I understood that KYC became a prudent measure for ICOs when regulators starting to say they are going to pressure exchanges into delisting some tokens. Because the tokens are securities. So KYC and AML became a necessity when ICOs wanted to exit fro ETH into fiat into a bank account. Then the solution, at least I thought so, was airdrops with tokens being gifts and no investment of any kins present, so securities are out of question. And now I see there are ICOs requring KYC for airdrops, which I do not understand. Some believe ICOs are out to make some money on the side by selling the KYC data on darknet on something, but I find it hard to believe all of them would be doing it. So there must be another reason for it, I guess.

Capping any currency is not the wisest of moves in the long run if it has to support some kind of growth. Caps make sense when you are dealing with utility tokens havng a real function and whose value is expected to grow because of that. If you want to have a growing economy, then do not cap it. ETH has a chance to outdo bitcoin because it is not capped and will not go into deflation. With this move they will kill the chance.

Today is a good day. ETH is below 400$! Experience tells us it will likely go up to around 500$ and the swing down again as long as the bear trend lasts, so yes, buy some now. When the countries issue clear legal terms for crypto trading and ICOs things markets will shoot up again. Until then I hold my ETH and possibly buy some more if below 400$.

To me the whitepaper is not the highlight of the project. It can take anything. I first check if the team are real persons with some experience appropriate for the project. Then I check if there is some product already in existence. And lastly I have to ask mysefl if this project really needs to be on blockchain and is not just a "tokenization for its own sake" thing. And then I also check reviews and what others may think. If all this turns out OK, I might invest. So far so good:)

To me the question depends on when you bought eth. If you bought them at the beginning at a rather low price, you can easily sell. Otherwise I would suggest to hold, at least that is what I am doing. Eth will likely never be stable so it will be attractive for trading. There will be other tokens designed for stability into which we will be able to exit. As a side note: FT seems really to dislike token that might act as a medium of exchange even when it has big names on the team: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/03/22/1521726969000/The--academic-s-cryptocurrency--is-an-elegant-waste-of-time-/

I think Stellar blockchain may perform well. Having said that Ethereum is also not to be discarded. I know it sometimes gets clogged (kitttens and the like) but still, mostly it functions quite well. I also believe that when it come to currencies, it is not so much a matter of blockchain (although it is important, of course) as a matter of a token that is stable enough to be used as a means of payment. We'll see.

I am sorry to bother with a noob question, but is there a way to have a link to a particular post, like for example you can have in facebook when right clicking on the timestamp? I would suspect no, but I need to be sure.

Thank you