I feel it s better value to buy older coins that crashed than to look at 99% of ico right now

Well it depends how you look at it. Good icos are still profitable alot, you just have to adjust and cherry pick them as there is bunch of ICOs going atm.Some of them like cardstack,eximchain,endor,atonomi will still bring you more money then investing $ in blue chips...
Btw check also ocean protocol WL registrations are opened on 15th Feb...

Think even some of these good ico's are going to end up bad. Artificial discounts, no real products, no real partnerships. Have to be careful.

ICOguru is my favorite of the ico listings. the difference is in projects. There're not too many but all of them do have a great idea behind of it

Me and a lot of sports card guys got in on Timicoin (healthcare platform coin). We are waiting for the coins to hit the market soon. They signed up ufc fighter / commentator guy Bisping too. Here's hoping for a moon shot.

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So all of these ICO's are total **** in comparison to bitcoin at this point. Is the main reason people are investing in these because there's a bigger chance to 10x? Or do people actually think some ICO's have groundbreaking tech?

90% for the 100X 10% for the tech.
And many company with decent tech ruin it with useless token to abuse the ICO system.

Has any coin recommended here made vs lost money? What is the average return of the ICOs mentioned here?

ICOs seem like the worst possible "investment" or even get rich trade you could make.

This thread sux so not many recommendation here, check wanchain if you want to see one of the few coin mentioned

Clueless statement, alot of ICOs have had insane returns. I expect them to get worse overtime once it s established that 99% are worthless moneygrab, but even in the current bear market ICOs have a decent potential maybe event without being that selective.

Disagree with the not having to be selective part. Agree with the rest.

Bad icos are easy to talk about and point out. With good ones you are incentivized to keep it to yourself. The last one I did was Fusion, and telling people about it on a forum could only lessen the amount you were able to invest.

I said notthat selective.

Virtually none of these companies have much of a development team, so how can they have groundbreaking tech?

What virtually all of them do have is a substantial marketing team to create buzz and sell their tokens. Most amusing (to me) is that many of them don't even disclose who the hell is in charge and owns the company, it's just a mystery as to where the money ends up and who makes the decisions.

And ultimately, just because a company has groundbreaking tech doesn't mean that the token they sell to the masses is worth anything. The token represents no stake in the company.

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pundi x having a good time lately.
icos are doing fine...or at least no worse than the rest of the market. looks like altseason might be here though so icos could become exciting again.

atm waiting on simplyvitalhealth ico and not much else. was gonna buy into neon exch but i didn't like that you had to download extensions and grant permissions so i skipped it.

NEX is free money if you got through the lottery, although that extension is ******ed.

Switcheo is pretty decent so far and is getting some nice first mover advantage over NEX.

after skipping nex i think i'm passing on all these exchanges and decentralised exchanges for the time being. im sure most of them will do well but i imagine bigger gains elsewhere.

missed the atonomi whitelist. had been interested but forgot all about it.

simplyvitalhealth finally has a date (may 21). been waiting ages for that.

buy some BNB to anticipate their DEX

I also missed it.
Although there were high ratings:
https://cryptototem.com/ico-pundi-x/

I'm jelly that I did not have time.
"Jan 20, 2018 – Jan 30, 2018"
I think there will be a strong project with a strong team.

anyone have thoughts on open platform?

they ended up not doing a public ico, but it's been on kucoin for 10 days and price is looking attractive now.
anyone buying/keeping an eye on it? im picking up a bag now if my eth deposit ever appears :|