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by r00fus 2977 days ago
> ICOs are stupid, but really easy to avoid

The cancer analogy is relation to the financial markets as a whole. Once people make more and more money from ICOs, they reinvest and push aside other more legitimate/productive forms of making money until there's nothing but ICO activity - investors who didn't jump on get FOMO and add to the new tide.