ICO Whitepapers Blog
Voting Determines the Conversation: How to Think About Staking Tokens
Originally published on Irish Tech News. Why has democracy left us more divided than ever? As we in the cryptocurrency industry think about staking tokens, it’s important to recognize how we got where we are today, and to set up our new systems so they won’t repeat...
ICO Checklist: What’s Essential, What’s Important, and When to Stay Away (or get help!)
Are you a blockchain initiative founder trying to figure out if your project has got the right stuff to move forward? Did a relative or old family friend ask you to invest in his ICO? Did he tell you his project is primed to change the way...
Exposé: the source of crappy tokenomics
Usually, when someone tells us they haven't figured out the tokenomics model for their ICO whitepaper, it turns out they are simply trying to do something illogical. They had discussed it internally and someone heard something from someone and...
There is no two-token economy
There’s no such thing as a two-token economy The moment the SEC stopped talking and started issuing summons’, the US-based ICO-in-progress companies panicked. For 2 weeks, almost 3, nobody in the US was asking me about ICO whitepapers. Next, they capitulated, and we...
Temporary Problems in Crypto: Volatility, Accessibility, and Liquidity
It's ironic that I'm writing this blog post during a week where I literally lost my entire profit margin on Bitcoin and Ether currency fluctuations. Between the time a client paid me and I pulled the money out to pay the writer, zip, it was gone. So it's ironic,...
Extra quality control for ICO whitepaper writing
We've been going through tremendous change at IwriteICOwhitepapers.com, and we wanted to let you know about the improvements we've recently implemented in order to serve you better and provide better ICO whitepapers and ICO whitepaper writing quality to you. First of...
Finally! A proven token economy!
I have finally found a proven, working token economy! Now bear with me. Every day I have 2-10 conversations about tokenomics with people who want to write an ICO whitepaper, or with people who want to do an ICO, or with my ICO whitepaper writers. One thing I'm...
The Cliché Parade: Ideas I hear every week
Sometimes I think the main purpose of this blog is to deter people from calling me and asking for an ICO whitepaper. In this blog, I'll cover ideas that I've heard repeatedly, so if you are considering an ICO in one of these spaces, well, I would say stop, unless you...
A parable about a central bank
A parable about a central bank “Don’t you think our business model can work?” asked the founder. “Yes, I think your business model can work. But you aren’t talking to me like a business. You are talking to me like a central bank,” I said. “A business would say that...
Should you consider an equity token?
Why you should be considering an equity token Because you’re a traditional centralized business. And you don’t want to get in trouble next year. At this point, we are getting 3 to 5 ICO whitepaper inquiries per day. Even on Sundays. And Christmas. Everybody seems to...
Unsolicited opinions, ICOs for notary public
In this week's ICO whitepaper blog, we take a deeper dive into one industry: the legal profession. This contribution is by one of our staff writers at IwriteICOwhitepapers.com. We now have a staff of 5 writers with experience in technology, finance, marketing,...
Do you even need an ICO?
Now that launching an ICO takes $250,000 and at least three months, is it still the right way to fundraise for you? It's no longer just about launching a website and a whitepaper. Today's ICOs take 3-6 months to pull together for a team working full-time, and tend to...
Process for creating an ICO whitepaper
With ICO hype at a maximum, we are getting daily requests for ICO whitepapers, and we are taking on as many as we can. Usually, the deadlines are tight. and it's important to be prepared for the process if you want to make sure your ICO whitepaper is ready for the...
The secret to great token mechanics
Last week, I talked about bad token mechanics, which is the case in many of the ICO whitepapers I've read. So how do you create a great token economy? Actually it's pretty simple: create an organization that actually needs a token to function. What does that mean? The...
Your token mechanics suck and you’re going to fail
Your token mechanics suck and you're going to fail Statistically speaking, it's true. In about 80% of the white papers I read or am contracted to write, the token mechanics make no sense (we fix that, of course). And we all know that 90-98% of businesses fail, so...
Unsolicited advice: your ICO and the future
The top ICOs, as I pointed out in my previous post, have a compelling vision of the future. Again, I am following up with examples of upcoming ICOs to give you insight on your own ICO, and how you can become epic. Note that I will never comment on my clients’ iCOs or...
Where are you going? ICO whitepapers and the future
By nature, an ICO whitepaper is proposing a new future for something. Sometimes, it's just the future of a particular business, but just as often it's the future of an industry. Industry experts and innovators are speculating on how blockchain and distributed ledger...
Unsolicited opinion: Product-Market Fit
In last week's post, I talked about Product-Market fit as the most important part of an ICO whitepaper. I'd like to follow up with examples of upcoming ICOs to give you insight on your own ICO, and how you can become epic. Note that I will never comment on my clients'...
The most important part of an ICO whitepaper
At this week's World Blockchain Forum in London I was frequently asked "What's the most important part of an ICO whitepaper?" At first I had to think, because I realized that what my brain immediately thought about was what's important to purchasers of your token. But...