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I know that many good ICO's around and some were very promising. HOwever, there are other ICO projects to which now looks like an April Fools who's team always talk to much but in the end of the ICO period all they have to do is to be silent, list the coin of the project and then dump the project. This is why we really monitoring from these guys to keep their promises before, during and after the ICO period.

Yes, managers run out of such projects, because they do not get their salary. If they continued to pay, they would continue to respond to your messages. I do not think that such people have shame. After all, they are protected from punishment by a great network.

I think even its not april fools day, they just not true to their words and they just put all their member in the state of hoping. Even the true allocated value for their bounty projects does not coincide with the real value after their ico project. I hope to see changes on the ico projects in the near future.

Not sure about that but it looks like they are all still feeling worry about the condition of the crypto market. Some team may delay its listing. But we must always try to monitoring all of those guys. We will see what will happen after that.

Oh well, that's what majority of ICO is, so don't be surprised.

And now the IEO is born, it might be difficult for those projects that are purely design for pump-and-dump because investors grew tired and since we have a new hype with IEO and much promising then don't be surprised if ICO will be obsolete in the coming years.

Yeah, sometimes is like that. Anyway please don't invest in ICO that make an impossible promise. In my opinion, every ICO that promise ROI more than 100% in a month or create something that not even invented yet yadda yadda yadda is a scam.
Some of them are really great though, make a reasonable promise and fulfilling what he promised. Always do your own research before making an investment.


IEO has its own advantages though like it's listed on an exchange if they want their coin listed they have to complete KYC first so that's being said its almost impossible the team behind that coin/token is fake.

i honestly have never seen any ICO that has ever been "promising". there has only been cases where the team showed a better capability of pumping their useless token but none of them had any future from day one and that part has always been too obvious for me and it is now obvious to everyone else too as they have seen their demise over the past year and also seeing how the new ones don't even live to see the light of day.

Such analysis of ICOs as April fools seems to come out as what today is. I understand the ICO that Op is coming to. That icos disappear or are like joke but they with people's money just like that and this is not a good experience just like the effect of April fools if you are actually hit by the April fools.

Even how hard you are monitoring them.
If they already have planned to abandon and dump the project.
It will reflect soon even they are talking that much on how good the project is.

It's April fools day throughout the years  for all these ICO coins, no hope for these ICO now, better pick the best one and go for IEO, investors are now going for IEO, maybe the days of ICO are numbered there are to many scam ICO now, all the tokens I've received are all shitcoins and useless token.

That is why we should be very much watchful so as to avoid scams and put pressure on any company to make its promises fulfilled. There are many such projects which have made big promises during ICO and sales. But they have become lazy when the times come to implement their ideas and promises. So we should put pressure on them to push their agendas and promises through various social medias. It is also our responsibility to make things happen.

Don’t be too over confident mate that the fact it is an IEO project means there can’t be dump, to me, IEO even seems to me like the easiest way to really experience dumping because most IEO projects when launched on the exchange increases in price to almost 5x.

I learnt some even give upto 100% profit, this will make a lot of investor quickly think of taking profit and they will no longer wait for long term or hold it. If I too participate in an IEO project and it gives me 100% increase, I will dump the coin too and move on to other project rather than waiting for a very long time to see my profit compound.

the project good when on ICO process only, after ico success it become april fools like you said before
but not surprised at all , many ico look like not getting serious to work on their project

That why we need to be more selective if we want to invest
many project really amazing with out of mind project, like robotic and bla bla bla
it will ended with nothing

There has been an active team of scammer who are using ICOs as a mean of scamming money out of people.
These scammers is one of the reasons why crypto is not recovering as thought it would be.
There was a time when people blindly believed crypto would make them rich but with changing time people have realised that ICOs are just another investment option.

  The development team and potential of ICOs are very important. You need to know carefully before investing. Otherwise you will be fooled very easily. Many ICOs stop working. Their development team suddenly fell silent. that is really scary

ICOs no longer gain reliability. Even good projects are sold under ICO, they encounter the same result. And as time goes on, they are getting worse. Let's hope with the return of the bullrun, ICOs will also recover.

Well ICO's were not like how it used to be earlier. Now it's more like promising more and delivering almost nothing. On top of that these Airdrops and Bounties just flood the chat room on Telegram where all you get to see is when the coin/token will be listed, what's the price of the token/coin, why I did not get my coins/token and so on.

We need more concrete stuff and I think we have to do a lot of home before investing our time and money.

I have always judge many of these projects too by this until recently I learnt not to judge every project that has dumped as being completely gone and dead, one of my mentor made me understand that some projects purposely dump the coin themselves so a to keep it relevant in the market till the market picks up.

I have also read this quite number of times but what I don’t know if this is the real situation or it is just a made believe thing, many project developers has been looking for a way to prevent their coin being dumped, initially many don’t enter exchange immediately till their project is perfect but some enters and gets dumped, so the only corrective measure is for them to dump first and still keep the investors in the coin.

Good timing with the name, so you saw april fools everywhere and you suddenly realized "wait a minute, some ICO's are so bad that they could literally be considered an april fools"? :D. That is really hilarious. I have seen some "joke" coins to be honest, https://uetoken.com look at this for example, dude literally created a joke token and told people "you are giving me money and that is it" and people literally gave him 50 thousand dollars for it, they didn't get anything back it was just pure fun and named "useless ethereum token" and people still funded him.

So yeah, if you talk about these type of joke tokens they do exists and I find them amazingly fun to check, people who gave these guys money knew what they were doing, they didn't expected these coins to get high one day they literally just chucked and throw away their money to him so I see no problem with it.

Only a small number of projects can afford to be able to run their project because indeed the average does not match what they promised, and nowadays it often happens where many people get losses

Good example of the side effect of no long-term vision for the project from CEO side. They didn't sell any Ether there got from ICO now they really run out of money too fast, sad but true.

There are many such projects, they start the project excitedly, but at the end of the projects they are like dead. No updates, no support, no interaction.

Lol most of icos project is doing like what you said, he just let all of their investor to wait wait and wait but in the end they will dissapointed all of the investors who really believe since beginning in that ico project.

Don't trust anybody because all the slitters is not gold so even if a project team looks too responsible it doesn't mean they are good,they are giving much effrot to scam other with perfection. :D

They are not all April, those that made the fooling on the April 1did just to catch the fun of it, but I don't know about those who may create a fake ICO,I believe that fooling would be too much, it could open people up into scams and hackers.

Some internet sites. Buy mostly here in announcements. There is a lot news about new ICOs and information about old ones. I scroll it, I read it, I research it and analize it. And them I'm making my decision. So I didn't find anything better then this site to search a new ICOs.

I myself is a victim of many scammed ICOs, which I got big signature bounties, most of all turned scams, telegram groups of those ICOs are turned to be without admin and filled with porn videos users, scam links, fake bounties links.

we need to be more careful in this month only because there are lots of options available for us to our investment so I think the investment on ICO not been successful anymore because if we had a lots of Trust while investing but when the days are going through the months then the trustable reducing that's where the problem is creating with the ICO investment.

And what is their promise?

There is a roadmap into which they should follow.
If they not in the right route anymore then you know what it means.

Dont look for promises but instead look for token which will have a real good feature at the end of its campaign.
It is just like voting a senatorial candidate. You must know them deeply first before making a vote that will be for the future of you and the public.

This your write up perfectly illustrated the reality of many ICO projects. They will be super excited during the fund raising and promise heaven and earth but after, the excitement will drastically go down and they will be giving many excuses about the reasons why things are not going as planned, it is an highly pathetic reality that one will not want to experience

Many ICOs are very disappointing as they are not delivering their promises and they are not profitable as they were before.
Only 188$ million was invested in ICOs during the Q1.

The above statement is correct about some coin; their management team only talk and strategize during ICO. After ICO, when the money is in the pocket they go dumb. The greatest they will do is to list on an exchange and they are off while few keep to their words this days.

That's usually happens to an ICO which quite fishy and is undesired by many. I wonder how they get that much people for fundings but that kind of ICO that becomes silent after pocketing all the ICO money usually are not as responsible as other legit ICO.

That's true many projects are so like April fools they are good in the first place but in the end they gone like a ghost. That's why it's really important to find real projects and have good product that will use in crypto. We need to be smart to choose the project that we want to participate.

Such act is already beyond April fool, but a poor scam. There are different levels of scam and investors need to be very careful.
It might not occur and manifest during the token sales, they might list and just sell all they are left with.

Seem's like it is really turned out to be a big April Fools.
We have been fooled for so long and from so many projects.
I think we already have enough stop the big joke we already lost too much.

During the later period in 2018, most ICO projects can be described as an April Fools projects. Investors spent their time and money on projects just to hear that they are scam projects. Some even promise listing in a particular month just to tell investors and bounty hunters that they changed the time to another month. Most ICO projects are April Fools projects..

It applies to the majority of the coins, they've got our money they think they need not update and will just do whatever they want because you cannot ask refunds, so we are left to the decision of the developers and sometimes their decision is to left the group and scam people.

Of course, now the market is quite harsh, even for promising and sought-after projects, but this is not a reason to refer every time to this reason for their failures. Developers should understand the conditions in which they will have to perform their tasks, and, not to spread empty promises in their long-term plans.

It seems this time is just promising and not implementing. Or maybe we are wrong. Behind the scene, the projects are working hard to implement their goals and promises committed during ICO and public sales.
Whatever maybe the case, it is most important for a project to implement its goals and promises in order to win the people and retain in the market. Otherwise, they will be wiped out just like many coins have disappeared from the market for failure to deliver. On our part, we must create pressure as well.

There are no contracts being signed so it largely depends on trust. If you can't trust the team then you shouldn't invest your coins, there is a good chance that you will lose them

Sometimes I feel, ICO needs regulation. At least people will know who is the behind of the project and their address and profession! If they can't reach the soft cap, so they can back investor's money! But those shady ICO project loves to scam people's money by listing on a shit exchange and stop responding! ICO projects are more than April fools joke!

well, there is a general problem among our society... people often tend to speak a lot and do nothing ...
ICO's are the perfect living area for loud-mouths, scammers, general parasites, etc...
I have seen countless ICOs promising a lot and delivering a dump, or just vanishing ...
It is time for people to stop believing blindly and stop feeding this monster.
On the other hand there are good, promising ICOs, and sometimes these don't get their funding because people just look at them like another ICO.
The only way to change things is if people start to do some homework and spotting these fakes at birth (not always possible/easy, but if investigation work is done, chances of scam reduce). People need to stop going blindly in search for the "get rich fast"

I agree with you that's why i have made thread about the ICOs/altcoins must be followed by us, it is my own thread where i have spent my time almost more than one year ago to find great ICO projects, and i have shared it on this forum here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4496788.0 to give information for all of community cryptocurrencies and in my own analysis not all of ICOs projects become an April fools.

it is a stupid investment if you do without a trust in the developer. because the trust of the performance shown by the developer is very important. that was seen in the ico project which really had a good team. they can survive in the market and continue to grow in price.

It is true that before investing, you should see the development as well so that its performance can be monitored and we know its character.
This is very important for us to do so to avoid working like that.

Almost last years on the April many ICO have potential with higher price and hope will be the same with ICO project on this months where could raised to higher price and never lost with IEO project.

I think it would be very bad for an ICO project to become an april fools projects, because in my part of the country, once you are fooled on april 1st then you have no right to do anything because it has been tagged april fools day, this is why I won't invest in any project be it ICO or IEO in april 1st because I am not ready to give my funds to any company that will come out very soon to tell me that I have been fooled and can't get a refund.

There are many abandoned ICO projects, which have been erased on the market list. Projects like this we must avoid will not increase as long as it exist and the ICO project will be overlooked, the dev is only taking advantage.

Such projects should not be involved, now is the trend of the IEO, I think you should join the IEO much better than ICO, your risk will be very low if you do not buy  IEO.

although this is not april fools many ico do that.
but good ico is still there, you just have to be good at choosing it.
and now also trend IEO after binance launch their IEO all market follow it and make their own IEO.
do this will effect to ICO? we dont know, lets see.

april fools mean its a joke , while the ico issue are not a joke but they are real . people suffered alot . too many cash are wasted but despite all of that many people still believes that ico's can make an epic comeback    . first we need to make that happen on cryptos   . if cryptos will return to thier orignal state ( the one that we experienced on the era of 2017 )  im pretty sure that all ico can also become profitable again   .  it just takes patience to get there  ,

we can pay attention to projects that have been running and developing for at least one year. it makes us know that the coin will last and there is a possibility of going up in the future. even though now the price is cheap, the most important thing is that the developer still works.

no there are good ways to monitor them and that is the need to have a third party that will ensure the smooth flow of the ICO projects. Given the time that ICO projects could be extended if the soft cap will.not be reached.

Thus, third party will be either from the government or from the forum itself whkch theymos could use the forum.members to require to regulate a certain project. I do believe that there are many users here would like to volunteer in doing it.

Only a few of the many projects that really lived in earnest. And now there may be only a few projects left, other than that it is scam or useless.
But with the IEO, hopefully this will usually be a way out for many investors

the fundraising period was indeed driven to pursue coin sales target. after the fundraising target is reached. natural they are more silent. and after the fundraising they will work focus on the next process. usually the exchange listing process or project development process. they are not fooling, but indeed that is how it works

The most disappointing ico platforms are project that reached softcap
And end up listing on exchanges  doing very well

But later on dump all supply on investors and elope away
It’s total absurd

These managers should at least inform us, bounty hunters, about the status of the project/s that they managed and don't just ignore us without knowing what happen at all.

For me it became April fools that fooling members because of their unsuccessful outcomes, and by that they wont make their promises, some of the bounty hunters participated in their ico wont receive any rewards even they meet the soft cap, so sad on the part of the bounty hunters and also from the investors.

Chronobank ICO is best example of April Fools , After more than two years No working product only a wallet similar to MEW , they keep talking BLAH BLAH... testing phase after another and so on.... , They talking about mass adoption of their platform without doing any marketing or add their Time token to big exchanges , CEO of project throw a ton of promises none of them come true.....
ICO price was BTC0.01 and now token is traded at BTC0.00044

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/chronobank/
https://blog.chronobank.io/chronobank-ico-raised-5-4-million-usd-90f16e17188

Yes, we all come here to judge some of these developers based on their promises, well, they make their promises based on the plans and what they believe their project could offer, but they need to understand they are dealing with people that can have switch of mind any time, and it’s the way you present yourself that they take you even if they see reality.

We need to understand that many ICO will actually have a drop on price or temporarily loose relevant because of the way investors too treats their project, some investors treats some good project as rubbish and dump the coin on them and we expect to see a high market, it will really take them time for them to work hard to meet up with the Initial ICO price and get past it. So we all have to be patient with these projects so they can function properly.

All ICO just April Fools at least 99%  :).
Look at this ICO: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5116142.0
Zaika  :o
This is real trash, but they have trading exchange  :o.

actually how did that happen? they can be registered in exchange, and are being traded, we can judge the project ico  as feasible or just junk. Is registered in an exchange only need money? and do not need quality from the project?

it seems like that, which has a lot of money that will live even though their projects don't work. because I see many projects that prioritize the development of their projects, in fact, the price of their tokens in exchange doesn't sell because they don't take care of it.

ICO projects have already started to joke to us in April. We started to see that there were many scam projects in bounty campaigns and ICO projects in the early days when the market entered a period of stagnation, but this was not as slow as expected and became widespread in a very short time. That day, the day of the spread of the projects began to joke for us. Moreover, these jokes were not funny, they were making fun of the investor. On the other hand, it should be reminded that new projects do not have a chance to joke.

Yes! some probably, make sure to read the white paper first before joining. the name of the project usualy using weird name. just in case track the ico's on ico tracker or icobench

If the coin dumps after the exchange launch, it is only the fault of team members and not bounty hunters that are dumping this coin. They should have locked tokens or buy them back, but in 99 percent of cases they are just blaming hunters for that.

Yes, you are right they only blaming bounty hunter even if the price is going to 0. I saw some project that was used buyback system for the increasing price. One of them is pundi x NPSX. Nice project ever I have seen. They announced a buyback policy will start instantly the price increased 2x. So for a successful project first need a team which is more active and experienced.


Scam project white paper is more attractive than other ::) ::) ::) Just like this photo:-

https://i.postimg.cc/V6tGw0KF/photo-2018-07-19-15-18-14fff.jpg

Very many ICOs that end with no coin movements. In this case, I also believe that very much ICO is good. For me, before choosing ICO, it is better if we see who the team works for the ICO, with the aim of avoiding losses because the list of coins is silent or there is no movement.

I dont think so, there are still so many project out there who are legit and will be one of the best.
Market is getting better also, that is a good indication of good investments too.
we just need to be patient and more careful.

Yes, many ICO projects from the start were very promising and when the ICO ended they were just silent. The development team no longer looks active and the project is not developed. In April, all ICO projects must be able to rise again because the market price has begun to improve.

I am agreed with this point to you. Some valuable information says that most of the ico during 2017 was scammed. But 2017's markets were good and bullish. And most of the people earned a huge profit despite scam project. That was possible only for bullish market.

So I want to say if market will bullish again then we can earn money by investing ICO even some Airdrops also because Investor and project both become hype during bullish market.

They have been around since, just that everyday they keep getting bigger. That’s why you need to dig deeper into any project and learn everything about them and be sure that they are saying the truth. Scammers makes use of fake profiles. You have to verify that everything they claim is real before you make up your mind to invest in it. Despite all that, there are still lots of good projects out there.

The problem with ICo`s is that many people has great expentance from them even if that specific ICO has no future. Scams have in theyr recepy lies and the infoa laq between the investors.