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Are there any ICOs which resulted in a successful product? Please exclude crypto-exchanges like Binance.

Brave Browser / Basic attention Token is very successful although in it's early days

But Brendan Eich, the founder of the project, is much more experienced then any random ICO project founder in this space

I'm not sure he will succeed where Flattr failed, but we'll see !

Check out how many websites are already Brave/BAT publishers: https://batgrowth.com/publishers

Vice - freeCodeCamp - BitTorrent - xhamster - The Guardian - Washington Post - TinyUrl - JS Bin - Sitepoint - Smashing Magazine and much more are already verified publishers...

Even dappradar.com that was quoted in this thread !

Indeed. I am curious to see how brave turns out. Right now I don't use it as it feels too bulky and I don't want to mess with bookmark exports - who knows maybe that will change.

Wait so BAT with its $250M market cap has < 600 sites in the Alexa top 1 million??? That's like 6 hundreths of a percent. That's a terrible rate of adoption considering the hype behind BAT.

>Wait so BAT with its $250M market cap has < 600 sites in the Alexa top 1 million??? That's like 6 hundreths of a percent. That's a terrible rate of adoption considering the hype behind BAT.

The script is still running at the moment, right now it's 600 sites in the top 230k, around 0.25%

The cron job should be over by tomorrow

Golem is live. Augur is going live today. MakerDAO has a very interesting stablecoin called Dai that's live. Status' mobile app is now mainnet by default. DigixDAO is live. And many more in testnet phases. But don't let reality mess with the cynical perception that the hn crowd wants to portray!

Oh good, all of those blockchains actually function.

That totally means that they are worth investing in and that the people who created them give a damn about turning it into something more than an ICO...

The question was about success, not trivial viability as a blockchain product.

Is Golem actually cheaper than just renting servers from AWS?

MakerDAO and DigixDAO are just cryptocurrencies, they don't actually do anything as far as I can tell.

Both Augur [0] and MakerDAO [1] have centralized points of failure that would allow the owners of the contracts that define the tokens to halt transfers, withdraw funds, or in the case of MakerDAO, mint tokens out of thin air.

[0] https://etherscan.io/address/0x9f8f72aa9304c8b593d555f12ef65... (Line 453) [1] https://github.com/AugurProject/augur-core/search?q=onlyInBa...

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