Ethereum was an ICO between July–August 2014 and not launched as a beta until May 2015 according to Wikipedia. It brought functional smart contracts and has been hugely important for the blockchain ecosystem.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
I see no mention of it being an ico ? but yes Ethereum brought in a bunch of new things to the block chain. Don't know of any other ICOs that have though.
It's listed here as the second ICO after Mastercoin. My point in bringing up Ethereum (and more specifically, the date) is that it's far too early to know if any of the ICOs we're seeing now will be valuable or not. It's much like angel investing. For every 10 or even 100, we may get a very real and important project that brings a lot of value to the world. We may not know that for several years.
They aren't all bad, even if most of them are.