We have resurrected the Duke of Ether game.
This time it is included as a part (an illustration mostly) in the ICO Development Suite.
Nevertheless, the game is fully functional.

ICO Dev. Kit Bounty Campaign

A campaign is officially on.
Note that we run Signature campaign using our own automated tool - Signature Scanner.
You can use it, too.

We accept bug reports from all ranks. Besides, few posts from now you will become a Jr. Member.

Let me put it this way: inventing a loom is a bad things because clothes will get cheaper.
I disagree. Making people's life easier is not a bad thing.

I would suggest ignoring companies that demand KYC. This way we'll support those that do not and (hopefully) make them to stop doing that staff.

The problem with Bitcoin is, it was designed as a treasure chest. And now people want to make it a wallet for coffee coins. They are different things, so development is stuck.

I think that as soon as you create such a resource, the rather dirty battle for ratings will begin. I wouldn't trust those.

We have an auromatic Signature Scanner tool that has a simple dashboard for Bitcoin Signature campaign. We plan on adding more:

https://duke-of-ether.com/ico_manuals_hands_on.htm#signature_scanner

I'd suggest getting a solid investment tutorial: investing in ICOs is no different from any fundamental investments.

Japan and Singapore are most friendly. Also few countries in Europe are ok, but they are known for sudden mind changes.

Keep it. Dumping when market is low is not a sound strategy.

ShareHolder: ICO 2.0

Share Holder contract was created as an ICO 2.0: it is possible to run an ICO using this contract alone: no ERC20, no negotiations with third party Token exchanges... The contract works as a mini bank with shares as cumulative accounts: whatever profit arrives to ShareHolder, is distributed among shares; price of shares increases, accordingly.



Additionally (it means that the feature can be turned off), the contract can be used in a fund rising mode. To better understand this feature, let's consider a "traditional" ICO first. You buy tokens, and ICO owner gets money. Then tokens are traded at a market price (hopefully) covering token holders' initial expences.

Now with shares of a ShareHolder there is no market price: the price at any moment can be calculated as "initial price + profit accumulated" (an owner of a ShareHolder contract can also set a small trading commission).

An intended use of the ShareHolder contract is to attach it to your on-chain business, so that your business automatically sends part of its profits to ShareHolder. It is similar to dividends paid by "real life" companies, you can even write (in your contract) some complex rules to calculate those dividends, instead of just getting N% of a profit.

Now, if you have some group of busines co-owners, and want them to get their share of profit, it will work just fine. However, if you try applying this model to a fund rising event as it is, it will not work: you sell shares to strangers, add YOUR profit to them, and buy shares back at a higher price!

To make ShareHolder work for a fund rusing campaign, we have introduced the following changes to the model (can be turned on or off): People can buy shares at certain "initial price" and sell them back to the contract (it is much more convenient to do via Share Holder Web page) at zero price. It means that initial (crowd sale) money are distributed to a Contract owner.

Then as the business brings some profit, part of it is being sent to ShareHolder to be accumulated in shares; price of shares goes up and (in theory, if business is successful) at some point the accumulated price of a share exceeds its original price.



Note that ShareHolder has the "buy back" flag: if set, then as soon as a share holder sells the share back to the contract, it is being removed from the trading pool (so you don't have to give that profit away anymore).

Share Holder Web UI (You need to be logged into MetaMask)

Signature Scanner

Register on our site, and create an ICO Campaign from your Personal Cabinet.
Enter signatures you want people to wear.

The Signature Scanner runs automatically on a daily basis, looking for new posts with your signatures on Bitcointalk. It counts posts and assigns bonus points to participants of your campaign, according to the weights you set for different ranks of forum members (for example, Sr. Member gets 5 times more points for a qualified post that Jr. Member).

You will get access to statistics, can white/black list participants and more.

ICO Development Kit

Set of tools to automate an ICO Campaign: seeour hands-on tutorial

Contents of a mini-tutorial:

• About.
  Plan of a Campaign.
  Logging into Personal Cabinet.
  Creating ShareHolder Contract.
  Token and Crowd Sale Contracts.
  Creating an ICO Campaign.
  Editing data for Signature Campaign.
  List of Active Campaigns.
  Signature Scanner.
  Approving Campaign Participants.
  Using "Modify Participants Info" Section.
  Using ShareHolder Contract.

ICO Generator is officially on: seeour hands-on tutorial

ICO Generator is officially on

ICO Generator is officially on: seeour hands-on tutorial

Fill an online form to customize the ICO you want to run, and get a ready-to-deploy Solidity script with Token and Crowd Sale contracts.

Suggestions and bug reports are highly appreciated.

I think, one of the reasons for the market to misbehave is the rules changing.
Bitcoin used to be the very best tool for a) payment and b) value accumulation.
Now, if I want to send someone money, I'll choose a coin with smaller commission.
As for accumulation... It consumes too much energy, and there are countries that ban Bitcoin because of that. Already. So... would you invest in it for 100 years?
It is like dinosaurs: they were big and nasty, till small and fast creatures pushed them off the way.

Shouldn't  the contract of ICO do it automatically?
See signature to my post

There is a rule well known in "real" market and mostly ignored in coin market. Ups and downs have the magnitude that makes it as hard to profit as possible. At any particular point.
It means that the only profitable strategy is to buy and hold... if the market goes up. If not, I suggest forgetting about coins altogether, as they immediately turn into second quality securities.

I think it is inevitable. People running ICOs are often less experienced... besides, "real world" companies do similar things... and it is equally annoying.
If the ICO contract is published, by the way, and if it is well written, the ICO will start in time, no mater what. Do you read contracts before investing?