Tough enough to fail
Why are we looking at the failure rates for planes and medical drugs? Because I wanted to see if there was a context to view the failure of ICOs – and let’s be realistic here, the numbers of ICOs failing doesn’t make for a pretty picture. According to figures from Tokendata, of 902 ICOs so far this year, 142 failed at the ICO stage, while 276 crashed and burned within the first 4 months of the successful ICO. Bitcoin News confirms this with the 2017 failure rate running at 46%.
An Overview of Security Token Exchanges Expected to Launch in 2019 and 2020
Obviously, security tokens will attract an enormous share of Wall Street’s money during 2019 and 2020. This expected shift has urged many venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to invest in the establishment of security token exchanges during the past couple of years. Throughout this article, we will take a look at security token exchanges that are expected to launch in 2019 and 2018’s fourth quarter.
Problem? What Problem?
The cart is often put in front of the horse with ICOs. It’s quite understandable that the development team are focused on their amazing solution, but hey guys, pause a moment and tell us what the problem is! That way the solution horse will pull your problem cart all the way to the success of your ICO.
The gendered cryptoworld
The brave new world of crypto is exactly mirroring the sad old world of conventional finance, and the whole Internet-as-a-men’s-club approach.
Good news bad news
If you searched far and wide for a brilliant example of how NOT to do an ICO, you couldn’t find better than the sad story of the petro.
Beige Papers: The Plague of Whitepaper Templates
At some point did the template for the ‘perfect’ ICO whitepaper get standardized? Judging by the increasingly formulaic nature of whitepapers, the answer must surely be ‘Yes.’ Enterprises strive to tell us what is special and unique about their offering, but do this in a way so formulaic that it often seems simply cut and pasted from the last job done by the website agency.
Invasion of the Tragically Unhip Uncles
As a teenager did you ever get passionate about a favorite band or singer? You must remember that feeling of wanting to tell the whole world how wonderful they are. But then when the world started listening too, you experienced that slight feeling of disappointment: Now that all the grey and ordinary people have tuned into your passion, and suddenly you don’t feel so passionate!
Fast and easy way to spot an ICO scam
Becoming familiar with the most common ICO templates, and what they look like in their unmodified forms, is a valuable tool in your scam-prevention arsenal. One common red flag is when the ICO has not changed the default images that come with the scheme. Let us demonstrate.
Where should you publish your crypto blog?
For companies that host their blog on Medium, users only spend a short amount of time on the company’s website. Instead of staying to read blog articles, users are sent off to another website. If a user arrived to a company’s website via a Google organic search, sending the user to another website may actually hurt that website’s ranking.
Is crypto all about wealth? Examining the Get Rich Kwik mentality
So if crypto isn’t just for the creation of overnight millionaires, what is it for? Many participants in the financial ecosystem predict a radically different scenario of ever-increasing normalization, and the opening up of mass usage of crypto currencies.
