Stay away from ICO

[TelolettOm]

Nowsaday, I don't think there is any ICO worth to invest anymore. I had so many bad ones lately. Better off purchase them after they released at the exchanges.

Maybe you are less scrupulous in seeing a project ico. if you want to join the investment you have to see whether the project is good or not. in terms of team and update the ico. one more important thing escrow

[xuan87]

ICO is a very risky things to buy, and most of the coins are dead coin and there are a lot of scammer from ICO, i will suggest to really take your time to do research and gather all the information that you can if you want to invest in ICO, if you are not sure then you better not invest in ICO

[btcdevil]

Nowsaday, I don't think there is any ICO worth to invest anymore. I had so many bad ones lately. Better off purchase them after they released at the exchanges.

What you are telling is the best current scenario of not Investing in ICO but better leave the coin finish their ICO and other parts and after they get listed wait for some days and you will see that bounty hunters are dumping their coins that time is the best time to buy the coins from the exchange because as soon as the coin start to pump you can make profit very soon. because nowadays all ICO are very long and even after ICO they are taking time to list in exchange in that mean time if you have bitcoins in your wallet you can do some trading and earn much better then investing in ICO.

[LTU_btc]

I'm started to avoid ICO's because after mostly of investments I only lost my money. I don't invest in ICO's anymore, no matter how coin looks promissing. I don't know why there still so many people who are investing in it. ICO concept is just another way to scam people.

[Ayers]

ico would be good for me if there was a pow phase with it not pure ico which is bad and good only to kill your coin, they don't understand that without a proper slow distribution you can't have a good coin, if you sell all the coin early, these coins will be dumped at 100% this is certain like the sun

[rytyr]

You can not just go after your experiences. Maybe you've just put on bad ICOs.
There are good examples of ICOs in which the participants have made great gains, for example Ethereum, NEM and Nxt.
IOTA is not yet listed on exchanges, but the news point in the direction that the ICO will also be worthwhile for the participants.
You have to inform yourself well in advance about the project.
Surely there are also many bad ICOs and even scams.

[passwordnow]

I've been attracted to ICO's especially when their marketing is very attractive. Mostly if they are everywhere in the forum, if you can see their advertisement you get curious with it. And it really depends on how yourself will look into it but if you know their road map, then just don't invest it or else you are investing to a dead coin.

[nillohit]

I personally hate all ICO, IPO. Those all are scams

[cryptonikus]

some ICOs can change your life. NXT, IOTA, NEM, LISK created great profits for investors, you just need to exit in right time, that is second hardest thing after choosing right ICO.

[robelneo]

Nowsaday, I don't think there is any ICO worth to invest anymore. I had so many bad ones lately. Better off purchase them after they released at the exchanges.

Yes it is a good idea,some icos do not land on exchange with a much higher price then their ico price,almost 90% of these ico coins,it's a good idea to really wait for the coin to arrive on exchanges so you can be sure if the coin has demand in the market or just a shitcoin,ico's coin when they hit the market are being flooded by dumpers,from miners and bounty hunters.

[Chris001]

There are very few good ICOs.

I have made money off them, a ton off a few. No escrow is the key dead giveaway of shit, and escrow terms, too. If they are not too loose, and you figure what standing it will have in our current environment, as long as they are forced to do what you are using as postitive data in your analysis, you can see the money. Literally. Thousands of percent profit. But rare.

When you see these ICOs, think about what everyone buying is going to do. Is the information you have problably the best its going to get? Then, most likely everyone has the same plan; sell right away. Which means it won't be going up.

Do they have a great idea? And plan to pull off an even better idea, and people believe in it long term? Then the ICO price is a deal. But this happens 2 times a year if that.

Sure, some go up. But PnDs dont count, you cant predict those unless youre in the know

[SONG GEET]

Nowsaday, I don't think there is any ICO worth to invest anymore.

I am thinking about investing in Qtum, ICO will be started from march. I have invested In KMD but they are still under ICO price because they haven't got listed in polo, so you can buy some cheap KMD from other exchanger and hold till it get listed in polo.

[iamnotback]

Wetrust: investment min: 1000 BTC, max: 6000 BTC

Edgeless: min: 50000 ETH(555 BTC), max: 440000 ETH(4884 BTC) current ETH price=0.0111 btc on poloniex.

Edgeless has lower threshold, and not large max like Wetrust. Lower market cap projects will be more profitbale, so IMO Edgeless will be better.

If Edgeless drops that to 2500 BTC, they will win this competition easily and reach their maximum easily. If they leave it so high, they may end up like Ark.io and only get 1000 BTC or less (and possibly be underfunded leading to failure). But I don't know for sure because there are a lot of speculators who are not calm, cool, level-headed, and who are easily swayed to swing the bat at lower odds of success.

Too much money upfront can be an incentive to never finish the project.

Both have a maximum that is way too high:

And what happens when the escrow people have different judgement than some or many of the ICO investors?

Discord? "Oh well"? Suckers!

And what happens when the escrow bean counters are not visionaries and screw up the developers who want to remain fleet footed and flexible?

There is no governance that solves the problem of giving developers $5 million and then expecting them to meet some pie-in-the-sky promises. Much better don't give a lot of money for promises. The developers need $300,000 for 12 months with 3 developers, then okay. Or you've got industry savant s/w engineers so they need $500k for a year of development, then maybe okay. But $5 million?!?

I developed CoolPage (a million user product) in my Nipa Hut in the Philippines while eating rice and salt. Nobody gave me a damn penny. Then I released and earned up to $100,000 a month (inflation adjusted).

Work before pay. Money down only before panty down (because men lose interest after they cum).

[fortunecrypto]

With the current situation I can say that it is a wise decision to wait for it on exchange,there's no guaranty that they are going to sell high in their ico price,some of them are selling at 50% or much lower than their ico price,exchanges are a good indication if the coin is really a strong coin to hold.

[Undermood]

With the current situation I can say that it is a wise decision to wait for it on exchange,there's no guaranty that they are going to sell high in their ico price,some of them are selling at 50% or much lower than their ico price,exchanges are a good indication if the coin is really a strong coin to hold.

ICO coins should be hit on the famous exchanges, like poloniex, bittrex etc, which prove the legitimacy of them at some extent. Because they scrutinizes the coins with strict rules before listing them.

[Bitcoin-2018]

I personal invested in many of ICOs. For me is more for a long term investments make more sense to get them on the exchanges.  There are so many bounties dumpers and PnD for quick profits.

[btvGainer]

Nowsaday, I don't think there is any ICO worth to invest anymore. I had so many bad ones lately. Better off purchase them after they released at the exchanges.

Not sure about currently running ICO but next month there is few good one like WeTrust, TaaS etc coming up.
Taking part in ico is a risk.Sometimes you win and make 4x or 10x profit and sometimes you lose.

[iamnotback]

Not sure about currently running ICO but next month there is few good one like WeTrust, TaaS etc coming up.
Taking part in ico is a risk.Sometimes you win and make 4x or 10x profit and sometimes you lose.

Bitcoin is blasting off, and you are going to be stuck holding an illiquid asset while you watch Bitcoin go up 2X.

Doesn't seem like a good time to be taking that risk, unless it is a "sure thing"^TM.

If the maximum raised was limited to $1 or $2 million, I'd be more positive. But $6 million maximum looks like the devs just want to cash out and go play on a Yacht with your Bitcoin.

[SHAWN-MIDWAYS]

All ICOs` present their own risks depending on how well their project plan has been drawn, staying away from them might save you from losing money or can be a missed opportunity to get a good pay cheque in the long run. Sometimes ICOs can be seen as a platform to make devs with selfish intentions to be rich. We could as well stay away to avoid such.

[andron8383]

I think that you have to think twice befoe investing into them.
All situation looks like those premined coins festival.
End of all projects can be same they run away with money and deliver shit.
But from time to time you will find good project to invest in.
No all investments or ICO are bound to success in decentralized economy.
Drugs / hazard / mining / trading / computing power / digital services acros borders at those projects i would say they have chance.
But there is a lot more that looks like pure scam.
1st i am remember URO coin for farmes.
Why people will swith to decentralized economy while they hav GOOD project and working stuff in real.
Is hard to beat REAL asset world with magic internet money.

But not all ICO are bad investment so far many are one + when you invest into it like with gambling.
They longer play goes the harder will be pick right one.
Scams will grow on back valid one for sure.
So if you have missed train try find new one.