How does regulation affect the future of cryptocurrency?

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Quote from: michellee on February 11, 2023, 08:13:29 AM

That could happen if the government tightens the rules and forces crypto users to comply. This may limit the growth of crypto and crypto users can't hide from the government because they are being watched. There is no longer the anonymity that crypto users have had.

I do not agree that increased regulation will limit the growth of cryptocurrencies. On the contrary, it will increase it. Bitcoin is an example of this. Increased regulation will attract more institutional money and increase adoption. People need a guarantee that they won't be cheated, that cryptocurrencies can be used legally, and that the crypto environment is free of all kinds of scammers who will steal your money. Crypto regulation has grown a lot in the last 5 years, but the industry itself has grown a lot, many cryptocurrencies have become very expensive. For the idea of cryptocurrencies itself, regulation will be a bad sign, but for the development and adoption, on the contrary, a positive sign.

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Quote from: crwth on February 17, 2023, 11:38:48 AM

As long as there are people who try to take advantage of the newbies in the Cryptocurrency space, there would be a lot of people who would want to try and save those newbies in order to have people still invested. That’s going to have fewer problems and would be tolerable. Regulations take place to have the right rules and monitor projects for the safety of people.

You just can’t really satisfy everyone and there would be a lot of people in and out of support with regulations.

Regulations are only there to help protect people from losing their money as a result of business malpractices. They're also designed to give more legitimacy to the industry. The downside of having a regulated crypto world, is that you won't get to enjoy all of the benefits Blockchain tech provides. It's like getting subject to the rules of traditional banking all over again. With KYC all over the place, you can say goodbye to privacy for good. Some countries are regulating crypto with an "iron fist", while others have a softer approach towards it.

We really can't avoid regulations if we want crypto to reach the masses worldwide. It's the only way BTC and other alts would be able to reach a new ATH in the future. Things are only getting started, so hold on tight as this is going to be a "bumpy" ride. Just my thoughts Grin

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Quote from: Jackl87 on February 17, 2023, 03:32:45 PM

Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

In some countries, regulators have taken a hands-off approach, allowing the cryptocurrency market to develop freely. In other countries, regulators have imposed restrictions, such as bans on trading or initial coin offerings (ICOs).

I am not quite sure yet what to think about all the regulations regarding cryptocurrencies because for me regulations are like a double-edged sword. On the one side they are bad of course because cryptos were once invented to give it's users the possibilty to transfer wealth without any middlesmen and without any federal banks or institutions involved. On the other hand i think that we need some form of regulation or the very big players and also the broad masses will not start to invest into cryptocurrencies at all. For a lot of people cryptos still have a reputation of being shady and being used to pay for illegal stuff.

As long as the source code of bitcoin is not changed to go against the ideals that created it everything is fine, it is true that regulations are a double edged sword but I think it is imperative that we bring more people to this market even if some concessions need to be made, because once the economic system begins to break down people will know they have in bitcoin an option to protect themselves, and at that point even if the regulations became harsher people will find ways to get around them.

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Quote from: ryzaadit on February 08, 2023, 02:20:27 PM

Right now, it's an only effect in the short-term.

If there has some news like the "Ban" example from China, it's not effect anymore because repeated news. For the news "accepted" crypto, the good things is always we can gain more user into crypto.

But sometimes the regulation is always can be change like China did.

The issue of China crypto ban may not affect globally anymore but it affects the future of crypto development in China. When China bans crypto totally, crypto will be difficult to develop there because of some limitations. Local exchanges will be closed, it should kill the desire/hope of people to have crypto coins. There will be no crypto activities in that country if the ban is applied for a long time. Finally, crypto activities in China will disappear if no change in the regulation.

Yep. In fact, the regulation is often changed. Not only in China, but it is also applied to other countries.

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Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

In some countries, regulators have taken a hands-off approach, allowing the cryptocurrency market to develop freely. In other countries, regulators have imposed restrictions, such as bans on trading or initial coin offerings (ICOs).

I am not quite sure yet what to think about all the regulations regarding cryptocurrencies because for me regulations are like a double-edged sword. On the one side they are bad of course because cryptos were once invented to give it's users the possibilty to transfer wealth without any middlesmen and without any federal banks or institutions involved. On the other hand i think that we need some form of regulation or the very big players and also the broad masses will not start to invest into cryptocurrencies at all. For a lot of people cryptos still have a reputation of being shady and being used to pay for illegal stuff.

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Regulations is a priority factor that affects Crypto-currency in so many ways, regulations determines also the price of so many altcoins and can also make or break them.

Regulations has been one of Crypto-currency main opposition and it seem not to be going away, but the most affected part of the regulations in Crypto-currency has been the sector’s relating to Altcoin except for some countries with religious regulations that has affected Bitcoin.

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As long as there are people who try to take advantage of the newbies in the Cryptocurrency space, there would be a lot of people who would want to try and save those newbies in order to have people still invested. That’s going to have fewer problems and would be tolerable. Regulations take place to have the right rules and monitor projects for the safety of people.

You just can’t really satisfy everyone and there would be a lot of people in and out of support with regulations.

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It can definitely be said that the regulation of cryptocurrencies primarily protects the investor by law and, accordingly, will reduce fraud in the market. And this will attract a lot of capital with a lot of money to the market, which will increase the market capitalization several times.

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The effect would be simply huge; opposing the nature of cryptocurrency which is decentralization. Regulation would allow taxes to be applied in every transaction which would simply make the fees more expensive and will just make this technology no different from fiat based digital currencies. Also, there might be changes as well with the demand wherein people will just use fiat on transactions. As we can see, most of the people in this industry are after market price volatility. Taking advantage of the changes in the market prices generate profit for the investors. So if interest won't be high, same thing would go to its price making it less profitable and interesting to the eyes of investors.

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Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

In some countries, regulators have taken a hands-off approach, allowing the cryptocurrency market to develop freely. In other countries, regulators have imposed restrictions, such as bans on trading or initial coin offerings (ICOs).

The regulatory environment can impact the future of cryptocurrency in several ways, including:

Influencing investor confidence: Regulatory clarity and stability can help to increase investor confidence, which can lead to increased adoption and investment in cryptocurrency.

With regulation, people will have confidence on the launched new projects since if the project goes rogue, people behind the project are known and can be sued of fraud, and authority can go after these perpetrators.

Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

Shaping technological development: Regulations can also shape the direction of technological development, such as requiring increased security measures or privacy protections.

The technology will develop without regulation, since most of the project are competing against each other, it is normal that one will introduce an advance tech than the other one. By having an advance tech to offer, a project can get more investors.

Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

Limiting market growth: Restrictive regulations can limit market growth by discouraging innovation or limiting access to investment opportunities.

It's important to keep in mind that the regulatory environment for cryptocurrency is constantly evolving, and new developments can have a significant impact on the future of the market.

That is centralized authority for us, they have the say on everything. If they wanted the tech to advance, they will demand it. If they wanted the tech to lay low, they will apprehend anyone breaking that rule.

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Quote from: Oneandpure on February 16, 2023, 04:31:52 PM

Government regulation depend on how cryptocurrency or altcoin project owner trusted, many time not only altcoin project but also top trusted exchange market like FTX have been collapse and I think this reason why difficult getting government regulation from cryptocurrency. Each country not easy how to allowed cryptocurrency as legal payment transaction because need transparent and how stability control for some altcoin before going drop drastically like Terra Luna Network.

Government try to protect their citizen and keep safety when investing assets in cryptocurrency for the future, seems still many bad impact with altcoin price drop and the owner have been scammer become option still not get regulation from government.

Cryptocurrency is volatile on the majority and it is one of it's characteristics, The government can't control or stabilize the prices unless they want to aim for a stable coin for a payment transactions. I believe that crypto education is a must for people who wants to invest in a project. Scammers is every where, Even on fiat based investment industry there are still brave scammers who are doing there thing even government have their identity, What more on crypto where it is most likely not doxxed. I think it's not right to centralized a heavy decision like this just basing on one or two or few altcoins that have dropped, Even on stock market which is legal, there are also winter season there where stocks drops heavily. There's no investment that has no risk and it is still you decision if you will take the big risk of investment.

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Quote from: Captain Corporate on February 12, 2023, 05:07:27 PM

Too many people are FUDding about a potential regulation and yet do not realize that it would open the doors for big whales. You may think that we are big with bitcoin, and there are some hedge funds and all that, but I am talking about trillion dollars going into bitcoin world, an amount that has never been put into bitcoin before, finally going into it. Why would that type of money go in if it didn't so far? Because there wasn't a good regulation in most of the world, as soon as we end up with something decent, we are going to end up with a good return and it will definitely be something that we all could enjoy and all those whales will jump right in.

I might not think about it as well. However, I don't even think it is bad for the crypto market but yes, it would encourage more investors and merchants to adopt crypto. Regulations could help to minimize scams which could really change the view of the market and less the risk for the investors.
For now, we only have just assumptions about what will be the impact on the market prices but I believe this is not negative, yet I see optimism in this situation.

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Government regulation depend on how cryptocurrency or altcoin project owner trusted, many time not only altcoin project but also top trusted exchange market like FTX have been collapse and I think this reason why difficult getting government regulation from cryptocurrency. Each country not easy how to allowed cryptocurrency as legal payment transaction because need transparent and how stability control for some altcoin before going drop drastically like Terra Luna Network.

Government try to protect their citizen and keep safety when investing assets in cryptocurrency for the future, seems still many bad impact with altcoin price drop and the owner have been scammer become option still not get regulation from government.

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Good regulation means a lot of big companies will get in, bad regulation means they won't. That is the gist of it if you ask me, of course it is not the whole story but that is the biggest one. If you want wall street to pour in billions and billions constantly, you need to have a good regulation and if you do not have that then it means you are not going to be doing good and will lack that money.

If there are good regulations and those companies start to spend billions that means you are going to also see the price of bitcoin go up as well. I can't say much else about it, there would be some other stuff but none of it will matter as much as this one.

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Quote from: cafee_orange on February 14, 2023, 03:26:03 AM

I think that the existence of regulations from the Government or any authority will have a very big influence on the continued progress of Cryptocurrency, or in other words, every user of the blockchain technology has protection, both in terms of security in storage and guaranteed security when making transactions.
Blockchain technology has indirectly facilitated the entire process of digital transactions with various advantages such as data security and transparency issues.
https://aptika.kominfo.go.id/2021/08/regulasi-akan-lindungi-konsumen-dalam-pemanfaatan-blockchain/

Regulations are meant to benefit the government and their regulators and not the end user, one case of this was when icos were forced to ask for the personal information of their investors, regulators wanted to know who and how much they were investing in those projects, however did this regulation benefit the end user? Not really, the developers behind those same icos not only stole your money but your personal information as well, and it is one of the many reasons the ico model almost disappeared.

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I think that the existence of regulations from the Government or any authority will have a very big influence on the continued progress of Cryptocurrency, or in other words, every user of the blockchain technology has protection, both in terms of security in storage and guaranteed security when making transactions.
Blockchain technology has indirectly facilitated the entire process of digital transactions with various advantages such as data security and transparency issues.
https://aptika.kominfo.go.id/2021/08/regulasi-akan-lindungi-konsumen-dalam-pemanfaatan-blockchain/

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Too many people are FUDding about a potential regulation and yet do not realize that it would open the doors for big whales. You may think that we are big with bitcoin, and there are some hedge funds and all that, but I am talking about trillion dollars going into bitcoin world, an amount that has never been put into bitcoin before, finally going into it. Why would that type of money go in if it didn't so far? Because there wasn't a good regulation in most of the world, as soon as we end up with something decent, we are going to end up with a good return and it will definitely be something that we all could enjoy and all those whales will jump right in.

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Quote from: dothebeats on February 12, 2023, 04:48:46 PM

It's a make or break thing for crypto. If the regulation is in favor of cryptocurrencies, it can attract a lot of new people that have always wanted to try cryptocurrencies but never did because they're uncertain of its legality. If it's the opposite, it will drive away those who wanted to try it, while some hardcore users will likely still use it albeit being put into danger for their disobedience of the said regulation. Regulation, unfortunately, is what decides whether things will flourish or not. Same goes to crypto although it has somewhat existed without any regulations applied to it whatsoever but it still is deterring people to use it because of the uncertainty.

We know that each corners of the world or simply speaking about government wouldn't really be seeing that crypto is something that they could easily accept.We do know on what are their main concerns if we do speak about being decentralized or something that cant really be controlled.

Regulation does really affect out and we've seen that it gets becomes tighter as the years passing which they are really that trying to touch up those platforms and services who do really get involved
with crypto. Yes, it could affect but still we do have some markets that cant really be touched up by the government no matter what.

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It's a make or break thing for crypto. If the regulation is in favor of cryptocurrencies, it can attract a lot of new people that have always wanted to try cryptocurrencies but never did because they're uncertain of its legality. If it's the opposite, it will drive away those who wanted to try it, while some hardcore users will likely still use it albeit being put into danger for their disobedience of the said regulation. Regulation, unfortunately, is what decides whether things will flourish or not. Same goes to crypto although it has somewhat existed without any regulations applied to it whatsoever but it still is deterring people to use it because of the uncertainty.

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Quote from: prithibiahmed on February 07, 2023, 02:51:24 PM

In some countries, regulators have taken a hands-off approach, allowing the cryptocurrency market to develop freely. In other countries, regulators have imposed restrictions, such as bans on trading or initial coin offerings (ICOs).

In fact, the government is a country that will always make an effort to control the cryptocurrency business. We may see how they make some rules and regulations about local exchanges to be fulfilled. And if they are not registered in the governance, they will be said as illegal in the country. However they will make it like FUD in the media. Government has nothing to against cryptocurrency and they will always spread FUD if they don't like crypto. But some other countries accept crypto business as long as they want to fulfill the rules and regulations in the country. And if we are asking about how the regulation will affect the crypto is that it will give enough influence the crypto world. Because, how many people will survive in the crypto world will also relate to how crypto is in their country.,

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