Right, but there must be at least a few good ones in a sea of scams (semi-scams). Just like during the dot com bubble, there were still Yahoo's and Amazon's of the world that prospered!

I would like to see details about how fast and much do these ICOs dump their ETH. Is this available anywhere? Also, future ICOs need to step up and be more transparent about their use of proceeds. Lock-in periods should be added to their Whitepapers.

Спасибо. Не уверен, что согласен. Если у инвесторов нету возможности участвовать в проекте во время ИКО (но они хотели бы и согласны платить цену ИКО), то скорее всего они согласились бы участвовать в пре-ИКО по цене ИКО, а не со скидкой. Получается, что компания предоставляет этим людям скидки, и "оставляет лишние деньги на столе".

What exactly happens with all the coins that a company raises during an ICO process? Let's say Company X runs an ICO and raises $10M in approx 40,000 ETH coins (or BTC, or Wave). After the ICO closes there's a nice celebration going on at the office - champagne and all that. Now most companies at that stage in the game mostly work on "Grit, Spit, and a Whole Lotta Duct Tape". They now need develop a working prototype (if they don't have it yet), then the actual product, do business development, S&M and all that fun stuff that a "real" company has to deal with. They will have R&D expenses, Marketing expenses, human resource expenses,  ovearhead cost etc. For all that they will need to pay in USD (or EUR if a European company) because the world we live in still in 99% of cases does not accept crypto for payments. At this point they need to start selling all those coins that they raised and reserved for themselves and cash out. I think that's what most will do for a number of reasons:

1) there are no lock-up periods as is the case with VC investment. Company can coins today and sell it all tomorrow with no repercussions
2) as i mentioned above, they need cash to burn
3) most of these companies are NOT in business to trade cryptocurrencies or even make long-term directional crypto bets. Holding onto their ether (or other coins) as an investment is not their business model. Running their business is, however
4) regulatory risks: there has been an increasing amount of calls for the regulators to step in and interfere with the Wild Wild West market of ICOs that's been happening lately. One day one of the regulatory bodies might come in and crush the ICO party. Who know what will happen to the coins then. But nothing will happened to hard cold dollar bills in the bank.

So our company begins to sell and cash out. Some companies have a lot to cash out. Bancor raised $153M worth of ETH. I don't know the exact amount, but I bet a large percentage of these proceeds was earmarked for the development needs of the company. How much of this was already cashed out - I am not sure there a way to find out. And when such cash-outs happen, it puts a LOT of pressure on the "underlying" coin. This could at least partially be the reason for such wild gyrations in ETH rate lately. Investors buy a ton to participate in an ICO and thus create demand. Companies sell the raised ETH after the ICO is over. With the number of ICO's rising exponentially lately, these fluctuations only increase.

Would love to hear feedback from you guys.

То есть это можно интерпретировать как индикатор неуверенности в своих собственных силах?

Мне вот интересно, в чем смысл pre-ICO? С точки зрения компании, зачем распродавать монеты со скидкой, когда все ИКО практически закрываются полностью за часы/несколько дней по полной цене?

Я про Патиентори говорил. С Боухед в этом плане проблем нет. Знаю, ветка немного не та. Сорри

У них с командой большая проблема ИМХО. Какие-то дети руководят. Но стараются вроде. Поживём-увидим. Я вложился.

А что с Патиентори было? То, что они выплату баунти задержали на пару дней что ли?

Я это перевел как "Сферические гели, на основе веган продуктов". Так вроде сильно очень ухо не режет. 

What about Bowhead Health ICO?

I don't know if I like the idea that people would get paid for watching ads. If you are an advertiser, how much value would you put in such interactions (views or clicks) with such ads? I bet, not much. In that sense, to me, these ad interactions wouldn't be too different from the bot traffic.

Do you know if I can use 1 hardware wallet like Trezor for multiple accounts? For instance, if I have an account for myself and another one for my wife, can i set them up separately on one device?