Well even in private sales they do KYC even more so because in private sales its normally larger sums of money that require heavy KYC to assure the money didn't break any AML. It's actually smaller investments that tend to be the ones that need less stringent KYC.

How is a presale the "wrong way" like legitimately 99% of ICO's have private presales before going for public sales, they seem to mostly do private corporate investments before opening up to generic investors, i dont know why but that seems to have become the standard unless im seriously mistaken somehow

I'm pretty sure if they need kyc they would have determined VERY early on if it was needed and if it was something that everyone was going to need or at what level that kyc would kick in i mean i've seen some groups that only had it for over say 500-1000+ investments some only do small email verifications for say under 250 it comes down to what the law and team says

Well obviously not meeting softcap kills most projects because its basically a statement that something went wrong somewhere as it means they didnt get financial viability, but it doesnt always mean a problem with the project sometimes its just not enough advertising or a failure to draw enough attention i've seen that happen a number of times.

It depends theirs a lot of back and forth especially if the coin is a utility token and not a currency especially in the US theirs a distinction and even then KYC/AML laws are specific to certain value of currencies, i mean you don't have to KYC to buy 20$ of groceries, but 200k house, ya your proving who you are.

Well thats always the case i see a lot of teams with great ideas but they sometimes don't realize how much effort needs to go into really building out from the advertising side of things to really be able to make it anywhere and make a real lasting impact on the marketplace

Oh i think its always best when they allow for altcoin investments and not just the big 2-3. Even if they have to use a third party convertor that accepts altcoins and they get btc/eth, being able to invest third party coins that we have in a project is a great incentive for buyers.

Ya good chains with good communications tend to just be nice clean upgrades, its only when a select few decide to rebel do we get the weird splits that result in free coins that eventually turn to crap coins. We need more projects that are original ideas like the idea neuroneum came with cloud computing in a distributed fashion which if it works could be a nice draw for developers and hosters.

The fact is people keep seeing small bubbles and thinking its a bull run the fact is the markets in a sideways momentum until something like regulatory agreements start to break and major industry wide utilization increases organically we aren't going to see a real move upward that isn't a bubble.

People ignore weeks of being down and as soon as 1 day or 2-3 days up they think we're back in 2017 lol, give the market time give the insitutional and regulatory bodies time to catch up and the market will grow oorganically its better that the market grow slow and stable over time than another false bubble,

I hope so too the team could really stand to be a bit more socially accessible and get more of the information out on where they are going and how they are performing so far on the backend and private sale so we know where things are going in the longterm

Splits rarely affect overall market conditions, unless its a well supported split and honestly i don't forsee that being the case for ethereum theirs just not that much demand to create a big hard fork issue, i get the feeling we'll be stable for the most part

Well hearing all the nasdaq and other news its a good sign of things to come i really hope the ETF news will get better and we can see some more movement i'm honestly surprised with Samsung announcing builtin hardware wallet support and Ethereum front and center in it that we're not getting a much bigger push already

Personally i wouldn't doubt the private sale would continue throughout the entire process, it wouldn't be unusual as the team will always want to continue to create large sales to industries and professionals on the side to bring in larger funds than a crowdsale brings in but im just guessing

I don't think we're going to see a huge take off like 2 years ago but i'm sure we'll see more sideways movement with a slow uptrend eventually, but i do agree that we're going to see a more targeted growth im platforms and coins that have tangible use cases, it just makes sense people are tired of pie in the sky coins with no real usecase

Pretty sure they already have an announcement i think people are mostly using this thread to talk about the concept of the platform more than the actual sale/launch, but then again i notice theirs a lot of overlap in the general forums for altcoins that step on top of one another for projects

I find that 2018 and 2019 is just heavily moving away from the open public ico's and seems to have a huge shift toward institutional and private sales which i think is good for the project but really does shrink the chances for the small guys getting into big projects at good rates early

Debateable both ways i guess any feature is a good selling point if it gets released as plan, and while your write it's not a unique thing exactly its something that definitly isn't widely available so is still a strong selling feature to set them apart i think

Yes and no you can tell theirs some big players playing with the overall market as you can see some big chunks up and down of about 10% that is not normal trading its market manipulation but the thing we have to watch for is the overall market trend to start reversing on the longterm charts

I still dont get how the first thing people do isn't join a teams telegram its the best way to get some insight into what they plan to do in the future as the sale continues i mean this tends to be the case regardless of the project but still people dont realize