I will participate in the ICO of a mobile MMORPG called Lordmancer II (their site is lordmancer2.io. My goal was to get familiar with the whole idea of an ICO, go through all the steps, and have some fun in the process.

Some ICOs have big hype and our perception is swayed by that, so it's important to ask the right questions to get a clear picture. Going forward, we have to try and get proper answers regarding exchange listings before ICO itself. If the team tries to scout around the issue or outright says they won't make an effort to list on exchanges, then skip the ICO.

There's no single authoritative list of all the companies in the world that accept cryptocurrencies as payment, although there are a number of aggregators and websites that offer a general overview of who is accepting what. The most helpful is arguably Virtual Coin Squad, since even though it doesn't quite boast the most extensive catalogue of merchants now accepting cryptocurrencies, it actually lists companies together with all the cryptocurrencies they accept.

Government regulations. From the Interstate Commercial Commission after the Civil War to the Freedom of Information Act, government has issued regulations to protect and stabilize markets and businesses.

Economics doesn't understand crypto. They neednt, till the time comes that they have to. All subjects evolve. Commerce became e-commerce. Books became e books. The day isnt far that land records, identification details, warehousing all will see massive use of these protocols and platforms.

Bitcoin's price is derived purely from free market dynamics. That means, bitcoin's price is the result of changing supply and demand levels in the market.

Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, have a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers worldwide. It's pretty much un-hackable because thousands of systems around the world keep a backup of each transaction.