The OP's post is long but his words of wisdom lies on the last sentence:

I thinks he's right. When IEO tokens get listed, their prices are pumped high by investor's hype and exchanges' people. And as a saying that I heard somwhere, goes: "Don't chase a running train", it's super risky to buy tokens when it's pumping.

But like you said, you can buy at listing time, as long as you get profit. High risk - high return, right?

High ranked members are too busy establishing for themself "high-quality" standards while they usually use merit as an alternative of "Like" button on Facebook.





See, do you find any "quality" on those posts? (I'm not a Quickseller's fan or alt)

Merit system made the forum better, a lot of people and I agree with that. But it also makes people less generous and become double standards.

Buying IEO is a tricky puzzle. Obviously, there's intervention of exchanges on this to cause hype. Talking about Bittrex, they did this so beautifully. VeriBlock tokens sold out in a couple seconds (I couldn't buy either). A lot of my friends were able to buy, though, using some kind of tool or script. But Bittrex can't make VeriBlock's price fly high.

Totally right but are you too naive saying this? Financial games are for 5% of population only. As long as crypto currency exists, ICO/IEO or some other forms of them exist. At least for now, IEO is a better choice than ICO.

When BTC pumps, it's inevitable that ALT/BTC dumps. If BTC sideways in a few days ahead, ALT/BTC will recover. The only regret is that BTC pumped so out of the blue that I couldn't out my alts to BTC. Luckily I had a bit spare BTC to buy when ALT/BTC dipped.

According to my experience, when a coin/token pumps, it's hard or gonna take a long time to pump again. BNB trippled this year, so it's time to forget it and move your eyes to another coin. HT, OKB and KCS, exchange coins of Huobi, OKEx and Kucoin in that order are top 3 that's worth mentioning. In conclusion, for long term, I would choose BNB but in short and mid term, I would choose Huobi.

I created this account for quite a long time but I only focus on it for a couple of weeks til now. I agree with OP that new members should spend more time reading forum post to get knowledge and I'm currently doing so. To some point, when knowledge is enough, one can create topic to share his opinion about a problem. I personally set a goal of 3 months. After 3 months from now, I'll start making posts to contribute to the forum.

Post with no lower than 100 characters is the only do-able method bounty managers can think of to reduce spam. Very rare managers are aware of quality or they are but not being able to control (too time-consuming to check). Those tools that you mentioned in you topic are useful but trust me, in normal bounty campaigns, to find a real quality post is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Some campaigns (Chip Mixer, Fortuna Jack..) are for high quality posters but their rules are strict and payings are very worthy.

I totally agree with OP's idea that IEO is safer than ICO. To IEO investors, they are exonerated from the fear that their tokens will not be listed on any exchanges. To project development team, they have the money to continue the project. And to exchanges, they obviously get a part of fund raised from IEOs. This way, all parties are benefited from IEO.

#JOIN & #Proof of authentication
"Name" of Bounty Campaign: Signature
Bitcointalk username: Simple_Plan
Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1764592
Telegram username: @PegasusNov

Yeah, a lot of new Copper Member badges.

Hey, what if Theymos knew this thought of you and deliberately turned off the posting feature of newbies?

LOL. In some countries, a lunch only costs you $1.

I don't think he's an investor, he's gambler. An investor knows how much he should invest rather than borrow to gambling. Anw, this guy was unfortunate to buy bitcoin at its ATH.

There goes a saying that: "Investing is not for all. Only 5% investors win". Obviously, he's among the rest 95%.

From the above image, I don't see any light of ETH yet. Along with the fall of bitcoin, ICOs trend dooms. That's why ETH can't maintain its value. There are some rumors that ETH will move to PoS. If this comes true, ETH will plunge to hell since there's no more pump for selling miners. EOS or NEO is not the reason. Those coins have no decent value yet.

There's no coins more suitable for long-term than bitcoin, especially at this moment when the down trend is still prevailing. Follow BTC are XMR or ZEC, those mineable coins. I don't highly evaluate ETH for its centralization. Forget about those hype coins like NEO, ADA, EOS or ICX. They're have only colorful whitepapers.

I think it's following the trend "Fall out" of Tom Cruise, lol. Volatile! It's the only reason I can think of right now. Bitcoin dumped because of ETF approval's delay. I can't imagine how it'll be like if SEC approve all these 9 ETFs next month.
https://www.coindesk.com/the-sec-will-decide-on-9-bitcoin-etfs-in-the-next-2-months/

The problem is not quantity, it's quality. You can participate in 10 or even more bounties but you maybe be empty handed if they're scams. Dig some researches to see the dev & advisor teams, whitepaper and bounty allocation of each ICO before joining. Pay attention to bounty manager also. You can find a well-trusted bounty manager in the following topics:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4528038.0 or https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412712.0

It took me 5 minutes of reading before getting to your sounds-right point. I don't think we can decentralize bitcoin's price in a few words. Even in trillion dollar-worth markets such as stock or gold market, organizations still can use money to manipulate stock's price or gold's price. If cryptocurrency's market cap reaches the same level, I think bitcoin's price maybe less manipulated somehow.

After all, it's just a pump & dump game. When you loose all your faith, market will recover. If you're trading, then trade BTC/USDT pair. If you're holding, close your computer and go chill out somewhere. Investing is not the game for impatient people.

No one can predict the market. It may red for a while but turn green right on the next day. It may bear run all the year 2018 but bull run in 2019. Increase your USDT for safe or accumulate BTC and wait to see the moon.

Every project call themselves "Blockchain 3.0" or "Blockchain 4.0" is trash. It's just a marketing term to draw attention. Only BTC and ETH are genuine and applicable blockchains.

Until now, ICOs keep using ERC 20 compliant tokens rather than any other platforms. So I dare say those Blockchain 3.0 and Blockchain 4.0 won't become popular in near future.

LOL, what does Cardano have except a whitepaper? Only ETH is genuine but unfortunately it's centralized.

Here's a kind of life circle of a project: Colorful whitepaper + roadmap --> ICO --> listing --> good news, partnership --> test net --> mainnet --> abandoned.