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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Do NOT buy ipo, ico, ito if the devs don't have a working beta/demo ready
by
djm34
on 15/11/2014, 17:54:10 UTC
ICO/IPO/ITO are all high risk/high reward.  If you do your research they can be big money makers.  Yes, a demo would help, but it can be faked just as easily as a lot of other things.  As always, DYOR.

I agree demo isn't proof of anything, same as working wallet - if it has no awesome innovative feature, wallet is a copy paste job, you don't even need to know c++ to do it.

Lets say someone invested a few BTC in to an ICO/IPO/ITO or whatever ... how is that different from buying a few BTC worth of any altcoin on the market?
95% of coins has absolutely no use except for trading.
the difference is that the price is set by (greedy) dev instead of being decided by the market... so in most case you just buy overpriced altcoin without dev support (since in most of the case the support stop within a week of the IPO). Before we were worrying about the premine but with IPO/ICO it is exactly if the premine had been already been dumped at peak value... (and everybody seems happy with that...  Grin)