How to Identify Good ICOs for Investment

[Pab]

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

[Duzter]

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

Agreed, I too have encountered the same with ico's. Same time I've a belief that everything gets running on a cyclic process. With this now ico's have lost the importance, maybe once again an year similar to 2017 could come. Cryptocurrency market is completely out of our predictions, any form of changes will happen within a very short time.

[virasisog]

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

i cannot agree more ICOs are left behind now unless followed up by IEO, i noticed that projects done before are trying to market again by doing IEO
which i think is a good strategy but they should choose a decent or reliable exchange so they can appear more attractive to investors.

[iv4n]

Always the same, check the white paper, business model and road map, check the team behind. Analyze all informations and try to make your move, if your analytical skills are good you have more chances to make a good investment.

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

i cannot agree more ICOs are left behind now unless followed up by IEO, i noticed that projects done before are trying to market again by doing IEO
which i think is a good strategy but they should choose a decent or reliable exchange so they can appear more attractive to investors.

Bitcoin was the best investment before and it`s the best investment now. That will not be different in the near future. That is advised by many people here, first make investment in bitcoin then invest in other crypto projects.
Ico`s are not dead. Ico`s and Ieo`s are ways for project developers to raise money for their ideas and as I see many still choose classical approach, ico. Ieo is different in one thing, exchange support the project on their platform, they sell coins or tokens, and after the end of ieo they list project on their exchange, which is a good thing, many icos never come to listing their coin on exchange.

[milewilda]

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

Gone are the days where ICO is very profitable back in 2017 and later on been nested out by scammers because this is the most easiest way to earn millions out of thin air and on early 2018 these ICO is already considered as dead.Identifying good ICO is just having the same casual research and in depth analysis but even how good the project is but the support isnt there then it would still fail up. IEO is the new hype but i dont see any difference when it comes to long term prospect.

[maxreish]

I appreciate the article. We can really spot which ICO is indeed a good one or not. I always look for the team, the feasubility of the product. I am not saying we can't only rely in the whitepaper only but we can also identify if the content was just a copy paste from the other whitepaper's or not. Almost ICOs nowadays are hard to see the  potential. But investors should really know these facts for them not to regrets investing in such projects.

[amonymous]

Following first side check team members and their everyone profile bio and CEO experience, seems most important ICO/IEO development planning which exchange there want accept. Basically don't forget us project partnership.

[sana54210]

Bitcoin is best investment now by my opinion
ICO are very much dead
ICO has trouble to raise money and find liquidity after token release
I am afraid that ico investing is way of  losing money

i cannot agree more ICOs are left behind now unless followed up by IEO, i noticed that projects done before are trying to market again by doing IEO
which i think is a good strategy but they should choose a decent or reliable exchange so they can appear more attractive to investors.

I don’t seem to get your point at all, are you saying that projects that has done ICO and has failed should come the second to raise money all over again? First, what did they do with the first money?

Most of them can't even account for the money they raised in the first instance, and now you are encouraging them to come second time to dupe innocent investors again, I would never buy into that idea, and any project that comes up with such thing should be tagged as a complete thief and it would really be an eye saw for any exchange that accept such project in their platform after they have disappointed so many investors.

They should amend their ways first by making sure that the first money they collected do something tangible, and what assurance that they will be able to manage the second money they got if they can't manage first.

[dengpei]

The ICO fundraising model is now outdated, people can't just keep on pumping dead tokens into the market where demand is almost zero and expect a different result. Firstly, startups should only come into existence to solve real-life problems not imaginary ones. The build first and wait for users strategy we keep witnessing is not sustainable and dangerous for crypto. The golden question should be,'' What problem are you trying to solve?''

[Bitcoin Smith]

https://www.hb-wallet.com/post/2018/12/17/how-to-identify-good-icos-for-investment

I think each and everything creator from the starting of the project is very important to be successful at the end so I think we need to notice each and every strategy and. Involved in that product then only we can make good investment.

[michellee]

At least, the article can be a guide for every people to search the good project to invest, and they can analyze by themselves to invest or not. But we can find a lot of information from this forum as if the project wants to release to the public, and they always give an announcement on here so we can read about their project before other people in out there. But that cannot be guaranteed if after we search for more information about the project, we will get the right project because sometimes the project can be a scam in the middle of the way.

[adamlillian]

I have failed a lot in my initial investments in ICOs in 2018. The majority of projects are fraudulent and just want to steal investors' money.
I was very subjective and after reading the article, I realized that my analytical skills were really poor and needed to be improved. It was very helpful to me.

[el kaka22]

I would add social media accounts on top of this list as well. It shows bitcointalk topics and that is kiiiinda social media (does forums count as social media? I really don't know) but that doesn't mean that twitter/instagram and any other place (even including telegram groups or reddit) doesn't mean anything. They worth a lot, a coin could have a lot of money poured into it but that could be due to some whale believing in the project and that would mean nothing because just one person putting a lot of money into an ICO wouldn't make it go up.

However, if you check the social media accounts if the team is active there and there are thousands of people writing back or retweeting or basically interacting with the team then you know you have a highly active community behind that project which helps a lot.

[barbara44]

You have to study the ICO project carefully to make sure it is worth your investment, because there are so many scam ICOs right now. If the project have a good and useful product, a clear and detailed whitepaper, and backed by an experienced and talented team, then it is maybe going to succeed.

Business experience of team really matters to me a lot if I am to consider any project. At least with their past and background, we will be able to tell the future of any project, most of the newer projects that we have being released to the market now, are just full of inexperience team members who claim that they are professionals at what they are doing, theoretically, they might be good, but practically they are not, and it takes someone who can interpret any project to the practical life that will have a sustained project.

All the altcoins that has been coming up, which practical use do they really have and how have they enhance the growing technology other than the use of their coins for assets purpose alone, and not for utility.

[Harlot]

I don't agree with the article you have provided most of the things mentioned are all kinds of backgroud checks that limits the trader/investor to only revolving around the projects' whitepaper and people involved with their team. Some scam projects can convince a lot of people with a well published whitepaper as well as put up a fake team with fake credentials not digging deeper into them would only cost you on investing in a fake project. If you can't do background checks properly then you can kiss your money good bye. Another thing that helps me is Reddit's crypto subreddits also share some good insights with new ICOs by other redditors and it really helps me a lot.

[thisappointed]

Following the tips given on that article above can be helpful but not a guarantee that something will not go wrong as there are many good projects that caught the attention (and the purse, of course) of many but they eventually turned out to be a big nightmare to the tune of millions of dollars flying into thin air and the supporters left with empty plastic bags (hope they don't throw them into the ocean!).

The truth is that the very nature of the ICO platform is quite risky -- very risky -- all because the marketplace is not regulated and when anything is not regulated that is when the dark side of human nature can easily take in. With no sense of legal responsibly, project proponents and developers change theirs mask into that of a scammer.

Hopefully, with the coming of the IEO where exchanges are injected into the scene, things can get better but until there is a clear-cut regulation on the whole crowdfunding process there is no guarantee that a project will not, one day sooner or later,  just evaporate like a vapor under the light of the sun. Oh, well...

I couldn't agree more. I've so many experienced regarding about good ICOs that turned out to be a scam at the end off the sale, it was very heartbreaking, because you are hoping you could make good money from it but it all vanished into thin air just like what you have said. The only thing that we could do is to keep on trying, no matter how many times we have been scammed, it is important for us not to be taken down by obstacles in life.

We have to keep in our mind that not all of the ICO will turned out to be a scam at the end, though finding a good one is a hard thing to do since you can't know what will happen unless you are going to try it.

[sunsilk]

I have failed a lot in my initial investments in ICOs in 2018. The majority of projects are fraudulent and just want to steal investors' money.
I was very subjective and after reading the article, I realized that my analytical skills were really poor and needed to be improved. It was very helpful to me.

You will improve in the right time if you dedicate time and work for it. The experience that you have last year is already a good initiative to become watchful about projects because you now have an idea on what to look at if ever you want to invest again.

You can also now figure it out if there's something sketchy within the project.

[gundala]

A very useful article, can be used as a reference for investors and newcomers who do not understand the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Lay people are interested because cryptocurrency can provide huge benefits, without understanding the risks are also large, so it's easy to get caught cheats and disappointed, finally blaming and assuming dangerous crptocurrency. Though there are many things to consider.
There are five criteria explained in the article. The first thing I analyze before joining a project is the Business model and future development, it's very important to know the benefits of the project for the long term. After that Team Profile. If the team profile looks fake, there is no convincing social media activity, it could be a cheater trying to trick you.

[H1N1]

https://www.hb-wallet.com/post/2018/12/17/how-to-identify-good-icos-for-investment

I already read the article, it says you must go through the whitepaper of the project.
This is the step where not everyone does. Peoples often to skip the whitepaper, but with reading the whitepaper
actually you can find the project is scam or not. Creating whitepaper need some time and cost to pay writers, scam project usually plagiarize other project's whitepaper to eliminate the cost.
So, checking whitepaper is good to identify a project.

[el kaka22]

in this forum many also suggest steps to produce a good ICO, so that we avoid fraud. most of them stated that the team played an important role for the success of an ICO. with a good team experience on a project, of course, will run a good project as well. maybe there are some other things that must be considered as well, such as the roadmap on a project, and the timeliness to run it, this can also be an indication

Having read the roadmap and how they are moving along with it is the most important part of the deal. I mean the team could be existing of people you have never heard of but that doesn't mean they will not follow up on what they do. If they have a roadmap that they are planning to follow and if you let them do a bit then you will see if they are actually doing what they promised or not, depending on that we could see a good team that will make a difference.

Of course, if the coin itself doesn't make any sense to you then there is no point of following the coin and you can just leave but if the idea itself is intriguing then you can just keep an eye on it. I never invest into any ICO without waiting a bit first, I follow them up until last second and invest like a day before its closed if I like the idea.