initial coin offering

While the Cryptocurrency section of the forum is for general crypto discussion, this dedicated ICO Forum has been created for discussions, news, questions, and topics surrounding Initial Coin Offerings. There has been a huge influx of new ICO's being announced. When making any kind of financial...

What is an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a fundraising mechanism for new cryptocurrency projects, where the ICO releases underlying cryptocurrency coins/tokens in exchange for Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH). Investors send funds to a smart contract, which stores...

A startup named CoinDash halts its ICO, saying a hacker stole $7M by simply changing the Ethereum address on its site that was intended to receive ICO funds. The CoinDash social trading platform tells investors to stop sending money after the token sale garnered $6.4 million from early...

What is The Flippening? Bitcoin (BTC) currently trades for around $2700 USD and Ethereum (ETH) trades for around $330 USD. In terms of market capitalization, Bitcoin and Ethereum are coming closer to parity. Many believe this will signify Ethereum overtaking Bitcoin as the primary...

ICO  ( Initial Coin Offering ) is a term created to describe the many bitcoin clones and other “coin” clones that erupted over the years. Bitcoin is basically a distributed ledger that performs best as digital money  -  a simple example of the power of decentralization. Satoshi Nakamoto’s...