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Had to dig around 3 sites before finding a definition for ICO: ICO (Initial Crypto-Token Offering) refers to financing through the issuance of encrypted tokens
by nickserv 9y ago
Had to dig around 3 sites before finding a definition for ICO:
ICO (Initial Crypto-Token Offering) refers to financing through the issuance of encrypted tokens (Crypto-Token).
- jpatokal 9y agoOriginally Initial Coin Offering, but that's been retrofitted to a less securities-y definition.
- vortico 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Coin_Offering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Coin_Offering People should really learn to define acronyms before using them in all writing mediums. I don't care if the author has used the term 10,000 with colleagues, he should still define them upon their first use in the article body.
- alex_duf 9y agoThanks. I read the whole article wondering what on earth it meant. Then I went on Wikipedia which is usually pretty good with TLAs (Three Letters Acronyms). So I made a point in reading the whole article just to figure out if they were at least defining it loosly... there's that: >ICOs involve raising funding by creating and selling new crypto tokens — commonly based on Ethereum — to investors Which is not really in depth. It got me wondering if the person writing it understood what it meant. Please don't do that when you write, always assume the person you're writing for doesn't know what you're talking about.
- jjonas19 9y agooh wait till you see the list of running ICOs... https://www.coingecko.com/ico https://www.coingecko.com/ico