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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: 80% of ICOs are Scams
by
Bonwin
on 30/10/2018, 18:36:53 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 ...

Personally, I have  discovered that there are lots of scam ICOs in the scripture. Then, what most people do not know again is that scam ICOs have been in existence long time ago. They were even numerous, but we never noticed. It is just most of them are now being exposed by virtue of the bear market.