You may have noticed increasing coverage of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO ) in the press recently.  You may not, however, be totally clear what an ICO is.

The easiest way to explain it is that it’s a type of crowdfunding that has grown out of the current growth in popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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