Yep, insider trading is a wall street tradition (Only for the elites and congress people though).
I'm fully expecting a major 2008 style economic implosion this year which will kick off another great recession, only worse. When banks and brokerages start failing people are going to want assets they can hold themselves. Gold, silver and bitcoin should do very well.
And as far as AWS servers go, I think that may hurt Bcash (who are well known for depending on that service for their full nodes) but Bitcoin tends to have actual real people running nodes on their old laptops (as I do).
About that hotel ICO, That's just the first of these things. In time, when you buy a house you might be issuing an ICO with the option of buying them back, and each of the ICO coins (which represent a percentage of ownership in the house) will generate a certain amount of rent in lightning enabled bitcoin with a balloon payment if the home owner opts to buy that coin back as he pays off the house.