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April 21, 2018, 12:10:16 PM
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In this section a lot of topics about the most perspective ICO for investments and there is not a single topic in which it would be possible to discuss projects that sounds bad or like a scam. If you want to evaluate any ICO project, commonly you pay attention to four main elements: Team; Token; Technology; Conception.

1. First, what you need to pay attention to, assessing the viability of ICO is team. People in this team are real? If they are, have they skills really? Don't be arfaid to make contact with developers, write them on email, Facebook, Linkedin. If you look good, you can even find phone numbers. Mandatory check point - communication with advisers. Thay can give you some info about project. By the way, the reputation of developers should also be checked, so do not be lazy to write and call them.
Aslo you should to search answers for these questions: Is there any information about the members of the team other than those stated on the official website and in social networks? When did the first publications appear? What was it about? Where else did the author come out in public (specialized sites, forums, comments on blogs and so on)?
Further, as a rule, you analyze a legal entity: registration, location (use online maps); if it is a question of pre-ICO, you can even check the mailing address by sending a greeting letter on paper (at least twice, I did it and the flair did not disappoint me). Association and other places where this legal entity should consist.
There is another point that often has to be used in everyday practice: search by phone number or email. What's for? The fact is that everything has a property to be indexed. Therefore, old accounts in social networks, on bulletin boards, etc. often can say a lot about a person.

2. Token. Finnaly, after SEC & MAS, people start to understand that, release something that isn't clear,it is not clear to whom is not just strange, but also dangerous.
Is the economy of the token well developed? How much the project is going to release them? How will the internal currency be distributed? It is also important to understand: how a user can use a token within a system? If the currency has no use at all, except as an abstract "sell more dearly after a while, this is a serious reason to think about the reliability of the ICO.
Here are a few more nuances on the topic:

3. It's very difficult to evaluate technology, if you are not a specialist. But sometimes the results can even give a check of White Paper on plagiarism – simple short-term scams don't bother to develop a documentation. Also you can ask a question to experts on forums or even in Telegram to the developers themselves: are there any open sources on Git or another resource? Is the smart-contract similar to the usual example from a Google box? As a rule, the scam can be determined even by the quality of feedback. The answers of the scammers contain contradictions and rarely differ in detail.

4. Conception. If in technology we evaluate a code, the possibility of realisation the product in terms of production, here the competitive market and the economic utility of the service generally. Skams can be distinguished by too rosy descriptions or, conversely, confusing definitions, of which little remains clear after reading. At the same time, you need to look for answers to the next questions: how different is the concept from its closest competitors? What are differ them? At which stage are the competitors? Are there any analogues of centralized solutions?

  • Is there an agreement on the distribution of tokens?
  • How is a token in general denoted in different documents: roadmap, whitepaper, public offer, etc?
  • How many tokens are issued and what is their economy?

Also, now it is necessary to analyze the level of the hype around the project. And if it is then, with the intention to quickly sell a coin immediately after entering the exchange, such projects can be very attractive. As a rule, the hype is determined by the number of participants in the group in telegrams, the number of visits to the site, the number of references in the media, etc.
That's all in short. But there is things that starts to cause a sharp dislike and it needs to be spoken about.
At the forum, if you start writing something negative about the project, Such a post can be
counted as FUD and blamed you for clogging the topic. So I think topic, in which it will be possible to express a negative about some ICOs will not be superfluous.



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April 22, 2018, 11:04:18 PM
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Useful topic for! I think, it will be very helpful for newbies. Right choice of ICO for investing or bounty is very important. Nowadays a lot of scammers want to rob investors. Also 3/4 of all ICOs price fell at the end and investors lose their money. So thank you, author.

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April 23, 2018, 05:34:44 AM
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Useful topic for! I think, it will be very helpful for newbies. Right choice of ICO for investing or bounty is very important. Nowadays a lot of scammers want to rob investors. Also 3/4 of all ICOs price fell at the end and investors lose their money. So thank you, author.

Thank you too for a good tip
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April 23, 2018, 05:36:12 AM
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Most of the time, the success of the ICO project depends on the team.
An excellent team is the key to ICO's success.

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April 23, 2018, 05:42:26 AM
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Great post regarding detecting fake icos. Adding onto this it will be helpful if u link some data of actual fake icos that have scammed people so people can detect trends and patterns of fake icos and steer clear of them.

This post is great guide for people to judge whether ico they are interested in is genuine or fake. I will referencing this in many threads and discussions.
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April 23, 2018, 06:11:37 AM
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Yeah, it is important that you have enough enough knowledge before eve thinking of investing into a certain project. It is not an easy task to spot ICO scams, it take experience to do that. This post, may well save hundreds of newbies out there.
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April 23, 2018, 06:24:01 AM
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Most of the time, the success of the ICO project depends on the team.
An excellent team is the key to ICO's success.

I also agree that the team has a big role in terms of implementing projects in any aspects because they were the one initiating the possible outcome of the project. Where in they will be the one processing all the rules and regulations of the organization. How will the payment going and the condition of it.
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April 23, 2018, 06:39:08 AM
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Most of the time, the success of the ICO project depends on the team.
An excellent team is the key to ICO's success.

I also agree that the team has a big role in terms of implementing projects in any aspects because they were the one initiating the possible outcome of the project. Where in they will be the one processing all the rules and regulations of the organization. How will the payment going and the condition of it.

Your posts is indeed helpful to those who are in doubt choosing the best ico. Team are always one to be considered. I will save this thread for my future use. Sharing such post like this is very helpful. Two tumbs up for this information. Sometimes, I am also not that smart to choose the best and quality ICOs.
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April 23, 2018, 06:48:19 AM
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Also I would add such parameter as a hard car, because some time there is a great ICO, with great perspectives in which there is a little doubt, but it can have a big hard cap, or there can be no hard cap at all, I try to stay away from such ICO, because there is high possibility that after the ICO price of the token will be less then at the token sell.
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April 23, 2018, 06:49:08 AM
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Most of the time, the success of the ICO project depends on the team.
An excellent team is the key to ICO's success.

Community also plays an important part, noob community who keep asking when MOON when LAMBO is just killing the projects

So first thing before buying the coins, join the telegram group and see if the community are helpful. if its full of people who only cares about pricing instead of the tech maybe its not healthy


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April 24, 2018, 06:38:45 AM
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It depends on the technological innovation, feasibility, whether it can be landed, whether there are defects, whether the defects can be made up for, the differences between the industry and the industry, and the future development space of technologies and application scenarios.
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April 24, 2018, 01:38:16 PM
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In simple terms if you want to make sure the ico is legit
1. Check who the people running the ico. Linkedin can help
2 Check the project by going through their whitepaper and website
3. Read feedbacks or what experts has to say. There will always be something someone could say about it.

If its too good to be true then maybe it isnt afterall. So make sure you study the ico before you invest.
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April 24, 2018, 01:47:44 PM
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Most of the time, the success of the ICO project depends on the team.
An excellent team is the key to ICO's success.

I agree this is very important, we know who is on the team and are they legit people and had the capability to make the platform a realization, some scam Ico are using fake accounts to deceive people check the history of every member of the team and you will not get lost.
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April 24, 2018, 02:35:36 PM
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We can find the evidences of bad ico. first of all collect the information of developers team .then collect all analysis about the project and do all research . so these are some tips by which we can save our investment from bad ico !
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April 24, 2018, 08:24:05 PM
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In my opinion lackness of the communication and support is the biggest evidence of a bad or scam ICO. Also, If there are so much bad comments about the project, I think not investing in is the best choice.
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April 25, 2018, 08:47:50 AM
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Excellent post. There should be a register of good advice like this made as a sticky post somewhere in a "valuable advice forum". Thank you!
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April 25, 2018, 09:39:49 AM
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Nice post! I never thought about such deep team investigation, like finding developer phones or message to them in the facebook. That can be really helpful.
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May 01, 2018, 07:50:49 AM
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The bad ico we can compose from its team members, its project prospects, and the technical considerations it uses.
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May 01, 2018, 07:27:04 PM
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In my opinion lackness of the communication and support is the biggest evidence of a bad or scam ICO. Also, If there are so much bad comments about the project, I think not investing in is the best choice.


But also a large number of positive comments may alert. They can be bought. Therefore, it's best to check everything first and then read the comments
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May 04, 2018, 11:47:25 PM
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In my opinion lackness of the communication and support is the biggest evidence of a bad or scam ICO. Also, If there are so much bad comments about the project, I think not investing in is the best choice.


But also a large number of positive comments may alert. They can be bought. Therefore, it's best to check everything first and then read the comments

Actually, you are right, checking everyting first  may be a better beginning than checking the comments. You gave me an another perspective, thanks for that.
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