Well if regulated in a good way, it could be better than the way it's currently is because someone hiding under bed can now easily launch an ICO within a few seconds or so. By good regulations, I meant to say if done in a way where ONLY promising ideas would be able to launch ICOs and prove the success of their proceeds post their ICOs.

Right, some bonuses are good and so as some comes with red flags

2020!!!! Seriously?

It's 2017 and the ICO hate has started. How?

Search for a few ICO AA Threads and you'd realize that no single relies are about the ICOs but people seem to be lobbying for bounties.

Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classis, Litecoin King, Dash Queen, whatever duplicate names they give themselves have NO FUTURE. They're just trading robots with no concepts behind them. They're just replica of the BIG names in the market.

SURE they are and also killing other great concepts that are in their early stage. I recently read a comment on LinkedIn saying that ... a few ICO guys recently spent and re-invested their proceeds in other funds and traditional commodities. With also heard some fled to China, and bla bla bla. This shitty would continue and it's killing other good projects with great potentials.

Then Ethereum
Now Ethereum Classic

Then Bitcoin
Now Bitcoin Cash

Then Waves
Now Waves Cash

Then Next?
Now Later!

...is to invest between 5% to 10% of your annual or monthly income in a token that you've seen not only their whitepaper and ANN, but also their business plan and pitch deck with easy to understand business model that could be achievable.

If you had invested heavily in Bitcoin then, the project might not be as successful as it is today. And would you kindly be honest if you saw a great potential in Bitcoin during this period of $5? Could you please tell us if you were among the folks who claimed Bitcoin was SCAM then. I regret is only what we're hearing from people but they never told us how they view these tokens years back. Sad!

Probably your own ICO, lol as everyone is launching an ICO or 2 these days.

So the answer to your question is... look for the ones with these 3 principles:

1. Business Model

They should tell you how they gonna make money and not about raising and bragging about how many millions they were able to raise during their ICOs.


2. Competitive Analysis

They should tell you what market they're heading into, why that market, what are the potential of success, who are the key players and how they gonna penetrate such market.


3. Problems & Solutions

They shouldn't just tell you... this is a decentralized chicken and the first blockchain egg in the world concept.

They should be clear on what core problems they're coming to solve and how tha heck they gonna tackle those problems with their services.

1. Business Model
2. Competitive Advantage
3. Problems and Solutions

I was gonna say it would soar like Ethereum but can't say that now because:

1. Ethereum has taken the competitive advantage;
2. If Waves is second next to Ethereum;
3. The competition would be very tight in 2018 as stuff like EOS, IOTA, etc have all been noticed by crypo enthusiasts
... so things might be a bit hard for Waves and this probably why they seem to focus more on the Russian market than other countries.

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Even if THE DUDE is my HOMIE, I wouldn't buy into his token idea, though

In fact, almost every token will see now would be drowning in hurricane harvey by the end of the year 2018

Make sure you have a well written business plan alongside a pitch deck that will define your business and revenue model. Most whitepapers I've seen only detail on the technical side and ICOs of the projects. And it's so unfortunate that most ICO investors don't care about what the company business model is, they wanna start trading their token and watching 10x or 100x. Period.

Well they haven't but they might, not may I briefly read the post today via LinkedIn and what I understood was that if the proposed regulatory strategy doesn't work and if ICOs continue to be a kinda threat to the country or its economy, then a step to ban all ICOs might be plausible. But how will this banning thang work? That I have no freaking idea

This would probably depend on which platform the token is being created and launched on.

I'd say definitely yes but only with one doubt which is the immaturity of the solidity language which is kinda prone to attack as we've recently witnessed a few and even from Ethereum themselves. Terrible! But still have no idea if apps using the clone version of the Bitcoin code have ever been hacked or attacked before or something. I'm not sure, though

Well, personally, If would wanna throw up an answer to this question, I'd probably ... diving into the ICO use cases, business model and competitive advantages are because most ICOs these days do not even have business plans or pitch deck. They see the millions they're raising as a sort of business model which is not good for other early stage startup struggling to penetrate their respective target markets.

This is really a very question because an unpopular asset with a great potential might be filled with the word "SCAM" during their very early stages and that could make people back off from such asset until they hit it BIG and people would then be saying .... OMG! "Had I known..."

If Waves implements own smart contract, how which programming language that'd be built on? Just curious because I am not really a BIG fan of the Ethereum solidity as we've seen a few hacks recently.