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I will not say that he is the worst, but I'll say for one that I burned, and it was Gilgam. Initially, everything was very good there and you could just admire it. And now no one needs these tokens at all. 
Topic: What is the worst ICO of 2017? (Read 597 times)
According to trustworthy sources from 2016 over 200 ICOs have failed in various stages and sneaked away with investors money. The most popular ICO ...
Worst one is by far gimli... they even got unlisted from CMC, couldn't get on any exchange, refused to refund investors after they failed to reach softcap even after they said they would refund anyone who wanted it.
all the scams are worst
All icos with overhype to my mind with adv everywhere.
They are overhyped, the investors that purchase coins and tell people that they should purchase the coins is going to ditch the coin when there is a wider hype around it.
All ICO, in which I participated in the summer, fell in the fall below the ground when bitkoyn rose, and all the altokkuny fell. Tokens purchased at the ICO fell 5 times. Now, some have narrowed the gap with the purchase up to 2.5 times. Several coins returned to their original value. 
All icos with overhype to my mind with adv everywhere.
I see that it has been mentioned a few times, but I have to also go with Jesus Coin.
There are bad ideas and then there is Jesus coin which I feel plays on a belief system. According to their website they have raised over 200 ETH....
There are bad ideas and then there is Jesus coin which I feel plays on a belief system. According to their website they have raised over 200 ETH....
I seem to notice that there are too many ICOs run by Russian, and you don't know how legitimate they are and there are no real updates at all. These are definitely red flags to me. Not to say all Russian ICO is bad, INS was very successful, but the KYC process is a pain.
I agree with you, a lot of Russian and Belarusian ICO scams spoiled the reputation for other projects and now people are afraid to invest their finances
This year was hard for ICO... the worst loss I had was on DOMRAIDER ICO... the value has dropped at 40% of ICO price now.... (and has reached 30%)......
There are a lot of Shit ICO's featured in the year 2017. Many of them came out to fraud/scam. But ETHbooks was the worst out of all those. That ICO seems to be a totally legit project and with everything(concept, website, whitepaper, team etc) seems to be good enough to invest but in end, they fooled thousand of investors including me and got vanished after looting all the money.
I remember seeing one called JesusCoin, which offered no value at all apart from approved by Jesus.
I think that has to be the worst one as it plays on people's religion and offers nothing at all to anyone.
I think that has to be the worst one as it plays on people's religion and offers nothing at all to anyone.
You need to ho read the whitepaper, I'm afraid you are clueless about this token.
The worst ICO of this year is Tezos. The project was very promising, everyone expected a profit of at least 10 times. As a result, the project team quarreled and we apparently lost all our money
I have to agree fully. Some ICOs out there have been from a bit unprofessional to plainly mismanaged, but Tezos rules them all. Just look for a good team an start making your own list of managers and advisors that you trust.
All of them.
Then go work on the plant 
Seriously, there are many good projects which made me earn more then I could imagine (on bounties, I mean). The only my disappointment was ETHBOOKS (wrote an article for them)
But I was so young and green. I forgive me my mistake
I seem to notice that there are too many ICOs run by Russian, and you don't know how legitimate they are and there are no real updates at all. These are definitely red flags to me. Not to say all Russian ICO is bad, INS was very successful, but the KYC process is a pain.
Worst? As for me in the end of year. We saw almost only skam or not interesting ICO. Just few real interesting projects. For me The worst ICO was Authorship. I was in bountry and decide to buy some coins. But it`s deeping and deeping...
OHH. I heard about this ICO with crazy marketing strategy. This is really the worst ICO. My friends also were involved in that bounty and they got nothing for their work))
ETN,thousands of people who bought the pre-ico sales token got totally rekt after the ETN wallet problem started they hold the tokens for months while the price keeps decreasing day by day many investors lose their money.
A lot more to come, check Wax token ... huge dump after ICO
Yeah. But i heard that WAX dump was created by increase in supply of this token. The DEV just increased the supply without proper and advance news. Thus, first coin came to exchange, certain sales were done, and than news about increase in supply. Here you get a huge dump.
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The worst ICO for me is Tezos. The trial was in USA and I don’t know what is the end of it. But it seems that I couldn’t get my money back. I am not even trying yet. I hear that Tezos renew its activity, it is planning something else.
The worst ICO of this year is Tezos. The project was very promising, everyone expected a profit of at least 10 times. As a result, the project team quarreled and we apparently lost all our money
The ICO that was in every website as the worst for 2017 ...
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I can not name any one of the worst ICO this year, because I had a lot of them and I lost a lot of money. Next year, if they do not begin to regulate the ICO, then I think that all projects will be bad.
According to me the worst ICO of 2017 was onecoin, a textbook scams. Which were planned to be scams from the beginning.
I think the Monetha ICO was pretty bad. Not because their product is bad, it's the way they handled the ICO. There were no individual cap so it was sold out within minutes and mostly whales bought into it.
And then it kind of took a tumble once it hit the exchanges. Looks like it definitely recovered though. Good team.
Though there are many but for me the worst is EcoWaterAir ranging from management and everything about them.
I invested 10 ether in Opus ICO and after the completion of their in which they collected 5 Million dollar in ETH(when eth was 300USD) the CEO left all social channels immediately. For 6 months there was not word on the development of the project and now after 6 months they have started development. My 10 ETH are almost worth 2 ETh and there is absolutely no trading going on at exchanges.
In a way you are lucky because it looked pretty much like the project was a grab an run. At least now you have a working project and given that the ether has risen in price you still have a bit of value there.
All ICO in which I participated in the summer fell below the ground in the autumn, when bitcoin went up and all the altcoins fell. Tokens that were bought on ICO fell 5 times. Now some have narrowed the gap with the purchase up to 2.5 times. A couple of coins returned to their original value and only 2 pcs showed a small profit. It was not just for me.
Oh, yes, I also got into this funnel. I can not say that the ICO's I participated in are the worst. No, these are good real projects. But the profit is zero or minus x2.
You can see the top voted ICOs here, and upvote ones you'd like to be reviewed by CryptoRated:
https://cryptorated.com/ico-request-pipeline/
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It is very easy to choose the worst ICO but it is very hard to choose a good ICO. So we should talk and concentrate about this year 2018.
All ICO in which I participated in the summer fell below the ground in the autumn, when bitcoin went up and all the altcoins fell. Tokens that were bought on ICO fell 5 times. Now some have narrowed the gap with the purchase up to 2.5 times. A couple of coins returned to their original value and only 2 pcs showed a small profit. It was not just for me.
I think the Monetha ICO was pretty bad. Not because their product is bad, it's the way they handled the ICO. There were no individual cap so it was sold out within minutes and mostly whales bought into it.
I didn't watch their ICO honestly but I can count you couple of more tge that sold out in minutes. For this we can't blame their official teams. They do their best to sell their project, that's it.
I have no problem with it being sold out within minutes, it was just the way the team managed the whole ICO. Wasn't really professional of them. Also the price of the token crashed once it hit the exchanges.
Haha its really true. If we take out statstics and look for a ratio of good ICOs to worst ICO we will actually find that 90% of them have failed. There are a lot of worst ICOs which didnt even gather a penny except of the funds invested by the core team. Variety of blockchains and a possibility of a token creation on them.has given every person a chance to develop its own ICO may it be absolutely pointless.
Of course, this is the worst. Fortunately for me, I've read somewhere, and decided not to invest. Now, before you engage, I'm trying to view information and different perspectives of projects.
Did you heard about ETH books? It was believed to be the top rated ICO of 2017 with a lot of buzz. But ended up being a scam only.
In my opinion , one of the worst ICOs of 2017 was OneCoin, a textbook scam from start to finish. OneCoin was a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme (think Cutco knives). It’s difficult to give more detail, because there’s no information a token was ever created. The story was a black eye on the crypto world.
Of course, this is the worst. Fortunately for me, I've read somewhere, and decided not to invest. Now, before you engage, I'm trying to view information and different perspectives of projects.
I did not invest in any ico that did't do 5x and above
Unpleasant impression left from ICO Authorship, there the price has strongly fallen + much negative was. Although now pumping these tokens, although the price is still lower than the one that was at ICO.
I think one of the worst ICO is CarTaxi because even though the ICO is successful, the pice suddenly shoot down because of scam accusation of their campaign participants. Not a good communication with their investor is also one factor, that is why other investors dumped their token to avoid further lost.
Worst? As for me in the end of year. We saw almost only skam or not interesting ICO. Just few real interesting projects. For me The worst ICO was Authorship. I was in bountry and decide to buy some coins. But it`s deeping and deeping...
I think the Monetha ICO was pretty bad. Not because their product is bad, it's the way they handled the ICO. There were no individual cap so it was sold out within minutes and mostly whales bought into it.
I didn't watch their ICO honestly but I can count you couple of more tge that sold out in minutes. For this we can't blame their official teams. They do their best to sell their project, that's it.
Bitchamps.I thought I would make a lot of money from them but I was wrong. Their members paid very little compared to their plans, while their teammates were 10000 times higher than us. It's disappointing. 
I think the Monetha ICO was pretty bad. Not because their product is bad, it's the way they handled the ICO. There were no individual cap so it was sold out within minutes and mostly whales bought into it.
In my opinion , one of the worst ICOs of 2017 was OneCoin, a textbook scam from start to finish. OneCoin was a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme (think Cutco knives). It’s difficult to give more detail, because there’s no information a token was ever created. The story was a black eye on the crypto world.
Onecoin is not state ico i think. But it could be the worst one.
Its just ponzi scheme or multi level marketing. Regalcoin also. It makes many people rich and many people poor too. Its pump and dump.
In my opinion , one of the worst ICOs of 2017 was OneCoin, a textbook scam from start to finish. OneCoin was a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme (think Cutco knives). It’s difficult to give more detail, because there’s no information a token was ever created. The story was a black eye on the crypto world.
This is not even to considered an ICO, because it is not a crypto in the first place, it even doesn't have a blockchain, it is pure 100% Ponzi scam.
Most of them. I personally am a little bit scared of joining ICOs, since the ratio of SCAM ones increases day by day.
A lot of people say:"All of them!" But they don't earn money on this
Tezos for sure
In my opinion , one of the worst ICOs of 2017 was OneCoin, a textbook scam from start to finish. OneCoin was a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme (think Cutco knives). It’s difficult to give more detail, because there’s no information a token was ever created. The story was a black eye on the crypto world.
Of course, this is the worst. Fortunately for me, I've read somewhere, and decided not to invest. Now, before you engage, I'm trying to view information and different perspectives of projects.
If i’m not wrong, Ethbooks lol. They collected all the money and then disappeared somehow , haha for me that one is the worst Ico of 2017 
The worst ICOs for me are those ICOs who doesn't served its purpose and doesn't last long. Those ICOs who got freezed/paused midway to the completion of its sale and never come back. Most of all, ICOs that turned to be a big SCAM. I have encountered all of that but that's ok because i also learned a lesson out from them.
If i was ask this type of question, for me bitconscious worst most in 2017
All of them.
You look all ico in negative side i think so thats why you said all ico are bad.
I have a bit different opinion, i like some ico project. Not all of them are bad. Just some of them.
Be patient guys. We must move on and believe that this year all of them can be normal again. Don't worry to buy many coins because if the coin will rising agan we will regret soon
99% of them. it is very easy to choose a worst ICO but it is very hard to choose a good ICO. so we dont need waste time to dicuss about this
so we dont need waste time to dicuss about this
There are many, many Ico projects that don't choose to develop programs but travel around and do need legal supervision.
Until now. i'am still not interested on ICO. This thread make me feel more worst about the future of ICO process. There are many scam project. But i'am believe there are also many good ICO and promising project with reliable products.
Blackmoon was bad experience for me by the way.
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Most ICO have bad track record for the beginning but that's natural, for new coin ( product ) I'm not surprised. From my experience, trader & investor has know it as market pattern, so they will not replace their money into ICO ( mostly ). Bitcoin and second coin ( eth, xmr, xrp ) still doesn't change as the main income on the real market. But for me KICK is the worst, until now I can't exchange become bitcoin/ second coin because has low price and should wait. Other ICO I believe better than KICK.
Those that scammed
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This year many ICO are worst in market. Some of the ICO only develop in market. I don't like ICO because it is unpredictable. I like Bitcoin and altcoins these are the best current trend investment. I think infinite ICO are worst because I don't calculate the shit ICO.
Nice Thread...got some real scenario experience...
Probably Centra. They not only collected a lot of money, they still have not paid the rewards to many bounties. While the coin has long been traded on the stock exchange.
There were so many and that is the reason that I held onto my ETH so tightly. It is very difficult to determine the scams from the good ones and it isn't really worth my time to sift through all the garbage.
Personally I wonder how many people came out ahead. Sure you may have made 10x in one ICO but how many did you lose on ?
Personally I wonder how many people came out ahead. Sure you may have made 10x in one ICO but how many did you lose on ?
all of them
Unfortunately, Exscudo was my worse investment in 2017. They shifted their timelines many times. I've been waiting for EON tokens for 6 months now. It supposed to be distributed in the first quarter of 2018 which is kinda hard to believe anymore.
Bitjob and wicoin are the worst ico I have seen in this year where no progress from team even they used simple concept failed to show any progress they least concerned about investors.
somehow I can agree on that ...
I think it's polibus. They wanted to make a digital Bank, but now the developers are silent.... PLBT was worth$ 10 to ico, now its price is about 3$....
I invested 10 ether in Opus ICO and after the completion of their in which they collected 5 Million dollar in ETH(when eth was 300USD) the CEO left all social channels immediately. For 6 months there was not word on the development of the project and now after 6 months they have started development. My 10 ETH are almost worth 2 ETh and there is absolutely no trading going on at exchanges.
Oh,man i m sorry. That seems very bad. Hope that they will start to work on their project.
I believe the worst could be JesusCoin and MilkCoin
Only few ICO were successful for me. I'm still holding many altcoins from ICOs in hope they will rise some day.
Now i'm focused more on trading and holding some altcoins i bought after their ICOs with lower price.
Now i'm focused more on trading and holding some altcoins i bought after their ICOs with lower price.
my worst ICO was "Cryptowi" and i lost more than 80% of my initial investment!
devs have very low activity on telegram ( once by 2 weeks) and they don't gives details about progression.
devs have very low activity on telegram ( once by 2 weeks) and they don't gives details about progression.
Ther is a lots of stupide and scame ico this year like:kairos(exchanges after 1 year)
Hunt but
Eth books(the big scame)
...etc
Hunt but
Eth books(the big scame)
...etc
All of them.
It is actually so. I can't remind any ICO of 2017 which would not awake any talks about it's scam nature. All those tokens that appeared on the market cost nothing and nobody who invested in that got some big income, besides ICO's heads who just picked up money and disappeared. All of them.
Why? because you are nowhere lucky? 
In my humble opinion, the project called PrimalBase is the worst.
1. Enigma
2. Mercury
3. Sonm
4. Cartaxi
5. Bancor
2. Mercury
3. Sonm
4. Cartaxi
5. Bancor
Does worst ICO have to be a fail project ? I can count you a lot of ICO that was horrible and after one month or so they hit big very big . For example ETN was horrible coins was lock for people who bought in ICO and open for people who is mining . But after wallet open the price was really great and did not take a hit ( It should have btw but dunno what happened ) . Also a project called my wish it started with my last well and after changing its name and go with my wish and end there ICO they had really nice price I personally made huge profit from it . I can go on and on . The point is not every fail ico is -roi and not every success ico is +roi . It can easily be the other way .
) . Also a project called my wish it started with my last well and after changing its name and go with my wish and end there ICO they had really nice price I personally made huge profit from it . I can go on and on . The point is not every fail ico is -roi and not every success ico is +roi . It can easily be the other way . ETN,thousands of people who bought the pre-ico sales token got totally rekt after the ETN wallet problem started they hold the tokens for months while the price keeps decreasing day by day many investors lose their money.
Ive joined the pre-ico sale and invested $5000 hoping that it will give me x10 profits,and after the wallet incident how the heck are we going to sold all of the coins if they hold it for 3months?
SparkleCoin - a cryptocurrency backed by diamonds.... oh wait.. diamonds are actually worthless. so dumb.. and the CEO is about as shady as they get.
The first reply in the thread made me laugh a lot
And I am fully agree with the author. Cause there were scam ICOs(nothing to tell more) and good projects, which got too many money for their product, so they relaxed. The poin is - the biggest thing was made without ICO, airdrop, without bounty, without investors and funds, and this thing continues to spread all over the world more and more
And I am fully agree with the author. Cause there were scam ICOs(nothing to tell more) and good projects, which got too many money for their product, so they relaxed. The poin is - the biggest thing was made without ICO, airdrop, without bounty, without investors and funds, and this thing continues to spread all over the world more and more
Trade.io is really a promising project A utility token that can be used for transactions on a wide range of assets via the trade.io exchange. Even it’s already raised 19+ million where other Ico failed to collect funds .
Bitjob and wicoin are the worst ico I have seen in this year where no progress from team even they used simple concept failed to show any progress they least concerned about investors.
I have 700 STU (27$ invested) and even on this I am on LOSS! Agree BitJOB is not so good but not biggest bad ICO out there, I think Monetha is worst, not in terms of what they did/or not but how they calculated ICO price and what happened after that, people miss ICO and hit exchanges like me, ended up as heavy bag holders (I had 1000$ loss for 2 months al leats) that just recently turn into profit (approx. 100$ on green now) second is BlackMoonCrypto (enigmatic project, price in range 0.4 to 0.8$ now) ICO price was 1$ - so loss again from day one and buy pack protection instead 2 years lasted 2 months.
Anything else I invest turned into gold or at least silver. This 2 above turned into nothing really.
The worst IСO of this year is Tezos. The project was very promising, everyone expected a profit of at least 10 times. As a result, the project team quarreled and we apparently lost all our money
Bitjob and wicoin are the worst ico I have seen in this year where no progress from team even they used simple concept failed to show any progress they least concerned about investors.
the worst ICO of 2017?
all of it that failed to reach softcap, wasting time waiting for refund
i dunno what to do now
bounty for extra
all of it that failed to reach softcap, wasting time waiting for refund
ETN,thousands of people who bought the pre-ico sales token got totally rekt after the ETN wallet problem started they hold the tokens for months while the price keeps decreasing day by day many investors lose their money.
wow i didn't know about it, after ETH too difficult to mining, i change to ETNi dunno what to do now
This thread makes me think twice about joining an ICO. Seems like even extensive research cannot guarantee to not be scammed...
me too, now just mining and trading cryptobounty for extra
I think Jesus coin, just the concept deserves to take the crown.
The worst ICO for me for 2017 was superior coin. Fortunately I had not put money into this project but I was planning to. The devs and the founder had a fall out, the devs disappeared with all the money raised. To this day none of the investors have recieved their money back... For me it was a lesson to never invest in an ICO
I have a lot of bad ICO projects but among them Cartaxi is probably the project that made me sad the most because the price of CTX is very low and hard to recover in the future. I think I learned many new lessons when investing in other ICO projects
Bitjob is the worst ever. When ethereum was $250-300, the cost was around $0.2, actually now it's like $0.5-0.6 but the market price was only $0.03 or so yesterday. This is just crazy.
I hope its price gets better. The team is hardworking.
I hope its price gets better. The team is hardworking.
This thread makes me think twice about joining an ICO. Seems like even extensive research cannot guarantee to not be scammed...
Yeah sure it is,theres a higher chance you will lose even the project team is overated,one good hacker as they always says will burn all of your money,most of ICOs are well crafted scams if they gathered enough funds they will just dump it by announcing we got hacked all of our money are gone.,Easy money it is?
This thread makes me think twice about joining an ICO. Seems like even extensive research cannot guarantee to not be scammed...
ETN,thousands of people who bought the pre-ico sales token got totally rekt after the ETN wallet problem started they hold the tokens for months while the price keeps decreasing day by day many investors lose their money.
A lot more to come, check Wax token ... huge dump after ICO
ETN,thousands of people who bought the pre-ico sales token got totally rekt after the ETN wallet problem started they hold the tokens for months while the price keeps decreasing day by day many investors lose their money.
I invested 10 ether in Opus ICO and after the completion of their in which they collected 5 Million dollar in ETH(when eth was 300USD) the CEO left all social channels immediately. For 6 months there was not word on the development of the project and now after 6 months they have started development. My 10 ETH are almost worth 2 ETh and there is absolutely no trading going on at exchanges.
Holy shit !!!! you should report that to the SEC !
I invested 10 ether in Opus ICO and after the completion of their in which they collected 5 Million dollar in ETH(when eth was 300USD) the CEO left all social channels immediately. For 6 months there was not word on the development of the project and now after 6 months they have started development. My 10 ETH are almost worth 2 ETh and there is absolutely no trading going on at exchanges.
After reading that my story doesn't sound as bad but I will give it a go. Bancor was the ICO that was worst for me because it barely got above ICO price, the ICO was ran poorly with several last second changes increasing the amount they took and until now nothing has happened and its been a tank. Heres hoping some of these ICOs can recover in 2018
For me the worst ICO 2017 is Swapity and BeeSocials. Swapity has bad management, i have heard many friends that they did not paid by Bounty Manager around 6-8 Weeks, they always cheating participants to keep promoting their ICO, but never get paid. And for BeeSocials, i love the concept like MeetUp, but the roadmap and the team is suspicious
In my opinion , one of the worst ICOs of 2017 was OneCoin, a textbook scam from start to finish. OneCoin was a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme (think Cutco knives). It’s difficult to give more detail, because there’s no information a token was ever created. The story was a black eye on the crypto world.
I invested 10 ether in Opus ICO and after the completion of their in which they collected 5 Million dollar in ETH(when eth was 300USD) the CEO left all social channels immediately. For 6 months there was not word on the development of the project and now after 6 months they have started development. My 10 ETH are almost worth 2 ETh and there is absolutely no trading going on at exchanges.
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This year many ICO are worst in market. Some of the ICO only develop in market. I don't like ICO because it is unpredictable. I like Bitcoin and altcoins these are the best current trend investment. I think infinite ICO are worst because I don't calculate the shit ICO. 
All of them.
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