user3945: When you invest in an ICO, you get a bunch of tokens in return. From what I understand, these tokens don't generate any dividends, hence they are essentially worthless. Why should one buy them?
Let's compare with buying stocks in a company: The reason company shares have any value is because of dividends (or other profit sharing methods). If a company promises to never distribute any profit to its shareholders, the stock is worth exactly zero. No one would buy them.
I'm trying to make sense of this and I'm certainly missing something here.

user12983: Do crypto-coins themselves (bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and 100500 other shitcoins) generate dividends? :))))))))
the answer is: ponzi pyramid scheme. point.

user59743: From a investors perspective, : You buy them because you speculate that the tokens will go up in value over time, as the company behind it develops the usecase of said "Product/Token".
Or, because they suspect that the Token/Coin/Blockchain will get adapted by alot of people/users, and used as a Currency.  
For example, Ethereum.
It was first launched as an ICO, and collected ~$17.3M USD (24000 bitcoin at the time.).
Almost nothing worked when it was first launched, but the coin/token developed over time, adding more features such as the  smart contracts, all the apps build on Ethereum, and resolving many other issues.
Thus it became more popular, and was used more, and value went up.
(Ethereum currently has a ROI of ~85714.2857143%, if you kept holding since the ICO.)
This is why ICO's are hyped up so much currently, which is both bad and good.
There's token sales for anything you can think of, "decentralized this, decentralized that", you have to ask yourself how legit that is, and if it is worth investing your time and money in, because afterall, it is still a huge risk.

3945: <p>When you invest in an ICO, you get a bunch of tokens in return. From what I understand, these tokens don't generate any dividends, hence they are essentially worthless. Why should one buy them?</p>

<p>Let's compare with buying stocks in a company: The reason company shares have any value is because of dividends (or other profit sharing methods). If a company promises to never distribute any profit to its shareholders, the stock is worth exactly zero. No one would buy them.</p>

<p>I'm trying to make sense of this and I'm certainly missing something here.</p>
 12983: <p>Do crypto-coins themselves (bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and 100500 other shitcoins) generate dividends? :))))))))</p>

<p>the answer is: ponzi pyramid scheme. point.</p>
 59743: <p>From a investors perspective, : You buy them because you speculate that the tokens will go up in value over time, as the company behind it develops the usecase of said "Product/Token".</p>

<p>Or, because they suspect that the Token/Coin/Blockchain will get adapted by alot of people/users, and used as a Currency.  </p>

<p>For example, Ethereum.</p>

<p>It was first launched as an ICO, and collected ~$17.3M USD (24000 bitcoin at the time.).</p>

<p>Almost nothing worked when it was first launched, but the coin/token developed over time, adding more features such as the  smart contracts, all the apps build on Ethereum, and resolving many other issues.</p>

<p>Thus it became more popular, and was used more, and value went up.</p>

<p>(Ethereum currently has a ROI of ~85714.2857143%, if you kept holding since the ICO.)</p>

<p>This is why ICO's are hyped up so much currently, which is both bad and good.</p>

<p>There's token sales for anything you can think of, "decentralized this, decentralized that", you have to ask yourself how legit that is, and if it is worth investing your time and money in, because afterall, it is still a huge risk.</p>
