To briefly expand on that, irrespective of the filed you decide to invest the  main thing is to look at the whitepaper and other places like telegram groups etc to gather as much info as possible. This will tell you if the project is worth while or not.

There are few factors which you should consider before investing in an ICO like:
Motive of the ico: Why are they doing this? If it’s simply to provide a return on an investment, then buyer beware.

Experience of the Team: What has the team executed on in the past, together? It should first and foremost be technology related.

Capital Structure of money:  How much crypto are they offering to the public? Gauging demand for a crypto is key

Raising the adequate amount money during their ICO: This connects directly to the point above. If they raise too much money during the ICO, they’re going to have to clear loads of ‘flippers’. These flippers are those that purchase tokens during the ICO and as soon as the team lists the token on the first exchange.

To choose a good ICO project takes a lot of time.
- first you need to check the age of the site.
- second you need to check the domain, IP of the website in any country
- Tuesday you find out the image of the team is developing the project.
- 4th you need to check the idea of ​​the project.
- 5th you need to check the contract smart.

Some newbies like me just rush into ICOs without proper research. Most local crypto groups mislead people by hyping a project and making people to invest. The gullible ones fall to this because some one who is grounded and knows what he or she is looking out for in a project will do proper research before investing.

Simple here is the formula.
Income - savings = spendings.

The others already pointed the most important things out. I checked out also the culturalplaces project and will mention it in this list of criteria:

1) The ICO rating sites (they were already mentioned several times by other users...you know them ) : This is or should be the first step to check if the rating of the ICO and also (very important) if it is a scam or not. If it is a scam, then you can skip the following steps (obviously)
Your project has quite good ratings as I have seen on some sites.
2) The whitepaper: Read it and read it carefully to understand everything. It could take some time but its worth it. I just overflew the culturalplaces whitepaper...its well structured and explains in a easy-to-understand way.
3) The roadmap: You should know where the project is now and where it will be in the future....the roadmap should show you all and in compact form
4) The team: Does the team look serious? Do they have experience in ICOs and cryptocurrencies? Any special advisors? (the culturalplaces team seems to satisfy this questions)
5) The marketing and social media activity (facebook, twitter, telegram, etc etc): Also very important....check it out and pay attention if they are active there.

That are my most important criteria. Anyways....just because of curiosity: Are you already an owner of some cultural coins? I have seen, that the ICO is still going on...

Logan was undoubtedly the best movie of 2017.

Glad to see this project listed on Coinschedule


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For those interested, you can learn more about the project here https://www.coinschedule.com/ico/cultural-places#event2488

ICOs will evolve into STOs (Security Token Offers) which are mostly the same thing, but regulated. Unfortunately ICOs are raising funds from the public without any rule, some of them are scams and other ones do change rules after they announced things, even after people have invested in them. I do not like regulation, however I don't like to be in the "law of the jungle" either. There has to be some order and unfortunately this means some kind of regulation. Also, I don't think that they will be as attractive as today. They will change, evolve, and adapt.

A good perspective ICO can be seen immediately, as soon as its ANNTread appears on the forum. Many comments at once, and not simply: "good project", "good luck to the project", and meaningful comments. A promising project has charisma. This is immediately felt.

Haha, no problem, i am surprised myself how many other people are commenting too but i guess the potential is quite visible in this case. Guess quite many have also been part of the bounty program - topic number one right now at the telegram channel besides the announcement. ^^

The ban of cash would really be a great problem... also because there are a lot of people, that should learn more about these technologies before starting to play only with them. But for example there are fees with foreign currencies even with credit card or debit card payments with the local currency. So probably the Cultural Coin will permit to save money also from this perspective.

Not really sure how it started but i assume the mixture of security measurements - as i said, your phone number is going to be invisible for others - useful bots for moderation and FAQ purposes and the inclusion of little gimmicks like crypto-specific sticker smileys is quite popular and holds the community together.



Btw...are there going to be new announcements soon? The little video series about the asia trip of Cultural Places was nice and i am interested in the results to come.

there are lots sites on online who search the best ico for u
so u dont have to spend much time in doing research about ico
1. ico bench
2. ico bazar
i used this to site for tarcking ico

With so many ICOs coming around it can be hard to decide.
I believe it's important to make your own decision : not just to follow hype, you know (though in ICO field hype is a sign of success
Take time and make your own investigation: read the whitepaper attentively, ask questions to the team and see how they'll react, review the team background.
Also, I can suggest you overlooking ICO listings sites. There are many of them where experts can give their opinion or rate the project. That also helps

I absolutely agree with you, besides the simple fact, that credit card fees usually are more costly and credit card data is way easier to manipulate/"steal" than blockchain-based services.

I was thinking today about the fact, that also in the European Union there are a lot of countries like Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland... that doesn't have the Euro till now and that offer very interesting sights... Payings tickets etc with the App and the Cultural Coins surely would be easier. So also here in Europe there is a great potential in my opinion.

it seems the ICO you say is a good ICO and will be successful. I saw a coin that had sold almost half of the target. the coin on this project is likely to be sold out before the expected date. ICO criteria I like are like this ICO because it is obviously the development of their token sales.

ico is always a good way to invest. it just has to be the right one. The team has to be active and the ico must be transparent. and if there is still a good bonus in the pre-ico and the sold well, you can also get a good profit. but you have to be careful because there are also many scam ico today.