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March 10, 2018, 03:24:10 PM
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Good effort in defining ICO. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is just the cryptospace version of Initial Public Offer (IPO) obtainable in the traditional stock market. Just another way of raising fund from the public to start, develop or expand a project or business using blockchain technology and smart contract. The easiest way to Crowd funding that is helping start-ups to raise fund in exchange for tokens.
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March 10, 2018, 03:34:54 PM
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Good effort in defining ICO. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is just the cryptospace version of Initial Public Offer (IPO) obtainable in the traditional stock market. Just another way of raising fund from the public to start, develop or expand a project or business using blockchain technology and smart contract. The easiest way to Crowd funding that is helping start-ups to raise fund in exchange for tokens.

Thanks for a concise explanation for ICO. As you mentioned its also the same as IPO which what we are doing in the traditional market. It was only change to ICO since companies is already utilizing the digital market in order to promote their project and raised fund.

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March 10, 2018, 03:48:44 PM
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I want to note that the choice of investments should be approached very carefully. Lately, most of the ICO is SCAM. As a result of investing, you can lose your money. After entering the exchange, tokens may be impaired.
Therefore take part only in the untwisted ICO.

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March 11, 2018, 01:17:20 AM
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I want to note that the choice of investments should be approached very carefully. Lately, most of the ICO is SCAM. As a result of investing, you can lose your money. After entering the exchange, tokens may be impaired.
Therefore take part only in the untwisted ICO.
And there is a lot of ways to prevent a fake ICO or scam ICO like reading their whitepapers reasearching to their project and many more,my advice for the people who think that many of ico is scam ,take a time for reasearching about on it.

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March 11, 2018, 03:12:05 AM
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it is nice that someone like you to explain what is ICO.
ICO is Initial Coin Offering, a way to collect capital funds for startup or existing company.
you can buy tokens in ICO to invest on it.

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March 11, 2018, 03:13:37 AM
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yes, ICO helps promote altcoin and the platform to be spread on the exchange. so it can help the crypto world always exist.

I think, a good ICO, is a success in the sale of tokens or altcoins.
I think all of them will be successful  if their token was sold out in ICO.
as long as they achieved their minimum goal it is already considered as successful ICO
Not all ICOs run well and succeed.
I think successful ICOs not only succeed in selling their tokens, but are able to create platforms that create long-term programs and useful products.
stop making coins then leave without follow-up.
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March 11, 2018, 03:35:41 AM
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And if it's easier to say, ICO is raising funds at the expense of investors to develop or improve a product, to achieve the goal that the team has set for itself.
Short and good explanation

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March 11, 2018, 03:39:09 AM
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ICO is a promotion stage of the ICO and also they can get some investor so they can fund the ICO so in this way we can help them by advertising it like twitter campaign facebook campaign and signature campaign and many more
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March 11, 2018, 03:41:37 AM
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Exactly what you have research about what is ICO. ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. The concept of ICO's contradict with the capitalist approach in business. Usually if you're going to implement a project the most frequently question to be ask is that how much is you budget. Fortunately ICO's came to different style and approach in implementing project. ICO concept is all about fund raising activities. They will let you invest in that project and in return you will receive tokens corresponds to the money you invested in that project. And if the ICO is success on the fund raising this will be the time that they will implement the project and proceeds goes to all investors who put their money on that project. So there will be dividend among investors which being calculated by percentage depending upon how much money you invest in that project.

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March 11, 2018, 03:42:59 AM
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ICO is a good idea to crowdfunding. But I still don't get it about the current ICO's mechanism. Why is ICO procedure too much space for scammers? Investors can't receive the token/coin directly after purchase. That will be a chance that the ICO team will run and abandoned the project after getting the money from investors.

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March 11, 2018, 04:44:52 AM
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it is nice that someone like you to explain what is ICO.
ICO is Initial Coin Offering, a way to collect capital funds for startup or existing company.
you can buy tokens in ICO to invest on it.
Good to hear that,i post this topic because many people now in crypto was didnt know the meaning and definition ICO and what is all about.i encounter many people was only investing on mamy ICO without reasearching or reading the whitepapers of the project that their want.

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March 11, 2018, 05:03:47 AM
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For beginners, it may help to you to understand what is ICO

An initial coin offering (ICO) is a controversial means of crowdfunding centered around cryptocurrency,which can be a source of capital for startup companie. In an ICO, a quantity of the crowdfunded cryptocurrency is preallocated to investors in the form of "tokens", in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or ethereum. These tokens supposedly become functional units of currency if or when the ICO's funding goal is met and the project launches.

ICOs provide a means by which startups avoid costs of regulatory compliance and intermediaries, such as venture capitalists, bank and stock exchanges,while increasing risk for investors.ICOs may fall outside existing regulations or may need to be regulated depending on the nature of the project, or are banned altogether in some jurisdictions, such as China and South Korea.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_coin_offering

DEFINITION of 'Initial Coin Offering (ICO)'
An unregulated means by which funds are raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or banks. In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin.


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This also explains what a soft cap and hard cap is because many people still ask me this question. A soft cap is the minimum amount that a project can accomplish, and the hard cap is the maximum amount a project wishes to mobilize. Is hard or small is it good? It can be seen that last year, the caliber projects called for a hard cap of just $ 20-25 million to be able to carry out the project and profit the investors this year. began to greedily call for huge cap stocks of up to 50 or 100 million dollars while the project was just ideas and there was not a market or market that was too small to fit their hardcap. call that.
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Capitalizing on the top 100 in the coinmarketcap 101-200, just over 50tr have been added to this top, so the projects they call hard cap $ 50 million, only the Crow Price on the floor, its capitalization is enough. To stand in the top then, you think the ability to pumb or SML is high. Evaluation of a hard cap project is extremely important, but it is not a good hard cap because it depends on the size of the market and the competition for the projects it needs. Big money to hit the market potential and beat the competition grows fast to dominate the market before being swallowed.
The hard cap is so small that it can be easily understood: when we open a clothing shop, it is enough to call a capital of 300 million, but to open a cow farm 600 is still small. But often the projects with small harp cap will have stronger pumb strength than large hard cap projects.
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- ICO and pre-sale or private-sale prices are more than double that of the Crow-sale, which should be considered before purchase (this should include pre-sale or private-sale bonuses). Ask admin, the project does not admin reply to this problem I will not participate.
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- 1 project must have a good community, such as Arcblock in terms of product without any crooked idea blockchain 3.0 is still running on the ERC ERC-20 platform but because Krypital Pr team is good, has After the success of the CMT project (Cybermiles), people are still fighting each other, fomo is good (fomo understands the crowd effect) and also x3 after going to the floor. There is no technology product.
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But you absolutely do not evaluate the project based on the number of telegram members. Why, creating an Airdrop program to donate coin free a day with a few tens of thousands members, these members they join the telegram they never notice or return to that channel, because they only join To get free coin only. Refer to the community on Reddit, medium, github, Tiwtter
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- A project where the team holds too many tokens and tokens that are not locked will not be good for the offer and the token price, as they hold more than they are evaluating their project too high, assuming they hold Over 30% of the market capitalization is $ 100 million, then their team holds up to $ 30 million, which also means the hard cap is pushed too high compared to its real value.
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- Do not participate in Russian projects because of a scam, no or no pumb, see coinmarketcap in any of the children will not know
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- Do not trust the site ico such as: icoben, icofox, icoholder - These are paid to Reviews (Last bitter bear is the 70 billion bibs lost because the ICObench rate this guy 4.1)
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- Priority is given to projects from Switzerland because the country's legal system is almost complete for the ICO, Singarpor is also a good suggestion, these two countries are the best for the company headquarters
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- One project that too many participants in Vietnam also need to consider, because most of them play surfing style, some of his Vietnamese participants on the floor to the discharge than the dams of Hoa Binh floods.
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March 11, 2018, 05:05:34 AM
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little advice for beginners, do not try to invest into ico because you have no experience yet, very risky.
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March 11, 2018, 05:09:24 AM
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Good effort in defining ICO. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is just the cryptospace version of Initial Public Offer (IPO) obtainable in the traditional stock market. Just another way of raising fund from the public to start, develop or expand a project or business using blockchain technology and smart contract. The easiest way to Crowd funding that is helping start-ups to raise fund in exchange for tokens.

This is my personal opinion:
What is an ICO? Normally, an electronic currency before being listed on the trading floor will undergo a call for capital to be able to execute and develop the project, in which the coin / token will be opened. Selling to investors at converted prices (depending on the different projects) is called ICO, understand the same as we buy shares of a company first issued to the market, For the stat up capital with crypto currency.
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So what is the purpose of evaluating an ICO?
Usually the first thing that interests me is what kind of project it works in, what kind of market or product it has, what its competitors are, who has development and consultancy, road map How much white paper, how soft cap and hard cap, how much market capitalization, how many tokens are allocated, how many% hold, are locked, ko private, pre-sale and crow- how much, how many communities, where the origin of the company ... ..
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March 11, 2018, 05:23:46 AM
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ICO is initial coin offering that offers to provide another way of earning money, ICO's are forms of many different level of types and quality, it is also an instrument by making money. However, not totally all types of ICO's has a good level of price, there are some ICO's that someone says shit coin because of the very cheap value.
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March 11, 2018, 05:44:49 AM
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ico is a form of capital mobilization from investors around the world for a project by selling topcoats to finance the development of the project.
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March 11, 2018, 06:15:03 AM
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ICO is a process of raising funds from the public to implement their project along with public ownership.
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March 11, 2018, 10:51:30 AM
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ICO is usually offered by crytocurrency developers whose goal is to raise funds to develop a crypto project that they will do is a new crypto eye. This fund is needed to maximize the project which is worked out to develop faster and can be completed as soon as possible. advantages of ICO
 For Developers or Developers cryptocurrency, they get the help of funds used to accelerate the process of coin development that they are working on, so that it can quickly realized and can be enjoyed by many people. For investors, they will get token or coin, which is legitimately private property of investors. And the most important is the price of Coin in the ICO is still very low.
loss of ico
Behind these advantages, there must be a loss to him. Because ICO is investing in nature, we spend the money (money) and give it to a third party (in this case the developer), yang mana bisa saja uang tersebut tidak digunakan sesuai perjanjian saat ICO yaitu dibawa lari tanpa adanya keterangan yang jelas, biasanya sering dikatakan dengan istilah "SCAM".
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March 11, 2018, 10:55:10 AM
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An Initial Coin Offering is a new way to attract investment. Not in dollars, but in crypto-currencies - “ethers” and bitcoins. Where investors buy stock and receive shares of a company. Only in this case it’s not stocks, but tokens. And it’s not a share, but a company’s own crypto-currency. Investors buy tokens, hoping that their value will grow with the success of a project. It’s important to understand: investing in an ICO is a risky business. It’s possible to lose everything you invest. Projects that launch an ICO often exist only in the form of a prototype, or even just an idea. In this sense, an ICO is similar to crowd-funding.
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March 11, 2018, 11:14:37 AM
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ICOis the hot new way to raise funds for new cryptocurrencies.
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