Devs and insiders that sell to themselves for nothing or tiny amounts? Then sell it to fomo investors that think they missed the boat.
Manipulation and schemes.
If an ICO is not properly advertised and sensible opportunity for all to invest is not given you can be sure it's going to be a full scam behind the curtain.
All ico's that do not last at least several weeks and have open ended level of investment are probably scams.
Every ICO should be at least 50% POW and if there is not POW possible then an exchangeable token should be mined via fair launch extended POW.
How many Insta ICO's are there now on here?
I think this is the new way to scam hard and fast. Sell it all off apparently to yourself and insiders for fake btc then manipulate the entire market for years extracting funds from the gullible.
Insta ICO is the new Instamine but you can't see it with the blockchain.
I wrote that before that 50%/50% ICOs are comming that is why i started to keep high awareness of ICO.
Instamined ICO was 1blood / melonpot / gnosis / (some french datacenter) / most US blockchain projects not mentioned on btt (yea there is a lot of such stuff around )
Today for me NO checkpoint excrow = ICO is no go zone.
Look at mobileGo. Tendency to rip off people is so bright.
1) No excrow
2) catchy idea to kick of the road google play store - once they will be tread to google store . Google will delist them for fake reason causing drama and project will go down
3) they give you 7% bonus for investing in game - why?
because they were developers and heavily invested in game they want to unload BAGs on you!
Once again guys only escrow with roadmap checkpoints is good idea to get rid of scams.
Scammers won't lock own coins in good escrow.
Without such setup i won't give a shit to 99% of ne ICOs.
PS: I will keep spamming that escrow with milestones till people will get that is ONLY one option to be safe.
PPS: Man I bet that 90% of new ICOs have like 50% funds from devs themselves they will PnD token.