Is ICO regulation good or bad?

[ydrogios]

More and more countries are planning to regulate ICOs. China, Canada, Russia,... I think this in an development nobody can stop. Do you think it is good or bad that ICOs will be more regulated in the near future? What positive and negative influences will it probably have?

I think there will be more investors like professional managed funds or even retirement funds which will invest into ICOs. The prices for ICOs will then become even more expensive and make it more difficult to make profits for small investors.

It might be good and bad at the same time.
The good part is that gov regulations might reduce the number of scams. The bad part is overregulation to the extent that ICO would be no longer attractive to start-ups and investors with a major deviation from principals crypto community holds dear. 

[josephdenne]

It totally depends on the shape of the regulation and whether or not those writing it fully understand the space that they are trying to bring under control.

The bottom line with this stuff is that activity in this space can be matched fairly easily to existing legislation for "traditional" financial mechanisms and businesses. Follow the the guidelines and laws in your jurisdiction as closely as possible and you are unlikely to have any trouble when direct regulation is imposed.

[pikebu]

Regulation should be seen positively, do not fear regulation but embrace it.

With clear rules regulation will legitimize the space which in turn will make things better for both ICO makers and contributors.

Yes you are right, but in my personal opinions regulation for ICOs are not good because the investors must be acredited by the government, it is mean all of the people can not participate into ICOs projects, i am more like ICOs doesn't be regulated by any other government, it will be easy to all of the people can participate into the ICOs, the community are free to makes decision, ICOs are new model investment in digital coins, regulation for investment is just for stocks markets.

[micheal34]

Ico regulation is good because people will be protected from being scammed

[RedUkulele]

I think that there's a ton of ICOs out there and still tons of incoming. What will happen if everyone would do this

[NERDNERDNERD]

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 From my experience, I feel that conferences could be a good way to learn. I found this one https://blockshowasia.com/ and I'm thinking to go, but tickets are not so cheap, but I suppose it could worth it... what do you think guys? have you heard about it?

[ListICO]

ICO regulations are good if you dont want scammers to run away with your money.
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[chimcoin]

I think there could be better solutions to the increasing ICOs rather than regulation. Regulations in my opinion may not be suitable in cryptocurrency technology. Currently, there is a lack of clarity and uniformity on the issue of ICO regulation. Countries are divided on their stance. Banks, governments and regulators seem to all be taking different stances on action toward ICO’s and regulation of the Blockchain system in general. The main issue that is posing challenges to regulators, however, is the kind of system in which Blockchain companies are operating. Essentially the decentralized nature of the coins means that no single entity is responsible for issuing coins meaning that regulators will only be able to go after third party service providers. In a nutshell, regulations of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency is wrong looking at it properly in every argument.

[Balab01]

More and more countries are planning to regulate ICOs. China, Canada, Russia,... I think this in an development nobody can stop. Do you think it is good or bad that ICOs will be more regulated in the near future? What positive and negative influences will it probably have?

I think there will be more investors like professional managed funds or even retirement funds which will invest into ICOs. The prices for ICOs will then become even more expensive and make it more difficult to make profits for small investors.

I think some regulation is good because too many people get scammed every day. With regulation, promising ICOs will get more protection and community attention.
On the other hand, governments will get involved and we all know how it may end...

[trexbtc]

I think the regulation of ICOs is simply necessary. There are a lot of scammers in this sphere, so people do not invest a lot of capital here.

[sonheko]

For me the direction of ICO is something worth being thankful for. The primary motivation behind it is to stay away from SCAMs. There are heaps of ICOs wherein the designers pursued away the ICO. Numerous financial specialists were abandoned with no piece of information on how they can recoup what they had contributed. By controlling it, there will be directions that need to take after before beginning an ICO.

[michbello]

Exactly, all these people calling for regulation are handing cryptocurrencies over to central banks, Goldman Sachs and J.P Morgan. These people would love to regulate cryptocurrencies the way they do gold and fiat. This is a club, and we ain't in it.

The people who lost money on ICOs, it's your own damn fault, you have nothing to blame but your own FOMO and lazyness. Many of these scams looked dodgy from the start, with only a little research.

If governments step in it will be the end of cryptocurrencies as we know them, they will keep taking inches until they take a mile. Doing simple transactions will require I.D, they will want to know everything you're doing. Just like when you want to withdraw large amounts from the bank and you get asked questions.

The complete opposite of what cryptocurrencies are supposed to be, decentralised peer-to-peer trade.

[ShannonGarcia99]

More and more countries are planning to regulate ICOs. China, Canada, Russia,... I think this in an development nobody can stop. Do you think it is good or bad that ICOs will be more regulated in the near future? What positive and negative influences will it probably have?

I think there will be more investors like professional managed funds or even retirement funds which will invest into ICOs. The prices for ICOs will then become even more expensive and make it more difficult to make profits for small investors.

Interestingly, most ICOs from China is very successful.
It seems that even though the Chinese government is tough on the pre-coding market, it does not come to investors. In the past, when the government shut down the Bitcoin trading floors, many investors turned to the decentralized stock market platform, while others went to foreign exchanges. Encryption always has hidden risks, but the risk has also attracted investors, despite the ban.

[VBCryp@]

It depends on the analysis of your project and experience, if you can analyze the ICO project well then you invest in them to earn very high profits.

[yakushev]

More and more countries are planning to regulate ICOs. China, Canada, Russia,... I think this in an development nobody can stop. Do you think it is good or bad that ICOs will be more regulated in the near future? What positive and negative influences will it probably have?

I think there will be more investors like professional managed funds or even retirement funds which will invest into ICOs. The prices for ICOs will then become even more expensive and make it more difficult to make profits for small investors.

On the one hand, ICO regulation is necessary to reduce the risk of fraudsters. But if there is regulation, then most likely we will receive a very small reward, due to the increase in the number of participants and covering all project costs. Perhaps even that they will introduce a profit tax.

[kute.umesh@r]

Regulating icos is good in a sense that we can somehow eliminate the possibility of being victims from fake or scam icos this, making our investments safe.

[BitForceOne]

Frequently it caters for better outcomes putting money in ICOs and ITOs which people are experts at so by this bear a higher chance to get to decide solidly, so regulation will help.

[NetCastle]

If there is legalization of crypto currency completely in the whole world, then the participants will become much more like investors, so I'm neutral about it.

[arditiyan]

I think IOC really needs strict regulation so that investors' funds will be safer and protected from false and premature ico projects

[windman8080]

I think it's good and necessary, of course, it depends on how much they regularize it, but if we want this to be a legitimate and stable market we have to get used to the idea that there can't be so much freedom, because at the moment ICOs scams are everywhere scamming everyone and that does a lot of damage to new investors.