50% ROI was from the previous investor program.

The projected dividend, if true, would give about 100% dividend yield if you had bought at the ICO price, but lower now since the token price had doubled after ICO.

Filecoin is based in Silicon Valley, and that's the largest ICO to date. Y Combinator is also building something to allow people to invest in its startups through the blockchain. That's some pretty big projects coming out of SV.

Smaller projects may also be able to raise money through accredited investors rather than from the public, so we may not hear of them. Additionally, legislation is a limiting factor, especially for any existing companies that may otherwise consider a token sale, but would rather not risk being on the wrong side of the law.

Mind if I ask, why is time not on their side?? That doesn't sound good, what causes delay?

Ok, but I think this hard fork is to prepare for POS? I'm trying to find more information on it, and I think this article is helpful: https://btcmanager.com/byzantine-first-part-of-ethereums-planned-hard-fork-activates-oct-17/

so it looks like this hardfork will reduce block rewards and lay the way for eventual POS, which I think is coming pretty soon anyway, so it seems like there will be another chain split soon??

The GPUs can be re-purposed to mine for other coins IMHO. I have one GPU which I think I'll just re-purpose.

I put in three ethers, may consider putting in more. Would you mind explaining how electroneum achieves zero transaction fees? Also how long do you expect confirmation time for a transaction to be?

Has anyone ever heard of blockchains at berkeley? Not an ICO, but they do lots of great blockchain projects, consults for companies, and offers classes and lots of great events.

Common sense and judgement. It's a part of the game, so to speak, that you don't have complete information on what is going on behind every ICO, and you have to use your best judgement to find which ones have real potential, which ones don't have a lot of potential, and which ones are outright frauds.

There's a few simple rules of thumb though -- first of all if the team is willing to speak publicly, reveal their names and give interviews, it's harder for them to run away with the funds afterwards since people now know who they are - so knowing who the team is is important. second, I like to find projects that has been around for at least a few years -- it takes time to develop something entirely new and they must have been trying this in some form or iteration for at least a few years, and didn't just come up with an idea now because ICOs are an easy way to raise money. -- in fact I like to invest in existing companies -- for example I thought the BitDice ICO was great because bitdice casino has been around for years with a proven business model that is profitable. Another example is Enjin, which is also an existing, established company. Another is electroneum.

what happens as a result of the hard fork? will there be a chain split? Does PoS happen after Oct 17 or is that just the first phase?

thanks! looks like a pretty legit site after all. How do I "follow" it? I knew that maybe I just had to wait...

Do you have any idea *when* they will open an exchange??

Got the coins, thank you! Very neat app, will try to play around with it a little bit. Do you have a white paper or other resources?

It is pushed to Oct 17 - https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-byzantium-upgrade-postponed-october-17/

I feel that NEO has been extremely professional throughout the changes going on in China -- they just continue operating as usual, going on speaking events elsewhere, unfazed by all the turmoil. Quite impressed!

Is there a way to keep track of upcoming airdrops?

You can also try Kraken, you can exchange between ETH and BTC directly there.

Very interested in the coin and reading up more on it. One question:

If this coin can be mined with CPU, is there a risk that hackers would be incentivized to take over computers of unsuspecting people to mine electroneum?

Where on the forum can we sign up for this?

I see an electroneum app on google play -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.electroneum.app&hl=en

Is this the beta app?? It looks like it's by electroneum. I haven't found a similar iOS app.

The PBOC is also rumored to start its own blockchain technology. You can google translate this article, for example - http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wcVfiIk6XoehT2ypTMNOdg

A government backed cryptocurrency would have the credit of the government behind it, which would set it apart from other cyptocurrencies. Also, if one country issues its own government-backed crypto, other countries may follow suit.

Yes it's a good idea to restrict to top volume coins only. 

I don't know I'm still holding out for some hope    The ICO for neverdie apparently only ended on August 30th, so it's quite recent. It's possible that the tokens are just not released yet. They also have a working website called neverdie.io

Although it's true that I never intended to buy this coin if it weren't for my script... 

If you have some CNY you can try the Chinese OTC app Coin Cola -- you can buy bitcoins at basically the global market price, but it's equivalent to a ~20% mark up from the Chinese price.