All these examples are just excuses for new projects that could not raise enough money. but I think some projects have true statements.
I agree, before any shit, I collected money. Now they are collecting only truly worthy projects. 
Topic: ICOs are dead! Yeah I mean DEAD!!!! - page 10. (Read 26173 times)
at the moment yes they are dead but trust my experience if investors return to the market everything will come to life again
2018 was a bad year for the market in general and for ICO in particular. Hopefully in 2019 there will be more investors come back and the market will recover.
ICO's will thrive again in the next bull run
Perhaps the ICO is standing on the brink of death, because there are so many scam ICOs. Many development teams are only interested in filling their pockets, they neglect investors and products.
There are couple of problems with that statement. First of all in order to say ICOs are dead we need to assume there are no more people investing into that kind of stuff but even at the late stage of 2018 there was a lot of ICOs that are getting funded, maybe not as much as the late 2017 era but they were at least fully funded which is all they need. November was a big month with 330 of them published and 400 million collected in total.
People think bitcointalk is the only place these companies focus on and when they don't see it they think they are gone but ICOs are smarter now and getting funding from even companies at this stage. While yes last year around this time ICOs collected about 2 billion dollars a month it has dropped to about 300 million dollars instead, it is still very much going on.
And for the fraud ones, yes some of them are really frauds but do not mistake the incompetently run bankrupt ones with fraud ones, they are vastly different.
People think bitcointalk is the only place these companies focus on and when they don't see it they think they are gone but ICOs are smarter now and getting funding from even companies at this stage. While yes last year around this time ICOs collected about 2 billion dollars a month it has dropped to about 300 million dollars instead, it is still very much going on.
And for the fraud ones, yes some of them are really frauds but do not mistake the incompetently run bankrupt ones with fraud ones, they are vastly different.
Every time I visit those ICO rating websites, I no longer see any unique and potential ICO. Their website and team members were a trash where they were unable to show their faces on a video about the project. Unfortunately, most ICO nowadays are dead and that will be a bad news for us hunters. Even they reached the softcap, they either pause or extend the bounty or even not continuing the ICO and decided to refund the investors.
Current situation on the market regarding ICOs looks really bad. It's like an ice age of ICOs. There are dozens of hundreds ICOs around that don't even get to exchanges after the money rising. So much scams, bounties don't execute their obligations. I hope that the age of STOs will be the game changer.
I know it feels, and I also always see that words for every ICO that fails, and I agree with you ICO is dead right now, but I still hope that this year there will be some good and better ICOs
I am as a bounty hunter has wasted a lot of time due to joining fail ICOs
I am as a bounty hunter has wasted a lot of time due to joining fail ICOs
When the market is bleeding, investors are afraid of risking their money, that is normal.
Also, some project were able to raise their targeted amount but when it hits in the exchange, price will dump, it's normal again.
You cannot expect a positive result in the bloody market, so it's better for them to postpone a bit or relax and wait until the market will start to recover.
Also, some project were able to raise their targeted amount but when it hits in the exchange, price will dump, it's normal again.
You cannot expect a positive result in the bloody market, so it's better for them to postpone a bit or relax and wait until the market will start to recover.
Yes you are telling the truth, it is very bad bad big true! After ICO's finishes and goes to the exchanges, you can buy the projects coin with price of 1/10 . So why would we invest in ICO's?? If they can't handle this situation the ICO's wouldn't survive.
Actually you pointed out a lot in this post. Some team members do not really understand that updates, good listing, good strategies like buy back policy are important for a healthy Token price. Imagine a team delaying listing for a long time, forcing investors to trade first at very low prices on say forkdelta, even when the tokens hit exchange, price dips like crazy. Well, some projects have outstanding team with good strategies. Also, I'll recommend that projects in future should pay airdrop and bounty hunters in a stable coin like USDT, and not their official token, it will go a long way to reduce dumping.
That's right, investors see that the market is easily manipulated and now the market is at the bottom, so very few people decide to invest their money in any project, it is better to wait a moment and then buy tokens for a penny on the exchange.
My opinion about the death of the ICO is most likely negative. I think that now many investors have begun to thoroughly understand what to invest in. Today, projects do not collect anything, but there is a reason for this, because most of the projects are scam projects.
The excuses given by some project in selling or returning investors fund may be legit. The cryptocurrency market is bearish and value can be easily eroded regardless of the quality if any project. So, it is better to postpone than having a failed project because of the market condition.
You are right, I sometimes don’t understand some of the actions of the project teams, much less see how they can help the project!
I admit that the ICO market is gradually losing investors due to the increase in scams. I believe that if the ICO market is still not effectively regulated or improved in 2019, the ICO market and activities will face death.
users here do invest or risk if they know that the alts or ICO have future here in crypto like if the developer of it can handle that like btc,eth,many gambling site that run here for so long period of time so if they are new here in crypto like new ICO or new coins/tokens they need to promote that long so users,traders and investors will trust them for their money example xrb that turn to NANO the price of this are 500 satoshi to 2000 satoshi when they start to run or when they promote this then after a few months by spreading this in big good faucet this turn to 0.0014 btc so better to have big amount of money by your new ICO,coins/tokens here before you run
Here's what I really don't like about ICOs and why they're dead to me:
1. "After ICO, the token's rate would be $X.XX per coin/token"
Excuse me? Really? Yeah we know the hype, right? Been there already. Most ICOs don't live up to their promise that their rate in exchanges would be that high amount. For example, there's an ICO whose token is worth $0.01 and claims that when it hits exchanges, they will be worth at least $0.20. But hell no!!! The reality is that when it hits exchanges, the rates are way below the ICO price!
So ICOs, don't make promises you can't keep, especially claiming that the amount will be huge when it hits exchanges coz' it mostly likely not gonna happen. Sad reality. Nothing but hype!
1. "After ICO, the token's rate would be $X.XX per coin/token"
Excuse me? Really? Yeah we know the hype, right? Been there already. Most ICOs don't live up to their promise that their rate in exchanges would be that high amount. For example, there's an ICO whose token is worth $0.01 and claims that when it hits exchanges, they will be worth at least $0.20. But hell no!!! The reality is that when it hits exchanges, the rates are way below the ICO price!
So ICOs, don't make promises you can't keep, especially claiming that the amount will be huge when it hits exchanges coz' it mostly likely not gonna happen. Sad reality. Nothing but hype!
Main reason for the decrease of token price is the dumping of bounty tokens . There is no use in holding or locking the bounty tokens for 6 months or one year. Once the tokens are released, definitely bounty hunters will dump it in any exchange. To avoid that situation, in my opinion , bounty hunters should be paid in eth. By doing this, there wont be any dumping of ico tokens.
Unfortunately a lot of ICO are still running, and there are still more coming, but I have not yet to see STO or participating one I would love to see STO and see if this is the one thing we need to replace bad ICO in the market, everything that can get the crowdfunding right again, we need to support it.
almost everything you explain, I also experienced it.
but I am not really sure that ICO will die, because there are also ICO that succeed and get large exchange places, even if only a small part, of the many ICOs that exist.
because the market is very bearish so it is difficult to get investors for now, but when the market has switched bull run maybe ICO will return to what happened in 2017.
but I am not really sure that ICO will die, because there are also ICO that succeed and get large exchange places, even if only a small part, of the many ICOs that exist.
because the market is very bearish so it is difficult to get investors for now, but when the market has switched bull run maybe ICO will return to what happened in 2017.
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