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Well i say yes! Currently there are so many projects with similar goals and visions and some of them even don't have the needed capacity and resources to see to the success of the project but yet still competes with the capable funds when funds are being raised. This has also increased the number of scam projects in the cryptospace and this is really tarnishing the image of crypto investment. Let's not forget that if men were angels there would be no need for laws. I am not talking of a Centralized Regulating Body but we can use the concept of masternodes and run a decentralized ICO regulating body. Let's explore all the possible ways of how we can actually curb this menace in the cryptospace.

Some sort of regulation will certainly control the manipulation which is very much prevalent currently. However, there will be demerits of this as well like this will kill the basic aspect or foundation of crypto where it was free from any control.
The final decision should be made after considering both the positive and negative aspects. Personally, I would like to leave it the way it is and let the market decside growth and prices.

Can you say clearer? I feel you want to mention a project. If so, share with everyone to discuss.

Not enjoying the Wild West are we? j/k

I have to agree that some oversight is warranted at this point. Many people have been taken advantage of.

We do need regulations for ICOs, it is used to project investors and kill all scammers. ICOs with fully regulated will let investors from all countries to invest in ICO with cryptocurrency and fiat. It helps ICOs to have more investors, they will gain more funds to develop their products.

I think the regulations is necessary for an ICO's because a lot of scammers. We must remember that the traditional law system and regulators are imperfect.

I think ICOs really needs to be regulated with some strict rules, because some scammers have used ICOs to scam many investors with it, but if there is regulations, that will reduce some level of scams.

We don't need regulators just hope the core developers of tokenization platform will put more restriction to create any asset. that will be a very good idea consider they must do various verification before try to create any asset or token. Regulation still can be avoided by them all consider not all of countries are creating regulationo for crypto.

The ICO process is already regulated by the SEC if you notice that there are now very many implementations in place that make it possible to track investors and so on, because it can really bring great opportunities.

Definitely Yes, as the crypto is no more decentralized but centralized , once we have ico to raise funds and some people are in care of that funds with full authority to do any thing any time with it , then we are in a centralized and need to be regulate by government to save investors from being scam as most project are scam already and I believe more are still coming with no real use or solution for humanity problem.

I agree that we need the regulations the ICO has been labelled scammed so many times by the investors, it tainted the crypto reputation and could lead to the banning by some country, by regulate it we can decrease the copy cat ICO and scamming ICO, the regulation can increase the investors trust, so I think regulation can bring positive result for crypto

Yes. I feel Cryptocurrency should be regulated for the manipulations that is taking place in the name of ICOs. A lot of scams are going on across the globe, especially in the eastern part of the world.

Here is an interesting piece of news from Vietnam about cryptocurrency (https://coindelite.com/news/latest-cryptocurrency-news/?utm_source=bctalk) regulation:

Vietnam authorities are looking to regulate the cryptocurrencies. The Ministry of Justice has found various solutions and the Ministry of Industry and Trade has expressed their opposition to the ban on the import of mining equipment.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice has submitted a report to the government in Hanoi which includes a review of the assessment of cryptocurrency-related business activities in the country. The document has also made several proposals about changes they consider as important.

The ministry wants to apply three alternate policies around the world. The first approach is named as “floating” that includes the implementation of regulatory concerns. The second one is called “prohibiting,” and the last one is “legalizing.”

Nguyen Thanh Tu, director of the Department of Civil and Economic Laws shared his opinion on regulating cryptocurrencies in the country. He said that relevant ministries and departments would be developing an appropriate legal framework to govern digital currencies. Thanh Tu thinks that Hanoi should manage the risks and the potential associated with cryptocurrencies. It should also make sure that investors benefit from them.

Authorities in the country have not finalized any decisions on cryptocurrencies yet. The Central Bank of Vietnam has announced that it would not consider cryptocurrencies as a legal tender. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered agencies to draft a legal framework for cryptocurrencies and the industry built around them.

According to the reports, around one percent of Vietnam’s population is using cryptocurrencies currently. The country also has 95 million people who are cryptocurrency enthusiasts. General Department of Vietnam Customs’ statistics shows that in 2017, the country has imported more than 27,000 mining components.

There are laws everywhere mate. We have laws both in heaven and hell. We don't need regulations in cryptocurrency but then came all this scam projects. We have no choice than to allow regulations, or we loose everything to this guys.

I always believe we must. I agree there would be apprehensions and crypto market doesn't support the regulatory part. But if its in moderation and helps eradicate the flaws and falters, I think we must support it. Legit ICOs will always find a way through to investors and make their place anyways.

Well who can regulate decentralized projects, no one can. However country wise they can be regulated.

Of course you need! Then scam will be less. Yes, half the ICO will not even begin... Need legal liability

there are several platforms that take care of legal licenses after the ICO ends one of which is SprintX, and even there are platform that has been launched but apparently does not have a legal license from the relevant institution (Centra Card) how can this happen? it seems now we really need ICO regulation to protect investor funds from scam projects

no because first of all regulating ICOs will not solve anything, there will still be scammy ICOs that will continue to scam you. and also because this whole market is unregulated and mostly decentralized and people want it to remain that way, regulations require centralizing the market and that will never happen because of how cryptocurrencies work.

what we need is education! we need to inform everyone in the scene how ICOs work and to help them understand that they shouldn't just hand over their money to an ICO just because they hope for some profit.

If we really want to develop the sphere of ICO and the all crypto world, then regulation is necessary. This is necessary for example for the participation of big investors and to reduce risks.

there is the need to because of the scam. although we oppose the regulation but there are just so much scams besides this regulation will also help us in a ways because this will lead to adoption in the near future. by SEC regulation, the team that is planing to do an ICO will have to be registered to where they are base on. say they are from Singapore so they'd have to be SEC registered in the government of Singapore.

Regulating ico will be good, but it very hard to reallize in decentralized world.
Scammer found new ways if you start regulate him.

Regulation has alrady started, why do you think that citizens of the United States or China are inelligible to take part in ICO? further regulations on participation, and proof of background by companies wishing to launch would be a positive step. I don't however see a need to regulate on coins just because it is a similar concept to another, how would you ever get competition if only 1 shop was allowed for each product?

Because ico's are largely decentralised it would be difficult to establish a regulatory body. Ethereum may introduce a refundable investment platform to prevent further scams

WTF with these scam icos?!!!!!!! They just give bad reputation to our precious crypto market!
They have to stop yep.

for example, we will create an organization that will monitor the release of ICO projects, each ICO should confirm that they are not scams, but where guarantees that this organization will not take bribes tomorrow to put high marks, my opinion is that we should learn to distinguish scams from standing ICO.

I think the ICO market needs regulation and is strictly regulated, not just taxes! Therefore, we can save and attract more investors! It also allows fraudsters to be punished!

those who really need regulation or security in ICo need to be done so that there is no more fraud in the ICO project. it can be done by this forum team, for example this forum makes escrow. dam, I'm sure this will work.

Definitely all icos are need to be regulated. First of all we must get rid of scam icos, it is very important in terms of trust in the market. The biggest destructive effect to crypto currencies is scam icos. Then, we must eliminate copy projects.

It is true that there are lots of potential scam ICO's that pops up every day which results to an increasing number of investors getting scammed, but I don't think that ICO regulation will work, it will just defeat the purpose of decentralization. The only thing we can do is to educate ourselves on how these ICO's really works to reduce the increasing number of scam cases. If this researching skill be mastered there is no need for the regulation.

There are many scammers among the organizers of the ICO who have discovered the source of easy money and are using it with might and main. Therefore, ICO regulation should become one of the top priorities.

Of course, you need to regulate ico projects is 100%. After the laws come out, it will become easier for investors and their risks of losing money will decrease, but they will pay taxes. In the end, there will be fewer such projects that collect money and disappear.

Definitely! We need some regulations because I am sick of projects, that cannot collect their soft cap or projects that are turning to be a scam. There is a need in an institution that will force the ICOs to deposit some percentage of their tokens to avoid being delayed or scammed.

indeed technology is now increasingly advanced, but we know that technology is not like humans who can think and feel,
if ICO is regulated by technology, then their SCAMMER developers will also think about how to get past that technology (masternodes)
but if we can entrust to a centralized party, it also becomes a separate risk for everyone, because there is the potential for a distorted conspiracy to emerge.

Now we need government regulation of ICO projects in order to streamline this activity at least a little. Now the ICO teams have let loose so much that they no longer feel any rules for themselves and therefore, in terms of joining their campaigns of generosity, they write that they can change any rules at any time. This should not be. Government regulations should establish clear rules for all ICO members and at the same time identify each member of the ICO team and take other measures to avoid incidents of fraud. To interfere in the feasibility of an ICO state should not.

These days, many projects are coming up every month, most of these projects are not legit, so i think that it is necessary to regulate ICOs. If some sorts of regulation is put in place then we would see many legit projects.

we have decentralisation, but I agree that need to regulate ICO's because now is too much scam projects and it bad reputation for all ICOs

Definitely, I, too, for the fact that the ICO would be regulated very seriously. I would even suggest that ICO projects must obligatory pay to bounty hunters

I strongly advocate for a complete regulation of ICOs to weed out potential scams and fraudulent ones the market had been flooded with ICOs that have similar projects that can't compete with other cryptos in the ecosystem although decentralization might not give room for the actualization of a complete regulations.

No matter how we try to regulate it, fraudulent projects will still appear. This will not be completely avoided. But I think that gradually with the development of crypto we will come to some kind of regulation. The issue of fraud will be resolved somehow.

What we need to do the most at this time is to prevent and stop the ICO scam is going on a lot in the market. It is these ICOs that cause huge losses to investors as well as bounty members. If this situation continues, there is a big possibility that by 2019, people will no longer have trust in ICO.

sometimes this is also reversed with the situation, a project that has less funds actually has the potential to be a good project because even though we might consider it, ideas and investments are almost the same as others, their strategy to market it is better. regulation for ICO seems to be the thing needed as a sign of verification and avoiding scam projects

I buy into this idea, even some that has the capacity to make it to the top ends up dying on the way. If you have good suggestions of projects that will have a good product to offer we will be glad to hear it from you.

Yes. I think your idea is very good. But my question is, are you ready with your own idea. Honestly I'm not ready for your offer. I think we still need a lot of ICO in the future. There will be many companies in this world who need a transaction system using blockchain. Is it enough for a thousand or two thousand coins to manage exchanges in this world? I think the total coins today are nothing compared to the future needs.

I could remember, this same issue was discussed among my friends, but most of the are of the opinion that it should not be regulated, because that is what gives them their money. Regulating means there won't be money for them and they see it as a game. My opinion is quite different, because not every developer can be trusted. So it should be regulated in order to protect investors.

I think that all will answer now Yes, because we are all tired of the continuous flow of slag, which for more than a year began to occur. There are no normal ICO. Regulation is necessary!

With the spate of scam ICOs in the space in 2018 especially and how much people have lost to fraudsters who took undue advantage of the high liquidity in the market at the time, it wouldn't be out of place to regulate ICOsto ensure that only the genuine ones eventually conduct ICOs and there are stiff penalties for the crimminals

Your idea to regulate ICOs is interesting. But the question are (1.) Who will regulate it? (2.) Is the regulation applicable?. I support your idea, but it seems we need to think deeply about the questions.    

Yes, I believe that it is necessary to do something about it. Fraud becomes very many and sooner or later this will come the end of the. In any case, there will be some regulator of this, it's just a matter of time.

So far, the regulation for ICOs are still weak. There is no certain ICO that ensures that they are not scams or failed. We cannot determine to regulate the ICOs and follow the rules. ICOs are very wide and many people behind the ICos are working on. They may bring the certain possession to offer their ICO. But we are still difficult to regulate them and ensure that they are legit. I don't have any ideas to regulate them exactly because they also have rights to do so.

The regulation of the ICO may be very difficult to achieve. But this is necessary. When the ICO is formed, there will be a large number of investors pouring into the ICO, but this may be a way of ICO securitization, which may be the future STO. For the future we are all unknown and can only wait patiently.

Of course it is necessary, because a lot of scam there. For example, two ico issuers recently settle Sec registration charges. I think this is a good precedent.

Yes we need to regulate ICO's to filter them because there are thousanda of coin that were providing the same service. Also, this might filter scam ICO's and that could be beneficial for everyone. There should a team that were tadked to approved an ICO so that they can check the legitimacy of it.

Scam ICOs ruining the ICOs market and investors are also afraid to invest in ICOs that's why many projects are failing to achieve even soft cap. So I would say there must be some regulation in ICOs so that one can not be scammed and that way ICO market will also flourish again and it will definitely help to gain the investor confidence. If there is not some kind of regulation in coming months then we will see more downfall in the ICOs market because scammers will ruin the market. Only some kind of regulation stops the scam project launch for ICOs.

On the one hand, yes, if there is a registration, there will be less Scam projects and the probability of paying tokens will be higher. But on the other hand, with the introduction of the redirection there will be no big jumps as before. And you can not quickly and earn a lot as before.

Although I very much hope that the ICO project can be regulated, it is almost impossible to achieve because many countries are reluctant to admit the existence of cryptocurrencies!

It seems that without regulation, only scammers come to the ICO market, who again and again launch different ICO scam projects. So I agree with you.

Yes, pal why not ICO's project should be regulated with decent strict rules as if most of the scammers won't dare to harm investors. People in cryptocurrency need to be concerned to regulate ICO's project regularly with a very active way. It will help to increase more investors in ICO's projects.

We used to trust these ICO rating but after they implement a paid subscription we lose trust on these ICO rating and we now have to rely on members information about a scam site, anything that can regulate these scam ICO is going to be better and it can help both investors and bounty hunters.

I will say yes if ICOs regulate by government. Many scam ICOs in 2018 and its bad for crypto reputation. If ICOs regulated by government, it will reducing scam ICOs and investor will more confident to investing their money in ICOs

We need something to regulate ICO projects, because we now have so many ICOs that cannot collect their soft cap and even more projects that are fooling investors and turning to be a scam. Hope we will see some rules in the future.

I believe that you need to take some action to combat fraudsters. And regulation can be used as one of such methods. However, everything must be clearly thought out, and most importantly used in real conditions.

I also say yes. The time has come for us to have a regulating body for ICOs. The cryptocurrency ICO is gradually falling apart. It is no longer excited as it used to be. It is now coupled with so much frauds and scams.

The first thing to do is to introduce a rule of mandatory public verification of team members and advisors. And it would be nice if the funds collected during the ICO were held by the guarantor or guarantors and given in parts upon reaching the points of the roadmap.

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Their are regulations that is being set it is because in bitcoin their are a lot of scammers nor even not true to their self. In ICO's it is very positive enough to comply what is in need and every project their will be result for positive too. For me it is in need to regulate the ICO for the good of everybody.

Need wouldn't have been for all these. However, wit the emergence of fraudulent ideal icos and all sorts, needs are arising on a daily basis for a regulatory scheme to put things under check and in order...

I think that regulation for ICO is necessary, but the most important thing is that the truth would allow young teams to do their projects. I am afraid that the regulation may kill promising projects.

I don't know how that  concept of masternodes to run a decentralized ICO regulating body works but we really need to have one to eliminate these scam sites these rating sites are not helping us, in fact they are helping those frauds to collect money, because they themselves are also generating money from their false rating.

We need to use Fabian Vogelsteller's proposal the "reversible ICO" or RICO, that would allow token investors to take back their funds at any stage in that project’s lifespan. This will protects ICO investors from the dump after the exchanges listing.

I definitely agree with you. Looking at the current trend with regards to ICOs, most of them have similar target and operations in mind with the aim of improving upon how a particular activity operates. This is one of the reason why people spreading negative speculations about the crypto space.

Of course, a lot of scams here with projects and something good is very difficult to find , I think you need to very much inspect and regulate the ico, so that beginners do not fall for the tricks of scammers

The only situation that can really lead you and your interests to start all the same and be for the regulation of interests to continue, I think it would be better to start the process of regulation

Sincerely speaking, with the way this are going I think regulations will be a better option for ICOs, that will reduce some level of scam and will build many trust back to the cryptocurrency business.

The whole world of investors hopes for this, but unfortunately this risk and risks can really be justified only if you can really invest your money. This must be understood and taken into account.

Although regulators can reduce the number of scam projects but there is no guarantee that investors will get profits after their tokens are listed on the exchange. So in my opinion, what we really need now is not only regulators but also investment insurance platform that can cover the losses of ICO investors.

I have been an ardent supporter of the idea that the crypto industry needs an introduction of a top level regulatory body not just ICOs. These regulations must be implemented at all levels from a project conception, the roadmap and its product down to development. Enough of all the redundant and half baked projects loitering the entire crypto ecosystem. If a project doesn't fulfill set standards, it has to be shutdown.! Also, exchanges should put in place tougher listing conditions to ensure every Tom, Dick and Harry kinds of projects don't find their way to the exchanges. If regulation is put in place, it will to a greater extent cut down the enormous scams in this industry and put a stop to half the issues currently bedeviling the entire crypto space.

It looks like the ICO has reached a level where investors have completely lost interest in investing. It is possible that the regulation will not be needed in the coming months.

They are already regulating it, whether you say yes or not they will regulate ICO anyway.  I don't feel like they are actually regulated though. The only that is being different about these days is that participants are required to pass IDs for KYC even the bounty participants. I do think this is just the start, nowadays most projects are about exchanges which is worth regulating too.

I think that the existence of many icons should definitely be terminated with regulation. so many scam projects that they do not create anything other than pollution, frankly. I think it should be limited in some way with minor criteria.

Investors no longer want to invest in projects in an environment where their interests are not legally protected. This situation encourages the use of fraudulent schemes. Regulators will be able to create conditions under which projects will be checked before the start of their ICO. Perhaps even from the projects will require some kind of guarantee.

I believe that if we want the ICOs to be mainstream, we have to see the regulations as something necessary, many people move away from this field of investment because of the insecurity they have entering this field, not only is it necessary to fight against volatility also against the fraudsters, maybe it's too much.

while this market was too hard to be regulated.
then ICO market was even harder!
I don't think your idea is possible. but still good to have.

Their is a much need for the reguation of icos they are 100s of icos coming out daily out of them 90 of them are scams. This icos making the new users to think the crypto market is a scam .

It is certainly necessary to regulate the ICO, since the creation of such a large number of unnecessary and simply fraudulent projects will not lead to anything good. The crypto-currency market is already weak in itself, and the creation of such a large number of such projects drowns it even more. Regulation of this issue is necessary, but it really can be done with the help of laws.

ICO regulation is a problem that has already taken place over the past two years, but during this time nothing has happened that could be called a successful attempt in this direction. The only project that I know of and which can be called a successful attempt is the ICOVO project.

I personally think enough work are not been done to santize the ICO space, masternode kind of oversight is very apt and can be explore to create a decentralized oversight standard to monitor and recorgnize quality ICO away from Scam ICO!

for now as needed. because to maintain investor confidence. ico has not been like before, many people began to doubt it. so a regulation is needed to make investors interested again. regulations also aim to protect investor money.

Yes.If there is actually a way to do that. It would not only save investors from jumping into scam ICos projects , but boosts confidence of investors.
You can imagine a situation where so many ico projects are being brought into the already unstable market daily, with most of the projects trying to solve the blockchain challenge already been handle by another ico projects.
We just need order in this market.

There should be regulation on ICO.
2018 is not a good year for many ICO especially to investors as there are so many SCAM and FAILED projects.
ICO must be regulated and must be permitted before offering token sales to prevent scam in the market.
i hope 2019 will be better that what we had this year.

I think it's also a good thing, an ICO that really wants to have a goal and contribute to the blockchain must be registered and have a graduation certificate that they have legitimacy about it. That way if there are things that are not desirable happen with the project then there is a legal process in it

Hey I'll agree Ico's need to be regulated for the safety of investors, sec is working on a framework to regulate Ico's. In my personal opinion Ico's regulation shall increase investors confidence, and will bring more funds to the crypto world. I am hoping to see some solid framework in 2019, to stop the malpractices of Ico's as this has severely effected investors who trusted the Ico's with their money.

I think i will have to stand with you, it would be really nice to regulate not just ICO's but the coins that enter into the market, most of these coins are fork project and the aim is to enrich themselves

Yes, I agree the market of ICOs is really needed in regulations. There are a lot of scam projects. But I don't agree with your idea with masternodes. It would be better if some comissions will deal with these problems ].

Already some countries have restriction and regulations to join in bounty investments but still people find the wat to invest on it some way if they want so I don't think this will prevent getting scammed.So only way is to teach them about cryptos,blockchain and ICO then they will identify which one is fake and legit.

At this point we need some form of cleasing  in the crypto space as it is no longer funny. Investors are begining to take backward steps and somehow affecting mass adoption. Regulations are highly needed

I am totally in favor of regulating ICOs, as this action would have the power to inhibit the fake and scam projects and also bring protection to investors. It is absurd the amount of scam projects that flood the crypto market.

If ICO has been regulated we can make assurance that the ICO will never turn on our back and steal our money, because they are regulated by the government. It will put a fear for those teams that are still intending to scam other people.

we absolutely need a regulation in the ico market, otherwise icos will die out next year. currently the market is dominated by scam ico and that is bad. so i really hope that this will change in 2019.

Actually regulate is necessary to all field but a control mechanism can effect to crypro market as badly because main quality in this market is a non-control mechanism. How can we solve problems which you said ? I think that it is related with personal attitude so If everybody search and make righ decision about icos, All scam project will be not in the future of market.

It was really need, The ICO project can make cryptocurrency grow well, each project has its own function and if most of these functions are implemented by each user, the cryptocurrency function runs well. And also, the ICO project made the cryptocurrency destroyed and got a bad reputation from everyone. As you can see the number of projects that deceive investors indirectly have a bad effect or a poor assessment of cryptocurrency. Sooner or later if the scammer continues to cheat investors, the cryptocurrency will meet its end. It is time for reliable regulation to change the views of everyone, especially newcomers.

If we would not regulate ICOs that market will die. People are afraid of investing in ICOs because at least the half of them are scam projects and another half is unable to raise funds. We need to make investors believe in ICOs market.

This is a fact that most people recognize today. Surely, we can only say that today people would like to invest only they are simply afraid that something can happen. We are waiting for new events that will be able to change the market.

Most of those who invest before already losses their trust as how the market showing right now, we do need more assurance to avoid being victimized by those scammers who's haunting around, this regulations might help if being implemented very well and if the project is for real surely they won't be bothered just in case this will happen.

It is a very tough decision entering into crypto investment, the risk we encounter seems to be challenging. We suffer losses just because we aren't perfectly choose the right investment.
I may think that ICO must be regulated in order to eliminate scam projects and only potential projects will existed.

Yes we should.

One year ago i would say no but right now it seems, that was a mistake.

Last year billions of dollars raised by icos, and what do we get in return? Where are the products?

Very strict regulations are needed to limit fraud projects. Many people suffer material and time losses because they invest in fraudulent projects. It is possible to create an institution that has the task of examining ICO projects.

There is np doubt about it, we need a reform, we need regulation. Regulation will not only help to keep away scam ICOs, but that it will help investors to trust the system and prevent unnecessary pump and dump of coins.

I also think that ICO should be supervised. Only in this way can Ethereum be saved. Otherwise, the price of Ethereum is very difficult to recover. Only the regulated ICO government will recognize the status of cryptocurrency, which is more conducive to the growth of cryptocurrency. I believe this is only a matter of time. In the future, ICO will be regulated by some countries.

We do not need it, but the government can not allow money to be laundered through these projects, which is why the regulation will be present in this area.

I totally agreed with mate about the regulation of icos.many fake project in the crypto space is what scared so many investors away from investing their money into crypto asset this not limited institutional investors. If icon are regulated the crypto market will become like the forex market which will make liquidity more easier.

Certainly! The ability to create dapps through the Ethereum network has caused the Proliferation of many projects which are mostly scam. Its high time SEC comes in with stringent rules to checkmate the cash out madness perpetrated by project developers

Unfortunately, but it is the lack of legal regulations that makes that a lot of ICO turn in to a scam. If it will be not regulated we will not be able to punish scammers! So I support it too!

It is so easy to steal people's money in crypto. This needs to be put an end. The idea of the blockchain technology is not to make money always as we think of. The ICOs needs to be regulated to prevent people scamming innocent people in the crypto universe. This will further give a negative impact on the crypto industry.

I think it's time to start regulating ICOs, many people or investors have been taken advantage of. In a bid to reduce scam, I think proper regulation will make it safer to participate in ICOs again.

Talking about organizational aspects has negative effects and strikes the idea of decentralization from the ground up
I have another idea in short
There is a party whose role is limited to studying projects and granting its confidence and give its a certificate of that
But does not have the powers to prevent any project because it is contrary to the required freedom
The projects that have obtained this certificate will be more reliable to investors and this is a great advantage.

I do prefer for a regulation in which helps in controlling the numbers of scammer

I am for new projects on the market to be somehow regulated as there is a lot of fraud on the cryptocurrency market

I do prefer for a regulation in which helps in controlling the numbers of scammers emerge in the space whether a regulating body or board that used to clarify the legitimacy of the project especially the team developer behind the project.

of course we need!! after some of ico is scam many projects will sell the eth or coin fundraising, they don't think the price. This is also good sounds for bounty hunter :)

I don't see anyhow a decentralized ICO regulation can work. How then will you prosecute offenders? It is best to have a central authority regulating every God damn ICO project before it even commence any stage of its marketing before the token sales.

Aside from regulating the cryptocurrency exchanges, regulation of ICOs have been also proposed by some government officials involves in monitoring the cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The aim is to identify the legitimate and quality ICOs from many scams that are now victimizing many unsuspecting investors. Scam ICOs is one of the reasons why some investors are losing their interest in investing again in many initial coin offerings even it is a legitimate one.

Yes we need them to be regulated. All of ICO around us seem to be a scam project and no one right now will hessitate to invest because they know that it is a trash for their portfolio once it hit on exchange. Maybe, when SEC regulates all of the existing ICO, all of investors will return their enthussiasm to invest and buy coins in ICO.

ICO is one type of crowdfunding, thus it must be regulated to give investors a full knowledge of what they're entering to. I even like the proposal that ICO team should be required to submit a copy of their passport to avoid scammers. This is just one of the many parts of regulating ICOs. The purpose of regulation is clear, to avoid scammers and weak projects.

I think by regulating ICOs it will go a long way to ensure investors aren't investing in scam projects.  ICOs can be seen as the new face of crowdfunding thus there is need to nurture and groom it so as to serve the true purpose.

ICO regulation might be the best thing to do to bring back the again the trust investors once given to ICOs. The importance of ICOs in this cryptocurrency space is huge. It plays a major role in producing great applications of the cryptocurrency. This is the reason why I want it to be regulated.

This year, investor confidence inico declined due to various factors, the decline in eth and bitcoin prices was the main factor.
ICO products are not going well to be another factor. I think the ico regulation is needed to prevent ico scam.

Regulations for ICOs are needed but I would not like it to be a centralized over regulated market.
Some kind of self regulations  would be preferable. Regulations are needed as many investors are
not confident to invest as too much scam ICOs are in the space.

I think there should be rules governing ICO's. It is high time,  the cheating and scamming ends,  people invest huge sums of money in ICOs and they end up being duped.  With regulations to punish wrong doers,  I think ICO's will become better.

The crypto will become centralized, we need regulate ico but remember this should be to create a big wall to protect the investors and it's not about give all of control over the icos to the institutional. we need self regulation and this sounds to be the best solution.

I think regulatin ICO doesnt mean its make cryptocurrency centralized. Its just regulation to avoid from scam ICOs. 2018 is bad year for ICOs investor because many ICOs are scam and i think its give negative perspective for others people. I am believe regulation will eliminate scam ICOs and gain trust for investor

And Also, there is an increasing number of failing ICOS and considered to be SCAM ICOS, we need regulations that will surely inspect and test the ICO first before it will be on the market so many will benefit to it.

Any self-regulation of ICO projects will not have the desired effect. Fraudsters will always ignore any established rules. Therefore, there is only one way out of this situation - government regulation of ICO activities. Of course, such regulation should not be complete, but it is necessary and possible to establish a specific procedure for conducting an ICO in order to fully identify each member of the ICO team and create such conditions to protect the rights of investors and other ICO campaigners. Very good and can be too tough with respect to the ICO team prepared such rules in Russia. With their introduction, fraudsters will have virtually no chance of so massively deceiving investors. Similar rules are being prepared by Japan, France, Germany, Australia and I am sure that there are many other states. Therefore, the establishment of order in the activities of the ICO will be soon.

This maybe an unpopular answer but I don't agree that ICO's need to be regulated. No one is forced to participate in ICO's. It is purely voluntary. You participate because you think you will make money. If you got scammed it is largely down to your greed overcoming your caution. You should have done a better job checking out the project you invested in. The best thing about ICO's is that anyone with a good idea can easily connect with people that might want to invest in it. I would not want regulations getting in the way of that. Let the market find solutions for better information to make investment decisions.

If regulation of ICO would control the increasing fraud in the cryptospace then I think it will be worth trying. But I don't think that centralized regulations will be the best for this space. I think enforcement of decentralised autonomous organization model for all ICO projects will go a long way in checking fraud.

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I think the ICO should be expelled from the market. STO should be trusted and used in many developing projects. It has many functions and rules to help preserve the investor's money. STO is a new solution for the crypto industry.

Lack of regulation is one of the major problem facing ICOs ,imagine if regulation come in place its scammers goodbye entirely but lately I'm looking forward to STO rather than ICO ,I'm feeling it will be the better for the best so ICO might be extinct in the near future

Of course need to regulate.
Every scam ico stole fund not only from investors, and also from crypto files in common.
This breaks developing

I don't know if the government is willing to supervise the ICO. This is very beneficial to the cryptocurrency market. This is equivalent to the government's recognition of the cryptocurrency market. Perhaps Japan, South Korea will oversee ICO, and regulation can protect ICO investors.

ICO reguire more than regulation as they are now security and not a decentralized token and only coin that didn't raise money through ICO are not security and can't be regulate but on the issue of rate of scam ICO and to prevent investor from always been scam , we need a very good and strict law to guide any ICO regard crypto in every region and countries that such ICO will come out from .

ICO requires clear regulations because they develop projects through funds collected from investors so that there must be clear regulations so that the ICO does not carry away the money of investors.

I think at this point yes. Most of the ICOs are not anonymous anyway and that regulating it would have an effect in the space. Of course there will be some negative effects on it because tokens are meant to be decentralized and anonymous, but it's not the case here anymore. Investors are all about money money money.

all over the world there was and always will be fraud and the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency is no exception, if there are systems that will control this process, where guarantees that they can not be bribed, they will also put estimates for money, and projects will produce fraud, you need to learn to distinguish a good ICO project from a bad one.

It's very simple, to make certain conditions for entry and the minimum contribution, which will then be returned during the development and impact of the project. And in terms of the conditions let's say the finished product and not excessive requirements for both soft and hard covers.

I think we will need ICO arrangements because there are many fake projects and fraudulent projects. A team must be made to examine various aspects. If the team has been created and is running, of course, you will make it easier for participants or Bounty investors to look for promising ICO projects.

regulating ICOs can prevent this scam. there are a lot of scam ICOs today that gives bad reputation to crypto. if they can be regulated it would be a good move.

It sounds similar to DAICO. And I think, this system is good to implement.

Regarding regulation for ICO, I think it is necessary. One example of what must be regulated is that ICO organizers must register themselves or their teams in an ICO regulatory institution such as the SEC. Thus, ICO organizers have responsibility for the funds collected against investors legally. Even with this option, the possibility of ICO organizers committing fraud can still occur, but at least it can reduce it.         

I think this is very necessary, because the ICO market is deteriorating due to the increase in scams, and these fraudsters have seriously affected the development of the market.

if regulation is the only means to displace the scam icos, then yes. but maybe there are other ways to make this possible without regulation. i have read about reverse ico and that could solve the problem perhaps, without regulation.

how will you regulate ICOs in an effective way? without centralizing everything? Although I fully agree that ICOs are a total chaos and 99.9% are just an opportunity used by people who want to get rich fast, meaning devs and investors... people need to be responsible by their own decisions and if they do not study enough of their investment to begin with, they are only deserving to be scammed or mislead... all this starts with the people that give money to ICOs... these should become more demanding and inteligent... and the ton of fakes and failures will stop to get funded ...

I agree that ICO needed to be regulated.  There are lots of exploiters, scammers, and fraud company that will take advantage of a non-regulated system. Angels even have rules and laws, they are even strictly regulated because it needs only 1 mistake to kick them out of their status.  We need to recover investors trust in this cryptospace else we will see the cryptomarket being barren.

ICOs should be regulated.
Not only most of them look like scam,but also there are good ones, but regulation is required to happen!

If the ico market is to survive, we need regulation.
Not only i think that and that is why it is the right way
If there is no regulation in 2019, the ico market will die.

ICO's should be regulated in order to eliminate scammers and fake projects which causes bad reputations. There should be a registry to all ICO's so that we can say that it is legit.

Of course we need people or programs that will check the documents and the project itself that administrators provide to people , as I think all have a right to know the admins and their documents

100%! some have abused the market.  the noble intention was marred because of weak icos and faux icos.

Any project that has nothing unique to offer, should be discarded. It's just that, even if this is said times without number, some people will still fall victim of their scheme, because they will so much paint the project in such a way that, it will be hard to distinguish them from genuine ones.
This is one of the reasons we need regulation. So that generally, investors will be project not minding their level of experience.

Ofcourse we need it, and we need it as fast as possible, because this sphere develops quickly. Prjoects should be responsible for their dids and for the investors money

I can't imagine Cryptosphere accepting regulations... I think we have to imagine another way to make ICOs safer.
Maybe there a complete field to explore for ICO checker's teams.

I have always thought of independent organizations to test the quality of projects. Unlike current ICO rating sites, they give a very unjustified rating, as ICOrating is one of the worst websites to choose to consider a good project.

You have correctly identified the problem. Today, our problem is scam projects, there are a lot of them today, and it is they who today discourage all desire to invest in projects that we like, because these projects can be scam projects.

there is such information that STO, which will be controlled by the state, will replace the ICO companies. In this case, cryptocurrency investments can be safer.

Sata agreed, it seems that now is the time to make a regulation for ICO, so that people do not arbitrarily make an ICO, there must be a clear vision and mission, and of course there must also be legal protection.
so that frauds under the guise of ICO no longer occur, just imagine, how many people have been harmed.

For me, regulation is important, considering that so many projects have ended up being fraudulent. However, if there are other ways outside the regulations of the government, it is better. So that crypto identity, which is decentralization, can be maintained

If there is something at stake for everyone that lunched a project in the crypto space, then they will not have the mind of scamming others. If if they plan to scam they will have to lose what they have stake.
The regulation needs to be done in a was that it will give every investor the confidence to invest their money into any project that has direct approval from the regulatory body.

Yes, we should regulate all ICO's and this will benefit the investors and for them to get protected by scam projects. We need projects that are fully compliant and this will give the investors an assurance to their investment and this will also the key for the project and their ICO to be successful.

Of course it is necessary, because so many frauds were divorced in the crypto industry. Government regulation is just necessary.

With the level fo abuse and scam in the space, regulations is overdue. For me for the ICO to still be attractive investment for people, they need to know they will be protected, alot of people have lost money this year because they were sold dreams and those dreams havee turned to nightmire now

Of course, otherwise we will get a huge number of scammers who will fraudulently collect money while no one will punish them

If all the conditions for the regulation of ICO are created, it is even difficult for me to imagine how many investors will join the investment.As soon as I learned about the ICO, I was simply delighted with this idea to attract capital for the development of business.Nowhere in the world has there ever been such an opportunity which is now available to almost everyone.But where there is a lot of money there will always be big scammers who create all the prerequisites for scaring investors.Once this ballast is destroyed, we will all be amazed at the capitalization of the cryptocurrency.Therefore, I believe that ICO regulation is a must.

For sure we do need to regulate ICOs.
Point is that there is probability that regulated ICOs won't be so attractive as other instruments on a market and this sphere will die.
This is my opinion on ICOs regulation

I agree with you because if it is enforced then there will be a deterrent effect for scammer and they will also think for a long time before they decide to cheat, if there is no firm action then the scammer will become more and will make investors afraid to invest ICO is dead

Somehow i think ICO need to be regulated in the cryptocurrency world to reduce the number of scam ICOs.
But the regulations should not limiting investors and ICO companies to expand their investment, it is to protect from the fraud and scam activities.

ICO must be regulated immediately, especially regarding team quality and potentially successful products
very much now that ICO only relies on makeshift teams, then launches ICO with products that can be said to be plagiarism over previous ICOs that are considered successful
actually it is very disturbing, where when the ICO has a specific goal, the community should support the running of the project, not divide into competitors
if the rules regarding ICO are implemented, I recommend that only the project with fresh and unique products and services, which can hold an ICO
plagiarism products = do not pass

absolutely yes, nowadays more ico's really just want to hop in to the blockchain tech trend even if their company did not really need the tech. They just want to hop in to the trend to get the most money out of ico which will become more easy if they are blockchain base.

yes, I think we really need ico regulation, because with these regulations investors feel safer in using their money to fund a project

I don't think ICO needs to be regulated. The market should be handed over to the market for natural development. It should not be artificially controlled to the detriment of the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin is always an anonymous currency. forever and always!

ICO exist freely and is widely abused to create ICO scam that many exist at this time. needed to regulate could make the ICO became more orderly and could produce a good product. many current ICO gives the chaos and certainly become regulate to address it in order not to become increasingly chaotic at times.

There's no difference between ICO or STO, even if you are using STO (Security token offering) and your company still not yet registered and follow all of the guidance toward how to make your ICO or STO being compliance with all of the regulations and it will be useless. That kind of rebrand

Is this information already confirmed? In general, I think that this is not a bad situation, because it seems to me that today we need to very carefully understand that the market today can definitely be increased, the most important thing is that we understand what happens next.

Regulation seems to have a positive effect on the development of the market. But it opposes the very idea of ​​blockcain and BTC. They must be independent.

Crypto is like Wild West till nowadays. Regulation has two sides of the same coin. It may kill huge profits but make investing more safe at the same time.

Regulation to some extent will be cool but total regulation will lead to the break in principle of the whole crypto fraternity. I think some checks should be done to rule out the necessary areas that need regulation.

Everything leads to the fact that soon will be regulated by the ICO. The cryptocurrency market also needs to be regulated, as now almost the entire market belongs to the whales.

Regulation has both pros and cons in this industry. I doubt cryptocurrencies will develop better with regulation than without finger of government. Decentralization will provide better opportunities than traditional banking methods.

YES. We should regulate ICO's. Maybe this will be the answer for those people who were using ICO to scam. There should also be a requirement to show the identity of those people who were planning to sell ICO so that when they plan to do something terrible, we can just file a lawsuit against them. If people are not getting caught doing something that is unacceptable, other people will think that is right and they will do it on their own.

The regulation of the crypto market is crucial to providing guarantees and protection to investors. Without it, the market will not attract big investors and will be at the mercy of speculation and scams projects.

Crypto will be better with regulation, imagine having no regulation people will throw stupid ICO and make their own version even if that's doesnt make sense because it's just too easy to create that and also money grabbing.
Regulation is good if it's not too much, they are just trying to prevent money laundering so that the project you invested to is legal.

Many people think that the regulation of this industry will make it better. But I think that this will not happen.

No, today it is far from what can now be found on the market. Wild West has already left the current situation in the cryptocurrency market. I assure you today it is more beginning to look like an ordinary scam until there is no interference of regulators

I believe that ICO projects should be regulated. There should be one authority that will check projects for all criteria before launching it. That's when I think the ICO market will get better.

I am 100% sure that we need some regulations and improvements for the ICOs. There are too many scams

What kind of regulation are we talking about, I just can't understand? If you speak in general about regulation by the state, then I also think that something similar is needed, if only for the data of our personal information to be there, so I think that the situation as a whole is very squeaky.

Why are you so sure that the situation on the market for ICO projects can improve only when it is regulated ??? Perhaps then, the market will not be so volatile and therefore not attractive for investors. In addition, tight control is possible not only for projects, but also for investors.

Yes indeed, I agree with you that there are many fraudulent projects on the market and at the moment a certain regulator is needed, but unfortunately it is not and it is necessary to think of some tools to implement this problem.

I am against ICO regulation. It seems to me that the government will kill this industry. In addition, this industry may become inaccessible to most people.

I think that it would be much better if ICO will get special license for their work. Also it shoud be a comission which will be control every tokensale. So there will be punishments for Scam organizers.

I'd say a big yes to the regulation of ICO's

-  With proper regulation; people behind scam projects will easily be apprehended and made to vomit all that they have stolen from the public

-  With proper regulation, there will be an enhanced confidence in the system; creating investment drive into the crypto system hence; increased capitalization and stable market

-   With proper regulation, Bounty hunters will not be subjected to such inhumane treatment occasionally meted out to them by some ICO projects

-  With Proper regulations; the cryptocurrency community will be cheat free

- With proper regulation; Cyber attacks and hacking will be of no need as the stolen funds can easily be traced.

so i'd say; some proper regulations be adopted.

Yet experience proves that regulation is necessary, because the amount of deception is indecently large.

I see some project that is focusing on regulating ICO's by checking the identity of team members and legitimacy of a project. I'm not sure how it works but it will be good if we can eliminate those fraud ICO's on this space and create a good image to attract more investors to join in crypto.

ICO regulation is long overdue. Look what is happening in the crypto market now. Every month there are dozens of new projects. Of these, clearly fraudulent at least half.

I think regulation is double edged sword.
Both decisions have disadvantages, so I don't accept each of them, I don't have fixed position on this matter.

then what do you think about ico? where a lot of fraud is done is clearly very detrimental to us. clear regulations must be made, as far as I know some countries even forbid the existence of ico, but to set up a good ico for efforts to reduce fraud I think it must be done immediately.

if regulations are made with the aim of ensuring that the purity of the ICO should immediately be made with the aim of reducing or eliminating fraud projects. The advantage might be that many investors invest in the ICO

Why regulations are yet to come is because we are talking decentralisation, but trust me, at this point in time we really need regulations for ICOs. 2019 will see many regulations, some are forthcoming already. Too many scam ICOs and the government need to put some guiding laws.

It is necessary to regulate the ICO market, since there are too many scams and too many projects that the normal project can not offer.

Yes, there must be an ICO that regulates and checks so that there is no more ICO fraud. Until now there are only websites that have helped such as ICO rankings. This ICO rating is very good but there are still many projects that fail. And I think it's better in the form of a Team whose job is to check the ICO.

ICO's should be regulated to protect investors and the reputation of the cryptocurrency project. Scammers can eventually be eliminated and money laundering prevented.

As of what happened to 2018 with ICO project, it should be regulated for the safety of many people.
There are so many SCAM ICO who got huge amount from different country. this is a weapon to destroy the cryptocurrency and trust of the people.

You began to notice that the regulation of investors today is already fully. So let's start regulating projects? Let's start doing so that developers begin to incur criminal liability for theft of funds. That's what I'm talking about. And it is precisely such solutions that can ultimately improve the situation with scam projects that today hinder development.

If there would be a clear law and regulations to abide for the upcoming ICO's then it would lessen the chance of it being a scam. Nowadays, a lot of ICO's are popping out of nowhere copying the vision and mission of other ICO's, after gathering some funds then they will just vanished and took our hard earned money. I am hoping that all incoming ICO's will need to pass some sort of KYC and will do live AMA for us to be sure that we are dealing with the right person and not just the picture or video.

In my opinion we need to register for ICOS campaigns because it will eliminate bad situations. Any action or campaign needs to have its rules of operation.

ICO markets need regulation as without them institutional investors will not enter the market
and they will remain on the sidelines. Global regulations would be preferable.

As far as I understand that today the market is not so big and very weak, many projects cannot collect anything because of this. Although there are projects that have been conducting an ICO for a whole year and during that time they managed to raise a lot of money.

for the ico project, it seems that there must be clear regulations for the ICO because they collect money from investors participating through the ICO so that the funds collected must be clear in their use and what is certain is that regulations must be set so that nothing is not desired.

Yes, ICO will be regulated in the future, and regulation can save ICO. Otherwise, the ICO project is about to die. Now almost no investors are willing to invest in ICO projects because there are too many scams.

I still think that the project developers, before starting their fees, should unequivocally confirm their identity, even if they don’t say that where they live, for their safety, but I think it would be best to have information.

Of course, the ICO market today needs new regulatory principles, reducing fraud and investor risk. Thanks to this, it will be possible to restore confidence among the participants and increase the total amount of investment. I really hope that such changes will occur in the coming years.

that would be nice if in case there will be some sort of restrictions when running ICOs. less fraudulent projects though I can say that there will still be scammers on the move. but the big question is how and who will implement such regulations? this idea is still punch in the air though...

Yes I think the term "STO or Security Token Offering" are the ones called regulated ICOs. And for me this is the trend next year, so check out the projects that are used for platform for STO like Ravencoin and Polymath. I think this project will rise just like Ethereum when ICOs rise.

I am fully convinced that the ICO market has long been in need of effective regulatory principles. Unfortunately, it is difficult to come up with any real means of regulation. I very much hope that such methods will appear in the future and will restore confidence among investors.

If regulating ICO will bebefit the crypto sphere why not.Too mant things are going wrong,i guess regulation might help us to get it right.

That should be the best thing to do to lessen the chances of scammer to victimized investors. This year wasca worst year for ICO majority are not been listed to marker or prices drops hard becauase even new couns are affected by bearish market condition.

This has been my stand Since i learn about altcoins and tokens that this area of profiteering (in which we called ICO project)must be regulated ,because tons of complaints and hundred of thousands if not millions are crying for justice being a victim of this scammers,not to mention those campaigns participants that has not being paid for their services and works,i am hoping that there must be a good step forward to prevent this from happening again and again

of course we do, because i think it can reduce of possibility fake ico out there running their scam project to rob many people.

Since I participated in the bounty, I have always hoped that the ICO project will be supervised because I know that the ICO scam wastes most of the hunter's time, and the scam also makes investors afraid of crypto.

Exactly my point.

Some sort of regulation is needed, to keep it a safe place, mostly for new people.

This should be the main concern of regulating ICO’s. Too many fake projects, and greedy people that affect much the reputation of cryptomarket. Good ICO’s are also affected by the fake one, so we really need a strong regulations to have a better technology in the future. Though the risk is always there when it comes to investing but this must be address before it ruin the trust of many investors.

ICO regulation will help to enhance the value and product release, without regulations there wont be control for developers, when there is control in the space you can be sure to have valuable project introduce into the space.

I am of the view that the regulations will come to the ICO market to eliminate fraudsters as many ICO's go scams and if regulations come into force then no one can scammed investors as he will be punished under the laws.

Many ico are doing scam and collecting eth from the innocent investors who are thinking that ico will give the huge returns in the future but these ico are making fool the investors and running away from the market and investors can not take any action against the cheaters. So, Ico must be regulated and licensed from SEC. Other wise do not give permission to enter into the crypto market.

I think if we would start to regulate ICOs we would go in the false direction, because crypto was created to go away from the centralised structure and to avoid the third party in transactions. I think we do not need this.

ICO really needs strict rules or regulations to regulate all types of activities in collecting funds to protect investors, I hope the level of ico fraud can be suppressed

I support your comment today. I think that today we still need third-party regulation. I think that today, investing should continue in any case, but in spite of the regulation, one should not rush into it.

the most important fact is  Investor protection. If we have regulations in this realm: The information provided to investors will be more reliable, as developers would be liable for misrepresentations about their projects. Developers would be obliged to actually do what they claim to do.
Moreover, exchanges will now have to comply to relevant regulations on the trade of securities as well.
Pump and dump schemes and order spoofing will become less prevalent, as exchanges will have to comply to the stricter regulations that apply when selling securities.

Yes - if we want protect investors.
No - if we want protect the true vision of cryptocurrencies.

It is hard to decide which one is better. But I think, that free market is much more interesting than reguated market.
Free market will choose what is the best. Regulated market will tell you what is the best.
Do you see the diffrence?

In my own opinion, we need to regulate the ICO projects to have a good rules in the community. We need a regulation to have a good flow of an ICO. We need regulation to know our rights about the ICO and this is also the basis of the participate if they are willing to join or not. Having a regulation will avoid us from scamming.

I doubt that the ISO industry will survive. Perhaps the regulation of such an industry is no longer relevant.

as i see the sec is doing a great job in the ico space to limit at least the number of scam here .. but sooner or later this space will be regulated to protect new investors :)

Special arrangements for ICO have not been done because crypto itself is decentralized, but now it has started to improve with the existence of KYC on the ICO and also new exchanges which will reduce fraud and other scams.

Some low level of regulation should be positive for the market of icos but that is probably not going to happen, what we are going to see is the government applying very heavy regulations in the market in an effort to destroy it and when the developers see that they will understand what the governments are after and they will stop following the regulations established by governments.

If you look at 2017 and 18 years and see how many scams I would agree that we need regulators to the creators were responsible for their projects !

In the crypto market in recent times there are a lot of scammers. Most of them create their own ICO and deceive people who invest in them. I think that legislative regulation of ICO will reduce the number of scammers in this area.

I think it is very necessary to supervise the ICO project so that the scam can be eliminated. For most scam projects, they don't need to publish information about team members or directly falsify.

Regulation for ICO is very much needed and there must be an Agency that has the task of checking. With the existence of the Agency, it is certain that fake ICOs and people who will commit fraud can be lost. And everyone will find it easier to invest so that they can provide big profits.

Yes, We need regulations for ICO's because this way scam ICO's can not come to the market as they have to follow the rules and it is not possible to any ICO to scam people and only genuine ICO's will come to this market.

There is no other way to protect the market from different scammers, because it is getting very strange with so much scam projects. People do not want to take part in ICOs and the main reason are the fraud projects.

We definitely need to regulate the activities of ICO, but first of all in order to get rid of fraud and protect the rights of investors, to establish clear rights and obligations of participants in these relations. However, the activity of the ICO should not be regulated in terms of whether a certain ICO should or should not be carried out. Any ICO should have a right to exist and only investors and the cryptocurrency market can give them a proper valuation. The regulator should not intervene in the question of the appropriateness of certain types of ICOs.

I find it different from you that those people are talking to each other just about what the newcomers usually do and somehow have to do that, they want to cross the line to keep real and fake, they want to do it with a difference, I see they are intentionally.  ;D

I have seen many promising projects that have focused on this task. There are many developers who have already expressed their ideas. need a project on the blockchain that can keep statistics.

I think that some sort of regulation is essential, like doing public KYC for team members and making some machanism that can automatically fund back money to investors if project reveals a scam... smart contracts can do this....it's just a matter of time I think...

I think at this moment some basec regulation is really needed at least for icos. Cause in last year we saw massive amount of scam and failed project due to lack of devlopment which is not good for this ecosystem. So some basic regulation from government like before publishing ico a review of team is needed, kyc of investors as long as team, proof of funds. And if government regulate is maybe this decentralized stuff will destroyed but many people who new to this ecosystem will able not to lose money.

I believe that it is necessary to regulate, given that many projects were fraudulent. However, if there are other ways beyond the rules of government, it is better. So the crypto identity, which is decentralization, can be preserved

Yes, I really agree with you, ico regulation is really necessary because today there are a lot of fraudulent projects and a certain regulator is simply necessary, as there are many promising investors who believe in this area, and for the negative experience they just leave.

Why not .If regulation will be done well than investors can avoid pure scams
I know EU will have his licensed iCO up to 10mln euro hard cap
Second biggest German stock exchange will launch his crypto exchange to trade those ICO
Other thing will be security ico what will come mostly from USA
It is natural development ICO is very good idea but all that scams destroyed ico market and have very negative impact on all industry

We really need to regulate ICO, otherwise the ICO market will end. Look at what is happening with the ICO market now; no sane person will invest money in such a market.

I totally agree with you on this. I think for cryptocurrency to really go mainstream and attract more investors, then there have to be some regulations in place to check the rate of ICOs scam and also to make cryptocurrency a more reliable market.

We need to learn from all our mistakes and dont make it happen again. Regulation is good, but the question is... who will do or assign team on that. That team will surely become rich I think, because that is a big task to do and this market built because of money and nothing but money.

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Seems like a lot of people are agree with a regulation but the most of crypto enthusiasts are against the KYC/AML procedures, it is not from decentralized/free world i think. What do you guys think about this?

Yes and I support this initiative and this is also to protect investors to avoid being a victim of scam projects. In 2017 about 90% of ICO's are scams and it is not good for the crypto community. And it will be a bad impression to new investors. Not only regulation will protect investors but also it validates the legitimacy of the project.

It seems to me that the regulation of this industry will make it better. Now, many investors are suffering heavy losses due to the fact that there are many scammers.

I will say yes too! At this moment, We need regulations for ICOs! If you asked this question in 2017 then I would've said No! But from the 2018 ICO projects are being reckless! I agree with you that same vision, the same goal even same website theme in many ICOs! All those words are well written on websites and whitepaper but no output in reality! These ICOs are damaging the potential of crypto space!

This problem obviously should be solved in the near future. Maybe it won't be the best solution. But if the market will cease to appear so many scams it will be a clear plus

this is complicated because crypto adheres to a decentralized system so that no one can regulate it even the government, therefore it will be very difficult to make regulations that make all ICOs want to do regulations because there is no highest institution to obey, and if the institution is made so that every ICO want to obey, then decentralization will disappear

Yes, this is highly needed. I don't want an entire regulation of Cryptocurrency industry but ICOs really to be regulated either by the industry or government but I prefer an automated system regulation that will be able to protect the interest of investors and force team of projects to be responsible for their actions and inactions.

highly needed but tough to implement. since the use of crypto is global, who will serve as the regulatory body? this is the reason why there are so many icos created everyday as theres no one who can streamline the ico process and remove the potential scammers

Of course yes. Any regulations are good and lead to stabilization in the regulated area. And stability attracts large funds for investment.

It is very to see that this space has a lot of scams especially the new projects created but we can't complain so much since we are in a decentralized system, I just think that even we don't regulate ICO's at least we have a organization that we can report any suspicious ICO then they will make an investigation on that particular project and if they see a lot of red flags then they will take down that ICO.

I think regulations are needed to avoid copycat and scam projects. We need global regulations and not complicated ones.
It would be nice to have some self regulatory solution.

Regulation on ICO ICO results will make it better. the more free ICO and popping will certainly be a bad thing when there is nothing to set this up. Many scams on the longer the ICO will engender distrust and if left will make crypto lost investment. the regulation will be able to set the ICO getting better and back to gain the trust of investors.

ICOs really need to be regulated. Crypto nearly died off  last year because of the numerous scam ICOs which tend to scare people away from investing into it. I hope the incidence of scam would reduce this year.

I think we need to regulate ICO market to avoid fraud activity like money laundry and also to protect investor, in 2018 many ICO fraud, after they raised alot of fund they does not continue to run the aim of the project because some reason and finally their token did not listed on the exchange as well. With regulation we can maximize the quality of the project and minimize number of ICO fraud. Its better less number of ICO but high in quality product. With regulation will be more new investor come in to this market.

With so many Bounty participants and investors experiencing huge losses. In my opinion, the regulation for ICO is very important. It must be formed by a body that checks the new ICO or ICO that is running. And things like this will certainly help all parties and can eliminate this form of fraud.

Strict rules for creating a new token; verification of the identity of the creator (lead dev), if it is a commercial project.
Creating a new coin is more difficult to regulate, but not many scammers can create it.

Do you remember why cryptocurrency was created? It was created in order to be independent and extremely transparent. I think that now, sooner or later, all these moments will be finalized by the development team.

There have been controversies in whether regulation should be accepted or not, which still occur till now. The core crypto enthusiasts do not want regulation, because they want to preserve the main purpose of cryptocurrency, which is centralization. While those who are fed up of scam projects, governments, banks and the likes want regulation, which will totally bring in centralization.
In my opinion, both have their pros and cons.

why can't this kind of thing be fixed ?? for example, nowadays only bounty participants are increasingly tightened to avoid participants who are cheating and proven so far have reduced a lot and proven effective. if only the bounty participants can be set up why is the ICO not? ICO should also be regulated and have certain conditions to reduce fraudulent activities under the guise of ICO.

Definitely, we need regulations on ICOs. I vote for an " in house " solution, a decentralized and self regulated one.
Regulated market would attract much more investors, including institutional ones.

I am agree that ICOs should need regulation. Many ICOs just want to raise money without a good responsibility on the project. If this is continue, people will think cryptocurrency is a scam market and no one will trust crypto again. If ICOs regulated, i am believe it will reducing scammer from market and crypto gaining trust from investor

Now many ICO fails and there are also many ICO frauds. And this is done by those who just want to profit without doing anything. So this ICO really needs to be regulated, so that all negative things can certainly be lost.

I am agree, many people losing trust in cryptomarket because many scam ICOs happen. If ICOs regulated by authorities, i think it will good for market and creating good investment climate. Regulation will makes developers responsible with their project and with their investor. Investor must be more calm and relax if ICOs regulated

Yes, this is currently the only way to change ICO. The latest way in ieo, in Korea and at the beginning, this may be supported in the future. But this requires a long period of growth, and the future may change the cryptocurrency market.

Unfortunately there has to be some regulation which is too bad since everyone pictured crypto to be decentralised, without any government involvement when things are running smoothly but when something bad happens,  like community gets scammed by certain ICO, then we all expect government to jump in and punish the scammers.

Well, I think soon the sec will take on projects that have collected millions and disappeared, as there should be responsibility and no one is responsible for it , I think that by 2020 can already track something in the projects

The answer is of course YES, but the regulator should not be a government agency. Because it is the government structures that are interested in the fact that there really are no cryptocurrencies and nothing has changed.

All possible regulation of cryptocurrency can lead us to big problems, because the time will come to verify people. Therefore, cryptocurrencies can really be a reserve sector where finances can be independent of external forces.

There are ton of new ICO that will be difficult for our government to being regulate except they made global regulation against crypto.
IMO, it's important in order to control and monitor their progress but in the other side, it will break crypto decentralized padarigm !


I think for see it happen, it require some time in the future !

from my point of view of a bounty hunter i think would be more negative than positive aspects,i want to be able to participate in the icos without having to do kyc and without give my documents to unknown people...

Definitely, need to be brought to regulation as soon as possible. To do so, it seems more logical as if to do with small arrangements rather than very large criteria.

You are really on point. Too many ICO with similar objectives and even products. I can say the copying now is too much. There should be a body to regulate ICO and do proper checks before putting it out to the community.

There are too many ICO projects now. The pre-publication is very well-placed and full of hope, but after the end of crowdfunding, nothing is done at all. For example, the GOT project is too disappointing.

Yes, although many of them were opposed at the beginning, ICO has now abused it. If it is not regulated, it will lose all investors. This is not good for the cryptocurrency market. But now governments do not want to regulate ICO, which makes me very confused.

The need for an ICO regulation is growing every year because it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize fraudsters. New mechanisms are needed to test all projects, as well as the people behind them.

ICO investments in the form that exists now will soon cease to be relevant and will die, regulation would help to reach a new stage of development

I support the majority opinion that, nevertheless, regulation should be carried out by community means, because otherwise there will be some kind of strange regulation that can forbid the participation of ordinary people in general.

Centralization or control is not something that is really encouraged in the crypto community however it has become very alarming the number of scam projects that are circulating through the crypto community. This has really dragged the name of crypto in mud for quite sometime and i believe it would be prudent to have some body regulating the influx of ICOs in the crypto community.

I agree with you. indeed many ico projects with the same vision and mission but do not have a clear concept. we want someone to organize the ICO and not necessarily a new ICO to emerge that does not have a clear purpose and vision. so we can avoid ICO cheats.

I believe that this frauds and scammy ICO are run by some groups here in crypto that has no intention but to victimized investors,i find them almost the same when it turns to tactics and styles

For how long i have been looking flr ICO regulatory board that will only focus on the upcoming projects and those running already,so from this people here might be saved from scamming

If we can accept the risk, then we do not need regulations. Regulations are here only to protect investors before scams.

Of course. I don't think there is another answer. Unregulated field creates the opportunity to scam. There will be a lot less scams and failures when the ICO ecosystem is regulated.

Your last sentences just make it more obvious that ICO really need to be regulated. I mean if it is what it takes to make investors be able to avoid the scam ICO then it should be done in the first place.

Regulations would not be needed if people just used their common sense, many of them invest in projects they do not really understand and that is a huge mistake, so when the project fails they begin to wonder what went wrong when the decision to invest at all in the project was a mistake, so as long as you use your head the chances you will be scammed and you will need the protection of regulators will be low.

I think that ICO is going through difficult times. If regulators regulate this sphere, then this may attract investors who do not want to invest because they consider themselves unprotected.

Therefore we need regulations, since a lot of ICO are just scam. Yes, we are ready for the risk but being regulated will lessen that risk and that will benefit all of us including the market. Well, its too hard to regulate the ICO since this is cryptoworld but hopefully in the future we can see more good project.

Let's wait for another year, because there might be any new features in ICOs regulation. At the moment those aren't regulated yet and it is so sad to know that.
By the way I am sure that after a certain period of time there will be regulation)

Some countries have already implemented regulations against icos while some other countries decided that everything was a scam and forbid their citizens to participate in them, it is not something I support but with the huge amount of scams and the refusal of people to do the minimum necessary to protect themselves from scammers I do not see how to change the situation without regulations.

Come on! Guys, regulation will get you nowhere , I invest in crypto,because there is no regulation in other case you will never ever earn a lot of funds.
In US you would be imprisoned making manipulations on stocks

Without regulation the ecosystem will be susceptible to scammers .I think done degree of regulation will be necessary in order to bring in more players.

Regulations will help detect scammers, specially when there's a tight scrutinization regarding ICO's project platform implementation. Definitely more people will again develop trust on each project which is under that regulation, and also preventing ghost projects that victimized people from investing with non sense worthless ICO's. More security will be implemented towards more secure assets.

The regulation of ICO activities may vary. We are regulated by regulation so that it does not concern the expediency of holding an ICO, identified the ICO team itself and checked it,  accompanied the technical side of fundraising and ensured the rights of investors and other participants in the ICO campaign. It does not make sense for them to check the buyers of new tokens, this is not the job of regulating the activities of ICO.

Yes, ICO's are the most used for funding projects that needed for development and also needed transparency so where will the funds go. Since 2018, there are so many scam ICO's running and even today, founders & staffs needed a very strong KYC procedures and their works so we can able to track if they doing their promises about their projects. It's very hard to trust any ICO's with anonymous team and no transparencies because we don't know what they will do to the funds of investors invests, high risk of a fake project.

I think yes with a lot of scam projects around. Also, they ask funding for a project that we don't know if it's legit or not.

of course it need, because it can greatly help to eliminated the scam and fake one ico, who nwant to cheated us.

I support op point and it is good that icos market should be regulated and we should be able to see reduction in scam and fake projects . Like op has said, most of the projects are duplicated and developer open those projects in other to raise funds through icos market.

Regulating ICOs (not already established Cryptocurrencies) has always been my position. I am of the opinion that it will help restore sanity to the crypto space and keep scammers at bar. When this is done it will instill confidence in investors like we have in forex trading and the market cap will soar once again like we had in 2017.

I think there really needs to be someone who regulates Crypto because until now there have been many fake ICOs. And if there are regulations, it will certainly be very helpful, so that all ICOs are truly real. And the supervisory body I think must also be there to oversee all ICO.

CENTRALIZED REGULATING BODY! That is the one that I am waiting to read upon reading your post.

Some will say, Blockchain is decentralized, why we should create a centralized regulating body. We are now in a point that we should protect the one that we have established and we need to regulate the ICO if we want to last for years. The protection of the people doing bounty is the main key and we can do that by simply identifying the real existence and identity of the project team.

If there will be really a regulating body for ICO , then it will be good for cryptocurrency, so that it may help minimized or eliminate this scam ICOs which may victims the customers and investors from investing in their scam ICO,  the regulation of ICOs is really necessary for the organization.

ICOs need to be regulated. Because ICOs are good source of generating funds for a project, many people take advantage of that to prepare fake projects just to amass wealth for themselves - the reason for the so many scam projects. Regulations will check and curb all the fake projects that enter the market. It is only through regulations that the true identity and expertise or experience level of the team behind the project can be ascertained.

who is we?

actually the bitcoin founders already regulate ICOs with their corruption index and that bad enough

Regulation is tricky thing, you know. People are waiting for regulation, but it looks like they aren't ready for changes.
From my point of view regulation isn't required to be and it is like bad event for all crypto enthusiasts

I like the idea of public decentralized ICO regulations. This is the best way that most investors can access the data publicly without the possibility that the ICO made it. It will surely bring more security in the crypto-space.

It's a great idea to regulate ICO's as of now since it can eliminate scammers and fake projects in crypto space. But it needs more time and better implementation so that the goals and purpose on this will be perfectly delivered. And they need to ensure and consider first the interest of the people especially to all investors.

The fact is that regulation will not only reduce the number of ineffective projects, but also create a complication for quality projects!

How will "we"be able to regulate the ICO? If topic starter has any ideas on how to do this, let him share it and the crypto community discuss it. Otherwise, it's just chatter.

Of course, this is just chatter, I can not imagine who can fully take over the regulation and subjugate the entire cryptocurrency market

do you mean satoshi nakamoto already regulated ico ? oh wow  , how come ? he is a founder of bitcoin and bitcoin is his only creation  .  he must first regulate his invention before others but luckily he did not do it because he created bitcoin to be partially anonymous  . he wants freedom  , thats why he didnt like regulations  .

as for ico i agree we must regulate them because im also tired of scams and fake projects  . they say regulation can somehow prevent those shady projects from spawning  .

Yes, ICO regulation is necessary. In 2017-2018, investors indiscriminately gave their money to any project. There are a lot of scammers.

Until now we have no rules for the cryptocurrency market, so it is difficult for us to have a clear rule for ICO. And if you apply the rule to crypto, it will obviously be very troublesome and of course the investor will not want to participate

Yes, but there is no clear model of regulation, and I think only because of this, everything is so bad and such a large number of scam projects. Because of the tricks of fraudsters, many investors stopped investing in new projects altogether, because there is a big risk of losing their money.

Probably we need it because ICOs were replaced by more regulated STOs. But still some STOs could claim that they are regulated even if they are not. This problem is very complicated because there should be some authority to regulate these tokens offerings.

I totally agree with you. Cryptocurrency needs regulation to minimise the hogwash and repetitive projects flooding the market and decimate scams from faceless individuals running icos

This is simply no doubt. Today, this is indeed one of the most correct actions that must be taken into account today. Today it is many investors dream about it. But regulation will have to go through the community.

Fraudsters spoiled the idea of ​​ico. Of course, any regulation will cause restrictions, but without regulation it is simply impossible to cope. Regulation is a necessity, thanks to which the ICO market will return to normal.

Ye,it is necessary to regulate ICO because the number of scam since 2018 is getting higher and investor are continuously loosing money day in, day out.

it is not a good strategy to regulate ICO. it will mean taxation. it will completely change the principle of encryption. encryption is decentralized. although it has some drawbacks, the best way is to constrain it through the market.

For sure, ICOs definitely need to be regulated to rid the crypto community of the huge number of scams that are circulating. This is really bad, so many people have taken advantage of decentralization in crypto and abusing it. I think it is high time we have some level of regulation.

It's not easy to regulate it. How do you stop scammers from creating new ico? you can't. You can use your best judgement as an invididual and let other know about it but I don't know what would be considered a clear model for regulation.

Indeed. If individuals use their best judgement and stop participating in scam icos, eventually they will stop coming.

The actual regulation is very important in a project. supervision from a government is a form of security for investors to be able to put their money into the investment. so I say now regulations must be established in all countries where the population has an interest in bitcoin. this is also to protect them

I think that there should be a project that will regulate the ICO. Also, all projects will be tested by him carefully, and then come to us investors and bounty hunters. Let this team will take the tax, but it led us to the elimination of fraudsters.

Then this topic does not bear any semantic load and in order not to clutter up the section "Altcoin Discussion" it should be removed.

I am not sure that regulation is a good option for crypto currency in general.
Crypto is a new paradigm without centralization and any attempt to make it centralized and regulated should fail, because it is opposite to original nature

I fully agree with you that the very question of regulating the company's ico market contradicts all the canons of the cryptocurrency world. But we must also take into account the fact that we need to combat fraud in the company's ico market.

Of course, decentralization is the main assumption on which cryptocurrencies were created. However, to limit the amount of ICO fraud is the need to implement solutions that will protect investors from losing money. If there is no regulation to protect investors, even at the expense of decentralization, the future will look unlikely for ICO.

Global lottery market worths billions of dollars. Yet people think about btc. Every stock market shows manipulation. People pump and dump a lot. The lack of authority is the pioneer feature of btc. How come we can control Decentralized network? Uncertainty is another wonderful feature of btc. But aggressove control may cause centralization. On the other hand, scam projects are destroying the whole adoption process. We need to screen out the scam projects and regulation will be needed to control unethical use of crypto

I was one of the guys who didn't like the idea of ICO and crypto regulation in general. The reason is that it interfered with the basic principles under which cryptocurrencies were made but for now, I am for a regulated ICO (STO) because it there are many scam ICOs who are taking the advantage of the mere fact that cryptos are not regulated.

Really quick, ICO needs to be regulated. Lots of atrocities have been made by so some company, project that have no clue and there by collection lot's of money from investors. I believe that, if ICO is regulated all this could be curbed.

I think yes, ico should have been set from last year. see because ico is free of many fraudsters who only want to get money from investors.

I have a big yes to this question topic, ICOs should be regulated, because the way scammers have turned ICOs into is too much, if there is regulations, most of those nonsense will not happen and anyone running ICO will be extremely care knowing that there are security eyes on them.

In any sense, the nature of regulation is very well exhibits a secured and user friendly approach to ensure the benefits of the investors and bounty hunters. It might limit the number of fraudulent ICOS that just makes the market worse, and to turn the tables to a favorable world where ICO's are all good.

we really need regulation from the government so that crypto is recognized as a legitimate asset to be traded. thus, security and comfort in crypto investments will increase.

Many project now has no other way than to be regulate as almost every one want to take advantage of the new technology in getting rid of people in hosting ICO to gather funds with not product and no real used for such project and only try to raise funds from people and disappear to the till air , so that is more reason I think every ico need to be regulate for investors safety.

It should also be understood that in this case, quite a large part of investors will not want to invest their money, since they will have to have an intermediary in the form of a state to which they will have to pay.

The regulation is now really very necessary, so I really hope that the regulation will come and it will not be from the government. I hope that all this will definitely be embedded in the cryptocurrency that we have today. This is bound to happen.

I thunk it's the right time to regulate ICOS to avoid scamms project from the ico's. Regulators is for the safe keeping of all cryptocurrency enthusiasts to protect the interest of each other.

Yes we want to have cryptocurrency to be regulated also. Because like in our country, we have a law, In cryptocurrency also has a law. In order to maintain peace on the projects and scam free and away for those scammers.

To prevent a massive influx of fraud in the ICO, clear and strict measures are needed to regulate it on the part of the authorities. Developers must be accountable to investors.

Maybe some regulations about ICO will be needed to ensure the investor's funds are safe in the ICO company hand.
Too many scam projects in ICO which already bring trust damage to the investors of cryptocurrency. Regulations will prevent more scam projects i guess.

Yes i like the idea about regulation for ico. There will be many benefit if ICO have a regulation. Like, investor will trust and spend their money on it. The number of scammer will decrease, and as bounty hunter will guarantee to be pay from company.

STO will solve all these problems and stop the ICO scam, and the fact shows that there are currently many ICO scam running because they still have not applied STO to their project

With the very high scam rate in the initial coin offering I would surly be in full support to having initial coin offering regulated but if the security token offering can work out it would be a good alternative

As I understand it, today there are really a large number of people who support the idea of ​​investing. Probably there is a need for this, as the scam projects have become very much. We need to try to do it.

whatever it is for the sake of crypto to be better then I think it should be tried as long as it makes sense, but every regulation must be fair to everyone so that it will not cause someone to be harmed especially investors because it can make investors less and less

I think we will lose the main point of crypto currencies. For sure we need to find a way of how to protect investors from participating in scam projects, but it should be done with our own forces without any centralised party that would regulate the whole crypto world and make it centralised.

Regulation by the regulatory authorities is definitely needed. After all, this in turn will bring new big money to the market.

Many people think that the regulation of ICOs can protect us from fraudsters. But I do not think so. It seems to me that the quality of ICOs will not improve in this case.

I think the ICOs really need regulations because this longest bear market is partly due to the numerous scam ICOs that has stolen a lot of investors money.

I really want a regulation on the icos market. Cause in last year many people and investors lost their money. Cause their are too many scam ICO in that market. They just looted general people. And there are many project which is good at ICO stage but in development stage they just failed . so if a regulation will come it will help out to choose the right project for me. I think regulation will help to decrease the bad icos entry. And this ecosystem will grow better than every.

By following the recent ICO market, I think yes we need regulations to avoid the scam and fund losing! Like many ICO projects are turning into STO and that is the good decision right now! Because I don't want to invest in any ICOs, why should I go for losing my money by investing there? I don't have much money to waste or test my luck! That's why I will go through only STO this year, so personally, I think we need regulations.

It will not solve anything from ico, How can you tell me which is the project that already registered on the regulators and which are not? In fact the regulation like verification will prevent the scam ico and that's the point.

I would also say yes. I would also like to insist that no crypto project should even conduct an ICO to launch a project. They should have the base capital required not using the ICO crowdfunding..

I think that the regulation of ICO is definitely necessary for the cryptocurrency market and I hope that in 2019 the situation with ICO will change.

That is what they are using to tempt people into accepting regulations but believe me nothing is going to be solved and we are going to have two problems, the first problem will be the scammers that will always find a way around the regulations and the other will be the regulations themselves that will not allow the freedom we have to invest in whatever project we want like what we have now.

It is hard to say but i think regulation of ICOs is very necessary as this would help curb the the number of scam projects in the cryptospace. Again, i think people should also be enlightened about the investing into ICOs that actually have a working product or a real life asset backing the liquidity of its utility token.

A lot of unprofitable  ICO exist in the market  cause nobody have taking in-charge to hold them. But once we regulated, it could be a big hope that it will stop or it could be minimize its numbers. Mostly ICO's doesn't have a working product right now and it happens that after their selling periods they'll turn into a scam. It is our own decision to invest with them or not but for me, I won't take a move for them.

It seems to me that regulation and crypto industry is impossible. I am fully confident that the government will not be able to affect the quality of some projects.

ICO should be regulated and it will be so. STO should be a new type of legit ICOs with many legal requirements and maybe it will be as succeed as ICOs in 2017. I'd like this to be so, but the reality could differ a lot from what we want) In total I think that regulation is a positive thing for maturing of the crypto market.

Anything that can stop scam ICO and for legit ICO to succeed is ok with I have a long run of bad ICO that I've participated in that I want a certain regulation if these continues the ICO industry will be ruin, good projects are pausing their campaign and so many scammed ICO coming up.

I think regulated version of ICO that called STO will solve these ICO scammers problems.When market recovering we will be able to see growth of STO rather than ICOs. So it will reduce scam projects.  

Have you seen STO? and it seems like you have no point about what STO is. STO must registered on the regulators before you can call it a real STO. Latest STO called Bolton coin was being a scam STO. That means there was no a lot of differences in ico or STO.

This is true, but in my opinion scamming with STOs is maybe a little more difficult than with simple ICOs. Anyway, you cannot be sure 100% even with STOs, but since they must first comply with regulations, there is some more guarantee at least.

Regulation on ICO maybe necessary to protect investors or participants of the ICO.
There were many scam ICOs already, and it keeps making ICO reputation bad. Some regulations about it will be ok.
But it will be back to the investors, whether they want to invest their money on the ICO project or not.

Regardless of this time, as long as there is profitable, the project of the scam is unavoidable, but they can be restrained by the regulatory authorities.

I think regulating ICO is not really necessary because of it's nature as digital assets and difficult to account someone when it comes to security due to anonimity. What is needed to identify whether the ICO is legit or not is what people wanted to be solved. Right now ICo are not that trusted by most of investors wanting to gain profit through digital businesses.

I agree to regulate ICOs in order to prevent scams just like what happened last year, rampant scam icos are popping out in order to steal money and fraud investors pretending to be a legit project. By doing so, it will benefit us bounty hunters because we are confident that the projects we promote are legit and it can also put assurance to investors that their money are safe.

for the long term, perhaps the impact of regulation is tax and finally the increase in fees that must be paid. but this is even better because the guarantee of fake ico will get thinner. with a clear legal basis, the protection of consumers, investors, traders and bounty hunters is clearer.

Government must be want to protect peoples investment and take advantages from ICOs. Last year, many scam ICOs and make people lossing their investment and if ICOs regulated, this can be reduced

Is there an official list of the government or something, where you can see all the reputable STO? This would help to know if it is a reputable STO or not. Unfortunately, i have not found such a list so far.

I will always look on the bright side, there are many benefits that we will get when an ico project can be made a regulation specifically regulating it. the security of the project is far better and it can avoid scammers. this is actually needed since now, but there are still many countries that are monitoring. the benefits of regulation will be very obvious in the future, that is, when a digital financial system becomes familiar to many people.

ICO regulation is indeed needed and many also approve regulations, but there may also be an impact but while it can still be used and can still benefit many people, it will be better. in the future it might be better and many projects can run well so many projects are successful.

They will surely try but it is going to be a real challenge for them to try to regulate something that was specifically designed so they could not regulate it and when you add that many of the people that are in cryptocurrencies are doing it so they can be free of government control then you have a series of problems that will be very difficult to overcome for any government around the world.

At this point of time, yes we really need to regulate it now, the ICO is saturated by bad ICO and many more scam ICO are coming some are caught and some will escape and investors will continue to lose money if something is not done another more year like this and there will be no more ICO.

The regulation need to be made by the project's own countries government. See how almost all of the ICO comply with the AML and that's how you force a regulation to many projects.
The project devs will also always taking things into consideration when it comes to regulation since their project could easily gone into dust when they caught.

Scam projects is first reason why investors left crypto industry and they will think twice before coming back to crypto investing. Regulation can bring more rules to ICOs but having concrete rules will solve problems caused by anxiety. Scam projects are eagerly waiting for negative answers from lands.

I only invested in two ICO but judging from what I'm reading there's a lot of scams and failed ICO because some of these ICO's are just a copy of an old or existing project, people really are making ICO their cash cow.

I think that ICO regulation is necessary, since too many people become victims of fraudulent ICO, or just weak projects. To prevent this, it is necessary to minimize the number of such ICO.

Of course we need stable rules implemented to ensure that this industry is completely purged. The rot in the system is getting too much and could make this perfect technology to cripple. The only way out of all the atrocities and crimes being committed in the industry is by introducing strong and stringent conditions that must be adopted by all levels crypto investors and enthusiasts. Only through this way can we have a useful industry.

If by regulation you mean eliminating scam ICO and making sure the project is working, then I definitely support it. Nowadays, more ICOs failed due to unrealistic product and some are just scamming people, so I guess its time to change that.

Regulation in general is a very controversial process. Because today, according to the law, they can begin to regulate for a long time, but for some reason everything is still not quite clear. Today, many people are waiting for a very serious recovery, but nevertheless, many say the opposite, that BTC will fall and nothing will be good at all. Everything is very strange.

Regulation at today's context is beneficial to both the investors and the honest ICO issuers but the problem is the process of regulating the ICO is a hassle for the regulators as there are plenty of loopholes and malpractices in the crypto industry.

I agree with you, the ICO needs regulation. I believe that in order for the cryptocurrency market to become attractive to investors and funds, it needs to be regulated. ICO regulation will make investing safe and will help to get rid of scams and bad projects.

I think that the regulation of ICO will be harmful. It seems to me that this will be an obstacle for many people to participate in such investments.

ICO is used by many fraudsters to find investor money. So far, many people have been victims of fraud on behalf of the ICO project. Regulations are urgently needed and must form a Team that has the task of regulating ICO. This team will greatly help many bounty hunters and investors.

The adoption of a regulatory body for ICO at a state or private level will relieve a number of difficulties and problems for all who are actively working in this environment. There is no doubt that even a significant tax can not be compared with the huge losses in the participation of fraudulent ICO

Yes definately we have to regularize this market. Because it will control the scammers and manipulative activity and it will sadeguard the interest of investor as well. By regulation a small investor with limited fund feel secured and get attracted towards this market which is very essential for crypto industry to grow at mass level.

If we consider 95% ICO failed to reach softcaps, and less than 1% reached hardcap, of course this is sad, many scam projects make it possible for anyone to have the opportunity to make coins and be used to cheat, the presence of regulations is needed now.

Will we be able to get a better result by changing crypto's own nature? I think no. The regulations will be caused them turn into a less active and restrictive sector like the others.

Regulation is required to know because many ICO's collect money from investors and escape. If ICO's market will be regulated than these type of scams never happen because of everyone bound by the rules.

well i think people not just utilize crypto technology they also use that for take profit.
that why so many ico has a similar roadmap, because they dont care about the project, just make the view looking good.
then collect fund as much as they can.

Yes sure. We need regulated ICOs to stop us from this menacing exploits from ICOs who are only interested in stealing from us without a good project in place.

It seems IEO's brought some kind of a regulation to ICO's.

Not really a regulation but still, it is not like wild wild West back than with exchanges as a middlemen.

Regulation is necessary, but you understand that it can be regulation not SEC, it can be regulation by the community, today there are such self-regulated communities, so I think that everything can be done very successfully.

Without a doubt, effective ICO regulatory principles are really needed today. Indeed, today, unfortunately, there is a very large number of scammers and failed projects. This situation leads to a loss of money among investors, they lose confidence in the crypto market.

I'm in full support of the idea of regulation of ICO's. The truth is that most investors have lost confidence in ICO and that explains why many projects don't meet their soft cap. The prevalence of scam projects have made even the legit ones to find it difficult to execute their projects with the support of investors. In my opinion, some extent of regulation will bring sanity to the cryptocurrency space.

Some icos may have different or unique ideas compared with another ico but look at how so many major are plagiarized ethereum and its idea. But speculators are having an important role in the crypto ico business because they are short term player dude.

I agree with you. There must be a standard law for ICO projects, to limit fraud projects. And there must be an advisory board to support the ICO, so that potential ICOs have enough resources to develop the project.

The scope of the ICO really needs reasonable regulation in order to protect investors from unscrupulous companies and all sorts of scammers. This is in "reasonable". Without proper regulation, the risk of losing investment is high. After the legislative base is established, the number of ICOs will decrease, but their quality will increase significantly.

Absolutely yes, we do need ICO regulation and I recommend centralized regulation to curb all form of scams in the Crypto space, there should be standard for every icos which will foster quality valuable ICO. Some icos do whatever that suits them and the investors and bounty hunters are at the receiving end of their both actions and inactions

With recent events regarding crowdfunding especially ieos
Ico really need to step up to stand a chance of survival

If there will be regulations of icos,
Who will regulate it ?
Who will be behind the regulations ??

With the sound of it should not be but with the current state of the market, it should be. Scam ICOs all around. Almost all ICOs are made by people who really have the intention of scamming people. Why did I say this? Basically, anyone could able to start their own ICOs, this is a fact with just a couple of dollars and you'll have your own team and your own whitepaper stating about your coin.

It seems to me that regulation will not make these projects better. But it seems to me that this will hinder the development of this industry. That is why I am against state regulation of cryptocurrency.

Of course, regulators will not influence the quality of projects and will not work better, but over time, ICO will only have working projects, and ICO will rarely have non-working projects if there is regulation in this area.

Regulation of ICO activities is a must. Without the regulation of the ICO projects by the states, the activities of the ICO simply cannot be revived. Only government agencies will be able to effectively deal with fraud in ICO projects, protect the rights of investors and bounty hunters and deal with the KYC verification, which is now arbitrarily carried out by ICO teams.
Regulation of the activities of ICO needed to be introduced a few years ago; now we would not have such a pitiful result in this type of activity.

For me its a yes! ICO should be regulated and well manage or diocumented.
There are so many scam project launched in this community, we should stop those as investors are getting afraid of investing their money even it is a good project.

It seems to me the ICO market is coming to an end, right now it is very difficult to find an interesting project. At conferences or exhibitions you won't find the stand of a new ICO project. I think there is no need for regulation anymore.

We should have stricter regulations on ICO, which will help reduce fraud projects.

Cryptocurrency has become like a fashion. Everybody wants to involve in cryptocurrency and make money and get riches overnight. But I think more than this is cryptocurrency which has been introduced to this world with the motive to change the lives of the general people. But some opportunistic are taking it the wrong way and trying to mess it. Regulations are the only want to curb it.

In my opinion you need to do away with the idea of regulation of cryptocurrency and ICO. Cryptocurrencies should be free from any regulation, the market itself will be able to get rid of scams and support only really working projects that benefit people.

and how to protect gullible people from scams and liars? I agree with the concept that the cryptocurrency should be more liberal and even an anarchist than everything else in this world, but there must be some leverage to protect your investment from fraud.

Once I thought crypto doesn't need regulation, Crypto's nature is decentralization so it should remain decentralized. But after seeing a lot of scam ICOs, Now I think ICO projects needs regulation. Personally, I will not invest any more in ICO if they don't have regulations. And I know a lot of people make the same decision because no one wants to take more risks in this bear market. To avoid scam, ICO should be regulated.

We dont need to regulate ICO anymore.
What we should do is to stay away from it as many group pf projects are just doing scam and we have no assurance on our sides.
What we need to have is the IEO, and it should be regulated and get better.

If there is no law, innocent people get hurt. Offenders run free. That's why regulations are needed to protect the investor. However, the right regulation should not be biased. Many regulations in the financial world are stifling new startups. This created an oligarchy by the banking sector.

Regulation is a fantastic idea not just because of too many projects with contiguous objects and goals but because of the avalanche of scams that have been going on within the crypto-currencies ecosystem . All options should be explored and exploited

I also agree that we do not to regulate ICO, but far too many people get scammed and dupe because of lack of regulation, staying away from ICO is more probable solution to avoid getting scammed, Regulation will help stop scam ICOs.

Regulation is very important so far as ICO's are concerned, and many are moving away from ICO project due  to the possibility of being scammed by ICO projects. Many are now interested in IEO's more than ICO's because ICO's are not regulated. Only regulation alone can help in the rise of ICO's again because regulation comes along with confidence for the investor. ICO's truly need to be regulated.

I believe that it is ICO that is most in need of regulation. In general, I'm opposed to the regulation of cryptocurrencies. But the reality is that it is at the ICO stage that the main cases of fraud occur. And if a person’s first acquaintance with cryptocurrencies occurs through a fraudulent ICO, then this has very unpleasant consequences for both the person and the future cryptocurrencies as a whole.

ICO loss it's popularity because of the fact that it's hard to regulate the ICO, if I'm a regulator, I would prefer the new platform which is the IEO as it's easier to regulate, you just have to look at the exchanges and let the exchanges do their job because if not, they will be sanction with big penalties.
With that, it's assured that the authority will be effective since there is no exchange that wants to be sanction and penalize that could possibly loss their business, so they will be careful in listing IEO and that is good to general investors.

I am cool with regulation of ICOs but I am only concerned about how effective that will be in curbing the excesses of most crypto projects out there today.l, plus IEOs are taking over so I doubt if we will still need to do that, what I want regulated are crypto exchanges

It's long overdue, but I still think that should have been done a long time ago though, seeing as ICOs are no longer the in thing at the moment, regulating them might just be a waste of time and precious energy

truly icos need to be regulated in other for it to rise from been dead with the initiation of ieos. Icos are dead now and no investor wish to invest in ico projects where scam it prominent and can happen anytime. For icos to stand up again from where it has fallen, it needs to be regulated to give investors trust to invest in it.

In my opinion, regulation of ICO would be a great idea. One of the most challenging issues about ICO is the prevalence of scam projects and this has lead to the distrust of investors. Most ICO's barely meet their soft cap because investors are not willing to loose their hard earned money to scammers, but with some extent of regulation, the cryptocurrency space would be sanitized and investors confidence could be restored.

I don't know about the concept of master nodes but I think it is late to implement that, and besides everything in ICO is open to corruption and manipulation, why not just a lesser evil in IEO, exchange is the one regulating it and investors can see the result fast and easy, just pick the right exchange for IEO to invest.

The ICO should be regulated by the government to protect investor funds from fraud. Many governments have started collecting taxes from cryptocurrency and the government should protect investor interests in ICO matters. Indeed, at present many projects choose IEO but IEO also needs separate regulations from exchangers because IEO is a new project.

Regulation for ICO is particularly required and there must be an Agency that has the assignment of checking. With the presence of the Agency, it is sure that phony ICOs and individuals who will submit misrepresentation can be lost. What's more, everybody will think that its simpler to contribute with the goal that they can give enormous benefits.

Truth be told, ICO's needs to be regulated in other for it to survive. ICO's are really dying out since IEO's came and this is happening because most investors are no longer interested in investing in ICO's but rather IEO's. For ICO's to be able to survive, it needs to be regulated and I think this will make most investors reconsider joining ICO's.

If all traditional and modern financial institutions and instruments are in regulatory mode, then why not regulate cryptocurrency token sales. Especially if the main reason is to protect investors from fraud.

Numerous ico are doing trick and gathering eth from the blameless financial specialists who are imagining that ico will give the tremendous returns later on however these ico are making trick the speculators and fleeing frontier  the market and speculators can not make any move against the con artists. Along these lines, Ico must be controlled and authorized from SEC. Other insightful don't offer consent to go into the crypto showcase.

I am not against regulation in principle,but alas, everything is very difficult in my country.To do everything according to the law it is easier for me to simply refuse to invest.When the industry ripens, then it will be possible to talk about regulation. Until this is premature.

If there are ways for scammers to scam people they are going to use that, let's admit it ICO has become a ground for scammers, because they feed the greediness of some investors, these scammers launch fake ICO using whitepaper from other projects, and photoshopped from linkedin and make it appear a legit project, it's hard to catch them now, this is the reason we need regulation.

With crypto regulations scammers will have no choice but to evade getting arrest by finding their way off cryprto space,regulation is the answer to almost 90percent problem facing crypto space entirely,like hacks and scams ICOs,Con artists in crypto space will face panel

we defintely need to regulate icos but ico regulation make take time so we should work more on new rules from exchanges to prevent fraud

We need the regulate whole crypto industry. That is true, without it we can´t think about the mass adoption. That is why many crypto experts are positive about Libra because Libra brings attention to cryptocurrencies that they need regulations!

Well, regulation is much needed in this field. But question is how? SEC is struggling hard as we understand from their status quo on making decisions. If regulations don't come in, then crypto field would be completely vanished soon.

Yes, Ico needs to be regulated, this will surely control issues related to Ico scamming and this will definitely lift cryptocurrency to the next level.

Yes we do need to regulate token sales, because the amount of scams in this industry is just horrific. Every third ICOs is ending up by disappearance of creators with a lot of money and this is it. We need to sacrifice our privacy to reduce the amount of scammers.

I think yes. Perhaps this is the only area in the crypto market that I consider acceptable to control. Due to the fact that almost any group of people who know how to deceive investors can conduct  ICO, this should be under control. Today there are many projects that deceived their investors and don't bear any responsibility to them.

On a brighter note, I will also say yes, ICO's needs to be regulated. ICO's are gradually fading away from the crypto world since IEO's came. The only way ICO's can rise up and compete or survive is for it to be regulated. Without regulation, it will be very difficult for the masses out there to invest in ICO's whiles IEO's are there. ICO's should be regulated to bring mass adoption.

I hope it is not too late for ICO, if in case it will be all regulated, IEO that time will already very popular and I think people will still stick with IEO, unless they still offer limited number of projects like they did now.

Compared to the time where ICO was still popular, it was able to attract a lot of investors, maybe if we will compared, ICO can create one thousand project in a certain month while IEO can only create like 200, so it's like in every 100% IEO only creates 20%, that is because of the small number of exchanges where people trust to put their money, and only few IEO are being created in good exchange in a monthly basis.

Due to the reported issues of scam ICOs, many investors have refrained from ICOs and in order for ICO to resume their previous market status of success, regulation must be put in place. For ICO to compete with IEO, ICO must be structured and well regulated as IEO. This will be achievable if bodies are set aside to check the authenticity of an ICO before they are allowed to come to the market - here, the collection of personal and professional data of the team must be paramount.

ICO activities must be regulated. This should have been done a few years ago, then she would not have come into such a miserable state. First of all, ICOs need to be regulated organizationally in order to get rid of such a high level of fraud in them. I hope that this will happen this year, many states are already preparing to adopt the relevant rules. Perhaps this can again revive this activity, since it is a necessary prerequisite for the rapid development of cryptocurrency.

We do not need regular or irregular ICOs. The ones who need those things are companies who just want to make profit. Take a look around my friend,,, see the bounty section and see the first 50 threads and tell me how many projects are truly different and have different purposes?

They all want to disrupt this and that. They all want to change the world. That is what they say. But what they really want to do is just raise money and dump.

we need regulations is crypto space,hopefully i hope the following will happen after regulation takes place in crypto space

1. Very strict rules
2. Qualifiction checks

I believe that lack of strict rules and qualifications in crypto space is the major problems affecting crypto, scammers are roaming freely because no law against building your own project either its for good purpose or bad one

And even we have many developers that are not good enough to lead a project to its success and yet they proceed with fund raising either with ICO or IEO

If we will regulate the ICO then we should have the regulation for the CRyptocurrency first.
Are we ready to be regulated? There are so many ICO scammed before!
I think we should move on and have this IEO on good exchanges now!

This is where I thought SEC would really extend services to. Instead of fining erring platforms that conducted ICOs illegitimately or fraudulently, why not mandate a every platform to go through SEC vetting process before launching an ICO.

ICOs cost a lot more than IEO and the scam projects usually use the ICO model where scamming other people is much easier. The regulation will bring stability to the crypto space but the investors should educate themselves before they invest in any project.
Without proper education, I can't think they will be able to cook their skills in the live markets. It requires a set of skills that is not transferrable by any trader to another one. IEOs also make conditions easier for the investors, they never will look back in case of the next wave of the increasing token sales with trusted exchange platforms.

IEOs are taking over with well structured activities which put the whole project on checks and make sure investors get their holdings after making the buy orders. Also, the coin gets the opportunity to be listed on that exchange which facilitate immediate trading if not planned otherwise by the team. However, if other projects intends to hold ICO, then it needs to be regulated in order to meet the standard set by IEO.

The ico market and also the cryptocurrency market at large beef to be regulated and this need is getting bigger by the day just as the market is expanding.
The year 2017 saw the creation of a lot of cryptocurrency projects who launched their ICO and of which majority were successful but scammers have recognize the ease of making money in this crypto market and right now the scam project are too much which leads to the calls that the cryptocurrency industry should be regulated and i agree.

Well, the fact that SEC is valid only in the US, and in part helps protect US investors. They have very strict rules about raising capital, and I think that should apply to ICOs from the beginning in all countries.
However, the nature of blockchain is decentralized, and ICOs have somehow shown that when it removed many barriers for fundraising. So I think the rules are mandatory, but it will take time. Currently, the best way is Do your own research.

In fact, there are so many projects with similar missions and most of them even don't have the needed resources to see to the success of their projects but yet still competes with the capable funds when funds are being raised. This is in a wider view has allevated the number of scam projects in the crypto industry and has published crypto out there black and I think its only regulation that can help ICO's regain its much attention as it used to be and bring in more investors to the crypto industry.

I believe that now is the moment when it will be possible to do this in order to intimidate scammers until the next growth wave, because when the new bubble starts to inflate, the regulators will not be able to fend off a huge number of people who want to fill their wallets dishonestly!

It seems to me that now our society is more gram-toned and will not fall under scammers. But the regulation of the cryptocurrency market should intensify and fight fraud.

Regulators will not be able to catch scammers; they cannot afford it, because scammers are not fools. Regulators need to collect information about market participants in order to dictate their own rules and make money from it.
That is why I do not want the crypto market regulation.

Regardless of this time, as long as there is profitable, the project of the scam is unavoidable, but they can be restrained by the regulatory authorities.

We should have stricter regulations on ICO, which will help reduce fraud projects.

So you are saying, it is better to give our money to the scammer other than the regulators? I admit I hate them the regulators, but it does not mean we can do something called as a scam to counter them. This is pure bullshit, and regulation is must to those who run the ICO. Because with it, we can prevent an unfinished project or shady company to make an ICO to fool other people. Even if it is unable to filter all of them, at least they can filter almost half of it. And finding real gold among them.

cryptocurrency with its ICO has long been waiting for mass adoption but it has become really difficult for this to happen since ICO's are not regulated. The only feature that is needed to help ICO's  move higher than IEO's is by regulations and without it, ICO' s have a long way to go.