I've decided to put a temporary hold on investments in ICO, until there's considerable improvements in ICO performances at the exchanges and the market picks up steam.

I'm a strong advocate of KYC/AML. I believe it's a great tool for curbing the high level of theft and impersonation in bounties. Also, for ICOs, it helps curbs cases of money laundering attempts

Depending on your country of residence, there is usually one exchange in your country that you can sell your bitcoin and any other crypto asset. You need to filter your search on the internet and you'll find one. In the absence of any, there are peer to peer (P2P) options with escrow services available for that.

You can check here for escrows _{https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?board=285.0}

Reading the report from the US Attorney General's Office on the activities of crypto exchanges, it was appalling to see that Binance, one of the biggest exchanges in the space, and a few others declined to participate in provision of information on basic practices and functionality. I'll paraphrase the report, "...The OAG sought voluntary participation, expecting that platforms would embrace the opportunity to provide the public with much-needed clarity regarding basic practices and functionality. Most did. Nine of the thirteen platforms participated in the Initiative: Bitfinex (operated by iFinex Inc.), bitFlyer USA, Inc., Bitstamp, Ltd.,[2] Bittrex, Inc., Coinbase, Inc., Gemini Trust Company, itBit (operated by Paxos Trust Company), Poloniex (owned by Circle Internet Financial Limited), and Tidex (operated by Elite Way Developments LLP). The OAG separately invited HBUS – a platform that calls itself the U.S. "strategic partner" of Huobi Inc. – to respond, as the platform opened for trading in July 2018. HBUS elected to do so, and its responses are included in this Report. The information provided by these platforms forms the basis of this Report. Four platforms – Binance Limited, Gate.io (operated by Gate Technology Incorporated), Huobi Global Limited, and Kraken (operated by Payward, Inc.) – claimed they do not allow trading from New York and declined to participate. The OAG investigated whether those platforms accepted trades from within New York State. Based on this investigation, the OAG referred Binance, Gate.io, and Kraken to the Department of Financial Services for potential violation of New York’s virtual currency regulations."

Source: https://virtualmarkets.ag.ny.gov/

Should this be a cause for worry by users of these platform?

Cryptocurrencies haven't gotten wide adoptions to the extent that they threaten fiats and the banks that issue them. Cryptos mostly facilitate peer to peer transactions mostly and with the banks, they're needed in some big transactions because how safe they are. More so, banks are being controlled by central governments of individual countries, especially their Central Banks.

The accusation that bounty hunters causes to ICOs or cause the drop in the price of tokens is actually very false. I have the following reasons to back up my claim;

1. Most ICOs have just 1% or 2% maximum for bounties and airdrop. This implies that the remaining 99% of the coins stays with the core investors of the project and the project team. This is not forgetting the private pre-sale investors who get issued big bonuses. Let's say team token are vested for certain periods, usually between 6 months to 3 years depending on the project. Those guys with big bonuses cause the loses to projects in my honest opinion as the team would like to make their investors happy.

2. Projects like Ontology and Project Hydro gave straight airdrops without doing ICOs and their coins are still doing well in the market. Why have the projects not suffered losses because of those huge airdrops given?

In summary, a good project will do well whether or not bounty hunters dump their tokens.

Unlike the Ethereum Network, EOS is sort of not user friendly and not simplified for the non-tech oriented person to use. Creating a new wallet on EOS remains a tall. Transferring tokens from EOS wallet to an exchange is yet another, the chances that could them tokens is so high.