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If regulation never come anytime sooner can we protect ourselves? how can we protect ourselves from crypto monsters hiding in disguise, especially bounty projects coming into crypto space with full force, any ideas ? I know many are going to say we should do better research before promoting projects, is there any strict blows we can give these monsters by ourselves ?

The exchanges who are doing all these IEO will protect you. As good as it may sound, these exchanges are the ones also going to hurt you specially because you are submitting IDs to them. Whoever started this IEO had it in mind to put some strict blows to all. Just stick to the big exchange who does the IEO.

If crypto regulation never comes there is nothing we can do to tackle scammers, with even regulations i bet it won't be that effective, scammers will always have their ways to prey on victims, if its a must for you to invest then go to huobi or binance and participate in their IEO projects

Then we will get used to today's conditions. Actually, it's not a bad idea. I think the market is not very compatible with intervention. If there is an intervention in the sense of restriction, I think it does not have very healthy results.

The space is still young, so also is the IEO,ICO and altcoins (less than 4 years). The regulations may likely start from America towards other countries. The prosecution and discovery going on in the space  will help to enact effective laws that will control crimes in coming years. Since America is leading the campaign it will help the adopt in other smaller countries

Simple,don't invest on them because 99% if the time investors will lose their capital so if we don't give any chance for those scammers to make money then we can protect the whole crypto market from the crisis.

Regulations even can't stop them if people keep losing money on their hands.

Protect our funds, yes.
Very simple.
Don't join those suspicious bounties. Yes, they might be hiding and disguising but you have to analyze each project and bounty that you join.
File a scam accusation and warn others about them.

Regulation may have to come in if we are to see BTC cross $100k. As it is now, governments cannot trust what they cannot control so that future of regulation is bleak unless governments start creating their own cryptocurrency but even that is no guarantee as they can as well ban other coins that is not created by them

the safest is to follow IEO on large exchanges such as Binance and HUOBI. Exchanges that carry out IEO with high credibility will protect investors compared to having to follow the ICO which is clearly a hotbed of scammers who are now no longer trusted. The rules made will not affect scammers, we must be smarter than scammers so that the crypto ecosystem does not become a scammer's lair.

If regulations never come, there is nothing investors or promoters of a scam project can do rather than to move on. If regulations never come, crypto mainstream adoption won't be possible. I really think we need some regulations since crypto enthusiasts have suffered a lot from fake projects with fake teams. Let's hope things get better in the long run.

Don't think negative, regulation will eventually come because crypto market is already getting bigger now.
The government will ensure that people especially the investors will get protection when they risk their money into investments in the space.

It's impossible that the government will not get involve because this industry has grew into a billion dollars industry, there's a lot of money created and they can benefit from taxing the people. As they do their job to protect, they can also get the benefit of it through taxes, so we have to expect for that to come. While market is not fully regulated, we should be smart this time and only choose the investment that we think has a potential, and I think this time is quite safer compared to ICO since crowdsale are done in exchanges.

You can still protect yourself and you should not feel worried about that because so many services have been putting their main concern to provide the best audit service to avoid any scam or untrusted projects. But for bounty, you can't protect yourself caused by that depends on how you can try to do the best analyzation to gather the best project.
Just look at the team and what the team has already made.

We have seen how vultures take advantage of every situations, like what happen in 2017. So It will be very difficult unless somewhat calls the project early and expose the bad entity behind.


This is the only weapon we have, research and educate ourselves and look for tell tale signs of a possible scam projects. This is an open market, so we are like in a jungle, one needs to be careful walking around because there's a lot of wolves in sheep's clothing. Perhaps you can go around the community and ask for their insights if you have doubts about a certain project. There are a lot of experience members here that can smell a scam project from afar.

I agree with you and most IEO exchanges will protect you. Well not really you but themselves from getting a bad name if they start running crappy IEOs projects or scams. This is much better than nothing and at least you know thet coin/token will be listed. You are right and these exchanges will have your KYC and this is why I do not believe in KYC and will not join a KYC exchange.

The answer basically is yes. But, it depends on how we receive and do actions, including how our strategy and carefulness in selecting the project, whether it is legit, scam, or failed one. Waiting for the exact regulation may need more and more times, and we can't wait for longer time to protect ourselves.



What do you mean of the crypto monster? The scammers?
If related to the bounty itself, choosing the bounty with weekly payment, especially with a top coin or traded coin will be worthier to follow.


Well, probably doing research and analysis is classic, but it is really really important to be done.
The analysis is not only to know about what the project offers and how its roadmap, but also analyzing their team whether they are a real person or not, checking the wallet transaction of the project whether it is normal or natural or not. Being active on their telegram channel and other social media will also help up to know more about this project. And of course, it is better to put our participation in the project in which there are the team members that have previous good track records developing the successful projects.

Reason why IEO did succeed due to this one reason.We know on what happened with ICO where lots of investors lose up millions of dollars due to these fraud projects.
IEO do have some cons too but it much way more better than that traditional ico we've known. Frauds do still come though even how good it is.
We might not able to see it directly but to those ieo projects been dumping hard we wouldn't even know if that was been part of the scheme or just typical effect of the bear market.

or avoid them entirely.  why risk it if you're already doubtful in the first place. these shitty projects will eventually vanish if people started ignoring them.

If regulation is not placed, you are still protected under the law. It does not really need crypto regulations for anyone to be protected against scammers. Regulation is not needed against projects that get investments from people only to end up vanishing after acquiring a huge sum. Regulation is not needed either against projects that use huge popular companies as well as fake identities and partnerships in their marketing in order to gain the trust of investors.

Sue them in the proper courts and they will still be dealt with properly with or without regulation.

No there is not any strict measure to protect ourselves from scammers other than we become much aware about crypto fraud, fraud projects. Indeed regulations will help control crypto fraud. Still then there maybe scammers. So it is a better way to educate ourselves about cryptocurrency and do research before investing and doing bounty campaigns.

You have to change your mindset first, forget the profit thing that you wanted when you try to promote bounty program. At least it will make you thinking hard to pick a good bounty with a good team and the project is deserve to promote. Because what is happening now, I see many bounty hunters who choose bounty program just only side profit.

 I mean they are only see the distribution of tokens first and see the highest paying that will be choose and forget to make an analyst about the ins and out of the project. This thing is applies also to new project investors the analsyt factor is really important and in order to reduce the scam project.

Just like you have said, conducting a research before joining an altcoin project is the best way not to fall a victim of scams. Know the team as much as they claim they want to know you through KYC and don't fall for too good to be true projects.  Although there might be regulations as goes by but to what extent will it be effective.

I don't think that is an option — for the regulation not to come, I mean. If people keep supporting cryptocurrencies, and new users continue to arrive, crypto will eventually grow big enough that regulators won't have a choice but to figure out how to regulate it. They might not know how to do it right now, or they might be purposefully delaying it, hoping that people will just give up out of fear or skepticism. Sticking with crypto through thick and thin is the answer, in my opinion.

Many exchanges are doing the sales now which we call IEO.
Though this is not a good thing for the bounty hunter, Yes they might be more secure to join the project now BUT.
This also lessen the budget for the bounty campaigns.

While full regulation has not come yet, we can only rely on ourselves and in order not to lose, we need to be smart.
Change our way of thinking, never think that investing in crypto gives easy money as that kind of mentality will usually lead us to failures.

I don't think it will never come, it's just delayed because if they will regulate, they will have to study the market first so they can employ
an effective law to regulate the market, and it will take time as they are protecting here the majority and the law should be easy to comply and that it would help the crypto market to grow.

Bitcoin can protect itself from the governments. As long as there is an internet connection, bitcoin will be running by itself, and I think the government will be hard to control bitcoin. It will help bitcoin if the government can protect and support bitcoin, so people don't have to worry about the bad things. It will differ if we talk about the bounty projects because the projects need to be controlled, so they don't scam people. People will feel safer if the government can manage the projects and will do something if the project scam the people.

No matter how much research you indulge in before investing in a project, you can never be 100% sure about a certain ICO or IEO. If you are going ahead with investment in a particular project, then always keep in mind that there is a certain amount of risk involved. There is no method available, which can reduce this level of risk to zero.

From the start all we know that nothing is secured and safe here in crypto world. In terms of investing bounty or in holding. We all know that regulation is really far from the reality. And that is already expected from the start because all we know that many countries and government are against crypto specially bitcoin and altcoin. To protect your self? I think you need to study first and have some research before investing.

self regulated and being decentralized are i guess have a difference  . i am more convince that cryptos were unregulated but still some of them are regulated or those coins that are centralized  .

 those centralized coins can be called self regulated i guess  ?   other stuffs related to cryptos and blockchain like for example trading exchanges  , wallets , sites  .  most of them are regulated  but people dont really have a big problem on them   .

I think cryptocurrency can protect itself because cryptocurrency is decentralized and nothing can control cryptocurrency.
We have a big way to use cryptocurrency and as long as we have that way, cryptocurrency will still available although many countries will ban.
People will think that the regulations cannot stop them from using the cryptocurrency.
But if we talk about the project, then I think we will see many more projects that can scam people, and people will not trust cryptocurrency.
I think the exchanges will make the regulation for every project that wants to get listed in their site, and the project needs to obey the rule if they want to see their project get listed.
That will prevent the participants from getting scam by the project because at least, they will feel that there is a protection to them if somehow the project wants to scam them.

Just be vigilant in every work and decision you made, specially crypto investing, Because while we are involve in cryptocurrency investment we should know the risk associated with it in the very beginning specially now that the regulation in cryptocurrency industry is not yet implemented if we are doing bounty works observe due deligence everytime we choose the bounty campaign to prevent any problem in the future.

Regulation will surely come and if not the space itself will set it own standard.

I do think investors and bounty hunters need to be wise now, not every project worth participating in, another thing tha I observe is that there most people are impatient with the team, they have other thing to do and even have there own personally life to look after, give them time to get things right

We need to checking about any new crypto project first.
Whales can change price of any crypto Currencies

I research some project like cca or axe or...

That was ok

We ourselves cannot effectively protect ourselves from cryptocurrency scammers. Using the Internet, scammers can be around the world and it is very difficult to install. Only law enforcement agencies can fight them, and then, if most states join their efforts for this.
This year alone, various sorts of scammers stole more than $ 4.3 billion in cryptocurrency. Theft of any property, whatever it is expressed, has always been a crime, and therefore the state for a long time can not stand aside from this. In any case, the regulation of cryptocurrency by the states will be and will be very soon.

Regulations is needed inside ico's which mostly being penetrated by scammers, both bounty and investment needs to be done with good research in order to avoid ended up with nothing. You have to be careful investing your time and your money, there's a big space out there where both scammers and real developers are working , you need to be more selective from those target projects that you wanted to support.

To one degree or another, regulation is already here. Upbit and Okex exchanges are delisted anonymous coins, regulators had a direct hand in it, and the more their influence expands, the more it will be reflected on the market, primarily on exchanges. I think a lot of lawsuits will be filed next year specifically for cryptocurrency exchanges.

Until now there are no official regulations that govern cryptocurrency transactions that occur either, ico, ieo or trading, therefore we as cryptocurrency users must always be careful in making every transaction because every loss we experience is a risk that we must bear itself and every fraud that occurs in the world of cryptocurrency will be very impossible for us to track the perpetrators, so that, our lost assets will be very difficult for us to take back.

In the event that regulations never come, there is nothing investors or promoters of a trick project can do as opposed to proceed onward. In the event that regulations never come, crypto standard adoption won't be conceivable. I truly think we need a few regulations since crypto enthusiasts have experienced a ton phony projects with phony groups. We should trust things show signs of improvement over the long haul

Not specifically as a whole but they are implementing bit by bit since they are starting regulating local exchange already. Although crypto is indeed irreversable, untrackable (for identity of its users), however if all of exchanges are regulated by the government then for me it'll be a good thing for its users so that it'll be possible for those victim of scam to track the identity of scammer who scammed them.

In my opinion if regulation never comes then will be seeing enormous amount of scams project because guys who create scams coins have immunity from responsibility and the can easily cheat anyone. On the other hand it hard to understand for that the next bubble looks the same like the previous. I mean no regulations, plenty of scams and so on. To sum up regulations should be but very limited.

not today buddy, most of IEO now come from a stupid exchange, like coinsbit,yobit,pb2bp (i forgot what exactly name of that stupid exchange.)
and now, IEO have a same risk like a ICO.


yes, mostly people will do that.
but how about freshcomer ?
with dont know anything about what a good what a bad,well on 2017 i managed several project as a staff on their telegram and slack group.
and i know exactly what freshcomer do,they dont know anything!
some scammer using my name and another admin,then pm'ed investor,sadly, most of them has been scamed before i know.
and know , IEO has a same bad like ICO,
for example, just look stupid coinsbit.
they claim themself, The best cryptoexchange launched in 2018.
what a joke,we know exactly coinsbit just a shit exchange.
but how freshcomer think? new way for growing their pocket.


as long people still selfish, i guess regulation will never come true.

believe me it will be regulated because the government has no chance to stop digital currency
we will get there but don't buy too much because we don't know what will happen
maybe one day you wake up and the only coin that will be use is bitcoin or Ethereum
make sure what you are holding are usable in the future don't follow hearsay or videos
do your own research it will give you more knowledge and deep understanding of digital assets
currencies, because during this time self proclaim digital pro are all over the place spreading false news
 

Regulations are good and bad, it depends on the point of view.
If regulations come, we can expect a faster start of adoption, institutional investors will come, acceptance of cryptocurrencies by merchants, the possibility to receive salary in cryptocurrencies.
But, it will kill the nice idea of cryptocurrencies - be free.

The only way we can protect our self is just to involve our self with bitcoin investment alone, because without regulation and authority to be in charge of this scam case, scammer will keep flooding the market, but if we still want to be giving it the shut, then we have to really be prepared for the battle, and one of the weapon to use in the battle is strong research, we need to research on the project like it is our life or it is a treasure that we are looking for.

Researching on the project really goes beyond just opening their whitepaper, we have to go some extra length in making sure that the project we are researching on is really what it is said to be, and that it will surely have a promising future and a dedicated team that will never abandoned the project at any time.

In that case we have to st in a box with bitcoin and top altcoins only. We should not dare to invest in new project as day by day its becoming very difficult to identify scam projects and eventually we will fall into those.
Lets hope for the best, or the real gems in crypto anyways can save us.

Regulations are never going to be enough to stop the activities of scammers, cryptocurrencies by design cannot be controlled completely and even if enough regulation was put in place to stop a significant portion of the scammers in the market many bounty hunters are still going to choose to invest their time and efforts in projects that do not abide by those regulations, most likely because they do not want to go through know your customer policies that will have to be implemented if you want regulations to be put in place.

I don't think regulation will ever come, there is no company or country that offer regulation and there's even a guaranty that they can really manage all the crowdfunding that's coming in, they will just become a rating site.
It's just up to investors to take legal action if they want to file a suit, crowdfunding has become a free for all.

regulations starting to emerge after the hype of bitconi in 2017 but it's not universally regulated. what I mean is each country has already preparing regulation for their own citizens regarding cryptocurrency although the country that do so is only few but that's still regulation, even the KYC and AML is already universally required.

It is like you are already answering it all.
That is the best way for now.
We cannot hit back. It will be a long discussion and a lot of paper works to deal with and it is not our forte' to do that.
We are here to make money in a faster way although we are risking a lot. Going through scandalous trials will just mess it up and also our privacy being out just for the purpose of hitting back. Better to stay in the shadows.
Then, back to research. No good options for now or wait for them to be listed in a trusted exchange.
Remember, these exchange does their research too. That is to see the reliability of the project. They dont to list something which will not make them profits.

Do you really think regulators can stop these "monsters" you are talking about? They will always exist no matter how much policies and tougher regulations are done. You have to protect your own self from these bounty projects. It is your own responsibility to make sure you are joining the right campaign. The only strict blows you all can give is to avoid them at all cost.

there should be a way out despite the many variations, such as the United Nations was established to make regulations between countries,
if crypto has been recognized in many large countries, then it should be able to establish an institution that regulates cryptocurrency and monitors every coming ICO,
everything must be verified in advance to avoid scams, so if the project is a scam it can be accounted for

Regulation in the market is a big help to minimize the risk, we cannot totally wipe out the scams here but with regulation by the government, the scams will significantly reduce. This regulation are meant to minimize the risk as the government also know it's hard to stop all of them, with consequences these scammers will think twice before committing a crime because they will be penalize.

Investors needs regulation to protect them because not all of them are aware how risky the investing in the market, but with regulation they can trust the government as they know it's monitored by the government. Don't think regulation will never come because the government is already starting to regulate the market now, it might take time to fully regulate but good thing they started it already.

Are you serious? did you do it
it is speculation. although what has happened so far there are no regulations that govern, but I consider regulations important to suppress what happens to the market and the use of crypto globally and is recognized by everyone.

I call bullshit. even if there's a real crypto enthusiast that are really into crypto i'm pretty sure that they are not brainless people who just throwing away their money into garbage coin just because people afraid to buy it. you should consider people are afraid not because there's nothing there.
However regulation will indeed bring a more secured and legitimacy feeling but it's kinda restricting although if the scams are getting out of hand there's nothing we can do but to request for a regulation.

Sometimes we need regulation to prevent crypto used by scammers in disguise.
But regulation will make crypto more centralized, we must think about the regulation and keep crypto decentralized.
The bounty project listed on IEO is very good because exchange already verified the project.

I think the regulations is needed for ICOS to prevent those who want to scam investors and waste time of bounty hunters. Better participate on projects that will do an IEO on binance because you will surely get paid on bounties and a sure profit on investing.

If regulation never comes, you can protect yourself in only one way - to master all the necessary information regarding the work of the market and the monsters living on it.
Thus, it will become possible to follow a strategy that will allow you to earn money on the market based on an understanding of the logic of market players.
Without regulation, it will be impossible to make the crypto market stable. Its dynamics will repel ordinary people and attract manipulators. Therefore, I think that the market has no choice, sooner or later it will become regulated like any other financial market.

If I am not mistaken, you are waiting for a good regulation to come into market, in that case, you believe that it isn't safe here on crypto because of crypto monsters that you are mentioning, what about to stay to those that are already established way back before? Trade in binance, look market cap at coinmarketcap, store crypto in decentralized wallets. If you are afraid to take risk to support or utilize new projects, then do not, it's better to trust your intuition, than to make a big mistake so, what I can advise is for you to wait until your desired regulation is established.

If regulations is absent in this space we will never know who are the bad guys here. Our first defense should be thorough research and investigate before we invest in anything, this forum alone has good people helping exposing scams preventing scammers from luring victims.  

if the regression will never come, I guess what you call a monster is still free to carry out the action. I think what we can do to not be affected by the actions of these monsters is we must be strong in psychological terms, so that we are not affected by the FUD or FOMO news that they make

Regulations will be on the long time processing and this can be sort out in the near future. Projects are keep spawning the market and we can see the effect of it as volatile keeps spreading. Ive been here for a long time, its not bad so far actually cause before there are more than a lot of projects doesn't even got listed and no liquidity but now it improving. I just hate that too many projects are keep starting though they dont have any use case or real application.

In any case, states will be forced to regulate the activities of people in the field of cryptocurrency. This process has already begun, but it cannot be fast. It will take some time to complete it. Cryptocurrency is a completely new financial asset and the states simply did not know how to classify it and what to do with it. Gradually, states begin to understand the nature of cryptocurrency, a general concept of an approach to it is being developed. The cryptocurrency market is gradually growing, and therefore, states will be forced to turn their attention to it.
On the other hand, abuses in cryptocurrency have reached alarming proportions. Hackers, thieves, and scammers cause billions of dollars worth of damage to people. These are common crimes, albeit in a new field. They require a quick reaction from states.

We should not expect a lot from the regulation to be created for crypto especially, We have seen how difficult for some big service related to the bitcoin trade contract like ETF to apply the license to the regulators.
Remember crypto is a decentralized and that means if we can build self-regulation and why do we need to see the regulation for crypto must be issued by the lawmaker as soon as possible?
Some people may argue if this will be related to the adoption from the institutional and public but remember to create a regulation for a new thing needs a lot of time.
We have seen some countries have been working with the regulation that will be applied for crypto but remember each country has a different level and perspective of regulation.

You can still protect yourself from the scammers or any criminals as long as you are only following the trusted services like IEO that has already made by big exchange site to avoid the ICO scammer. The problem is how we can create more awareness and education for newcomers because of the newcomers just like gold that will help the adoption of crypto.

Agree that the regulatory process will not come quickly. This process takes a long time because for the government, cryptocurrency is a new thing in the economic world. Many considerations from the government to regulate it because there are many coins on the market that are not securities

In the level of this forum, there is a certain degree of openness. Although some scam projects are red-tagged, there is really no paid staff or moderator that looks every single project coming in. If we want this forum to be cleaned up from these scams, everyone has to do his part. Especially bounty hunters, whose primary purpose in promoting a certain project is income, they are to be more careful and investigative in their research. You don't need to find protection from somewhere else, give it to yourself. Everybody can do it if they exert enough effort.

Try to participate in IEO projects released on reputable exchanges like Binance, bittrex, or Huobi. Trying to learn and improve your knowledge is also a way to avoid scammers. Practice protecting your money before we have specific rules.

IEO comes in after that.
The creation of it is because of that reasons that you told.
But that is only for new coins.
Investors are still buying coins which are from ICO and I dont think they know about IEO by now.
Better that we spread the news too so that avoiding it next time will be easy. Show them the difference of it with ICO.

Participating with IEO on famous exchanges might sound good.  Investors are interested because the exchange status usually has the confidence of many people.
Many people now jump into IEO because they know the potential and are safe to invest.  But still must be remembered, all risks must always be considered.

regulations is bad for crypto it will make a lot of limitations for crypto to grow and the market chance to grow is slim
since regulations will put crypto in a position wr there is no room for growth, since its being regulated it is also not consider as decentralized since it is control by the government, there will be laws and that will make investors think twice and it will be the end for crypto, people loves freedom thats what people want

People made huge money with very small investments and nobody paid the tax. We're talking about systems that release mariujana to get tax. Of course, regulations will come. Dont worry!

How we continued without regulation so far, will continue to do so. We want regulations according to their good aspects but it may even be possible that the other side of it can take us away from this trade. If the regulations are against price volatility there will be those who leave. There are hundreds of new people here who want to be rich in a few days.

Regulation will come now matter what as this cannot continue like this but until then enjoy the times. In my country Cryptocurrencies are already taxable since spring of 2019 so a lot of people currently don't withdraw in Romania and they go to Malta where they can withdraw without problems and also decentralized seems to have increase volume and traders.
Personally I have nothing against regulations but I hope it won't affect the price to stable at a current value at this is not bitcoin, we still needs volatility.

Don't be easily tempted by the project that offers great rewards. Because of the project I think fraud. There are things we have to do to avoid getting hit by fraudulent projects. Research and analysis of various aspects should be undertaken.

Regulation is indispensable as it can protect investors and everyone who works on a project. But I am sure if the regulations applied to the existing ones will surely be a new problem. Like KYC because every project definitely wants personal data. And the regulation will not make this crypto anonymous.

Do you think it is very difficult to protect yourself from investing in all the scam projects out there  ::). Just stop investing your money in any projects that offers big returns and without any proven team behind it, if you are able to restrict those urge you really do not need any regulation. Since you are talking about bounties there is nothing you can do about it as people like you can be fooled easily if they offer big returns  :P.

Without regulations governing cryptocurrency certainly does not cause special effects for developers of ico or ieo who commit fraud and of course we also do not know where they are using funds obtained from investors, whether for project development or the funds are used for things that are negative, such funds can be used for illegal purposes such as money laundering or funding for crime, because indeed transactions that occur in cryptocurrency cannot be traced.

We need that regulation badly because without that regulation, there is no way that decentralization can fully function properly because all those bad guys would keep taking advantage of it to scam lots of people. But with regulation, most of the bad guys would get hunted down by the authority which will reduce the level at which scam goes within the system.

The challenge here is that is government too willing to give in to the decentralization of the coins when they know that it will take power off them a little, so they rather prefer to embrace and regulate centralized coin. If regulation never comes for decentralized coins, I just wish we can personally come up with ideas that will help decentralized coins like bitcoin and some of these privacy coins like Monero.

If regulation will never come then we will still have the shortage in demand on the market.
Regulation will make more country accept bitcoin, once this happen we will have mo merchant and local store to accept the coin.
That is the movement we need to have to gain more demand.

In that case, it can also filter out scam projects out of cryptocurrency space, in which many of us is tired of waiting. Actually, for me, regulation will also be a hindrance to implement how good a cryptocurrency is, especially if it possesses some characteristics and capabilities that might threaten the government, it will be hard for a project or crypto to react its desired goal.

I always corner every team and project developer through a number of questions, just like those who fool us especially with the sweet promise ..
and conversely as investors we must know how to avoid or make them look like fools. with some important questions that are difficult for them to answer, it's one of the criteria for a garbage project.

That's usually what people should do when trying to expose such a project it'll all revealed when the developers themselves got no idea about the project they are trying to develop in term of technicality and what they know is just spouting some baseless promises which usually too good to be true. Even the developers of a garbage project usually hesitant about answering question making it hard even for the community themselves to ask even the simplest question there is.
However it's undeniable that regulation could also solve that problem with just one step which is releasing the right regulation so there's no need of additional effort.

There might be a disadvantage on some particular instances, but I don't think that will hinder every opportunities that cryptocurrency is usually involved. If you're just doing it legally which is in line with government's vision towards economic growth, then we have nothing to worry all about.

It’s pretty simple. If we can’t do any regulation, scam projects would continue to emerge and take advantage of the investors’ hard-earned money. I understand that 2017 is the year of the ICOs, in which Bitcoin, Ethereum and others are reaching their all-time highs.

However, scammers are taking advantage of the trend as well, and its almost out of control. Exit scams are rising back then, which they use those funds to start another project under their anonymous names. It is why I support crypto regulation to minimize scams from various ICOs and other ways of raising token sales.

Expect that when regulation never comes, more and more fraudulent projects will create a lot of victims.

if regulations never come, you can avoid project fraud through detailed research and, most importantly, you may not promote fraudulent projects. yes ... we didn't know that most of the projects looked valid but sometimes ended in fraud. but fraud projects always have weaknesses, and you should be able to find those weaknesses.

Regulations will never come unless they want crypto users to decrease in numbers. But if this really happens, we cannot trust anything but ourselves. There are no party to rely on and thieves cannot be punished for they are still anonymous.

The best protection is to never invest at all it will save you money and emotional strain since there is no way to monitor if the project is legit or not, at this point of time where the market is not doing good, it's preferable to invest in coins that are already in the market, and just invest in new coins when the market is better, the potential of the coin will only show when it is in market.

We can not protect ourselves from the impact of large capitals and their manipulation of prices in the market. Moreover, regulation will not stabilize the crypto market, manipulation will continue and ordinary traders will continue to suffer, only the regulator will receive large penalties that will not be paid to the victims.

   Andre177 large capitals and manipulation came from regulated society. They are using old tricks to take money from the people
in every possible way. But who cares about them, we need to focus on building decentralized society.
   Blockchain is regulated, it has rules, it has benefits. Why we don`t try to follow them and support them, to not ask governments
to add their regulations and ruin everything, like they ruined everything so many times in the past.
   We need to support decentralized crypto-currencies, on top with Bitcoin. We need to push Blockchain regulations over
governments regulations.

No we can't protect ourselves if the activities of developers are not checked soon enough. There are numerous projects out there with nothing yet conducting ICOs, IEOs and IPOs. If these activities are not checked lots of funds will be lost.

Indeed regulation might never come anytime soon and for the mean time we protect ourselves in any form that we can. To some extents, IEO has tried to bring some normality into the ecosystem but it is presently having no substantial effect. Developers are still at large doing their dirty work and manipulation is never seems to be in extinction. Regulation will do a lot of good but it will never be without its own heavy side effects.

Without regulations then will continue with the risks associated with cryptos both as a bounty hunter and investor I always clamor for regulations in some certain aspect of cryptoshere especially in ICOs which had been scamming and defrauding a lot potential investors by collecting their funds and disappearing into thin air, this is absolutely a major obstacle militating the growth of cryptocurrency thus a well regulated crypto market will scrutinized the bad eggs out of the system and enhance confidence and bring credibility into cryptoshphere.

I often think about this issue, let’s say the regulation is acceptable, but will it help us bounty participants and investors to protect themselves from fraud from crypto projects. There is reason to believe that even if there is regulation, then they can indicate that investment and participation in crypto projects is highly risky and participation in such projects is only at your own peril and risk, and that those who participate are responsible, that is, we are with you. Perhaps it will remain for us to act according to existing tools, namely a more detailed study of projects and coverage of information about fraudsters on the network. Personally, I see a solution to this problem so far the only way.

If so, how can we survive these days? We were able to survive in times when scam projects increased in the market. To me, we have the power to protect ourselves without regulation. Regulation will fix some things, but it will ruin a lot. And I don't believe it will protect us completely, only on some issues...

Bounty is part of marketing, if the sale of tokens has not been regulated, I think it is difficult to regulate the bounty. Bounty and token sales are one entity and if the token sale is regulated, I think the bounty will be regulated

If regulation never comes it will be the same as it is now, many might try to scammed us but we should be a more smarter investors and bounty hunters by that time. Newbies needs  to be warned and if they are really serious engaging in bounties as well in investing they will need to take precautionary measures of studying the project since its no longer how it is before 2017 ath. We will eventually learn from experience everything is not as easy and smooth unlike before the only solution is to be smarter and wise each time passing by. Besides, Regulation will bring good and bad sides, it may eliminate scammers but it will also lessen the purpose of decentralized projects and identities exposure.

If regulation comes to this platform then both positive and negative things could occur, I believe that regulation will bring some good scenarios such as the price instability will be reduced and ICO scamming will also be protected, but it's also considered that this platform still young and it requires more time to renovate this crypto forum, on the other hand, if regulation some of the big fish like big investors will get discouraged to further invest, because we all know about the money in this platform, so regulation could bring both things, but I think it's high time to set up a rules and policies for making this platform more secure and reliable to the whole community and newcomer, Not only that but also small investors will feel safe in order to make their further investment.

If regulation never comes then it will become harder for the cryptocurrencies to experience adaption because people will still become skeptical to cryptocurrencies because they will not trust it since there is no proper regulation and protection for them. Even though most of the cryptocurrencies are decentralized, it is a requirement for them to get regulated to establish trust for potential users.

regulation cannot fail to enter this market because it is necessary not only for the market to become popular, but also for governments and regulators

that's right, if the rules never come, it's likely that scamming ico will be protected and more and more cheating is happening because it feels free and nobody regulates it. besides that security and comfort will certainly not be felt by investors so they feel worried if they want to start to invest.

If regulation never comes we can´t think about mass adoption. Because goverments they feel they must protect their citizens from fraud or instability.

If many country never give regulation for bitcoin I think many investor look not interested for investing in bitcoin, many company want to left bitcoin as their payment partner because their country do not give regulation for bitcoin. Bitcoin team have to working together how to give explain for every country advantage of bitcoin.

That is why most of our people are still afraid to enter the world of Crypto, because there is no regulation from the government so they are afraid to give their identity. I am very supportive if regulations come in the world of Crypto, because that will facilitate us in making transactions easily and comfortably.

If regulation never come many deviant individuals will take advantage of the situations and rip their preys of their hard earned coins all under fall pretence. Alsp many countries wont adopt it and would make it more illegal

in any case a regulation is very important, the goal is to secure someone and to make something illegal that will be afraid to develop. in crypto regulations it is very important to keep all crypto users safe in investment, trading and other things and if the rules are not tightened then I think the developments in crypto will be difficult because there will be many bad things happening such as fraud in investment which until now are still widely found

It's an interesting matter because there are various definitions of mass adoption. I think the mass adoption people here focus on, which is to have billions of people use crypto every day, will never be happening.

Crypto being as decentralized as it is has scaling problems that it can't solve long term speaking. The more use there is the more data each node has to store, which isn't going to be done by people like you and me, but corporations.

Bitcoin can perfectly reach mass adoption as store of value. People don't need to transact much. All they have to do is buy and hold. Looking at how people use Bitcoin, we're going towards that direction already.

I doubt very much that the cryptocurrency can be regulated. It is impossible to do it directly, as almost all of them are decentralized. The only thing that can be done is to define and formulate additional rules regarding the circulation of cryptocurrencies in the country (any country, by the way) and monitor their implementation in a similar way as they monitor cash turnover.

How can cryptocurrency regulation not occur if this process has already begun and it is impossible to stop it. Cryptocurrency regulation is logical and inevitable. First of all, this is organizational regulation, which makes it possible to legalize cryptocurrency by states. States will establish general cryptocurrency circulation rules, and the FATF rules of June 21 this year are an example of this.

Regulation is really needed for every business that is same applicable for the crypto industries as well. Sometime for the people who doesn't aware of the regulations might be get hurt.
Swift there is any proper regulation moment goes we need to be informed to the concern people for their knowledge.

If regulation never comes, we can prote t ourselves by deciding to end ICOs and IEOs exercises. When there's no one investing in ICOs or IEOs projects will minimize their rush to launch if everyone supports those projects already existing new scam projects won't come to play.

Why support only existing projects? 80 percent of existing projects are also scammers. it is better to look for new and honest teams who are ready to become leaders in this market

if regulations will never come, then avoid any projects that you think are suspicious, IEO has been present to protect your investment safely but on the other hand you must also be vigilant before putting your money in any project. but I am sure that regulation will be there soon and the crypto industry will be even better than before.

Regulation is never gonna come. How can you regulate something that all transactions are made privately ?  You just have to be aware of the purpose of any project you  choose to promote.   Researching about the project is only thing you can do to protect your yourself from crypto monsters. 

but as long as there are no regulations there still remains a successful ico, I mean really running the project, not just a place to make a profit.
so the presence or absence of regulations is not very important, because even if there are regulations the scamer will still be there but it will be a little difficult to do their actions.

I am hoping that regulations will find its way to cypto space, the freedom is way too much and scammers are very bold enough to scam people with no fear of getting caught anymore, crypto is bleeding badly today because of scammers

Regulation has come. And it has made people even more skeptical of crypto because all these authorities are saying crypto is scam tool,,, crypto is the favorite method of criminals and terrorists and hackers.

But yes, I agree, regulations must be there because people need to be protected. I wish everyone knew how to take care of themselves but all the crypto scams prove that people cannot.

Regulations have begun to be issued by several countries and in my opinion the fear of no regulation will begin to fade. Without regulation, it really is not a problem because this has been going on for several years, the problem that will occur is the occurrence of ICO scams and this will make us more careful in choosing investments

Try to be smart, be cautious and always doubt those "to good to be true" deals. Those scam projects will look like it is the perfect cryptocurrency in the market and will promise unrealistic offers to its potential investors. Before you decide to invest in a project, read it carefully and research if it is legit. Take note to its public photos and the if the names in their company is real and existing. There is no better regulation than teaching yourself to analyze and critique the subjects in front of you.

Who says we will be able to protect ourself even if crypto is regulated globally. We can see crimes happening daily in our life despite the fact that Cops/CBI/Courts are there to fight crimes.
Similarly, even if crypto will be regulated, there will be scams happening everyday. There is nothing much we can do about it other than to educate ourself enough to stay aware and alert from such scams.

You have a point pal but do not compare real life criminal acts to digital, its more worse, you are using COPs and FBI and courts to judge but we don't have any of that in crypto space yet, just imagine how the world will be if there is no COPs and FBI and Courts? its nothing but road to more crimes

Don't be swayed easily because someone advertise a project to you. Indeed, it is wise to research for you to know more about the project. We need to determine if the project is legit and if what is written in the white paper is realistic enough. Different countries have different regulations and some don't have one so be careful on our own since there is no one specific regulator of what is happening in the crypto industry.

At the moment, we really cannot do anything about that. We just need to be wiser in taking these bounties or in investing in these projects. A regulatory board would be great in designing and implementing policies regarding establishment of such projects, and someone would be held liable if objectives aren't met. It's not really centralized if that's what other people think because the board is only there for policies, not for handling funds.

If you want to make investments in cryptocurrency companies, then you don’t even need to study some project to invest in it, you just need to invest in projects that conduct IEO on the most top exchanges and then you will always get profit and will not run into scam company, but for participation in bounty companies, here of course only studying the company will help.

So far who can protect themselves from the threat of cryptocurrency is ourselves, therefore we must equip ourselves with deeper knowledge in the world of cryptocurrency. If you have a problem regarding a project scam, IEO might be an alternative but you must remember to only follow IEO from the best exchanger. Cryptocurrency has a level of freedom of transactions that is too high, and therefore the benefits and disadvantages arise.

If there is no regulation we can protect ourselves from the threat of scams. By choosing projects carefully, analyze correctly. If a little is not right,
don't follow the project, don't give it a chance whit the scammers. Or more easily follow the projects held or sponsored by large exchanges like
Binance, Coinbase and Yobit, because these exchanges can help protect us. And the latter must be active on telegram channels and social media that discuss their projects, whether the team has a good track record or act. The point is to be extra careful in investing in new projects, protect your money from scammers.

Regulation will come and this will be soon, i guess. And i dont sure that this will be good for crypto

If regulation never comes maybe bitcoin and altcoin will be less investor at the future, but if bitcoin could be stable coin and have higher not worry about have regulation or not with bitcoin transaction, to get regulation just need many investor want to use bitcoin as investment and currency digital payment, open your store and accepted bitcoin for getting regulation from government,

Cryptocurrencies are already a billion-dollar industry. If states carry out regulations prohibiting cryptocurrencies, this would seriously damage the world economy.

I don't think there will be any serious moves to ban cryptocurrencies from now on. Because a lot of countries already have a positive outlook on cryptocurrencies. We can say that we have gone down an irreversible path, especially with companies such as Amazon, IBM and Facebook entering this sector.

I don't think it's going to be very good for the decentralization of cryptocurrency, but it's good for the spread and use of cryptocurrency around the world

You seem to be exaggerating the influence of cryptocurrencies, the mayor's market cap is only about $ 200 billion, equal 1/5 of Apple's capitalization, which is too small compared to the size of the world economy. Therefore there will be no serious damage as you said.

It will be good for all cryptocurrencies in the long term. the regulation will help clear the market from unnecessary coins that are now empty or scam and then other crypto will begin to receive new investors

That's exactly what my point is. Just think that despite of Cops being available for us, still we face crimes.
So even if crypto will be regulated, we won't be immune to crimes/scams. It will still happen but just in a different way.

That would actually be good news for blockchain. It means that if there is no regulation, cryptocurrencies will not be interfered with. If there is no intervention, cryptocurrencies will make their own place more comfortable in the free market economy.

Because the private sector is always much more efficient at using resources than the public sector. In this way, the crypto world can further solidify its place.

I doubt there will be a thing where crypto will be regulated generally. Only thing that could happen is most countries regulating crypto in the confine of their countries, the same way SEC regulates securities in USA.

For some reason, it seems to me that in the future we will recall times without regulation as the golden age of the crypto market. It is very difficult to say how everything that is happening now will affect the crypto market in a year or two. Regulators are steadily and steadily advancing in the crypto market, this is noticeable with the naked eye. On the other hand, this could result in a new form of financial system.

We would be forced to consider that the amount of scams would never reduce. This is the biggest problem of todays industry that we cannot attract new audience because the image that scams are damaging is just awful.

Another point that we can consider while understanding how regulation will help this industry. With boards that will sort projects before allowing to exist it will reduce the numbers of potential scammers that hiding beyond crypto projects. Though it's not a complete assurance but it can be useful to give some protections to people who still considering this venue of investment.

With or without regulation it's very needed to protect ourselves by keeping educating in any updates that will be useful to add in our skills.

No exchange can protect you from fraud, you decide where to invest and bear responsibility for it.
On the one hand, regulation will be beneficial, but on the other, not. But in the future, cryptocurrencies will radically change the financial system.

If regulation didn't come we would keep having scam projects every period of time as nobody would be there to monitor them and exchanges will be busy listing them up and down ..if there regulation it will curtail the spread of scam and fake tokens. So without regulation it might be tough for Cryptocurrency and blockchain in general. We really need regulation so as to move ahead and regulation will also help the market .