Topic: Why Will you Invest in Ethereum ICO if it is just Starting ? - page 3. (Read 706 times)

I do not know why would Ethereum look for an IPO or ICO at this point of time because they are already up and running with huge revenues and multiple sources of income. Even if they want to raise funds that will not be a problem for such a huge project, they can raise millions if they ask for that through some official announcement.

IPO has very strict regulations and only companies with good quality can conduct IPO. different when compared to the ICO which even with the project Team anonymously they are still accepted. And what if ethereum starts from scratch and does an ICO, will I invest?

my answer is yes, even if there is currently no official market for ethereum i will still invest. Just by reading their whitepaper, everyone will be interested in what the ethereum team is going to launch. We will go back to the first year that ethereum was released, there is no ICO term, no project created using SmartContrac, no project fraud, crypto exchanges are not like today, crypto has not even been seen as a threat to the financial system. and at that time many people supported the ethereum project, even though they did not know what would happen to the project in the future, or the real use for the ethereum platform, the project might fail during development, but they still supported it. So back to today, we already know the picture that is going to happen given the interest from mainstream companies to blockchain. and it is too difficult to create a private blockchain network. ethereum is like a gold project that I can't afford to miss. And that's the reason I invested if ethereum was just released today and an ICO wasn't there before.

joining Ethereum ICO is very risky, I never joined it,
it's just that I bought IEO on a big exchange like Binance,
lastly I just bought IEO from Cartesi and thank goodness I got 2x from there.

Ethereum is a name now! So people would invest in a famous name! But years ago when I started with crypto back in 2014 trusted forum members and many others were talking how big scam eth is! Now you don't have many people claiming that! It's like something that happens to every project, people are distrustful at first! When you think about it bitcoin was not accepted by everyone too, even now you have people who don't believe in btc!
DYOR, it's ok to see what other people have to say, it's alright to skip investing in some project because some red flags, but there's no flawless project, there are good ideas that needs to be realized, problems to be solved, developing and updating never stops, and if you think that the project is worth taking the risk, that team is dedicated you should try it if you believe in it!

Very interesting question, to be honest I wasn't familiar with the crypto world at that time so I don't know how progress they made when they first launched their ICO. Maybe if at that time there was hype that caught our attention then we would definitely read their whitepaper and would discover something new that would bring about big changes in the crypto world which of course we should not miss the opportunity to join them.

I will invest on ICO ethereum when know ho reaching up price right now, but I think now only etehreum almost coin at the first time launching become good project and have potential price for the future with higher price, just one year after many ICO success we got many project failed with delay listing, lower price than ICO after listing and we got many scammer of ICO project without have time for listing until right now. But now many investor of ICO move to IEO project and many of them invest with launchpad ICO coin listed on Binance, now have many failed project not only IEO, ICO because we can't trust with investor.

Just like you already mentioned, both are fundraising strategies and I think both comes with their own risk, since investing is involved, hence i believe that before starting with any, one need to understand the risks involved. In the crypto space, unique ideas matters which is why, most projects do not struggle or find it hard to meet their hard cap during their fundraising while others struggles a lot in some case might be left with only soft cap or slightly higher. So this adequately shows that, unique idea is very important and that is what Ethereum offered to the crypto space, hence many projects which are huge today were given the opportunity to start on an already developed blockchain instead of starting from the scratch. Therefore, with this few points and many others about Ethereum, if the team are to start another fundraising now, I don't think it will last long, and yes I will invest.

Are you really sure what you would do if that really happened? Basically Ethereum when it was an ICO, they were also a startup that didn't have high trust. All start-ups start with something like that, and it is only natural that knowledge of new projects is minimal. Did you catch Vitalik Buterin when ETH coins were publicly sold? Hell no

Investing in an ICO is like a gamble on the level of creativity of the project team and developer, we don't know the project will become big or will be destroyed by the project itself. We only speculate and assume, because the majority of start-ups in the crypto ecosystem are without a market test, they are just supposing and written in a whitepaper.

ICOs and IPOs are both fundraising events but the returns and risks of the two are completely different. If a potential project is launched and uses an ICO to raise funds, then there is definitely a good chance we can make a lot of money once it's officially listed on big exchanges. Besides, an IPO only helps projects that have passed the Hype stage of development continue and it is certain that the profits will be much less than the tokens of the ICO being strongly pumped.
To invest in a successful ICO, we need to see the excitement of the community before it gets listed on the Big exchange. The crowd's fomo mentality has always made ICO projects more successful than ever: D

If we talk about the past, I miss not to invest in ethereum early. So this time, if ethereum wants to do ICO, I think I will invest in ethereum, but first, I will look at the price. If the price is not too high or still at a low price, I will invest it in the project, but if the price directly jumps to the high price, I will not invest. But if I think that the ICO will be a success, maybe I will try to invest with a small amount of money.

But we know that the ICO era already ends, and replace with IEO, and now, the DeFi trend already boom. So I don't think that ethereum will start ICO, but maybe it will be another type of project.

This will enter the Dummy investors,those who will invest but the truth is they are part of the team so people may believe that there are supporters and lured them to invest also,but this cheating is old style and i know investors now are brighter and cannot be fooled by just reaching a Hardcap because we had already saw many So called "Successful ICO" but in the end?scammer.

If Ethereum would conduct its ICO right now, I am afraid it will not earn as high approval, support, and funds it would have received if done on the very year it was launched. The ICO space is already polluted right now. It is now almost equated with scam. That was not the time when Ethereum was launched. It was a time when projects were purely made with vision and skills and dedication. Projects were made with a development team that has knowledge on what they are doing. Now, projects lack innovation and ingenuity. They are copies of other projects. They don't even release practically working products.

What failures has the Ethereum token experienced? try to mention some of the 1000 failures, maybe it can be a good discussion for everyone here, including I also want to know more about it.

It depends on their purpose, project value, and future plans, I need to research first their plans, if it is really have a potential for short and good  term, it should be possible to implement as well because if not why do we need to invest in their Ico if we can by ethereum in different exchanges rather than to their IPO or ICO, always do your own research in everything, for you not to regret many things, there's a limitation in everything.

Since ethereum based on the decentralization and it will never do any IPO for sure. to launch IPO and the company must be centralized and create a various report just like a financial report, the future prospect of company and etc. Ethereum was a protocol that builds for the community and it will never become a company that sells nothing but wanna did an ipo like XRP.

I won't speculate it as it will never happen

No. Most of the investments and projects that are starting out are having a hard time in the earliest stage. I will doubt how it will grow and how it can thrive in the future. Just like a normal investor that's assuring himself before investing money in any project that I see. No one knows that ETH will be successful as it is today so take into account that "IF" of the OPs question and situation. I saw it too at the low price but just ignored it until I've seen it grown, that's only the time that made me interested.

As we remember the ICO glory days way back in 2017, tons of money were screwed from investors. And a lot of us at some point invested in one or more ICO projects back then. I got burned also but not big money. That's right, the project I invested had their team members published but it didn't stop them from abandoning the project. And they just got away with the btcs they collected. It was hard to go after them especially if you were just a small time investor, not worth chasing them. But for those big investors, they can sue those project but will take years if they will ever be successful in recovering funds. That was my first lesson when it comes to ICO. Even if the project seems to be promising with known team members, it doesn't mean that your money is safe with them. Better wait for them to hit in exchanges, if you truly believe that they can meet their objectives. Otherwise, don't risk your hard-earned money.

the ICO from ethereum become one from many successful ICO in this industry mate, because ethereum bring new ideas and features at that time
and the dev known as a smart guy in blockchain tech, thats why a lot of people believe if Ethereum will be huge
of course if ethereum or other promissing project born and do an ICO i will drop my money

Sadly i wasn't involved in the crypto space back then when ETH launched.
If we look back now it might seem to be a no-brainer for us that we would have invested in the ETH ICO back then but of course it wasn't sure at all that Ethereum would become such a massive success.
But ETH was very interesting back then even for a someone with not much IT knowledge, with all those new and unique features that Ethereum offered back then with Smart Contracts the possibility to easily create own tokens and so on.

as i've seen from before some newly released project were mostly a good one if the Ethereum will have it's ICO  when it was started i'll definitely investing to it. but if we are now looking at the announcements section we can see that most of the projects are trash.