, I hope every one can get coin this time.

Even though Coinlist tries to create a level playing field for all participants by giving them a random queue to buy coins, they are unable to ensure a fair sale due to the large number of bots created for the purchase. Therefore, if you have only one account on Coinlist to participate in the launchpad, then your chances of buying coins there are zero.

Do you like hunting down new ICOs at this point apart from participating in bounties? if yes, how many ICOs have you got at this time because I heard that on Coinlist there are many new ICOs that are very profitable, but until now I have not tried them.

     A friendly advice, if you are still new to this industry, read and be updated. Do mot just trust everything you see without confirming or studying about it first. Just look at what most of the people here said, ICOs are so yesterday and not that trust worthy anymore. There are lots of better investments out there if you just take your time to search more and read more. You can also just invest in well established altcoins instead if you really want to invest in altcoins. Or, you can just go ahead and really invest on ICOs and have your way so you can gain experience. Anyway, experiences, good or bad, are great teachers, whatever outcomes you may get, learn from them. Trust me, you will need all the knowledge you can get in this industry.

I have invested several times in ICOs, like bcnex, bobrepair and dragon coin, but after the many scams that have occurred I prefer to stop participating in an ICO and prefer to trade now, but my advice for those of you who want to invest in ico to be more observant before investing, pay attention to how the project's product is, find out how it is applied in the real world or blockchain. and don't check the credibility of the people in the project, because as an investor you also need to find the background of the project team.

Choosing there ICOs as first is smart, because projects are really prospective, especially Mina. It has cool product and great supporters. Many people are afraid of ICOs, because they already have bad experience working with it in 2017. I had thought the same till the last winter, when FLOW and many other public ideas, which everyone could join, showed really amazing growth. Now I`m trying to join all prospective projects on the ICO stage and recommend to do the same all people, interested in crypto

I have not heard about both of these projects but if you have studied them carefully and you think that they have potential, then do not sell your coins early. If the project is strong, they will continue to grow and the price of the token will increase gradually. So you can save those coins for future and sell them once the price is good enough.

Most ICO projects usually pump hard initially when they are listed on exchanges and then dump by the ICO holders who got them cheap. So my point of view is that even if the project is good one, you can sell your coins initially and then buy them back in cheap if you think the project has potential.

For me, I never invest in any ICO project, even they are not a scam project or not, when the ICO is over, when the investors received their coin will dump it in the market, so I only invest the coin are listing in the exchange only.

The idea is great. And in my opinion, the only correct one, because in fact now there are no ICOs that would be so easy to get into. Mina is a fairly safe lottery that can easily help you create your first capital, however, as you already understood the guarantees of getting into such a lottery, there is no, therefore, here either you are lucky or unlucky. Many people were unlucky, I would say to the majority, but those who used several accounts of 10 jokes each took their places.

No longer viable these days, many of them were scam before.

That is a normal strategy not only by the developers but also the investors who saw the idea of investing in ICO and saw that type of opportunity. It's very risky and newbie ico investors should stop if there are still existing icos.

The coins that were trading on the market was also coming from the ico. The investors rarely dumping their coins except when coin got very big ROI but the fact that there are lots of ico coins can grow even higher than before but i know that some people like you didn't wanna try to take the risk by investing in ico.
It's better for people without any knowledge about ico will try to follow your step and they can sell it anytime if they want.

ICO investing is one of the most difficult investment to make in the cryptocurrency space and this is because they are multitude of scam project out there just willing to take your money so you have to be very careful and don't go for deals that seem too good to be true because if they seem too good to be true they are most likely to go to mature so only invest in cryptocurrency projects that are highly rated and have existing partnerships with some of the industry Giants I think that is a big step in filtering out a lot of low quality and some projects before investing ico's

I am afraid that if you have doubts about how to check the credibility of a project, you are not ready to invest your money in such projects yet.
Collecting information from people on the internet should only be additional information for you, not a determinant of whether or not to do it.
The most important information for you is in the Whitepaper and in the profiles of people from the dev team, which you can check on LinkedIn.
In short - you should follow basic information and facts, not hints from random people.
Anyway - good luck!

Investors dump their coins after the end of the public sale, for the reason that the price of the coin increases thousands of times from the moment of the pre-sale. And if you did not buy the coin at an early stage of the sale, then you should not buy it immediately after the listing. It is necessary to wait for the moment when it is corrected, having reached the support level.

That's a very natural thing I think because they (investors) who invest in ICO always get bonuses at very cheap prices, so even if they throw away tokens at the end of the ICO, they will still get profits, and this will also be almost the same as you if you buy tokens while the ICO is still running.

If you can get involved in ICOs that after doing your research think they're going to be good, well you're off to a good start. As mentioned above, you need to get extremely lucky to get into the whitelist as the competition is immense.

While not all ICOs do well, there are some projects which will do great it's just a matter of finding that good project. From what I've seen Mina is a solid project and would do well - my opinion!