yeah i can see what you mean. but i am saying the dynamics of the market can change if they regulate it and it may not change much.
besides the ICO tokens are already different from real altcoins. people are mostly trading them in a decentralized manner and i doubt that that can be subjected to any kind of taxation since you don't register anywhere.
for example all these ethereum ICO tokens are being traded mostly on EtherDelta, Waves tokens are being exchanges on its own platform which also has an exchange built in (if i am not mistaken), and others have similar popular solutions.
im not disagreeing with you. what im saying is people that want centralised services(exchanges) and legitimacy. should not advocate for regulation as it wont help them. regulations are not about consumer protection (how many people got to keep their house mortgage free when the housing crises of banks doing illegal mortgages.. even though the banks were "regulated", how many bankers got arrested.....)
regulations are meaningless
all that will help is consumer protections
so for the regulation advocates that will only trade on ICO's that are registered companies. its better to advocate for consumer protections (office locations, customer service and consumer liability insurance and asset coverage insurance (yes these are separate to the priority of regulations because the purpose of regulations is AML.. consumer protections is separate and comes second place priority not first)
as for those that want decentralised unregistered boiler room high risk high returns, well thats like high risk moonshine during the prohibition era or street corner opioids instead of doctors proscribed. they take the risks they take the losses..
but the importance is that registered exchanges should protect consumer FIRST(insurance/office address/hold selves liable if defrauding a customer) and then do the AML policy second..
again just asking for regulations is meaningless and unhelpful