ICO was a cool way for any project to fundraise money and as an investor you could earn a lot of money if investing in right projects. At the moment, ICO format is rare to be used.
The most people are interested in crypto because of the chance to earn money and the price is everything for them. Anyway, it is silly to sell coins today - the best idea is to hold crypto for at least few years.
I think Etherdelta is still valid for usage, but personally I use Forkdelta https://forkdelta.app/. Actually, they are both safe as they are decentralized exchanges.
Ethereum might has more features and bigger ecosystem, but it will hardly ever replace Bitcoin. If I had to choose the cryptocurrency to invest in for a long term and had a choice between BTC and ETH, it would be Bitcoin.
I do not think Bitcoin Gold will has a good future. The most of it's features are already implemented in other blockchains, so people have almost forgotten about BTG.
For the whole period of Bounty hunting, I have never earned tokens which I could sell for more than 0.1 BTC or so. There were many Bounties profitable at ICO prices, but the projects either do not reach exchanges or their tokens cost more than 10 times less than during ICO.
I agree with you, cryptocurrencies were invented to provide anonymous, fast and chap transactions between people, and now at any exchange or ICO you have to pass KYC, which is not a garantee of the real identity.
I agree with you, Bounty hunters should not pass KYC, but if the team requires Bounty participants to pass KYC, Bounty Manager is just telling this info to the hunters.
Actually, there are not so many ICOs today - the most projects are holding IEOs, so there is no need to analyze the project. The only problem is to buy the tokens faster than thousands of bots as the profit is almost guaranteed on top exchanges.
Personally, I did not see many projects allowing to go in for shopping using crypto, but one of them is Origin Protocol - their decentralized marketplace is currently at beta testing, but you can already buy items there with DAI or ETH.