I just passing by in the Bounties(Altcoins) section to find some good project and participate to one of their campaign and there's one campaign I've visited and asking for KYC in order to receive the bounty reward.
Actually I've seen someone asking in the meta section about this topic but I forgot where was it.
Well I will just going to give my opinions about here in the altcoins section because I know most of the participants of the bounty programs are posting here.
KYC (Know Your Customer)
A KYC (Know Your Customer) is used to ensure that the people who're going to invest to a project are qualified for example they have a record about criminality, immigrants, etc. then they will not going to allow you to invest in their project, This was used to review the investor and make sure they credibility of the investor and also KYC is used to fight money laundering.
Now let's go back to the topic. I've seen some bounty programs that's asking for KYC documents in order to receive bounty I don't think it's necessary to ask KYC Documents from the bounty participants because:
1. They don't Invest in the project.
2. There's no need to ask for the credibility of the user for promoting their project.
However I've seen some people are still participating in the bounty program, I just want to know you the risk you're about to face when you submit a KYC document to a untrusted project/program:
• They may use your details to fraud.
• You may be accused for something that you didn't do.
• Identity Theft
• Etc.
Well all in the KYC documents are your personal information and It can be used to different illegal things. But after all it's the decision of the participant if he/she's going to submit KYC or not. I just want you to be aware guys that you should be responsible for choosing what program/project you're going to join.
PS. I didn't say that the bounty project that's asking for KYC is scam or any fraud related, I suggest to study the project itself first as well as the team behind that.... and the reason why they need your KYC document for participating in their bounty program.
The answer will never be a straight one, because a line of division is drawn when it comes to centralization and decentralization.
Many feel that centralization within the crypto sphere, is benign, defeating what purpose Bitcoin was originally founded upon.
Others like myself, feel that a degree of centralization is neccessary, even required for crypto in it's current state of affairs to be successful.
The blockchain has created an entire ecosystem of a decentralized market. Project after project is being created to add towards the crypto space. So many ideas, meshing together. It was only a matter of time before parliament would decide to get along. Now that the governments have had their say so, the price fell from it's all time high.
Patients is the only thing needed at this point and time. Expect more regulation to come, this is the year they've chosen to act upon immediately.