I just joined an ICO, is there any possibilities that I will be scammed. They have just collected $5-10 million.

So what bitcoin FUD are you expecting next seeing that the atomic bomb in the arsenal has been used up (china ban) and did minimal damage?
What is left to suppress the price?
Pretty funny to see the wall street journal panicking & resorting to BS articles now.

Bitcoin is growing very powerfully but in this present scenario which factors can destroy or make its market value Zero.

It may of course be utter rubbish, but let's say the Chinese government does block internet access to the blockchain itself.

As TOR seems very hit and miss there and VPNs are slowly being hunted to extinction what would be the options for a Chinese person who wanted to interact with it? Does the Blockstream satellite thing work?

Now a lot of ico altcoin project , do projects that can be trusted . This makes i doubt to participate campaign bounty .
Please tell me friend , how saw projects altcoin can be trusted ?

What to do when price keep dropping ?

Some say that the ban will affect many ICO fund raising as much as causing 50% less tokens raised. What do you think?

I see a lot of people that do not bother to read the paper,
I try to do max due deligence before buying any coin.

What about you?

Ok, I’m new to cryptocurrencies and “markets” in general. I’ve invested in a few different alt coins and have got what may be a really stupid question and hope someone could clear it up for me.

Say you’ve invested $500 in bitcoin at the latest rate, and purchased an altcoin at a price which is very appealing. What happens if (over time obviously) Bitcoin deflates massively but the altcoin value rockets? How could you get what is effectively a handsome profit to a fiat currency without losing?

Thank in advance!

I just invested in my first ico, Blackmoon ico. What happens now? I'm looking to make a quick flip. What do I do with the Blackmoon tokens?

Is TENX (PAY) Token good to go up?

What about 0X any opinions about these two.

Hi,

I earned a small amount of ATS tokens (165 to be exact) but never received them.
In the last e-mail I got the stated following :

"All payments to qualifying accounts have been completed.
If you did not receive any tokens, we apologize but your account was suspended and the decision is final. Please do not contact us about, such requests will remain unanswered. We checked the list 3 times to ensure we don’t miss anyone."

To be honest... there's no way my account was a fake one and the total earning should have been clear that this was not the case.
With other words, they just used the DDOS-attack, which in my opinion came just at the right time (call it a coincidence or not), to have an excuses not to pay out a lot of people.

I have sent a private message to the person who started the thread on this forum (but where it's unable to reply on it right now) and I hope he does take in account that maybe, just maybe, their cleaning the payout list was a bit too exaggerated and they should consider having another look at it.

At this time it feels like a scam and I hope they can proof me wrong.

In case I get no reply on this, they can expect some negative publicity on this scam-stunt, because after all... they tricked a lot of people into subscribing and bringing referrals, and then they launched news about an attack on payout day... which gave them an excuses to start removing people from their payroll..

to conclude : this smells bad and I do hope I got it wrong... so some reactions from the people behind it would be a good start

I've been stalking this forum for a while, and decided to register to get the community's thoughts on an idea.

First some background. For the sake of full transparency: I am the head of tech at a KYC company in South Africa, and we're busy building an attestation service onto the blockchain which is launching pretty soon.

However, this idea is not part of that company and I am not representing them here. Instead, I am going to be embarking (shortly) on a personal project that I am trying to get funded (I've personally funded about 15% of it so far).

So the idea: I am a very keen DIYer, always looking to build things, and my latest personal project is to build a sports-fishing boat. The cost of such a project is vast, and I will be pulling in extra labour if I can get some additional funding to establish a business for some unemployed friends/family.

First a few assumptions...

1. About 900 man-hours will be used to construct the boat. This equates to 54,000 minutes (you'll see why this is important)
2. Equipment/tools purchases of R30,000.00 is still needed.
3. The total materials cost is quantifiable - and is currently estimated at R366,000.00
4. Payment to suppliers must be in a fiat currency
5. Payment to labourers can be in crypto currency
6. Each employee will be a contractor, therefore responsible for their own taxes
7. The company will be split into two after the boat is completed: half will run a fishing charter out of cape town, and the other half (if viable) will build similar fishing boats to order.
8. I am personally invested in this project and if it fails then I make a significant personal loss.
9. South African currency is ZAR and median minimum wage in the construction industry for the necessary skill level is = R40.47 per hour (about US$3.07 at current exchange rate).
10. For this project (and as I believe strongly that the minimum wage in South Africa is a joke), I am aiming to pay R65.00 per man-hour of work performed (equivalent of US$4.93 at current exchange rate).
11. I intend employing 4 people.

Obviously, given the restrictions of an ICO, (can't put up equity in exchange for tokens being the most pertinent) shares in the venture/business cannot be distributed.

However, what if I were to establish an ICO that works more or less as follows:

Time is valuable, and effectively, the value backing the token would be time and materials cost as raw inputs.

1. So, to pay for labour, issue 54,000 tokens
2. Issue 396,000 tokens to cover the materials and equipment costs
4. Issue 50,000 tokens for bounties, bonuses, etc.
3. Issue a further 100,000 tokens to cover any unforeseen costs.

This equates to 600,000 total tokens. Given the base valuation of one token to one minute of work correlation (roughly), tokens will be disbursed as follows:

1. 50,000 tokens will be made available in escrow (released only once funded) for distribution either on a discounted pre-sale, bonus or bounties - in return for marketing, technical work, dev, etc.
2. 396,000 tokens will be made available on a token sale at R1.00 per token (US$0.07 at current exchange rate). Obviously this will be held in Escrow, and returned unless fully funded.
3. Once funded (396,000 tokens), the token will be listed on an exchange.
4. 54,000 will be held in escrow to pay for labour. Labour will be paid weekly over the full build period from these tokens. The contractors will be free to exchange these on the exchange on a supply/demand basis.
5. The 100,000 held for unforeseen costs will not be unloaded unless there is an absolute emergency or specific requirement to do so. In order to make use of this emergency fund, the community (backers purchasing tokens in the ICO) will be asked to vote on this action.

Important notes:

• I will not draw a wage from this project, so none of the tokens issued will be allocated to me. I am not seeking to get rich from this.
• All backers will need to pass the necessary KYC and sanctions screening.
• All accounts, payments and receipts will be made available for scrutiny.
• All wages paid will be viewable on the blockchain.
• If the 100,000 tokens for unforeseen/emergency costs is not used when the build completes, it will be allocated to the contractors and backers as a bonus.
• The build progress will be fully documented. Feel free to ask me any questions about the boat or build process

Ok then, go ahead and rip the idea apart   If you guys think this is a really shit idea, then so be it.

Ethereum SCAM?

I'm always on Blockfolio, twitter, Reddit, and bitcointalk. You can trade 24/7. Cryptos never sleep. I stay up later to read more about cryptos. I spend half of my weekend to catch up on cryptos and research on the latest ICOs. What's your experience.

I believe Bitcoin has a future in long term. It proved itself in the past years and it is getting widely popular. It just has a transaction fee problem atm.

What about the altcoins? Who does use them for real? Will people use them in the future for real purpose?