Should ICOs be regulated as IPOs?

[ludovicvuillier]

Do you think people who invest in scam are unaware of what they are doing? Not so often. Have a look at threads of shitcoins such as ethereum cash, ethereum dark and the like: everybody knows it is just a pump and dump shitcoin but they are still willing to invest on it 'because my x10'.

Agreed. That's why I say that the point of regulation is not to eliminate scams. It would minimize it and keep the money clean.

[hgmarral]

ICO's need regulation for the technology going forward but to put the same requirements on them as IPO's would be excessive. Regulation can kill innovation, for example a use case of an ICO could be issuing immutable concert tickets as tokens - do an 'ICO' - issue a new token each time there is a new event, IPO type regulation on tokens would kill this kind of use case.

[newelllamo]

Yes by all means. This will also filter out good ICO's from useless and without project/product to sell. ICO's sprung up like mushroom these days and leaving it unregulated can cause a lot of people who jump-in in the investment without research.

[nomad1109]

I think ICOs should absolutely be regulated. As it is now the small investors get screwed over a lot, and there's a lot of uncertainty with investing in an ICO. The creators of the ICO have to rules to play by, and they can just take the money and quit if they'd like.

[Tyr808]

Do you think people who invest in scam are unaware of what they are doing? Not so often. Have a look at threads of shitcoins such as ethereum cash, ethereum dark and the like: everybody knows it is just a pump and dump shitcoin but they are still willing to invest on it 'because my x10'.

Agreed. That's why I say that the point of regulation is not to eliminate scams. It would minimize it and keep the money clean.

Yeah it would reduce scams but I still think that those crypto investors who seem to be so fervent around regulating the ICO and altcoins market, should really get back to IPOs and stockmarket for a while and then come back to see if regulations is really what they want!
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