ICOs can be conducted without nationalizing or localizing.
But if Chinese authority seriously went after ICOs, China is one of the biggest market for creation and investment in ICOs.

This is really a good opportunity to enter in the market. I'd focus on anonymous and mineable coins as the period is not so good for sidechain technology.

China is a huge market for investors of ICO, The Chinese decision could lead entire ICO industry to decline.

Hi,
I became a full member and changed my signature accordingly.
And used the avatar too. It's my first ever avatar.
Hope I'll too get the full member slot here.

It seem to be giving tokens for bandwidth rather than storage space. And they might be same anyway.
I wonder how would they profit with just bandwidth if they are not storing data.

I too was an initial user of XAPO but stopped them due to their fees and limitations.
What I've realized after using a bunch of online is that, if you don't have the private keys, you are not the real owner.

No one has a scam tag on their whitepaper for us to decide. It all depends on what the team is working for and how they are doing it.

NEO hasn't even got projects to use it's gas but is already going up. It would rise more when more projects takes it's platform.

My only investment is on bitok. They turned out to be a pump and dump token or similar.
I bought them a bit late and waiting for their price to pump again.

USA is one of the largest oppressor of human rights. (Everyone knows that)
But the mother of silicon valley have a lot of ways around. (In and around laws)
At your own risk.

With the evolution of fiat currency to blockchain based valued tokens, we have changed the way our economy works (at least to some extent).
Who know what the future holds for the definition of a nation.

It's not that internet companies have failed, they have evolved with time.
Same will happen with cryptos, though traditional coin may die, blockchain technology will evolve.

When you fall deep for a scam coin, you do panic. And in my trading experience, trading have dealt me loss than profit. (Though holding compensated that)

The only way to success is going for a trail, yourself. Plain experience.
You can learn from the mistake of others but it's human nature to take risks, the one who can control the temptation, wins.

They won't kill.
But they would prevent investors with little knowledge about alts to jump on them.
It wouldn't affect the reasonable investors though.

My top 5 would be
BTC   King of all
BCH   Loved by Bitmain
XMR   Cryptonights representative
ETH    First smart contractor
NEO    Improved ETH (POS only already)

Ethereum, Neo, Lisk, to name a few I've been through.
Tezos is something like platform within a platform.
District0x is a much complicated form of them.

You can also try newer coins that gets launched as they have nearly no value now but can make a fortune in the future.
Newer coins starting with low difficulty, are easier to mine as well.

You are correct, cloud mining is just buying the contract and taking the profit.
With Genesis having problems, hashflare is the only legit option, viabtc too were having some contract but are not providing for new users.
But take note that ROI period for cloud mining are over a year and the production decreases with time.
And the price of coin can reach anywhere up or down on that period.
There can be other beneficial investment than Cloud mining.

Why are people going crazy about mineable and not mineable?
A miner wouldn't count un-mineable coin and he probably is telling the top 40 from coinwarz or whattomine.