Whistling Past the ICO Graveyard

How many initial coin offerings have failed to date? Depends on whom you ask.

According to Dead Coins, a curated list of blockchain failures, the number is 868 as of Sunday. Coinopsy, which calls itself a “cryptocurrency biopsy,” says 280 tokens or coins show one or more of the following signs of failure: “abandoned, scammed, website dead, no nodes, wallet issues, no social updates, low volume or developers have walked away from the project.”

Whether it’s an ICO or an initial public offering, what’s old is new again.

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