I agree, that many ICOs would have a problem with SEC institution in the future because most of them could be clasified as securities, that would mean sanctions that can endanger the entire project and that is why investors are still afraid of investing into ICOs.
but with regulations that tighten the existence of ICOs, it can also select good and bad projects. and investors should not have to worry about projects that have passed existing regulations. there are advantages as well as disadvantages, it all depends on how we see this year's regulations will apply or not. 
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I agree, that many ICOs would have a problem with SEC institution in the future because most of them could be clasified as securities, that would mean sanctions that can endanger the entire project and that is why investors are still afraid of investing into ICOs.
The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost
I disagree because there are still many good ICOs for investment and failure of ICO projects is a natural thing. because people will choose a quality ICO project and surely there will be competition. so let's think positively so that this year's ICO project is good . 
The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost
ICO are not encouraged to invest at this time and it is best to stay away early because the risk when choosing to invest will be very high. Currently, many good projects are available in this market so instead of investing in ICO, you should take the time to learn about those projects. By all means, do not trust others when participating in ICO because for me, ICO are rubbish and have no great value in investment.Why is OP complaining about this? USA is the only country capable of standing against this ICO criminals, we should be happy about that because no other country can stand against these crypto crimes, many ICO projects scammers are still at large but USA is doing a good job
This should be appreciated as majority of the ICO that came out in the past few years are scams and majority never fulfilled the project and ran away with the money without refunding and that is not the way things should work and it is a perfect decision by the US authorities to ban all these shit shows so that the investors from US will be saved and never fall for these scams. 
The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost
ICO are not encouraged to invest at this time and it is best to stay away early because the risk when choosing to invest will be very high. Currently, many good projects are available in this market so instead of investing in ICO, you should take the time to learn about those projects. By all means, do not trust others when participating in ICO because for me, ICO are rubbish and have no great value in investment. 
Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.
I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
Developer not brave guarantee with their legalities of ICO project investment because they know how terrible and bigger risk with investing in ICO although always giving promise for investor their coin keep stable on higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, but at the end of ICO many time delay listing and only brave listed with shit exchange market.I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
This is the current reality that ICO is indeed very unprofitable and always brings problems that don't go away. all because people who seek profits for a moment so sacrificing their self-esteem that makes many investors become apathetic towards ico themselves, because many are misused. but will ico improve in the future? it is still very possible if unauthorized misuse can be minimized by the good cooperation of all of us.
Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.
I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
Developer not brave guarantee with their legalities of ICO project investment because they know how terrible and bigger risk with investing in ICO although always giving promise for investor their coin keep stable on higher price and listing with bigger exchange market, but at the end of ICO many time delay listing and only brave listed with shit exchange market.I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost
To be compliant with the regulators are not easy dude, you must fulfill all of the requirements. This is a good way to survive the ico but the problem is there is no regulatory framework that was fully controlling the ico. Ico is bad idea when there was no a middle party who will act as an escrow just like IEO platform that already launched by binance. Investors need guarantee if they will receive what they want.
In this case regulation acts as a replacement for the escrow to give guarantee to the investors.
I think ICOs ruined altcoins so anything to make them less prevalent is good. Seriously prior to their popularity, you used to be able to find a newly made shitcoin, mine it with your semi-decent computer, and dump it the second it makes it on an exchange for little to no risk. Then ICOs became popular and soon every new shitcoin was an ICO because it's even easier for the creator to make money that way.
Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.
I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
It's probably exactly that - there are certain regulatory hoops that you'd have to jump through as soon as the thing that you are trying to sell constitutes a security rather than a utility token per se, and it is very difficult to comply with SEC regulations.
We've already seen projects like Kiktoken and so on getting shut down by the SEC and asked to pay a fine because of the fact that they marketed to US audiences, and obviously no company would want that to happen to them.
It's better safe than sorry for sure. You don't want the future of your company being in jeopardy.
The one way to revive ICO from it's death bed is if it become legalized, it will take time for investors to start jumping right in again but in time things will become better, for now ICO investment is a bad idea and it need to be avoided at all cost
Why is OP complaining about this? USA is the only country capable of standing against this ICO criminals, we should be happy about that because no other country can stand against these crypto crimes, many ICO projects scammers are still at large but USA is doing a good job
You don't need USA to stand up, but I sort of agree it's good all these regulations are getting in the way of scams. Now I only hope to god the US hunts down all the ICO scammers and we know there are so many also in this forum itself. They're mostly enjoying their wealth now but one day I hope the law catches up to them. Meanwhile, let's all be smarter and not give ICO scammers our money ok?
I do not think there comes more ICOs in the coming future. Are not there enough crypto projects in the market? And what to do with additional crypto projects as the already projects are not implementing what they have been established for (rather they are just involved in something like gambling and price speculation). So what crypto projects should do is they should start enforcing their ideas.
ICO to be declared legal is gonna be a good thing that would happen in the market, at least this way we can revive the reputation of ICO and investors will be attracted again. There are a lot of opportunity in crypto especially when investing in crowdsale but due to lack of regulation, lots of scams are happening so that discourages the possible potential investors.
If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.
I have never seen an ICO that has legality, but if it was developed, maybe the ICO would rise again. it's just that ICO's trust has now diminished, so even though it has clear legality, people might consider it. besides, IEO is better than ICO, so, I think it's good for now, it's just that it takes time to develop. If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.
Now, work continues on around the world, including the United States, on the further classification of cryptocurrencies, and more than once there has been a well-founded opinion that cryptocurrency cannot be under the jurisdiction of the SEC, since it does not directly apply to securities. In many states, it is not recognized as a security. Therefore, it can still change. SEC is one of the US state regulatory bodies and almost every state has a similar body. However, we constantly remove a lot of SEC attention. I do not live in the USA and therefore SEC solutions do not interest me very much. More attention should be paid to the decisions of international bodies on the regulation of cryptocurrency.
We shouldn't be worried about legality of these things in 2020, I mean all these companies could basically follow the legal ones that have done it already and just make the same thing before they even make a website, if they want to be legit and taken seriously that is all they gotta do.
We already have very few ICO and other coin offerings left in numbers, both in offering but also funding as well, people do not like to give their money to coins that are untested, they go on and buy coins that do not collect money anymore and just invest into their future instead, so with the limited amount of money left in the crypto coin offering world, they might as well just do it properly or not do it at all because people are not going to really put up with it anymore.
We already have very few ICO and other coin offerings left in numbers, both in offering but also funding as well, people do not like to give their money to coins that are untested, they go on and buy coins that do not collect money anymore and just invest into their future instead, so with the limited amount of money left in the crypto coin offering world, they might as well just do it properly or not do it at all because people are not going to really put up with it anymore.
ICO to be declared legal is gonna be a good thing that would happen in the market, at least this way we can revive the reputation of ICO and investors will be attracted again. There are a lot of opportunity in crypto especially when investing in crowdsale but due to lack of regulation, lots of scams are happening so that discourages the possible potential investors.
If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.
If we ever see a legalized ICO, we have two good platform that will exist in the market, its the IEO and ICO and together they will bring fresh money inflows to the market.
Even though ICO's have lost the appeal lately.
I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
In my own opinion with this certain perspectives, this isn't a citizen or resident issue but it was utterly pointing out a serious reasons behind an ICO or investments related to cryptocurrency. For past years this has been very rampant of scams and fraudulent projects.I was just wandering about the legalities. The SEC website confuses me. In the eyes of the SEC are true utility tokens still classed as securities in the USA? Is this why many companies avoid the USA when it comes to ICO's?
If a company from outside the USA releases a token, do they have to comply with SEC regulations to enable usa investors?
I am not from the usa but live here now. Is it a resident or a citizen issue?
By way of protecting the citizens who lived in a particular country, this has been regulated for an outgoing money be sent for cryptocurrency ICO participation.
Not gonna happen, ICO is forgotten for now until another form of fundraising rise from the deep and IEO success relies on Top exchanges, if i see anyone from binance i will definitely invest and sell later for profit, i don't know or understand why people still looks up to ICO
There are projects that run an ICO still but the probability of success is not as good as it was before when ICO was a hot trend. And IEO will come to die just like ICO. And there is no assurance that the project that runs an IEO will succeed in 80-100 rate, because of exchanges reputations.
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