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January 28, 2018, 02:25:15 PM
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Of course , it is possible . But why you considering this option ? ICO is a good opportunity to collect funds for a further development and spead tokens in masses , which is needed to popularize your project and make it more valuable.
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January 28, 2018, 02:47:27 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
Emmm anyway at first i will asking you is the capital you should prepare to build this new altcoin. Are you have any resources and funding? . If you don't wanna start an ico how could you promote your coin? Are you sure could convince people with your alt?

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January 28, 2018, 02:52:20 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
There is no such term as normal in launching a new coin. It's totally your decision what kind of building process of a coin to choose and all of them would be normal.
If you have enough funds for your coin development, for adding it on exchanges, for marketing, advertising and so on (probably significant amounts), if your coin have significant advantages over competitors and have a growing community already, you probably don't need any ICO.
But if you have only idea or some basic functionality, ICO can become a great tool to get a huge leap on the start of your coin's life. ICO is a great combination of funds rasing, marketing, advertising and a way of community engaging at the same time.
The more interesting is that even for the already popular coins ICO can give all the same profits as for the new ones but in a times higher values and in a very short period of time. What is have to be done for years to develop a coin in a usual way, ICO can help to do in a few month. If summarize I'd say that ICO is not a "must" but rather "definitely should consider about" feature for building a new coin.

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January 28, 2018, 02:56:00 PM
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I don't remember hearing bitcoin having an ICO so it is possible. Though remember in bitcoin's case there were no cryptos back then. If you have the funds then you might manage to distribute it for free but it's preferable that you have investors so you are not taking all the risk by yourself. Aside from having a fund, people tend to value what they spent resource on so free is not always a good option.

What project would this token be related to?
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January 28, 2018, 02:58:49 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
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January 28, 2018, 03:02:43 PM
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ICO support the development of coins.ICO is very good for fund raising,marketing,advertising and way of community engagement at the same time.
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January 28, 2018, 03:03:27 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
It IS normal to start up an altcoin without ICO. There were plenty of examples for you to see how many coins become a success, without ICO of course.
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January 28, 2018, 03:18:46 PM
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Yes it is possible as long as you're building a project that is unique or innovative one that can be helpful to the crypto world but you should have enough money to privately fund your company. And if you have good developers, designers and marketing manager on board that's not a problem. You can give away your tokens in the form of airdrops so that it can be circulated on the exchanger and also offer bounties.
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Hey, so this is purely my own opinion, everyone else please don't get mad about it (a lot of people around here are investing in ICOs these days)!

So.. to answer your question shortly, yes. It's very normal, and in my opinion, it is the best thing you can do. Why?

I have all respect for LEGIT and LEGAL ICOs, but it honestly sounds like the second version of Pre-Mined cryptocurrencies. I do not even consider ICOs cryptocurrencies, because... well, most of them are non-minable, and as soon as one entity sells something to you, to me it looks like a bank money printing operation. I am not very sure how long these ICOs will remain around, considering the fact that many of them are illegally earning a LOT of money.

Pre-mined coins were currencies released with a .. say 50% total supply already mined by the developer before releasing it to the public. They were usually hiding this so that we could buy their coin, get the price up and then they would earn a fortune off it. This worked until people found out how they scammed us, but now we have ICOs. ICOs are pre-mined tokens that are then sold to the public. It's basically the pre-mine scam disguised.

Why would ICOs NOT survive? First of all, ask yourself how will we ever get to use SO MANY cryptocurrencies. We have tokens for restaurants, tokens for logistics, tokens for shopping, tokens for exchanges, tokens for... BANANAS (I'm not sure if that one was real or just a troll, but still), can you imagine a scenario in which you'd have to pay 1FOOD (FoodCoin) to buy a burger, one hour later a package will arrive and you'd have to pay 1UPS (UPSCoin) and so on? I can't. Only one currency will be used the most, like Bitcoin was until a few years ago. Then we have the illegal fundings, devs earn millions overnight. I can create my own ICO and sell it, take the money and go away.

I would advise you to let it free to the public. To let the people using your coin mine it, and do whatever they want. Don't follow this nonsense stuff. Again, just my personal opinion.
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January 28, 2018, 03:28:38 PM
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You guys wouldn't be the only ones. Polymath did a private sale and then skipped the ICO for an airdrop. Gained them lots of exposure. https://polymath.network/
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January 28, 2018, 03:30:59 PM
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You guys wouldn't be the only ones. Polymath did a private sale and then skipped the ICO for an airdrop. Gained them lots of exposure. https://polymath.network/
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January 28, 2018, 03:33:33 PM
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perhaps social media is a big help i think such as twitter and facebook or telegram instead.  But need thousands followers cuase followers is the must when it comes to Selling tokens and must have a good testimonials and trusted dev to convince more client to contribute in your project.  
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January 28, 2018, 03:37:21 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
Yes, it is, that will give you a lot of attention from the investors after you have done with your project without any interest to raise a lot of money. You can see byteball, raiblock project. Both weren't doing any ico.
And the developer is only focusing on developing the future platform but I byteball can become an excellent example.
But I heard egyptian is banning crypto and what's your thought about that?



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January 28, 2018, 03:42:46 PM
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It's totally possible not to have an ICO. I think the main reason to have one would be so that the coin owner can raise money to develop the coin further. It provides a much needed capital boost to new coins.
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January 28, 2018, 03:49:10 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
Yes, it is, that will give you a lot of attention from the investors after you have done with your project without any interest to raise a lot of money. You can see byteball, raiblock project. Both weren't doing any ico.
And the developer is only focusing on developing the future platform but I byteball can become an excellent example.
But I heard egyptian is banning crypto and what's your thought about that?
Yes it's banned here in Egypt but we are getting in touch with the goverment to settle it down
perhaps social media is a big help i think such as twitter and facebook or telegram instead.  But need thousands followers cuase followers is the must when it comes to Selling tokens and must have a good testimonials and trusted dev to convince more client to contribute in your project.  
We are working on our marketing team right now. The dev. Team has started coding V3 blockchain and we will swap the coin after finishing it
You guys wouldn't be the only ones. Polymath did a private sale and then skipped the ICO for an airdrop. Gained them lots of exposure. https://polymath.network/
 Thanks for this usefull info.
Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Hey, so this is purely my own opinion, everyone else please don't get mad about it (a lot of people around here are investing in ICOs these days)!

So.. to answer your question shortly, yes. It's very normal, and in my opinion, it is the best thing you can do. Why?

I have all respect for LEGIT and LEGAL ICOs, but it honestly sounds like the second version of Pre-Mined cryptocurrencies. I do not even consider ICOs cryptocurrencies, because... well, most of them are non-minable, and as soon as one entity sells something to you, to me it looks like a bank money printing operation. I am not very sure how long these ICOs will remain around, considering the fact that many of them are illegally earning a LOT of money.

Pre-mined coins were currencies released with a .. say 50% total supply already mined by the developer before releasing it to the public. They were usually hiding this so that we could buy their coin, get the price up and then they would earn a fortune off it. This worked until people found out how they scammed us, but now we have ICOs. ICOs are pre-mined tokens that are then sold to the public. It's basically the pre-mine scam disguised.

Why would ICOs NOT survive? First of all, ask yourself how will we ever get to use SO MANY cryptocurrencies. We have tokens for restaurants, tokens for logistics, tokens for shopping, tokens for exchanges, tokens for... BANANAS (I'm not sure if that one was real or just a troll, but still), can you imagine a scenario in which you'd have to pay 1FOOD (FoodCoin) to buy a burger, one hour later a package will arrive and you'd have to pay 1UPS (UPSCoin) and so on? I can't. Only one currency will be used the most, like Bitcoin was until a few years ago. Then we have the illegal fundings, devs earn millions overnight. I can create my own ICO and sell it, take the money and go away.

I would advise you to let it free to the public. To let the people using your coin mine it, and do whatever they want. Don't follow this nonsense stuff. Again, just my personal opinion.
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that
There is no such term as normal in launching a new coin. It's totally your decision what kind of building process of a coin to choose and all of them would be normal.
If you have enough funds for your coin development, for adding it on exchanges, for marketing, advertising and so on (probably significant amounts), if your coin have significant advantages over competitors and have a growing community already, you probably don't need any ICO.
But if you have only idea or some basic functionality, ICO can become a great tool to get a huge leap on the start of your coin's life. ICO is a great combination of funds rasing, marketing, advertising and a way of community engaging at the same time.
The more interesting is that even for the already popular coins ICO can give all the same profits as for the new ones but in a times higher values and in a very short period of time. What is have to be done for years to develop a coin in a usual way, ICO can help to do in a few month. If summarize I'd say that ICO is not a "must" but rather "definitely should consider about" feature for building a new coin.
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Are you developing a blockchain or just a token under eth blockchain?

I believe there is no one funding bitcoin when satoshi is developing it. But he can code and he is very good at it. So if you can do it as well, I think it will be fine.

Most run ICOs because they want to fund a project and they use token to give as shares to the company.
We are building it under Ecr20 Contract and after finishing the private blockchain we will swap
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January 28, 2018, 03:53:52 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Sure,but how you gonna sell your tokens without ICO,no one will buy it when you directly listed it into exchanges.So you need to do ICO if you want to bring investors to your coins or your coins will become worthless without any demand.
It doesn't sound like a good argument to me. People made coins before icos appeared and they didn't have problems with making them listed on the exchanges and other things. Moreover, as a lot of people don't trust icos, I think it could be very good if this altcoin had it emphasized that it won't be an ICO.
I guess people release coins with ico to gather money on crowdfunding this way. If there are sufficient funds then there's no need in that.
Airdrop might be a good idea to draw attention to the project, but it's not like it's a necessary one. I think dealing with exchanges and making the coin appear in various news would be enough.
Assoss.io, will the coin be premined anyway? If not then it should also be emphasized, since it is considered to mean the coin can be trusted as well.

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January 28, 2018, 04:05:45 PM
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ICO is a way to gather early investor especially when there are a lot of ICO occur from time to time.
As for now crypto competition is getting difficult so for who create new ICO must be more creative and unique

So ICO must be exist for every new project !
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January 28, 2018, 04:07:27 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Sure,but how you gonna sell your tokens without ICO,no one will buy it when you directly listed it into exchanges.So you need to do ICO if you want to bring investors to your coins or your coins will become worthless without any demand.
It doesn't sound like a good argument to me. People made coins before icos appeared and they didn't have problems with making them listed on the exchanges and other things. Moreover, as a lot of people don't trust icos, I think it could be very good if this altcoin had it emphasized that it won't be an ICO.
I guess people release coins with ico to gather money on crowdfunding this way. If there are sufficient funds then there's no need in that.
Airdrop might be a good idea to draw attention to the project, but it's not like it's a necessary one. I think dealing with exchanges and making the coin appear in various news would be enough.
Assoss.io, will the coin be premined anyway? If not then it should also be emphasized, since it is considered to mean the coin can be trusted as well.
I can't start ICO "Crowdsale-Presale" As being a Egyptian citizen there is some chains upon me because the goverment is banning all the cryptocurrency so i cant hold any one fund or money  i want to achieve my goal with all of my investment so i will hid to airdrop i dont want to be listed as scam coin... our project have a higher target
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January 28, 2018, 04:21:30 PM
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Me and my team building a new Altcoin. The first Egyptian altcoin. So we didn't want to start it with an ICO. Is it normal to start a coin without an ico and if yes what is the effect of that

Nice promotion. Starting a coin without an ICO is like trying to run with one leg and a stone on your head. ICOs will not only provide funding, but will also, if properly done, create a community around the coin giving the adoption.
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January 28, 2018, 04:22:58 PM
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A lot of icos are just scams for money.  It's more respectable to start a coin through an airdrop or some other type of fair distribution model.
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