Is it safe to participate in ICO's?

[Usui-Kun]

Participating in ICOs in a way that you are giving your money for an early investment has its own risks of course. You should research first on what you are expecting to get when the ICO is over and how are they planning to return the investments they received throughout their campaign.

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[yhan2x]

Maybe it safe or not, it depends on the user how they participate in any kind of ICO, for me just read and go.

[mobilazy]

For sure it is not safe, especially for ones with unclear marketing position or just copy of copy of bitcoin ones. Choose carefully and do your research. But be prepared to lose your investment, or get smaller gain than just hodl'ing you ETH.

[abvhiael]

i don't what do you mean exactly buy your question but if you mean financially you should be careful with what ico do you intend to invest in.

[skullsandbones]

It's safe if you research well, and watch for scams. The more you spend time in Crypto the more clearer things will seem to you and you will be able to determine which ones are scams are which are not.

[cryptoenterprise]

Ofcourse, once you decide that you have found a successful project with a solid team!

[martin1221]

Not icos are all safe mate, before investing to that coin, make sure it is not a scam so that your money will not turn to nothing. Make your own research before buying that coin in my suggestion.

[TedNarrative]

Do your research.  Read the white paper (most important in my opinion)-- it tells you so much more than the website can. If the white paper makes sense and excites you in any way, then continue your research.

Take a long look at the team - do they have solid/proven experience? 

Do you understand the business model? If not, pass. If so, dig even deeper and ask questions of the team. 

There are a lot of great projects that I have found through ICOs, and a lot that are just totally nonsensical.  If you do your homework though and take your time, you can definitely find winners.  Just remember to only invest what you can afford. Do not bet your house on any one project/ICO.

Best of luck to you!

[Mr Batman]

I think it's safe if we participate in the right ICO (the project is made clear and the team's identity is also clear), if obviously I do not think it's a problem to follow the ICO because it is definitely safe

[SenseiSan]

Yes there are just too many ICo's to begin with. What you would have to do to choose the best ICo is to read the whitepaper and see if the project is worth investing in.  Pick an ICo that is unique, solves a problem, and could deliver profits to you.

[honeyduckgoose]

I don't think there is ever 100% safety when investing into any business, the only thing you can do is to make sure that you are researching heavily into the iCO's you are investing into.

[vv181]

You should have an extra caution when you interested in participating in ICO. There are many shady projects probably could be a scam. You need a lot of analysis and research to be able to make the profit from it. If you still have a few experience about cryptocurrencies scene I recommend you to stay away from ICO. You better invest in safer option like gambling sites bankroll or even trading.

[LuciferEveningStar]

It is safe depending on the ico you are investing your time, Some of the developers today are scammers and also managers are sometimes scamming their participants if the value in the market is very high so you should always check everything before joining the campaign.

[sarahtarczon]

i think it depends on the project we invest because we may meet a scam project that they take our money and take off forever, or they abandont investors and dont scare about the projects, so ico can be very dangerous sometimes, but surely the profit we get if the ICO success can be very huge.

[DMC_Ken]

yes it is safe to participate in ICO's, but it depends to an ICO if this is a good project or a bad project, because sometimes many of it are good to participate so we can get some bitcoin for us, but sometimes many of it are scam's and not a good project to participate, so many people are afraid to participate because of it.

[Freezingel]

Right now there are many ICOs coming out, is it really safe to participate in any of it and spend that much? In participating ICOs I have high hopes that these coins could be the next Bitcoin or other currencies that are really going up in the market.

It is safe to participate in ico but whether the ico you invested into is a good one or not is a different matter. It's easy to join ico, just send ether from myetherwallet and you are good to go but it's hard to participate in ico which give you tokens with good value.

[cryptoadmire]

I think with any investment is it never 100% as you don't know the ongoings in the company.

The most important is to be smart and research a lot. Know what they are trying to and how.

[posi]

It good to participate in ICO but not all ICO are safe because the online theft/scammer are using the ICO level to stole from people and before investing or participate into any ICO you must do your own investigation. However, Graft Credit Card and Payment Processor is a good to go ICO and it will be nice if you guys could invest before they get listed on exchange for a better chance of 5x,10x or more profit.

ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2115188.0

ICO Website link

[maman09]

need research and investigation to see which ico will have a good chance. I think this should be accompanied by all stages, from researching looking at the roadmap. assess team and dev. and most importantly tokens that have the technology and benefits of the future.

[Faruque49]

i think its safe but you know every ico is not good their have many scam ico, many people gain after invest in ico's.  so just research before invest ico.