ICOs (initial coin offerings) present a new opportunity to raise capital outside of the more limited traditional avenues like user crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital, bank loans, and your parents' credit cards. The things people should be looking for in their investments: a product, or at least a robust and tested prototype; an established track record in business; use cases and an addressable market; good timing; a focused team that works well together. If you have all of these things, your startup then has a ~10% chance of surviving the next five years. 99% of these ICOs don't have an app, they have a kind-of-not-sure plan, their timing is bad, and their team is three dudes who got together a few weeks ago and have never done a business before. What could possibly go wrong if we give them $100 million... I haven't invested in any of the current ICOs, unless you count Bitcoin and Ethereum themselves. I read the whitepapers, I downloaded the software, ran the software, looked at the code, and understood the problem they were solving.
The idea of ICOs is revolutionary and will have an enormous impact eventually when it leads to successful companies. Are any of the current ICOs doing that? No, not really. 99% of them will fail, most of them are blatant, overvaluated scams, and that's above my risk tolerance. It's going to take a few years before we see a mature market. Invest in education, not speculation. Most of this community, even those who have worked in a more regulated space where there is an illusion of protection, do not have a good financial education. You don't protect investors by giving power to someone else who makes their choices for them; all it will do is stop them asking questions, they rely too much on "experts," and denying them valuable lessons that will make them smarter and more sophisticated. They learn by repeatedly making smaller failures over and over again, until they're more cautious. There's nothing you can say that will express the level of "ouch!" until they actually feel it.
Tired of hearing about the latest scammy ICO? Instead, here are some inspiring real-world projects using cryptocurrencies for good!
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0:00 What is your take on ICOs? Do you recommend us to consider acquiring ICOs? If yes, what do you actually look for in deciding to buy those ICOs?
2:13 What do I look for in an investment?
4:13 I haven't invested in any ICOs
5:02 The idea of ICOs is radical, disruptive, and revolutionary
7:32 In the current system as it is, how do you propose, without some kind of regulatory governance, to protect the individual investor from putting money into an ICO, which realistically, if you do crunch the numbers, are raising five to six times their actual valuation?
This is part of a talk which took place on July 7th 2017 at a Bloktex event hosted by the Wisma BeeOn Group in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:
https://antonopoulos.com/event/the-future-of-money-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/RELATED:
Ethereum, ICOs, and Rocket Science -
https://youtu.be/OWI5-AVndgkInvesting in Education Instead of Speculation -
https://youtu.be/6uXAbJQoZlEInitial coin offerings (ICOs) -
https://youtu.be/Q5R8KuxV4A0The token ICO explosion -
https://youtu.be/vdaW8NtJXuQICOs and financial regulation -
https://youtu.be/Plu_WX3Gs8EScams, gambling, and regulation
https://youtu.be/fTI88YrN1UEThe out-of-sync hype around "blockchain" -
https://youtu.be/9mm8iiEj4TEHow to get people to care about security -
https://youtu.be/Ji1lS9NMz1EGovernance trade-offs in decentralised systems -
https://youtu.be/dtwaW79Fj7cAltcoins and the scaling debate -
https://youtu.be/slbpdW-H3ykAndreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin.
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