Re: All crypto with an IPO/ICO is trash - no exceptions. Just launch fairly.
Have you even once considered the gross excess of "shady pump and dumps" is enabled by the toxic, hostile environment for truly original, worthwhile projects that might need some good programmers to get paid?
There is nothing wrong with getting paid and there are many good models for doing that. The unregulated nontransparent ICO model is not one of them.
I agree with cryptohunter on the ICO model being deeply flawed (even if it does "work" in a few exceptional cases -- that does not disprove the general rule) but I don't agree that banner ads can fix it.
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Half ICO half POW not so bad.
Yeah its only half bad
To be clear PoW can be bad. The ultra-fast PoW coins where a bunch of insiders and pumpers rent hash and rape it for a day or a week does nothing to remove manipulation. Slow and steady PoW distribution over years is much harder to game, but arguably that too could be gamed by long-term monopolization (if it turns out that Bitcoin's largely-monopolized mining is not a temporary condition).