that's really important to become a jr.member - you should spend some time on the forum, you read about different bounties, you learn how to work in bounty - it's a good work for newbie! in 2 weeks you'll understand much more then now, use this time for learning

theese ATMs are, imho, more for promotion bitcoin as a real payment instrument. Comissions are pretty big, usability - weak, but you can send your grandpa some bitcoins and even he can convert them to fiat. If there are 10 such ATM in one small city - this may be a reason for accepting bitcoins in shops or any service providers. Liquidity of crypto in real life - the next evolution step, that we need.

I invested in many ICOs, and mostly it were bad investments. However, 10-20% of really good ICOs, where i invested on very early phase, gave me much more than i lost.   I think you should break your deposit into many small pieces, and even if the project looks well, not to invest much funds, and in long term it is a positive muve. How much positive in % to your depo and time - can't say, it depends on too many things

so you don't know much about crypto, and you want to give your money to smbdy, who 1) may not know enough too, 2) may be a liar 3) may loose your money and give you nothing back.
Sorry, but now you are a target for scammers. Hide tour money back into the pocket and start reading, for weeks. After that you will change your mind and will ask better questions

it depends on what and how exactly is regulated. The best way is to make some rules for cryptoexchanges, to avoid big scams and to ensure some risks. Crypto may be used incognito, but exchanges - don't see anything bad if we know actual owners and if they make some fund for force majeure. From the other side, if the goverment tries to control every transaction - it will bring nothing positive, only more scam and fraud.

however it is possible to sell now and to rebuy a bit later, a bit lower... or just train your balls hodling ))

spent my first mined 5 bitcoins as ~10$ on my cell phone account...