Topic: Will regulating cryptomarkets increase or decrease trading volumes? (Read 516 times)

I see regulating cryptocurrency as a thing that will increase the cryptocurrency market because trust will increase and the market will enjoy investment inflow from both corporate and individuals. Reducing the ICOs is good because majority of them are scam recently.

I do not think so. Increasing or decreasing transactions depends on many factors.
If the market is well regulated, we will have space for institutional investors, for merchants and for normal use.
This will lead to more money entering the market as a form of investment, and more money into the market to use real bitcoin.
I still believe the rule is a good thing, so I'm not really afraid of it.
Then we can identify the market.

There are a lot of implications when cryptocurrencies become regulated by the government. You must understand that almost all investment mechanisms are regulated and controlled by the government which explains on why they are viewed as the standard instruments of investment. If cryptocurrencies were to be regulated, expect prices to be controlled at some moment. This will lessen its volatility and become centralized. If the government also has the control of it, they can provide collaterals and securities to most investors which protect them from scams and hacks.

Despite having some positive conditions when regulated, in my opinion it defeats the purpose of investing into bitcoin- wherein you realize large amounts of profits in a short amount of time comared to other investment instruments.

Perhaps limiting ICO will be beneficial to the development of the crypto currency and will inspire confidence in this technology from new investors, when there will be no scam projects.

It will surely decrease the ICOs since regulation means that startup companies can't be popping with project everyday where they only copy someone's else work and edit some of them and presented as new work. However if we're talking about trading volume then it depends on what law each countries will apply into bitcoin. Forex market and stocks markets are regulated and they have big volume compared with other investment market.

Even without regulation, it is beginning to have a huge effect. Looking at what has happened to CTR recently, we would realize how much the system is already and gradually being cleaned. It is a highly self principled distributed system hence it will work more effective than a centralized regulated system.

In one word, even the projects in the market who have gone against the rules in the past when the market was not regulated are no longer going to be safe in a regulated market, while those who are legal will remain and in this kind of structure, there would be a lot of trust for those who may want to invest big in the market.

I really think that the increasing regulation while being very unpopular between the members of this forum and all of those that have held their bitcoins for a long time will help the price of bitcoin to reach new heights, people are going to feel a lot more protected with regulations in place and this will bring a lot of fresh money which by the way we need if we want bitcoin to reach its previous all time high.

I actually think it will increase trust and the trading volume will increase. If the market is well regulated, we will have space for institutional investors, for merchants and for normal use. This will lead to more money entering the market as a form of investment, and more money entering the market for real bitcoin use. I still believe regulation is a good thing, so I'm not really afraid of it.

Tough question. It's hard to envision what will happen in the future as always since there are simply so many variables.

What I believe is that volumes shouldn't change that much. In fact, volume may actually be positively affected by regulation if it is reasonable and aims to protect crypto traders from scammy exchanges etc.

But if regulation comes, then I think most of the volume will shift from individual traders to institutional investors, as it becomes easier and safer for them to enter a market which regulated. It'll become harder for individual traders to execute trades, however. But ultimately, it depends on what sort of regulation we are talking about here. Whether tightening KYC, exchange licensing, and so on.

the fact remains that one of the forces that attracted so many persons to bitcoin is decentralization of currency and when it is regulated what do you think will happen? what happen to hard currency will also happen to it monopoly by few cabals. as such the volume of trade will be affected negatively by mass exodus of investors.

If such a thing is going to happen, would there not be something to hold against it to be able to easily ban it? As long as the promising project is legal and not going against the law, I am sure such a thing would not happen. Sure, in that case, we should expect the bigger players to want to be holding a strong hand in such a market and there is no 2 ways about that, as this would give them a chance to be the market maker in every scenario of the market as the case may be.

Yes, in that kind of scenarios, we should expect that a lot of big investors in the finance sector will also want to be a part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem since there are so much benefits to derive from it and in that case, there would be a lot of volume in that case considering how big the institutions are always into anything they want to be a part of. In as much as annoying regulation may sound sometimes, the actual fact is that we really need it to move forward.

This is the most optimistic way to see it, on the other side of the spectrum people are saying that it will decrease for the exact same reason. that investors that were attracted by the decentralization will quite the game.

As you said this is the optimistic point of view and I most agree with it. But hoping the regulations won't kill all ICOs.

It can go either way, but I still have a strong feeling that regulating the market would only make users trust it more and hence more money will pour in the market.

On the contrary, this can be negative news for people who are making to make 2x-10x profits since such volatility would no longer exist if any government institute begins regulating this market. People would no longer get the amazing returns they had been getting till now.

Yeah i definitely agree with how you coined it at "mature market". It may be a bit worrisome when you first hear about cryptos being regulated but we're all aware of how an unregulated market can drag the whole thing down in the future. Illegal activities will outweigh the benefits crypto provides. It's healthy to say the least

From time begin, I have questioned the rate at which ICOs have been cropping  up every now and then without a regulatory body/system. I do believe that when and if the markets are well regulated, it will help build the trust in the Cryptocurrency markets and in turn bring in by convincing a lot of persons in investing more in Cryptocurrency. So, I agree to the regulation and of the opinion that it will help increase the size of the Cryptocurrency market.

Trading is one of the best thing to do when it comes to that of making more money as you can manage to make some good earning and that too on daily or weekly basis. In trading, there are number of things which can affect you and that you need to take care of each and everything to make some good earning and to avoid suffering from any kind of loss. Regulating crypto currencies surely result in increase in the trading volumes.

Some users making decentralized trades taking a shot at the blockchain with no concentrated expertise, and where exchanges have a trustless nature. It is another inquiry totally, however, regardless of whether decentralized trades could deal with expansive exchange volume and in circumstances where (near) quick exchange affirmation is required.

Obviously, this will limit the size of scam and unnecessary ICOs in the market and would give the space a better form than what we are having presently. However, this would usher in big time players in the market and push aside some newbies who are just looking for the quick profit from just any ICOs or pump and dump coins or tokens.

In short, this is going to end up being more like a matured market and that is how the market is going to be responding. Volume will get bigger however.

While decentralization remains one of the key features and attraction to cryptos, some level of regulation in crypto trading and in other aspects of the industry may actually help in no small way by
1. Breaking the barrier to entry for onlookers
2. Increase confidence of the larger public
3. Reduce manipulation in markets such as pump and dumps and bitcoin price manipulation
4. Adoption of cryptos as mainstream by most nations of the world becomes more likely etc

Expect those changes to come and it is all starting from countries to countries. Forget about those institutions and corporations who are still in doubt of it even after the regulation. They have the right to doubt it because they have a system where they grow up for a very long time so migrating to something new isn't going to be easy. Crypto market is starting to increase in volumes and thanks to regulations.

It will effect the trading volume negatively but it will also create a positive impact on cryptocurrencies market.
If they regulate cryptos fairly then we will not going to see a massive decrease in trading volume but if they tried to impose useless restrictions while regulating then there would be a remarkable decrease.

Who told you that people don't fear about ICO scams anymore? If I am not wrong, the ICO scams have become more and more common now, and that is the reason why some of the countries have banned ICOs.

maybe with regulation it will not reduce trading volume. regulation maybe only regulate the price alone to be more stable and not too volatile. but if continuous new regulations continue to be made to regulate the cryptomarket, there is likely to be a reduction. because maybe the investor or the developemnt think it can not to have a greater advantage.

Governments regulating cryptocurrencies is good for the market and we are all to suport this. We are having serious scamming issues this days because of this and we should see this that we may not have that trust to have a decentralized system. If bitcoin is going to be adopted all over the world then it must be regulated and those that want to used it for evils should be pick up by laws efforcement agency.

Even if the ICO will decrease,but it will be a good legit ICO.People don't fear about ICO scam anymore,the trading of altcoin will surely increase.Maybe it will take a little time to adjust,but that's fine,what we need is a secure investment that free from risk of getting scammed.

Interesting question to ponder, for sure. I think however there is no real correct answer to this. It depends on what type of regulation that we're talking about, here. If it's a flat out ban of crypto, then for sure, the volumes are going to go down, no doubt.

If it's some kind of regulation on exchanges/ICO that requires licensing and registration, then I actually see potentially increased volumes due to institutional investors being more confident in investing.

But just because volumes are increased, doesn't mean that the regulations have done any good to the average bitcoin user. Volume also isn't a very good measurement of how regulations affect the usability of BTC, either.

Since there are plenty of news surrounds that telling scams that affects the people trust in trying it. Though it was really a risky investment, but it's worth it especially if we know how to manage it and how to earn from it.

Once regulated then expect for these sudden change would really have significant effect.I do see also that the price will really increase yet the trust have been already built up considering that there are still lots of big institutions,corporations which is still on doubt due to cryptocurrency decentralization.There might be some people dont like it but i do see most people will prefer such thing.

Don't let anyone deceive  you, it will definitely increase the trading volume and increase the prices of cryptocurrency in the market. Some of us here are misunderstanding the whole concept of regulations. It's not a bad thing as most of us might have thought.  Regulations will be good  thing that will happen  to cryptocurrency because it will help in reducing fraudulent activities in cryptocurrency. 

I don't agree with it. Now there are many trust funds that invest in various projects. How much did you earn from investing in these funds? It will be the same with government regulation. The most promising projects will be recognized as unreliable and will be redeemed by the rich. These projects will generate revenue for them. The most promising projects can be banned by the government for political reasons.

Getting the support from the government will give the crypto market better trust from others and it means more money will come in to cryptocurrency specially to bitcoin.

This will give the investors assurance that the government is looking and watching for those scams so its a must and its needed.

Well,worldwide regulatory bodies are looking to set legal guide rules to regulate crypto markets which will limit ICO.Do you think that this will increase the size of crypto markets since it will increase trust, or would it decrease the size of crypto since the number of ICO will go down.For obvious reasons, imposing regulations on trading with cryptos will adversely effect overall trading activity. ICOs aside, coming under the scrutiny of multiple countries will surely discourage users from buying and selling cryptos, ultimately decreasing the trade volume unless some sort of allowance is provided.It would actually eliminate scams. With regulation, no one will just come up with any form of ICO and expect people to start investing as there would have been a lot of things in place, team and a registered company while following all the rules and policies before even starting an ICO, just the way we have always had IPOs.

For obvious reasons, imposing regulations on trading with cryptos will adversely effect overall trading activity. ICOs aside, coming under the scrutiny of multiple countries will surely discourage users from buying and selling cryptos, ultimately decreasing the trade volume unless some sort of allowance is provided.

It would actually eliminate scams. With regulation, no one will just come up with any form of ICO and expect people to start investing as there would have been a lot of things in place, team and a registered company while following all the rules and policies before even starting an ICO, just the way we have always had IPOs. These would make any investor know what to look out for before even investing in any project and would also eliminate the bad ones from the market.

The trust here will majorly be centered on the big time players who would not actually the way it is now, jeopardize their investments when the whole market is simply doing whatever it likes. With that trust, a lot of bigger investors, know exactly what they are investing in, would also be rest assured that scams are limited or eliminated and that would make the idea of the whole market change and like you have said, the more the bigger players, the more smart and new moneys enter the market.

Regulations may give negative impact in short term but if you notice it may give room for many institutions and individual to come forward investing into cryoptos with more confident. Hence in long term regulations will give more positive impacts at least in terms of adopters and investors.

It could decrease because not everyone are willing to give out their personal info at the same time there could also be an increase as what a lot of people mentioned already scams are reduced. Also there's a lot of ICO being announced left and right nothing can stop it unless these alts won't get listed or gets listed out in the exchanges.  Imo it'll increase over time no matter what happens in the future even if there's a lot of countries and people hating on crypto.

If something is regulated means more people will invest on it because the chance of scams are less but we can't make the cryotocurrency field completely regulated but if the regualted menas the fear of banning in the cryotocurrency from the people will fade away so defenitely it will increase the price demand and trading volumes too.

The assurance that on regulating ICO will surely affect the credibility and security of investors. This is important in a sense that most cases of fraud and scam started from unlicensed projects.

I’m not against with it and only administrators or owners of the project who have bad intentions will not comply on it.

In a world with endless abuses from people or group, a regulating body with genuine intentions is a big help.

If so, crypto market will go up because at this time many people who want to invest in crypto only they are still afraid of the scammer ICO. Yeah, This is a step towards a good future, more and more countries manage the crypto the better.

I guess you are confused with the two things, one is they are going to regulate the ICO's and second thing cryptomarket and its trading volume still remains the same by nature. They are going to regulate ICO means only one thing to me, you will need to have licenses for the ICO projects, if you are investor then you will have to send your KYC's for verification, you will have to pay taxes for the investment thats made into such projects and much more things to cover under that part.

Basically it wont affect the trading patterns as it is not coming under direct regulation thats what i think about the whole scenario here.

Regulation is only for cryptotrade on cryptomarket and ICOs crowdsale. With regulation, investment institution can use their manage funds to investing on crypto and that will make crypto market volume will increasing

Definitely the situation will depends on the crowd reactions unto it since maybe regulation can scare the hell out of the investors veins since we all see some fall happen when china made up some belt tightening on the crypto exchanges on their country.

But when regulation will impose people will confident to trade and gain just what happen in japan where people regain back their trust and made an outstanding trade revenue for their statistics.

I just posted in the press board of the forum > https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/2018-04-12-bitcoin-boom-japan-trades-97-billion-in-one-month-3310378
Japan traded $97billion in one month and this is after cracking down on some exchanges.

It definitely shows when exchanges are forced to play to some form of rules or regulations
people will and can trade confident that nothing untoward is happening behing the scenes.

This will have an impact is the great good to ICO or crypto. strict selection will be applied to the ICO that makes the best and only real could endure. Crypto for at least this will slightly raise my value.

I am sure it is going to be erasing completely the scams in the community. For instance, let's even look at the instance where we have the media platforms stopping the advertisement of ICOs and only allowing those who can show documents that would ascertain the legitimacy of the ICO before even allowing it at all.

These has reduced already the number of scams in the advert space, and has given investors the confidence that what they see on the advert space either on Google or Facebook and the rest, is a registered company running an ICO and what is left for them is to check the idea of the project, the team and see if it is a company they can invest in.

This is the same way regulation is going to be cleaning up the crypto space with rubbish ICOs and once scammers and co see they can no longer make waves in the space, they vamoose.

It's no problem if they will regulate cryptocurrencies especially these ICO's that everyday has more than new 10 ICOs that are generated.
It will increase as when the government steps in, people will gain trust to crypto.
Tokens, altcoins name it will remain. But to cut down upcoming ICOs sounds good as most of them are just the same in terms of white paper and doesn't even have a real use.

I think with regulation from the government will provide security certainty for investor. no more threats will close the exchangers that will make investors withdraw their funds. feeling comfortable is very important in crypto world for investors

Regulations is only a good thing for crypto market particularly in the most of ICOs because nowadays theres too plenty of coins that are available and new coins everyday which we can't say a scam or not. Regulations like in social media have done for its better legitimate coins. Trust will be gained and crypto will be easy for nrw people to understand.

Although the virtual currency provides a tempting advantage but the transaction is not regulated by the central bank. Thus it can cause a high enough risk.


This rule will be good when it's run well and managed by people who have a good reputation in their field. Especially people who have religion.

I think that regulation will make many changes for the better. With the regulation of the market certainty will increase and it can make the level of trust many people getting better. Yes the volume of transactions can certainly increase and this will create a new level of trading world and there will be improvements also to the world of crypto.

It give investor confidence to investing their money. Regulation in cryptomarket is needed if we want cryptomarket more growing. With regulation from government, people will not thinking scam anymore

If a country ban's an ICO i think it would affect the price of the crypto market for a short term as long as people has internet they can find ways to invest and find those ICO's. And the number of bitcoin forums, sites who has many crypto enthusiast are growing. So banning ICO in one country wont affect crypto currencies for a long term.

With regulation, people will not thinking about crypto is scam again and it will attracting peoples to investing their money. Beside that, with regulation, financial institution can investing their funds because the bound by regulation and that will make cryptomarket volume increasing

I think it depends on the regulation, at one side it can increase the price, once it's regulated its mean crypto become legal and this will increase people's trust, there will be  alot of people try to invest in crypto, at the other side some people invest in crypto because it is anonymous, once it regulated we will be forced to submit kyc documents, and of course crypto will be taxed, this will make people to rethink again to invest in crypto

Regulation in cryptomarket is important to protect investor. With regulation, i am believe that volume on cryptomarket will increasing because peoples will more confidence to investing their money and investment institution will start to investing their funds

I am more inclined that crypto will increase when given special regulation. Regulation and taxes will give more confidence to investors and trust can boost the price of crypto in the future. The number of ICO project frauds could destroy the reputation of crypto and restriction regulation of an ICO project could narrow the chance of such fraud. Two things that would be possible when regulation is really set for the crypto market. First, building trust to invest in crypto and rising will follow that trust. Second, crypto holders who want to avoid a tax of a regulation then they will run away by selling all of their crypto assets and causing the price of crypto to decrease.

The acceptance of supervision is a step that must be taken for the development of encryption. Only under moderate supervision can the community grow more long, and only in this way the community will expand. Regulation means recognition by policy. In this regard, Japan is already in the front of the encrypted world.

I think that at first the regulation is going to have the effect of decreasing the trading volumes of cryptocurrencies because there are going to be a significant amount of people that are not going to accept this, but as time passes I think we are going to see an increase in that activity because there are going to be many institutional investors that are going to feel safer to invest in a bitcoin.

 It will not decrease trading, it will however decrease volatility. It is normal for new assets. don't worry, everything is ok with crypto.
It is here to stay and we will be seeing much more of it in the future

@dothebeats @exstasie @leonair @Cryptoman55227

I said it because, cryptocurrencies (and Bitcoin specifically) were/was created to avoid any regulation from government and the current banking system. Not to create a store of value, a speculative asset or a currency, but still to be controlled by governments/banks.

If you look at who were the first people to take part in the project they are all part of the cypherpunk and anarchist movement, these are the real origins of Bitcoin. Disturb the governments and banks for a political and a social change (without the need for a riot, war, etc...)
Accepting regulations with cryptos is like finally to admit that the dream for a currency outside the traditional system is definitely not possible. The real crypto dream is destroyed. If today you accept regulations, in 5 years you will accept to see cryptos issued by banks only, because you think it's better, safer, or any other reason...

So then the privacy/cryptography/anarchist/true cryptos advocates/average user not considering crypto as a speculative asset (ie: someone more interested in the uses case than the money you can make from it) well, the real bitcoiners you know, don't really accept to see cryptos regulated and may lose faith in the purpose. You can check yourself, you rarely find a cryptographer advocate here. As I said the real crypto dream is destroyed.

Cryptocurrencies and cryptography are all about privacy-enhancing technologies. Where is your privacy if institutions, banks, and governments can still see what you're doing with your money? There isn't any. You can call it cryptos, pokemons, or rainbows if no privacy then it's not really useful.

Cryptos don't help to prevent illicit activities,(The same way debit card technology failed to prevent it) consider what is now becoming popular "privacycoins" and the demand will increase a lot. Just to tell you Monero is a baby compared to some technologies used in privacycoins.

This was the reason I posted "accepting to be regulated may lose the credibility of any project."
Imagine a privacycoin telling we want to be regulated! People will watch like this => (0.o)

I also said the opposite while saying it can help and yes I do admit this is inconsistent. Unfortunately, we read too many times in the news which knew how to talk badly about Bitcoin on every occasion. What was the mainstream opinion? Oh, Bitcoin is wrong, it's a criminal currency.
Getting some regulations is like getting an approval from the government and so maybe change the mind of people and so more people adopting crypto. But what regulations are acceptable or not is something difficult to talk about.


Ah, see yourself and compare with fiats. With all the regulations we have (such as limit withdraw weekly, explanation needed when you need 1500$, this, that and again this) Does it help to prevent frauds and other criminal activities? No there are more frauds than ever. As you know, in the old time money didn't exist, no coin, no card, no bank, people used to trade only. I need 5 apples, you need 5 tomatoes, you then exchange 2 tomatoes for 2 potatoes etc. Then sugar was the currency then gold... During this time, fraud existed. So do we need to regulate apples, tomatoes, and underwear?...

Counter: Bitcoin's demand will be driven higher by institutional players who otherwise aren't getting in due to crappy unregulated exchanges. If there demand can off set the demand lost by altcoins then this is no big deal. Of course that is a big what if but I think we stand a better chance carrying on with some regulation than without any. I don't want a ton of oversight, but some is certainly welcomed at this point in time.

It might turn out to affect Bitcoin as well. People don't think things through properly. While I am not at all a fan of Ethereum or any other altcoins aside from Monero, they actually play an important role within the entire crypto ecosystem. Ethereum's growth resulted in people using Bitcoin to either buy themselves in these tokens early on, or to trade them on-exchange at a later stage. And that's just Ethereum with its ICO thingy. If we look at the global altcoin market, and regulations making sure exchanges as Binance (non fiat exchanges) increase the demand for Bitcoin to trade it against altcoins, it significantly helps in taking possibly hundreds of thousands of coins off the regular Bitcoin market. Binance alone has a trading volume of over 200,000BTC in the last 24 hours! Less demand for altcoins and tokens means less demand for Bitcoin.

The regulation has positive and negative aspects:
positive:
Get rid of scam cryptocurrencies: After the huge rise in the price of the Bitcoin we saw a lot of currencies and ICOs campaigns that have damaged its reputation.
Dispose of useless cryptocurrencies: If we need the cryptocurrencies, this does not mean we need more than 1000 coins and tokens.
Reduce the price of ether: Since most of the tokens depend on it, it will also increase the demand for cryptocurrencies that can not be traced like Monero.

negative
prices drop: These currencies will lose one of its most important advantages (decentralization).
Reduce price volatility: going to be stable currencies like gold

The biggest issue current from speaking to people regarding crypto is the lack of regulation and the phrase that keeps popping up is the wild Wild West! This is bound to scare any serious and retail investors away for the time being

I believe most traders are humans; even the robots are patterned by humans giving them instructions on actions to take given a market trend. Most decisions taken are with respect to traders' reactive behaviors. So, in view of a well regulated market, this will definitely have a positive influence on the volumes of trade experienced in the Cryptocurrency markets.

well, first of all before ICOs and before devs asking to get paid to develop, everything worked fine and there were unique possibilities in crypto back then and projects were a lot better!
secondly i don't know any ICO that has actually done something. i would like to hear about an old one (like a year old) that is now doing what it promised.

regarding ethereum i have to say the only thing "great" that it did was to bring popularity to smart contracts but it did it in a terrible way on a bad platform.

Most of many investors of cryptocurrency thinks that regulation its a bad thing, that it premit the government to take control and manipulate cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin. But that's not it. With regulation, there will be less scam and fraud going on in the blockchain technology. Most ICO are setting up scammy projects to lure people into investing in tokens which will turn out to be shitcoins but with regulations, this will be less.

I'm more loud, that it will have more positive effects to cause an increase and the existence/popular of crypto in many countries. And of course with that.., maybe scams activity will decrease and more and more people believe in the ICO they choose to give a boost their sense of trust.

I think if cryptomarket regulate by government, it will increasing daily volume. I am believe that because if government issuing regulation, investor will more be confident with cryptocurrency because before that, many negative news about cryptocurrency

In your opinion, how can people trust crypto?

What makes a high or low investor in determining investment is the security system. There are some investors who don't want to take a risks in spending their money to invest, and few investors dare to risk investing, such as cryptocurrency which is very high and very risky. One of the most scam is in ICO products, so far many ICO issued a project created by a scammer and make big losses to investors.

Regulation of ICO will make market cryptocurrency increase, because the security system has been tested. With regulatory policy will help clean up scammers of ICO products, will certainly make investors more unimpeded in spending money. We need regulation to make cryptocurrency safe from scammers, so that unbelievers' views of cryptocurrency will be refuted.

regulating bitcoin depends on how it will be regulated, the scope and the extent of that regulations, but in a way, it will boost the market trusts, resulting in increase in demand, if bitcoin will be regulated, scams and illegal use of bitcoin will be regulated, ICO will be regulated too. thus creating a more secured and reliable ICO, it will be widely accepted because it will finally legalize bitcoin though it is not illegal too, it will also regulate whales and coin hoarders.

The recent ban of Crypto currency advertisements on major social media sites, created an environment where the baby was thrown out with the bath water. < Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error in which something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad, or in other words, rejecting the favourable along with the unfavourable. >

By doing this, they rejected the favourable along with the unfavourable and this in turn, caused a decrease in trading volumes.

What they should have done, was to establish some kind of filter mechanism to identify the scam ICOs and scam projects and only allowing the legitimate projects.  

Regulation will increase investors confidence and invariably increase trading volume. It will be like what happens in Forex Trading. Do you know how many millions in dollars have been lost through ICO scams and the damage that has done to the crypto industry? This can't be quantified, believe me. It is better the sharks are checked on time to prevent more damage.

OP, would you rather swim in a shark infested river than a dolphin's?

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Here is a good link to a recent thought as ⁠ Regulator Says Cryptocurrency Exchange License Will ‘Strengthen Confidence’

I agree with dothebeats on this one, LeGaulois said that it can increase the trust and even help then damaging the crypto reputation? which is which? regulations by the regulators wouldn't mean a full control into a specific ICO so why it would damage the crypto reputation? and besides the main purpose of this regulations is to lessen or even eliminate the never ending ICO scams. Sometimes doing good things are risky but for as long as it outweighs the bad things then it's fine instead of doing nothing at all.

I think, decrease
Also, we'll lose a volatility of crypto
And will forget about huge x and grow of price
But the same will be with falling of price. It's one of the advantages of regulation

A lot of people are hesitant to invest in crypto markets because they believe and perceive that it is just a scam. I think regulations will give a boost to the industry because people will start to feel comfortable about it.

i think this is very good because it will be able to increase investor confidence in market. in addition to reduced ico i think will be better because qualified ico will running, so that investors will also feel more secure invest their funds

It would increase crypto market because big institutional investors would be able to trade then which prohibits them from entering the market now because of lack of legalities or regulation. There are still problems regarding the recognition of cryptocurrencies when it comes to financial matters so having a regulation would have a guideline that would help the people how they would treat cryptocurrencies. In effect, when more people, businesses or institution get in, trading volume would increase.

Even if there are lesser ICOs because only a few can launch it since there would be strict requirements, this is also good for the crypto community because it would prevent or at least lessen the scammers that are just launching ICOs to get money of the investors and then run. The already existing coins would just grow in price if their developers would push through the projects and still the volume would increase.

I don't see any scenario in which volumes wouldn't increase if regulation is introduced in a fair and compromising way. Investors will flock to market if they are better protected and things are a lot more legitimate. It may mean we have less members of public but we will have more institutional money and that's big money.

I think these will make crypto market decrease in volume because those scam ICO will think twice before engaging in their act. Having legaal regulatories will help investors differentiate legit and scam ICO.

Crypro without regulations at first..
It's hard to say yes or no on both situation.
Btw ICO's are needed for development, some of them offered us unique possibilities in crypto world and if there are scam projects, people have to think more before they invest in anything. Ethereum is great creation and to my mind that reason can't affect it because this coin has a lot of another positive sides.

Why do you say that?

I suppose the calls for regulation have been because of bad actors (fraud and other criminal activity), but that's not unexpected because that's how regulation always emerges. And it's nothing new for cryptocurrency. In 2013, it was mainstream opinion that BTC was only for drug dealers and the like. I'd say calls for regulation add to the legitimacy of cryptocurrency because it implicitly acknowledges that crypto is here to stay.


It depends how rigid and involved their approach is. A heavy-handed prohibition-minded stance will obviously drive a lot of activity underground. A hands-off approach that emphasizes innovation and economic opportunity would encourage new actors in the space (especially more traditional companies). We'll need to wait and see what shakes out.

It will definitely increase trading volumes. I believe most people whom have not invested in cryptocurrency are afraid to invest or trade into cryptocurrency because they believe that if they do, they might end up been scammed by some exchange owners or ICO developers. But with regulation, things might work out a better, cause ICO developers or exchange CEO will be held responsibe for any scam or hack.

This is the fault of some fake ICO and scam ICO that makes government decided to regulate crypto just to avoid not to scam their people.
And that makes people did not make confidence to put an investment in ICO's project just to be afraid of being a scam.
One of the factors that the market was pumped was ICO's project continuing to promote their project, and some are having a group of pumps maybe.

I'm a bit more optimistic. With regards to ICOs, more regulations should be able to weed out those that were set up with the intent to scam people. This would increase overall investor confidence in the market, which might encourage them to put in more money. Since the legit projects get more share of attention - and funds, it also increase the likelihood that they'd succeed.

ICO regulations will be a good step to erase those shitty projects. People just can't see the advantages of it at the moment since they are not used to it.

Most people does have a wrong interpretations about "regulations". Maybe some unusual changes might seen on the early phase but surely on the long run, people will be used into this ICO regulations and we can see the same trend back to the days where there are no restrict policy about ICO's.

I'm in for the betterment of crypto in the eyes of the masses but I can't see how or why regulations are damaging the reputation of crypto? IMO, these regulations are actually helping the crypto scene to mature and to prevent illicit activities which is widespread up to now. There's more good done than harm this time, and a short-term strike is rather acceptable rather than no negative effects yet the problem is still there.


Why so? If people see certain projects that are regulated, they will have some kind of confidence in investing knowing that the said project is somehow recognized by the authorities and if the team behind the project failed to comply to their promises, or have ran off with the money, they will still have some form of ace against the perpetrators of the scam. Assuming that most ICOs and projects are registered and regulated, the only people who will ignore those are the money launderers and con artists.


Again, regulations seem to be bad at first. Effects will be seen in the price drops, and that will only last a couple of weeks or months depending on how well the media sensationalized such events. Afterwards, it will feel more legal and investors feel more protected knowing that pump and dumps, exit scams and shitty ICOs won't ruining their bankroll and money. Aside from that, money launderers would stay away from doing the same projects with just different names and whitepapers knowing that they could get busted in the process. Overall IMO, this will do more good than bad in the long run, assuming that every regulation imposed towards cryptotrading is fair and just which, so far, is good.

regulations may eliminate scams such as ICOs and as a result it may decrease the volume that goes into them, for example it can practically make ETH useless because there will be so little ICOs left to invest none of which are pumpable!

but also regulations mean the market will be secure since the scams are eliminated and also regulations on exchanges means the platforms are more secure so people (investors) will feel safer to invest their money in good projects such as bitcoin and that will increase everything including volume and adoption.

the decrease part is only a small part and will happen in a short time and be done but the increase part is the bigger part which will continue to grow more.

It can increase the trust and even help, but the current regulations (or attempts) are damaging the crypto reputation more than anything else. In another hand, accepting to be regulated may lost the credibility of any project.

In terms of trading volumes, in my opinion it will be just related to what I was saying above. If more trust are put in cryptos, more people will buy, so more volumes and so higher prices.

worldwide regulatory bodies are looking to set legal guide rules to regulate crypto markets which will limit ICO.

Do you think that this will increase the size of crypto markets since it will increase trust, or would it decrease the size of crypto since the number of ICO will go down