You can sign up with out that KYC crap, licedrill will give you your shares on cryptomex.
You cant sell or trade them without the KYC form

Im not sure if you can pull divs out without that form,
guess we will find out after will and terra stop holding our btc hostage
I don't see this as true. I see my shares here:
www.icedrill.io, but there is no obvious connection between that account and my account here:
www.cryptomex.io that I can see, even though I've used the same addresses...
My other questions remain unaddressed:
1. Were icedrill investment funds used to develop these two sites (cryptomex.io and icedrill.io)?
2. If so, aren't investors also entitled to an ownership interest them?
Pragmatically speaking, the long-term prospects for a trading platform would seem better than the long term prospects for a mining operation whose short term prospects aren't hopeful (the technology is quickly becoming obsolete, most of its major milestones have been missed, and the overhead seems disproportionally high), and whose long-term prospects seem dismal...