The Reason Why ICOs Have Been Going Through The Roof...

in #ico7 years ago

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

First it was Pets.com, and all the unbelievably stupid Internet businesses in the 1990s.

Investors were so eager to buy dot-com stocks, all you had to do was put an “e” in front of your business or product and you’d immediately be worth millions.

It didn’t matter that most of these companies didn’t make any money. Investors kept buying.

Later on after the dot-com bubble burst, another big craze developed in junior mining stocks – shares of small exploration companies looking for big mineral deposits.

The epicenter of the junior mining industry is in Vancouver, Canada, and the stock exchange there (TSX-V) throttled to record highs.

Shares of companies with literally no profits, no revenue, and no assets were worth tens of millions of dollars.

Then that bubble burst.

A few years later, a new hot craze developed– in cannabis companies.

The market has been flooded with companies (many of them curiously based in Canada’s poor climate and high cost structure) with plans to grow medicinal marijuana.

Their stock prices have soared, with valuations in some cases exceeding $1 billion.

Every time the bubble bursts with these big trends, most of the companies get wiped out.

Only a handful survive– primarily the ones who focused on building long-term, sustainable businesses instead of chasing a quick buck.

From the ashes of the dot-com bubble, companies like Amazon, Godaddy, eBay, etc. emerged in-tact and are still successful today.

Similarly, while many junior mining companies went completely bust, a handful are still operating and quite profitable.

And there will be a few extremely successful cannabis companies over the next several years who step over the remains of their innumerable, defunct competitors.

Clearly today’s big craze is crypto and blockchain.
Like the dot-com bubble in the 90s, you could add the concept of blockchain to just about anything and have a ‘business’ worth millions, no matter how idiotic the original idea.

(Someone will soon pitch me an idea for an app to publish grocery lists into the blockchain. It’s absurd.)

And like all the other big investment fads in the past, most of the companies in this space won’t exist a few years from now.

There are lot of reasons for that, starting with the fact that building a business is hard.

I’ve done it successfully a few times. And unsuccessfully more times that I care to remember: it’s incredibly difficult, so the odds are against most of these companies anyhow.

But more importantly, these big investment fads always attract people looking to make a quick buck. And that doesn’t work in the long-run.

Case in point: earlier this week a company called HIVE Blockchain Technologies went public.

It’s stock price is already up over 3x… since MONDAY, from an opening of 62 cents to $1.89.

Just prior to that, the company closed a private placement at 30 cents… and a few months ago the company was selling shares between 1 and 3 cents.

In other words, a handful of speculators made more than 600x their money in just a few months with a company that has ZERO revenue, simply because ‘Blockchain’ is so popular right now.

This has become the norm in the world of crypto and blockchain.

ICOs, another hot crypto fad, have been racking up huge returns of their own.

‘Tokens’ issued by crypto startups that have no profit or revenue are seeing similar gains of 2x to 10x or more in a very short period of time.

In the case of HIVE, the company is in the business of mining cryptocurrency.

And based on its current stock price, HIVE is worth close to $400 million.Yet its own financial statements report that they have not generated a penny in revenue.What’s more, the company’s “illustrative results” show that they -could- make around $7 million per year.

So investors are already paying 57x that amount before the company even gets started.

Even more curious, HIVE’s only real asset is its client relationship with a company called Genesis, one of the largest crypto mining companies in the world (and also a major shareholder in HIVE).

Genesis has more than a million customers who pay an up-front, flat-fee to have the company mine cryptocurrency on their behalf.

HIVE is now essentially a customer of Genesis.

So investors are essentially buying shares of HIVE at a price that’s 57x what the company says it -could- be making (but isn’t) by having Genesis mine cryptocurrency for them.

Seems like investors could save themselves the trouble (and forgo the 57x share price markup) by simply becoming direct customers of Genesis themselves.

Who knows… maybe HIVE is the real deal. Maybe it’s the rare eBay or Amazon that emerges from the bubble in-tact and successful.

But this is a pretty clear example of the irrationality that ensues every single time there’s some white-hot investment fad.

After a hiatus of many, many, many moons, I blew the dust off my microphone and recorded a new podcast about this topic.

It wasn’t so much a podcast as a heated rant against this ridiculous bubble… and a clear explanation of precisely WHY so many crypto assets are generating unbelievable returns.

You can download it here.

Source : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-23/reason-why-icos-have-been-going-through-roof

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Great article and this is precisely the reason for all the negative pub regarding ICOs. I know there have been quite a few from China that have simply been money grads when looked into. This is like anything else, when something is successful, everyone tries to copy it for a quick buck which attracts those with no scruples.

Great article? wow are you all blind? Youre all prasiing this steemit user like he wrote this ! HE DIDNT WRITE THIS he barely writes ANY of his posts! theiy all clearly state 'authored by SOMEONE ELSE from SOME IOTHER WEBSITE and thats NOT OK he cant just keep getting paid for posting other peoples articles! thats not what steemit is about, steemit isnt just a place to repost other peoples work and get paid for it, wtf, i actually take the time to write my posts, and this guy just reposts other peoples ork, i think many steemit whales would be very upset to see someone getting rich making thousands of steemopower just posting other peoples work.....

I think that like in every business the best projects will survive while others will die. I dont think it is a bubble, I believe that it is revolutionary way so that an ordinary people can invest in businesses in which they believe. Of course, there are awful crypto companies but everybody choose in what he/she will invest.

@zer0hedge, I definitely agree with you that there are several companies that are absolutely doing nothing not even in concept stage and its crypto is 10x or 40x, and this shows that many may fail. Only the ones with most potential will succeed. We have to get more intelligent to see the good ones in the long run. Just upvoted. @gold84

Agree with who??/ @zer0hedge didnt write this article! Why are you all talking to him like he writes this shit? he just copy and pastes the articles from other websites, he's a theif, he steals content and gets paid for it!

Nice summary of all past bubbles and crypto icos bubbling right now. It is sad how easy ppl get manipulated :/ I hope that ends soon, because we really lack of trust and healthness.

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Great post. It's definitely a repeat of the dotcom bubble.

he didnt write it....he copied it word for word from Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, and its making me pissed since I write all my pots and everyone I know on steemit writes their posts and this guy is not only impersonating the real zerohedge but hes also fucking just copy pasting others articles and making like $50 to $100 posting 3 times a day with OTHER peoples work, and its wrong, and its lazy, he adds nothing of his own, its fucking crazy wtf why are people giving him upvotes? They think its the real zero hedge thats why

As a customer of Genesis I am happy to read that! So no HIVE for me...

I have made an infographic on ICOs. I'd be happy if you'd take a look if I am missing something...

https://steemit.com/ico/@bitcoinblase/how-icos-work-an-infographics

Estoy conociendo este mundo de ICO, y su articulo me parece muy
interesante y de lo poco que he leído es un negocio que a pesar de lo que se hable de el siempre existirá.
Algunos triunfaran, otros se llevaran las monedas, el asunto es que Los ICOS son una pieza importante de las criptomoedas.
En este momento esta en su etapa ICO https://sphere.social que se creo como una red social que pagara a los usuarios por interactuar con la pagina.

WTF so where is @cheetah or @steemcleaners to flag this as copy paste ? wtf its totally stolen from https://www.sovereignman.com/podcast/077-the-reason-why-icos-have-been-going-through-the-roof-22420/ and just because the link is on the page doesnt mean its ok,

this is really upsetting that this user is making this much money off of just posting other peoples work

so I will just start reposting your posts on my blog ok? I wont need your permission since you dont ask permission to make money off of other peoples work,

you see how messed up that is/ Imagine if we all just started doing what tyou do, you realize how unethical it is? Stop posting other peoples articles as your own or I will start calling the attention of some big whales who will not appreciate seeing this

you better actually put it in quotes in markdown so its CLEAR that its fuckin NOT your article, and you need to ADD YOUR OWN words AT LEAST as much as the text your "citing" yeah sorry but you cant just post other peoples articles like this and expect to just keep making $100+ a day, no you have to actually do work, no more bullshit, you are not helping steemit when you are lazy like that,
trust me youve only gotten away with this for this long because youve flown under the radar, you realy can't keep doing this, peopple assume youre writing these articles....you know its wrong

.....youre abusing your power on steemit

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