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What Is Icos And What Is The Actual Need For Them?

By Alex D White


Initial Coin offerings otherwise known as ICOs, is a method of raising money for a business, without offering people with any kind of business assets from the firm or the ownership rights. However, the process is not as simple as it sounds as there are several things that you need to know before you start investing or look to invest in any of the digital currencies offered to you by a firm.

Although people made a lot of assumptions on the value and the future profits of Bitcoins, it is found that the value of the cryptocurrency is still increasing on a day to day basis. Concerning the profit that it has given as a cryptocurrency, it has also enforced other companies to take advantage of a unique tool i.e. Initial Coin offerings or the ICOs.

The popularity of Bitcoin was such, that there was a huge probability that you already know a person that is into mining or is a miner. The growth of digital currencies has increased over the years and it is found that there are around 600 kinds of digital currencies available in the world. Moreover, they have simply improved from being just a payment option to becoming an investment option to get huge returns.

Instead of giving out equity shares of the company, it looks to offer people with digital coins or tokens, in return of their investment. Now as you have the tokens you can either use to make transaction in the company products or buy their services. The SEC has taken up the steps to regulate the process of exchange or any transaction, thus the process definitely becomes very legit and trustworthy.

ICOs, perform the same function but with a different exchange, as they do not offer the buyers with shares and stocks for the investment they make. However, buyers of ICOs are paid with digital coins or tokens issued by a particular company, now as the company becomes successful in the future the value of the digital coins offered by them will simultaneously increase.

The process at which ICOs function is often considered similar to the IPOs that offered buyers to buy shares and stocks when they purchased things from them. Instead ICOs do not provide the buyers with any type of cash flow and or ownership rights with the company. However, despite of this it was found that ICOs were able to generate a lot of money this year itself.

One of the most important reasons behind the increase in the value of ICOs is the increasing value of Bitcoins. When investors choose to buy ICOs, they put their money by making an estimate on the increasing value of the particular cryptocurrency in the upcoming future to make profit. As the value of Bitcoins has reached new heights in terms of cryptocurrencies, people look to invest on other cryptocurrencies influenced by the profits of investing in ICOs.

Now, every time there is a transaction made with a cryptocurrency, there is a new blockchain created, which is permanent, thus no such transaction can be reversed. This also serves as a benefit to keep the transaction legitimate. Every individual that is a part of the blockchain has access to the information every time a transaction is made. Along with this, it is also found that implying the blockchain technology also helps you to avoid taking the help of a third party organisation to help you with the transaction. This simply eliminates the fee or cost of transactions. This simply means that using the ICOs, transactions become easier, they are quicker, more secured and available at low cost.




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