As we all heard about IPO (Initial Public Offering) and ICO (Initial Coin Offering).
Let us discuss the difference between them.
Will ICO take place of IPO in near future???
IPO is usually done in conduction with stock exchange while ICO is done in the cryptocurrency market. As far as I know, no company can launch an IPO without first proving its worth and without passing all the legal requirements set out in the law so as to protect the investors. While in ICO being under an unregulated and decentralized platform anybody can launch an ICO anytime anywhere....a situation opening floodgates to scammers and frauds. When you buy an IPO you are basically buying a stock of the company and therefore entitled for company dividends now the same thing could not be true with ICO otherwise the project can be flagged as selling security and can be against the law. I am then hoping that soon we can see ICO evolving and advancing so that we can weed out scammers and that investors are not only protected but can be earning something out of the money they invested even if the value of the ICO is going down in crypto-exchanges.
Thanks for sharing your views and knowledge. How about the technology behind ICO, do renowned companies or business houses adopt it???
Do they offer ICO instead of IPO by following rules and regulations???
Yes unregulated form of ICO put investors in danger and also future of this new technology as well.
I am longing for the time when the market can be as strict (or even a certain percentage of it) as IPO but using the technology behind enjoyed by ICO and where people can easily access them. I am not good in predicting but I think with the way things are developing we are going into this route. The technology is already here so it is just a matter of adoption and tweaking to make it appropriate and acceptable to the regulators, the investors and project proponents. I am for regulation in order to protect investors but not for the purpose of constricting innovations...there is a need to balance the two in today's environment. There must be a way to weed out scammers and fraudsters in the ICO platform so we can promote more trust into it and make it pro-investors and pro-people.