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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: 80% of ICOs are Scams
by
Black Angel
on 22/09/2018, 09:53:37 UTC
Saw this study on twitter... https://twitter.com/Zeex_me/status/978981735101878272

I've seen a lot of people asking about how many legit ICOs there are, so I thought I'd share

Quote from the article: "The study begins by breaking down ICOs into 6 groups: Scam, Failed, Gone Dead, Dwindling, Promising, Successful. “On the basis of the above classification,” they wrote, “we found that approximately 81% of ICO’s were Scams, ~6% Failed, ~5% had Gone Dead, and ~8% went on to trade on a exchange.”

"Scams were defined by researchers as “Any project that expressed availability of [an] ICO investment (through a website publishing, ANN thread, or social media posting with a contribution address), did not have/had no intention of fulfilling project development duties with the funds, and/or was deemed by the community (message boards, website or other online information) to be a scam.”


DYOR people ...

I would say 50% of scammers, very sad, such projects exist. And besides, their number is growing every day.

That said, there were too many scams that made the red market and investors affected by scams always campaigned negatively about crypto, and I was sure that the main factor that made the market difficult to recover was the many scam projects.