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 For beginners, it may help to you to understand what is ICO

An initial coin offering (ICO) is a controversial means of crowdfunding centered around cryptocurrency,which can be a source of capital for startup companie. In an ICO, a quantity of the crowdfunded cryptocurrency is preallocated to investors in the form of "tokens", in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or ethereum. These tokens supposedly become functional units of currency if or when the ICO's funding goal is met and the project launches.

ICOs provide a means by which startups avoid costs of regulatory compliance and intermediaries, such as venture capitalists, bank and stock exchanges,while increasing risk for investors.ICOs may fall outside existing regulations or may need to be regulated depending on the nature of the project, or are banned altogether in some jurisdictions, such as China and South Korea.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_coin_offering

DEFINITION of 'Initial Coin Offering (ICO)'
An unregulated means by which funds are raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or banks. In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin.


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well put the best definition there is, easy to understand and put direct to the point.

And if it's easier to say, ICO is raising funds at the expense of investors to develop or improve a product, to achieve the goal that the team has set for itself.

ICO is a fundraising effort to build applications related to Blockchain and its implementations such as cryptocurrency, bitcoin, smart contract and smart ledger. ICO offers a number of tokens to investors that are usually valued by Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin....

yes, ICO helps promote altcoin and the platform to be spread on the exchange. so it can help the crypto world always exist.

I think, a good ICO, is a success in the sale of tokens or altcoins.

Ico is fund-raising efforts to build the app relating to his cryptocurrency Blockchain and implementasinya for example, bitcoin, smart contract and smart ledger. Ico offers a number of token to investor valued usually by her Bitcoin Cryptocurrency for example.

all users here must be know of what is meant by ico and I appreciate your efforts. so all this is clear and it would be nice if the op lock this thread, because only the lazy people who do not understand and do not want to find what the meaning of ico.

The ICO process is raising funds to implement a very good idea. I think this is a very good process, in order simply to not take funds in the bank at a percentage, just explain to people what's the matter and tell about the idea of ​​the project. And of course to share your profit

This is really a good one. Many people on this platform might have an idea on what ICO mean, but might not have the full knowledge. This explanation looks clear enough for even a lane man to understand. Personally, i think with this, i can easily define what an ICO is and be able to explain in my own words. Thanks for the piece.
I also think ICO can be likened to shares.

ICO or Initial Coin Offering has recently become more and more sophisticated in 2017, many developers are using this method to raise funds to develop their projects. Funds collected are not half-hearted can get millions of US dollars, joining in ico is a good way to make a profit

yes you are right and I think ICO is a coin offer which is given the startup who are in need of funds to build a project that they run that have smart contract agreement with blockchain. ICO is also very useful to add new coin in the market and can trigger to benefit from ICO.

I like  ICO of  TV_TWO .Their's is not Initial Coin Offering but Interactive Coin Offering protocol .

For more information
https://medium.com/truebit/interactive-coin-offering-a-protocol-explained-267065ef3819

the definition i've found in some article was : ICO is the abbreviation of Initial Coin Offering. It means that someone offers investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token in exchange against cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Since 2013 ICOs are often used to fund the development of new cryptocurrencies.
the main line here that ICO is just started begin some years ago and getting over increased years to years.

I think all of them will be successful  if their token was sold out in ICO.

ICO stands for initial coin offering, that is  becoming popular lately as more crypto start-ups are using it as an alternative to the traditional fundraising methods. According to Forbes, ICOs have raised over $380M funding as of May 2017, compared to $225M in 2016, $10M in 2015, and $25M in 2014 (historical figures are from the research firm Smith + Crown).

This is really good as this is the real purpose of ICO. But these days people have been blinded about the market havoc. I mean these days ICO is all about creating a token listing it on any exchange and then just trading it by pumping and dumping it ocassionally. Even the developers go to a big sleep once they are done with the exchange listing. There are a very few projects that really work.

as long as they achieved their minimum goal it is already considered as successful ICO

ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. When a coin wants to go to the trading floor, it must go through an ICO campaign. We can understand ICO as a form of calling and promoting the coin to be known to many investors so that it can grow. ICO is currently a very popular and growing campaign. :) :) :) :)

Hi, to my mind, many people make mistakes trying to get into any ICO. People send their ether to almost any smart contract, making them easy prey for phishers. They then send their tokens anywhere, practically giving them away in an effort to send them to an exchange or another wallet.

Ico is a quick way to raise money, but it is not regulated, so there are many people who make excessive profits through ico. That's a bad behavior.

Good effort in defining ICO. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is just the cryptospace version of Initial Public Offer (IPO) obtainable in the traditional stock market. Just another way of raising fund from the public to start, develop or expand a project or business using blockchain technology and smart contract. The easiest way to Crowd funding that is helping start-ups to raise fund in exchange for tokens.

Thanks for a concise explanation for ICO. As you mentioned its also the same as IPO which what we are doing in the traditional market. It was only change to ICO since companies is already utilizing the digital market in order to promote their project and raised fund.

I want to note that the choice of investments should be approached very carefully. Lately, most of the ICO is SCAM. As a result of investing, you can lose your money. After entering the exchange, tokens may be impaired.
Therefore take part only in the untwisted ICO.

And there is a lot of ways to prevent a fake ICO or scam ICO like reading their whitepapers reasearching to their project and many more,my advice for the people who think that many of ico is scam ,take a time for reasearching about on it.

it is nice that someone like you to explain what is ICO.
ICO is Initial Coin Offering, a way to collect capital funds for startup or existing company.
you can buy tokens in ICO to invest on it.

Not all ICOs run well and succeed.
I think successful ICOs not only succeed in selling their tokens, but are able to create platforms that create long-term programs and useful products.
stop making coins then leave without follow-up.

Short and good explanation

ICO is a promotion stage of the ICO and also they can get some investor so they can fund the ICO so in this way we can help them by advertising it like twitter campaign facebook campaign and signature campaign and many more

Exactly what you have research about what is ICO. ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. The concept of ICO's contradict with the capitalist approach in business. Usually if you're going to implement a project the most frequently question to be ask is that how much is you budget. Fortunately ICO's came to different style and approach in implementing project. ICO concept is all about fund raising activities. They will let you invest in that project and in return you will receive tokens corresponds to the money you invested in that project. And if the ICO is success on the fund raising this will be the time that they will implement the project and proceeds goes to all investors who put their money on that project. So there will be dividend among investors which being calculated by percentage depending upon how much money you invest in that project.

ICO is a good idea to crowdfunding. But I still don't get it about the current ICO's mechanism. Why is ICO procedure too much space for scammers? Investors can't receive the token/coin directly after purchase. That will be a chance that the ICO team will run and abandoned the project after getting the money from investors.

Good to hear that,i post this topic because many people now in crypto was didnt know the meaning and definition ICO and what is all about.i encounter many people was only investing on mamy ICO without reasearching or reading the whitepapers of the project that their want.

This also explains what a soft cap and hard cap is because many people still ask me this question. A soft cap is the minimum amount that a project can accomplish, and the hard cap is the maximum amount a project wishes to mobilize. Is hard or small is it good? It can be seen that last year, the caliber projects called for a hard cap of just $ 20-25 million to be able to carry out the project and profit the investors this year. began to greedily call for huge cap stocks of up to 50 or 100 million dollars while the project was just ideas and there was not a market or market that was too small to fit their hardcap. call that.
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Capitalizing on the top 100 in the coinmarketcap 101-200, just over 50tr have been added to this top, so the projects they call hard cap $ 50 million, only the Crow Price on the floor, its capitalization is enough. To stand in the top then, you think the ability to pumb or SML is high. Evaluation of a hard cap project is extremely important, but it is not a good hard cap because it depends on the size of the market and the competition for the projects it needs. Big money to hit the market potential and beat the competition grows fast to dominate the market before being swallowed.
The hard cap is so small that it can be easily understood: when we open a clothing shop, it is enough to call a capital of 300 million, but to open a cow farm 600 is still small. But often the projects with small harp cap will have stronger pumb strength than large hard cap projects.
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- ICO and pre-sale or private-sale prices are more than double that of the Crow-sale, which should be considered before purchase (this should include pre-sale or private-sale bonuses). Ask admin, the project does not admin reply to this problem I will not participate.
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- 1 project must have a good community, such as Arcblock in terms of product without any crooked idea blockchain 3.0 is still running on the ERC ERC-20 platform but because Krypital Pr team is good, has After the success of the CMT project (Cybermiles), people are still fighting each other, fomo is good (fomo understands the crowd effect) and also x3 after going to the floor. There is no technology product.
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But you absolutely do not evaluate the project based on the number of telegram members. Why, creating an Airdrop program to donate coin free a day with a few tens of thousands members, these members they join the telegram they never notice or return to that channel, because they only join To get free coin only. Refer to the community on Reddit, medium, github, Tiwtter
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- A project where the team holds too many tokens and tokens that are not locked will not be good for the offer and the token price, as they hold more than they are evaluating their project too high, assuming they hold Over 30% of the market capitalization is $ 100 million, then their team holds up to $ 30 million, which also means the hard cap is pushed too high compared to its real value.
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- Do not participate in Russian projects because of a scam, no or no pumb, see coinmarketcap in any of the children will not know
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- Do not trust the site ico such as: icoben, icofox, icoholder - These are paid to Reviews (Last bitter bear is the 70 billion bibs lost because the ICObench rate this guy 4.1)
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- Priority is given to projects from Switzerland because the country's legal system is almost complete for the ICO, Singarpor is also a good suggestion, these two countries are the best for the company headquarters
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- One project that too many participants in Vietnam also need to consider, because most of them play surfing style, some of his Vietnamese participants on the floor to the discharge than the dams of Hoa Binh floods.

little advice for beginners, do not try to invest into ico because you have no experience yet, very risky.

This is my personal opinion:
What is an ICO? Normally, an electronic currency before being listed on the trading floor will undergo a call for capital to be able to execute and develop the project, in which the coin / token will be opened. Selling to investors at converted prices (depending on the different projects) is called ICO, understand the same as we buy shares of a company first issued to the market, For the stat up capital with crypto currency.
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So what is the purpose of evaluating an ICO?
Usually the first thing that interests me is what kind of project it works in, what kind of market or product it has, what its competitors are, who has development and consultancy, road map How much white paper, how soft cap and hard cap, how much market capitalization, how many tokens are allocated, how many% hold, are locked, ko private, pre-sale and crow- how much, how many communities, where the origin of the company ... ..
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ICO is initial coin offering that offers to provide another way of earning money, ICO's are forms of many different level of types and quality, it is also an instrument by making money. However, not totally all types of ICO's has a good level of price, there are some ICO's that someone says shit coin because of the very cheap value.

ico is a form of capital mobilization from investors around the world for a project by selling topcoats to finance the development of the project.

ICO is a process of raising funds from the public to implement their project along with public ownership.

ICO is usually offered by crytocurrency developers whose goal is to raise funds to develop a crypto project that they will do is a new crypto eye. This fund is needed to maximize the project which is worked out to develop faster and can be completed as soon as possible. advantages of ICO
 For Developers or Developers cryptocurrency, they get the help of funds used to accelerate the process of coin development that they are working on, so that it can quickly realized and can be enjoyed by many people. For investors, they will get token or coin, which is legitimately private property of investors. And the most important is the price of Coin in the ICO is still very low.
loss of ico
Behind these advantages, there must be a loss to him. Because ICO is investing in nature, we spend the money (money) and give it to a third party (in this case the developer), yang mana bisa saja uang tersebut tidak digunakan sesuai perjanjian saat ICO yaitu dibawa lari tanpa adanya keterangan yang jelas, biasanya sering dikatakan dengan istilah "SCAM".

An Initial Coin Offering is a new way to attract investment. Not in dollars, but in crypto-currencies - “ethers” and bitcoins. Where investors buy stock and receive shares of a company. Only in this case it’s not stocks, but tokens. And it’s not a share, but a company’s own crypto-currency. Investors buy tokens, hoping that their value will grow with the success of a project. It’s important to understand: investing in an ICO is a risky business. It’s possible to lose everything you invest. Projects that launch an ICO often exist only in the form of a prototype, or even just an idea. In this sense, an ICO is similar to crowd-funding.

ICOis the hot new way to raise funds for new cryptocurrencies.

ICO is the abbreviation of Initial Coin Offering. It means that someone offers investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token in exchange against cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Since 2013 ICOs are often used to fund the development of new cryptocurrencies.

ico is very useful to get funds to develop projects that will run. with the presence of ico can be used as a venue to attract investors to invest in capital and finance. so ico is very useful for financial problems.

ICO is initial coin offering that coin crypto currency in this world usually have an ICO at their first launch. bitcoin may be have an ICO too

ICO is a new kind of crowdfunding, the collection of funds for the implementation of the project.

See a specific example you can here: https://qurrex.com/ (https://qurrex.com/)

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Yesh youre right it is raising funds to all investors willing to invest for their ICO project.We call it Initoal Coins offering because they conducted it trough bounty program which investors and bounty hunter involve on it.

Initial Coin Offering(ICO), is a way of using an invesments for the project of investors they build up by means of exchanging the cryptocurrency to coins with this, the banks gaining profit from here, and ICO helps promoting altcoin...

Easily speaking ICO's are projects that are newly created or noticed and emerging there the project's that need to be supported by investors for them to launch their developed or created project. They opened their project in public to gain publicity and to be notice by us(investors) to help them gather their soft cap price(pirce needed for their ICO to be launch) and able to released their project.

Initial Coin Offering or ICO is a fundraising tool in which new projects sell their crypto tokens and these quickly became effective topic of discussion in the blockchain community. But ICO's are barely regulated, so a detailed research is needed before investing in it because cryptocurrency is high risk but with high reward.

ICO is raising funds at the expense of investors to develop or improve a product, but not all ICO is work !

ico is a place to buy a new altcoin that is still not in the stock and this I often see there are many potential and many are scam in the project.

The ICO stands for "Initial Coin Offering," an unregulated vehicle by raising funds for a new Cryptocurrency venture. In an ICO campaign, developers will sell their coin to investors via Bitcoin or Ethereum.

ico is inviting money from investors to develop the project by issuing topkens. When the project is successful, the investor will profit and lose money.

Lots of good answers here.  If you in the US the definition is it's either a security or commodity.  Guess they can't mae up their mind  :P


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ICO is the abbreviation of initial coin offering, one way to raise money from the public, which is basically similar to IPO.
However, the difference is IPO mainly focuses on raising fiat money which are subject to government regulation and  supervision.
While there are no clear regulation for cryptocurrency, it's relatively easier to raise money based on ICO.

"An initial coin offering (ICO) is a controversial means of crowdfunding centered around cryptocurrency, which can be a source of capital for startup companies. In an ICO, a quantity of the crowdfunded cryptocurrency is preallocated to investors in the form of "tokens", in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or ethereum. These tokens supposedly become functional units of currency if or when the ICO's funding goal is met and the project launches."

ICOs are easy to structure because of technologies like the ERC20 Token Standard, which abstracts a lot of the development process necessary to create a new cryptographic asset. Most ICOs work by having investors send funds (usually bitcoin or ether) to a smart contract that stores the funds and distributes an equivalent value in the new token at a later point in time.

ICO which is the funds that is related to Cryptocurrency which can be used as capital.  Used to exchange tokens or etherium. Which refers to a method of selling participation in an economy, giving investors access to the features of a particular project.

May be it is also necessary to write about DAICO, which was created by one russian boy as a new ICO model)? To my mind it is better, because investors can control the process and return some part of their money in any case.

ICO: fundraising efforts to build applications related to Blockchain and its implementations such as cryptocurrency, bitcoin. ICO offers token to investors that are usually valued by Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.

ICOs are similar to IPOs and crowdfunding. Like IPOs, a stake of the startup or company is sold to raise money for the entity’s operations during an ICO operation. However, while IPOs deal with investors, ICOs deal with supporters that are keen to invest in a new project much like a crowdfunding event. But ICOs differ from crowdfunding in that the backers of the former are motivated by a prospective return in their investments, while the funds raised in the latter campaign are basically donations. For these reasons, ICOs are referred to as crowdsales.

things are very mixed in crypto currencies and the prices are very low. the most logical investment in this case ico. ico time is the time of introduction before the conler goes out on the market.

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ICOs are similar to IPOs and crowdfunding. Like IPOs, a stake of the startup or company is sold to raise money for the entity’s operations during an ICO operation. However, while IPOs deal with investors, ICOs deal with supporters that are keen to invest in a new project much like a crowdfunding event. But ICOs differ from crowdfunding in that the backers of the former are motivated by a prospective return in their investments, while the funds raised in the latter campaign are basically donations. For these reasons, ICOs are referred to as crowdsales.



 

Its important to note that unlike an Initial Public Offering (IPO), investing in an ICO won't result in you having an ownership stake of the company you're giving money to. You're gambling that the currently worthless currency you pay for now will increase in worth later and make you money.

ICO is a fundraising effort to build applications related to Blockchain and its implementations such as cryptocurrency, bitcoin, smart contract and smart ledger. ICO offers a number of tokens to investors that are usually valued by Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.

Yes, According to the article investopedia.com, An unregulated means by which funds are raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or banks. In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin. This definition may help you to understand better the meaning of ICO.

I see people keep on answering the same thing on this thread. You may create a thread on meta section to ask what is ICO discussion on the altcoin discussion as a pinned message on this forum.

If that happen we may not see some spam thread on this reputed section. Already DT member are worrying that bitcoin discussion thread seems like spam section completely.

ico is initial coins offering, you invest when the project goes do pre sale, so you will get tokens with low prices, thats because reasong why ico can make big profit. yeah right if you find and invest in some good ico you will going to the moon, but not easy to find it brothers

ICO is a relatively new form of investment, the emergence of which is associated with the development of crypto currency. The term itself is an abbreviation for Initial Coin Offering. The literal translation is "primary placement of coins" or "primary monetary offer".
If you are interested in investments and crypto-currencies, then you have probably already come across this term. In simple words, ICO is crypto-currency crowdsharing, that is, collecting money for something on the side. Often in ICO projects are involved, which in one way or another are related to the technology of blocking and crypto currency.

With respect to ico, you explain it very comprehensively. However, at present, most countries are not friendly to ico, because ico serves many frauds, and there is no specific policy to supervise ico

At the ICO, funds are raised to promote projects and their applications that are based on the blockchain.

But I think for ICO is an initial coin offering that offers to give other ways of making money, ICO is a form of different levels of type and quality, is also a tool with money. However, not entirely all types of ICO have a good price level, there are some ICO that someone say pesky coins because of very cheap value.

ICO summaries are a form of fundraising for project development. This is a new kind of fundraising. There are a lot of ICOs going on daily and more than half of them are investment fraud schemes, so be careful when choosing to invest in an ICO.

This is the same startup . the guys have an idea, they make a plan to achieve it, present and looking for investors . it's simple

What is ICO?
I think the ICO is a form of calling for smart capital.
This approach helps us reach more potential investors around the world.

ICO stands for Initial Coins Offering and it is similar to Initial Public Offering like have in Stock Markets where new company or coin developers organise an program to collect fund for their upcoming coin.

ICO (primary location of tokens) is the release of a draft of tokens intended to pay for services in the future in the form of a crypto currency.

an ico or initial coin offering is being conducted to raise funds for the project, these funds is being used to fund the project and do some improvement for their product. it is a type of investment which they provide a product in exchange of investment of their investors.

In addition to finding out by surfing on Google this explanation can help beginners who do not understand the term ico

I would also add to your words that by participating in an investment in the course of an ICO, a person does not acquire any shares in the campaign and, accordingly, how much money he has invested, he will not be able to influence the decision-making in the campaign.

ICO is the shortened form of Initial Coin Offering. It implies that somebody offers speculators a few units of another digital money or crypto-token in return against cryptographic forms of money like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Since 2013 ICOs are regularly used to support the improvement of new digital forms of money.

ico it is a container of all digital currency exchange like bitcoin, eth cryptocurrency, and others because with the ico it is very easy for people to witness in the world bitcoin and facilitate the journey of investors who will trade their coins or tokens.

bitcoin and ico are now very rarely found because on average for now ico uses the platform from ethereum and also other smartcontrac as liaison investors

Effortlessly ICO's are ventures that are recently made or seen and rising there the undertaking's that should be bolstered by speculators for them to dispatch their created or made task. They opened their venture out in the open to pick up reputation and to be see by us(investors) to enable them to assemble their delicate top price(pirce required for their ICO to be dispatch) and ready to discharged their undertaking.

ICO is the abbreviation of Initial Coin Offering. It means that someone offers investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token in exchange against cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum.