It doesn't give benefit to the cryptocurrency people because instead of giving them benefits, the KYC put them at risk. By collecting personal information and documents about the person, it put them at risk by getting their identity stolen. The people who collect the information can easily sell the identity to the black market and make a lot of money. For me, it is unnecessary to do KYC.
It's really unnecessary but the project or companies government were they exist force them to do it so, to make their business established and legal. Before, ICO can do crowd-sourcing without the worry of the government asking them their clients or investors identity records, as it seems to be a treat in the government as we know some countries ban it as they believed it is used in illegal transaction , they created such law in crypto related companies. What we need now is to check the company and their process of conducting KYC whether it is legit and will not reveal our identity as much as possible.
Since cryptocurrency was considered in technology international, I think the government will make regulations like this. because of the advantages of anonymous cryptocurrency, local governments making provide regulations regarding customers. Companies that do not know their consumers will be targeted by the government to close the company.
in terms of companies, KYC has many benefits, but in terms of investors, I think KYC is quite troublesome. but as investors, we need to follow applicable regulations. it is also used to support the project. however, we also need to know and believe in who we will give the documents involved with our personal information.
Crypto was made to the public to become anonymous, It is really unnecessary for us crypto users and especially for bounty hunters. They are not even investors to begin with, they are just doing their job to support and promote the chosen project. But since it is part of their rule before becoming part of their community, we dont have any other choice but to do kyc.
Some other people say that the information they gathered on requiring kyc was being sold to the blackmarket. I do not know if this is true, but after hearing that, I started to avoid doing KYC in any crypto related site and bounty campaigns, except of course to popular exchanges.