Investing in ICO, still promising?

[ivrynx]

Yes iinvesting in altcoins still is promising, if you look at how cryptocurrency works, you will surrely invest on altcoins, we just need to be more technical in this case, we should keep in mind the fundamentals and technical aspects of investing. When investing in altcoins, what i do is to first check the background of ge ICO,  the founders and what business are they in, for me, if they can handle a business then they can also handle ICOs, then i also check the people around the ICO, and if the coin is being hyped i think twice before investing on it, but if i see a good performance and no hype at all, i'll invest though it seems to be at a very low price or going down, since i've check on the creators and founder of the ICO, i am quite confident that, that ICO will rise in the future.

[coin_coin]

I am a person that gains profit from investing in ICOs but now I'm having second thoughts. I know some ICOs are potential scam so I am really picky to where I put my money.
Anyway, considering with what happened to Ethereum price and with the nearing Aigist 1, do you guys think that it will still be profitable to invest on ICOs mostly on ERC20 tokens and those accepting btc payments?

Yes ,some icos are still promising, you should spend a lot of time to find it out among a lot of icos, that's a difficult task.
Most of the icos are not promising , that's why China has banned the icos.

[Revelations86]

investing in ICOs is getting riskier day by day just because many projects are trying collect funds based on what they think they will become in the future, but not what they are. i think 0x was the ico so far in terms of how they managed the token sale process.

Thats true. There are cool ones out there though. Look at dragonchain,

https://dragonchain.com/

The market price of the token is determined by the total amount raised. Basically they will divide the total amount raised by the amount of tokens and divvy them out accordingly. There are no earlybird sales, no discount codes, and no reason for whales to buy in early and dump when it hits exchanges because the price they buy in for is the price it will hit the exchanges at, so the price of the coin should remain pretty stable right off the bat. Pretty genius if you ask me.

Not really genius mate.   They are giving themselves 50% of the coins.   "Team" "Reserve" "Foundation" "Dragonfund" is just a clever way to refer to themselves.  Greedy!

[Jiyens3]

I am a person that gains profit from investing in ICOs but now I'm having second thoughts. I know some ICOs are potential scam so I am really picky to where I put my money.
Anyway, considering with what happened to Ethereum price and with the nearing Aigist 1, do you guys think that it will still be profitable to invest on ICOs mostly on ERC20 tokens and those accepting btc payments?

If the project is good then you can still invest, no problem, the only issue is that you may not get as many tokens as you thought as altcoins have being doing badly in the market in the past few days, if you are not sure about what to do the best thing is to not do a thing and wait for the time when things get a little bit more calm and we leave behind all of this instability caused by bitcoin activation of segwit.

yeah no all ico scam and not profitable or dumped in the marke,..invest in good ico you can see in design their website and the professional team then fund raises and the project is overall good its good ico and see what project/ico about? if it good like monaco so good in market

[adsdas]

investing in ICOs is getting riskier day by day just because many projects are trying collect funds based on what they think they will become in the future, but not what they are. i think 0x was the ico so far in terms of how they managed the token sale process.

Thats true. There are cool ones out there though. Look at dragonchain,

https://dragonchain.com/

The market price of the token is determined by the total amount raised. Basically they will divide the total amount raised by the amount of tokens and divvy them out accordingly. There are no earlybird sales, no discount codes, and no reason for whales to buy in early and dump when it hits exchanges because the price they buy in for is the price it will hit the exchanges at, so the price of the coin should remain pretty stable right off the bat. Pretty genius if you ask me.

Not really genius mate.   They are giving themselves 50% of the coins.   "Team" "Reserve" "Foundation" "Dragonfund" is just a clever way to refer to themselves.  Greedy!

I never invest on project with 50% fund for their self. 30% is max for me. under 5% for marketing.

[Hamphser]

investing in ICOs is getting riskier day by day just because many projects are trying collect funds based on what they think they will become in the future, but not what they are. i think 0x was the ico so far in terms of how they managed the token sale process.

Thats true. There are cool ones out there though. Look at dragonchain,

https://dragonchain.com/

The market price of the token is determined by the total amount raised. Basically they will divide the total amount raised by the amount of tokens and divvy them out accordingly. There are no earlybird sales, no discount codes, and no reason for whales to buy in early and dump when it hits exchanges because the price they buy in for is the price it will hit the exchanges at, so the price of the coin should remain pretty stable right off the bat. Pretty genius if you ask me.

Not really genius mate.   They are giving themselves 50% of the coins.   "Team" "Reserve" "Foundation" "Dragonfund" is just a clever way to refer to themselves.  Greedy!

I never invest on project with 50% fund for their self. 30% is max for me. under 5% for marketing.

50% is too much and same as yours i dont really like to join those kind of projects because they are just securing their own money out of those crowdfunding of the project. 5% for marketing is just enough. Gladly there are people who do always look out on the partitions on where those funds being allocated too and giving half of the funds to them would really be a big flag for me. 25-35% is already sufficient which is not too small and which is not too big.Investing on ICO nowadays is still profitable as long you did hit on the right project but if not then its a loss of money for sure.

[reymarkperry]

these too many ICO. most of them are scam or doesn't have future. Maybe we will need a platform to control it

[3months18w]

Too many icos , am now recommend you to check at  CARTAXI https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2113124.0 and Cindicator https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2062875.0

They are promising in my opinion.

[iamsolarpowered]

I am a person that gains profit from investing in ICOs but now I'm having second thoughts. I know some ICOs are potential scam so I am really picky to where I put my money.
Anyway, considering with what happened to Ethereum price and with the nearing Aigist 1, do you guys think that it will still be profitable to invest on ICOs mostly on ERC20 tokens and those accepting btc payments?

Not all of them, but there are always promising ICOs around.

[davidroux]

still promise but need more carefully. ICO world had changed. many scammer/ 1 thread

[mozillaspez]

some ICO maybe is scam. Be careful if u want to invest in ICO. Dont be tempted if price offered is high. Its can be is the way to deceive us.

There are many ico which is scam we cannot trust easily an ico we should think then invest because if we go for the right ico then we will get many opportunity in a future if we go for wrong ico then we have wasted our money and waste our time.

[Kibit]

Lots of scam, but also very useful projects. For me Anryze is the most promising. They've almost raised soft cap!

[Arkann]

I would say that investing in ICO is still promising. It will be especially good after China cleans them. Perhaps, other countries will follow China, since the issue of security conducted by ICO for investors is raised and this will definitely lead to a positive result. ICO is not so useless as many here describe. Some coins created in the process of their holding are really extremely useful, others are not. This is a market.

[ASHLIUSZ]

I would say that investing in ICO is still promising. It will be especially good after China cleans them. Perhaps, other countries will follow China, since the issue of security conducted by ICO for investors is raised and this will definitely lead to a positive result. ICO is not so useless as many here describe. Some coins created in the process of their holding are really extremely useful, others are not. This is a market.

Yes, investing into bitcoin is truly promising. Maybe the ICO ban and proofless issues generated a price decline, but the successful projects have a good value based on number of investors associated with it as well based on the uniqueness it has got in terms of technology and the objective behind it.

[danherbias07]

Lots of scam, but also very useful projects. For me Anryze is the most promising. They've almost raised soft cap!

It willl be better if it is the hardcap they can reach. It shows how good the service of the coin will be by its project.
But I dont say it aint good, some of the token just reach ssoft cap at pre sale then booming at the ICO which almost depletes the token from all the sale.
I think it is also the support from the advertisers which makes a big impact. ICO's are still good even if there have been a lot of bad news.

[Barbarian]

we don't need to think that all ICOs are scams... There are many really good teams now who are trying to launch a new coin but they are also trying to make a wide and strong community and have some really demanding technologies behind this.   

Not all icos are scam but a good number are, they make promises about a project and people give to them millions of dollars and then after some time they just disappear with all the money they got from their investors and after sometime they come back to the forum to try to scam members once again.

[oneyesoneno]

Investing in an ICO may seem like an exciting way to be a part of the virtual currency and blockchain startup markets, but use caution when you consider these investments. New technologies and topics that are the subject of media buzz are often used by fraudsters as an opportunity to dupe investors. To stay on guard and avoid becoming drawn into a scam, look for the warning signs of investment fraud. For example, be suspect of anyone who makes guarantees that an investment will perform a certain way or makes pushy sales pitches that encourage you to “act now” or miss out

[tehuantepecer]

I think ICOs have given retail investors the chance to stand in a friends/family/angel/VC's shoes; able to invest in pre-idea/idea/product stage of a start up. I strongly urge all of you participating in an ICO to think like an angel/VC, the startup may be a good idea, may already have a product, but is the market or traction substantial enough to warrant an investment from you?

[jasong]

I think if the team is solid, the product is something I can see and it is obviously more than just an idea, then it is worth seriously considering.

[steveouttrim]

If supply is fixed, and demand is increasing, then economic theory suggests the price should increase.

It is a principle of complex systems, embedded in a mathematically certain operation. It is like that economic laws would apply on the blockchain, and so far they seem to be.