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For the past 2 weeks, news is flooding out on how governments, China, U.S, India, and etc are getting exceptionally aggressive to all things crypto, from the way they are traded, to how they are distributed. That's a very short period of time of big actions, more sentiments than we have seen in the past 4-6 years combined. 

ICO's golden age is coming to and end, i predict by middle-end of this year, coming into 2019 we are going to see vast and heft regulations coming at cryptos.

The rise of privacy-based coins is coming to avoid further unprecedented actions towards decentralized institutions. What i'm taking away from all this, is governments see crypto's as a threat to their current system structures, no doubt backed by banks, the ability for a poor man in India to become a Millionaire is something that will not be tolerated. That's my opinion.

What we will be seeing more of in the future is XRP clones, with centralized and manipulated infrastructures.

I don’t know if I would refer to the current phase as the “Golden Age”, it’s more like the initial growth phase. We have seen a huge spam of trash altcoins and scamcoins that offer no real utility or value. This has been part of the growing pains as the market matures, and the maturation will likely bring a slowdown in the number of ICOs with an increase in their quality. The next phase in the market is making crypto currencies mainstream so that the average investor can invest in something they understand. During this next phase I believe we will see a new altcoin(s) arise that will address these issues and lead to a crypto that has real intrinsic value that also has the capability to make crypto tangible to the mainstream individual.

Anyway, it is full of ICO's who are still applying the SEC regulations just like it is happening with LOCI right now, they are just following step by step of what the sec is telling them to do.
There are some who are bullshit, but this one is legit because they are just doing whatever the sec says.

I can agree with you somehow, but still I'm sure that we will see in 2018 few times more ICO's than 2017.
And most of them will be successful projects with already working products.

ICOs will never end because most of them accept the option to pay with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and is almost impossible to stop people from transferring bitcoin to any investment they want. But of course the ICO's will lose strength because countries are prohibiting their citizens to invest in ICO, or at least deeming they illegal, so they could not count on the legal system if things goes wrong. Of course the legit projects always will find a way to rise their funds and thrive no matter what.

Could be! But I think it hasn't come to an end yet. In my opinion, the golden has just began! The news from goverments might be an issue and the ICOs might have a hard time, but I think it can't stop the ICOs. The country banning is bad, indeed. But still, people will find a way to invest in it. Especially since cryptocurrencies market aren't regulated by anyone, any city, or any country. And on top of all it's a decentralized market. They don't really have a strenght over it.

I'm not so sure that I see it as "countries don't want poor people to get rich" I think it's more along the lines of them wanting to protect consumers. More often than not ICOs are scams that run away with your money with no intention of ever having a working product. No one wants scammers to get rich. The issue right now is the quality of projects. Everyone is jumping on the get rich quick scheme of making a new coin then having an ICO

I can see more private equity firms start looking at getting a controlling stake of a new coin before it if ever goes to ICO. They could cherry pick the best ones for themselves before the general public gets a look in.

Even with private firms looking into private sales with projects, the ICO's will still exist for the public. most developers want more money, it doesn't matter how much they get from private firms.

They are scared because they are losing control of the narrative, they thought bitcoin was done for after the crash it suffered some years ago and they thought bitcoin will never get to 1000 dollars again but in the previous year not only bitcoin surpassed that price but destroy it and bitcoin was not alone since most altcoins grew even more, governments are getting nervous that the growth in cryptocurrencies is a sign of their weakening economies and that is why they are taking steps to slow down the market.

You can check the market trends, possible highs & lows, ICO reviews & ratings before investing at:

www.cryptorated.com (http://www.cryptorated.com)

Good luck!

I don't think ICOs will end any time sooner, There has been many good new ICOs coming from the real companies like Kodak, Iphone, Telegram and few others as well.

ICOs to me were already on their way out or at least reduced in number and asking sizes which is a good thing for investors. However state backed cryptocurrencies is a whole other beast and I think it would be incredibly short-sighted for governments to launch them not to mention they go against everything crypto stands for.

Maybe is the end of the crap and scam ico's I don't see why people with a good bussines oportunity would deny their ICO.

I think that if this is the case and they are trying to "regulate" the ICO market, this is probably positive.

Given on how many scam ICO are free out there, we can only benefit from a regulation.

This form always reverts to US and China laws etc. you need to understand that cryptocurrencies are world wide and the USA is not the only country in the world and don't control other countries either.

Even if those countries you mention regulat or stop ICO's there are plenty more countries that haven't regulated or stopped them and all they would do is run the ICO from that country it isn't regulated in.

My country at this time has no regulation or laws regarding ICO's.

In my opinion it is still going to take a lot of time for ICO's to die out definitely with all the new money coming into crypto. Everyone wants to earn that big money fast so they will continue to pump money into these ICO's for the winning chance of getting rich.

In my own opinion I think it will be but somehow as you said it is a little steps to be done by. Many ICO's are really coming every now and then and we may not know who are the good and scam ICO's presenting their products. Hope that ICO that coming every year is numbered or their is a rule that they should follow so that investors don't doubt investing for the project.

You are right.... crypto currency will be regulated in the future. The same thing with ICO too. ICO will be regulated in the future with many project already building platform for that. I think right now it's already on it's way to regulation because many if not all ICO will require you to do KYC before joining the sale that's the length regulation can go. But i don't see the end of ICO rather I see the beginning of new era of ICO

There were way too many ICOs. 3rd generation blockchains like Cardano (https://coincodex.com/crypto/cardano/) and Aion (https://coincodex.com/crypto/aion/) will play a big role in 2018.

Yes, I think so.
Perhaps ICO and crypto have missed the best of times, and the government will never allow a group of poor people to make a fortune. They will all limit the encryption of money markets. So the government will make  a lot of things that can be modified, so-called tokens using blockchain technology.

For me, what government doesn't want from decentralized institutions is that they can't earn from it thru tax because they can't track if there citizen has transactions with these kind of institutions.

As if who is knowledgeable and loves decentralization would tolerate this kind of technology which is not open sourced.

The US and China are the two most influential countries around the world, if the US takes a strong stance against icos you can be sure there are going to be a lot of countries that will do the same following the example of the United States, however while that could be the end of icos that does not mean that will be the end of innovation, the devs will just need to find a way to gain financing to make the project a reality in a different way.

I don't think so.
Even if the whole encryption money market recently to red, but some high quality of the ICO project still made a very good return, so I think, may be ICO is still a good investment, even though we know that it has a lot of bubbles,

In Russia, too bad. The government invents new draft to control the crypto iindustry and to collect taxes from those who do it. A few days ago came news that the plan to deny ordinary citizens any operations in the amount of 50,000 rubles (less than $1000)  >:(. I thought Cho such problems only in our country. I think that's a lobby of banks.

To an End is not i see. as we all know the big countries banned ICOs cause they are not in control. They are scared. and want to use anything possible to control.
I think it's a big turn though. Using FIAT currencies ICOs will be more popular.

I dont think so,because the upcoming ICOs will compete to each other,internet of things and artificial intelligence based would revolutionize these ICO projects.I am very much excited the ICOs these year because from the past these ICOs are just raising funds to scam people at the end.

I don't think so either, the things that have changed is the rules behind running the ICO and the KYC requirements that have come into place so that participants in these TGE can be identified. Opportunities are still there for the taking but you need to be prepared to comply first.

I have to disagree,a lot of good ICOs and projects are just starting to come out like this one.
I spent a lot of time researching to find potential ICOs that can achieve success in the future and  what i have found is this,
Fuzex which can hold cryptocurrencies for payments that can act like debit card and a cryptocurrency wallet at the same time.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/55q5z0FXNUo/maxresdefault.jpg

The features are superb than any existing project like this,

1.You can store, manage and use up to 30 credit, debit, reward and cryptocurrency accounts
2. It has built-in buttons to power on/off, enter pin codes, make selections, and authorize
payments on the FuzeX Card itself.
3.It has E-Paper Display (EPD) to view balances across accounts, barcodes for reward card
scans, and QR codes for blockchain addresses.
3. EMV (IC Chip) for multi-cryptocurrency payments
4. Near Field Communication (NFC) for credit and debit card payments
5. Barcodes for reward payments
6. QR Code for cryptocurrency wallet addresses for P2P transfers
7. Bluetooth connection between FuzeX Card and FuzeX Wallet to ensure security
(Users have the additional option to securely lock the FuzeX Card when the
Bluetooth connection is disconnected)
8. Remote wipe technology to clear data from the FuzeX Card
9. Battery life between 45~60 days
10. Plus a sleek, slim, rechargeable portable battery bank.

Furthermore, the FuzeX Card pairs with the FuzeX Wallet to function as a hard wallet storage of private keys. Fragmented private keys are encrypted and stored between the FuzeX Card and FuzeX Wallet. he private keys are only accessible by unlocking the FuzeX Card (via a pin on the card) and FuzeX Wallet (via an account password).

You can check the promotional video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqi2RHTq9xo
You can join the pre-sale tokens here https://www.fuzex.co/

Yes, many governments have banned icos,the best time of ico is coming to an end, so let's catch the last chance of it , can someone help me find an very good ico to invest ?I want to make my last deals.

I think that rather than privacy coins, privacy protocols will come along and give privacy options to the current mainstream cryptocurrencies.

Even now ICO regulatory is becoming more and more serious, but these people can still participate in ICO through overseas KYC materials.
Only the exchange does not stop the ICO token exchange, so I think it is still beneficial, so there will still be a lot of people involved.

I agree with you. This special currency has made their economy disorganized. It is also true that a lot of millionaires were born. Many countries oppose encryption. However, there are some countries that support it. Like Japan, cryptocurrencies are supported.

This statement is true, some of the government officials, businessman, and banks are greedy as hell. They dont want others to be rich, while on the other hand their already rich but the still they want to be richer. 

It is sad if the future crypto will be full of centralized and manipulated coins this is againts what crypto is, crrpto is all about decentralization.  Maybe if this may come true show our support for the continuing of ICOs and boycot those centralized and can be manipulated coins, well we have the freedom where to invest so boycot is the right thing to do to show support on ICO in the future

I think this is not possible. The existence of the ICO gives people a lot of benefits. Through this activity, though there are fraudsters, people will not receive any influence as long as there is interest, and national policies will not stop people.

With the tons of ICO that keep on appearing and scamming people the government finally take a step to halt the ICO, and there will be a serious regulation in the future, the popularity of crypto is already too famous, it makes the government need to take action, So I believe there will be a lot of regulation that come out this year

While taxes are a concern I do not think that is what they are the most worried about, they are worried about losing control, with a decentralized currency the governments is not as strong, they cannot steal from you by imposing new taxes, now you need to allow to be taxed by them since they cannot take that money by the force, not only that, you can do as you wish with your money and they cannot block you the same way they can block your bank accounts.