ICO teams need more extensive checks than KYC checks and should be carried out by government agencies on the basis of specific laws or regulations. I think that soon it will be, many states have already developed or are developing relevant regulatory acts to regulate the activities of ICO. We need clear rules of the game and clear rights and obligations of ICO participants. States can not long stand apart from numerous frauds in this type of activity.

There has not yet been a hardfork in ethereum, and it is because of this that this coin has now dropped slightly in price. Due to the discovery of a serious vulnerability, referred to as the possibility of replay attacks, the implementation of the planned improvements in ethereum was postponed to February 27.
The ripple has so far successfully competed with ethereum in terms of capitalization, but this makes little difference in essence. Ethereum has always been and remains ahead. You can also invest in ripple, since it will also be constantly in demand because of its use in the banking sector.

Unfortunately, today we cannot be sure of any of the ICO projects that are emerging. The fraudsters are very creative and have learned how to prepare good documents and bypass sharp corners when working with investors. Therefore, I place almost the only hope for restoring order in this type of ICO activity to government regulation. It is government agencies that are able to quickly restore order here, protecting the rights of investors and bounty hunters.

We will not be able to completely do in cryptocurrency without anonymity, or without certain rules in it. Need a golden mean. KYC checks cannot be applied to everyone, otherwise it will do more harm than good. KYC checks, for example, are meaningless for bounty hunters and small investors.
At the same time, the rules are needed here, otherwise hackers and scammers will rule here, and the state will never legalize cryptocurrency.

We are all looking for the right time to buy and sell our coins and tokens. This is practically our work with cryptocurrency. However, each type of cryptocurrency has its own characteristics and therefore there can not be universal tips. For example, I am sure in many tokens that they will continue to grow in price and therefore, for the time being, I am going to keep them, and there it will be visible. In the future, I will act in accordance with the general state of the cryptocurrency market. The time for the profitable sale of our coins and tokens has passed, now for a long time to sell them makes no sense.

The period of relative calm and stabilization of the price of cryptocurrency more indicates a good market condition than the period of its rapid growth. A rapid growth or a big recession, on the contrary, is an exceptional market condition, which indicates that unusual processes are taking place on it. Therefore, I am sure that the cryptocurrency market will continue to develop and grow for a long time.

From this long period of decline and stagnation in the cryptocurrency market, I think many have already learned the lesson that you need to periodically record your profits, and not just expect the coin or token to take off to very large price values. After all, this can not wait. It is for this reason that I think that perhaps there will not be such big price rises, the holders of cryptocurrency will have to drop their coins with their good growth and they will always fall in price in this connection. There comes a period of greater stabilization of prices than before.

I think that we ourselves can do little to reduce fraud among ICO projects. This can be done only by authorized state bodies in which there will be appropriate opportunities. If the ICO team identifies and registers with government agencies and they monitor its fund-raising activities for some time, the level of fraud in ICO projects will drop dramatically. Therefore, I place hope only on government regulation of ICO activities.

Strangely, no branching has been planned yet, what branching are we talking about? Forks ETCV and ETN turned out to be fraud, and Constantinople is five different improvements for ethereum and no new coin will be formed. Moreover, until these improvements have been delayed due to the discovery of a serious vulnerability, called a re-entry attack, which resulted in theft of funds.

I now prefer ethereum more than bitcoin. I think that ethereum is capable of better growth than Bitcoin, given the significant drop in this coin in price and the upcoming improvements to this coin.
On the other hand, Bitcoin has not been improving for a very long time and I still do not see a real prospect for this. In the presence of its great value, it is a big minus.

KYC checks are additional and not the most pleasant duties for bounty hunters. Because it is carried out, as a rule, at the end of the ICO, the ICO team is interested in the fact that we did not pass it and in order not to pay the earned tokens. Therefore, I am not joining ICO signature campaigns that require KYC verification.

Banks will be forced to use cryptocurrency in their activities and this should be on mutually beneficial terms. The merger of banks and cryptocurrency will never happen, because it is not profitable for either banks or cryptocurrency. Everyone has their own functions and tasks and they are incomparable. Banks perform much more functions than cryptocurrency.

In China, the largest number of patents for the implementation of blockchain technology in practical projects. Therefore, we can consider this country a leader in the application of this technology. I am not surprised by this, because China has always paid great attention to the introduction of advanced technologies, including by copying them in other countries. Therefore, this fact is quite natural.

Although these are completely different coins, I still prefer ethereum. Bitcoin has not been improving for a long time, and so far hopes for its development are very unclear. And popularity is a changeable thing, now it is, and tomorrow it may not be in Bitcoin. In general, the future will be in those coins that will constantly grow and develop. Each coin has its own features.

In any case, cryptocurrency will always be very much and it is absolutely normal. They will massively appear and massively disappear, and this is a normal process of improving cryptocurrency. Since everyone is allowed to this process, the variety of altcoins will always be very large, no one wants to give up their coins or tokens in favor of any other cryptocurrencies.

Bounty hunters check KYC does not give anything. On the contrary, it takes us a lot of time, because none of the ICO teams has a clear and fast form of its passage at the initial stage of joining. As a result, we are forced to constantly re-read hundreds of messages in their telegram groups in order not to miss messages on the order and timing of the KYC check. Spending a lot of time and nerves.

The KYC teams can be checked by the ICO teams to not pay a significant part of the tokens earned by us, so most of these KYC checks are carried out at the end of the ICO or even after its completion.

For fraudulent ICO projects, this also provides additional income from the sale of our confidential data.

Yes, now the activity of the ICO is in a very terrible state due to an incredibly large number of fraudulent projects. I was particularly upset right now that both fortes from Ethereum - Ethereum Nowa (ETN) and Ethereum Classic Vision (ETCV) turned out to be common fraud. About four hundred members of this forum, most of whom had high ranks, joined the ICO project on advertising the fork of the ETCV. They also told how to choose a good ICO project so that it is not a fraud. As a result, everything turned out, advertised scammers who eventually hunted for the secret keys of our wallets when they explained how we can get their free coins. This once again proves that it is now very difficult to distinguish the fraudulent ICO project from the non-fraudulent one.
Judging by this situation, there will be no significant growth in the cryptocurrency market for a long time.

From the first days of this year, the cryptocurrency market cannot rise sharply in the way many want it to. It will still fall for some time and rise in price anyway. Therefore, I do not see anything unusual in the fact that the cryptocurrency is now falling in price. Of course, just before the improvements in ethereum, seeing how it falls in price is not very pleasant.

I would be interested to get acquainted with the technical capabilities of this new bithereum coin. However, I do not see any information about her anywhere. It is not even clear whether this plug has occurred or not. The team that provides it should pay little attention to informing potential users of such a coin. Without such information, it is very difficult to say whether it is possible to invest in it.

The proposed improvements in ethereum, which should be introduced into this coin on January 16, should raise the price of this coin. However, the ethereum price is unlikely to rise to as much as one thousand dollars. It should be borne in mind that Bitcoin still continues to exercise price dominance over other types of cryptocurrency. Therefore, ethereum alone cannot rise in price so high.