WTF is up with having to do a live webcam feed to pass KYC to participate in airdrops, bounties and ICO's? Are you guys actually doing this? Seems like a huge personal security issue. I don't even use the webcam to talk to my family let alone some mysterious crypto project that is going to do god knows what with my personal information.
.gov agent sets up project, finds out who is using this new currency that is in direct competition with theirs and now has you on video tape trying to purchase it. Look up Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to see what happens when you stop using the central bankers currency.
We as a community should come together to stop this. Using JPMorgan is more private, secure and less risky than this. I really see no point in Crypto other than to profit if this is the direction things are going. It seems as though the movement is being dismantled.
It's not up to us to decide for that. The ICO Decides for that and usually if you don't want to do this you can either tell someone else to act as a proxy investor for you, or just wait till the ICO/airdrop is over and buy up the coins on the open market.
Many governments have banned ICOs or started regulating it strictly, that is the reason for these new stricter rules.
This won't impact other cryptos, it's just some ICOs have chosen to do this. It's a chore to invest now, though, for sure. And the opportunities are getting less and less.