When you sell tokens, don’t claim SEC approval — Simex and bad ideas
Also, don’t lie about registering your offering. Also, there are reasons there aren’t any crypto-backed credit cards.
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News: Australia “nah mate” to blockchains, Bitfinex/Tether push Rothschild conspiracy theories, JPEG blockchain DRM, miners as locusts, Initiative Q
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can retain hope for humanity.”
News: SEC subpoena storm, KodakCoin, QuadrigaCX funds frozen, exchange shenanigans
I have Internet at home again! Here’s news from the past few weeks.
News: SEC vs crypto hedge fund, Garza sentenced, post-bubble office vacancies, EOS hack, ICOs sell off 238k ETH, David Chaum
And first reports back from the Coinsbank Crypto Cruise.
News: The SEC swings into action, Marshall Islands SOV, Papua New Guinea, new stablecoins, Indian crypto legality, R3 and Ripple settle, Star Xu of Okex detained, KodakCoin
You know how everyone was wondering when the SEC would do something about the crypto space? Looks like they’re getting into motion.
News: CBOE Ether futures, the invisible Petro, Civil and Associated Press, BitFi hacked worse
Plus good papers, opinion pieces and followups. And why surveys claiming amazing mainstream crypto uptake!! are made-up rubbish. Also, go hear Edmund Schuster and Angela Walch on Tuesday afternoon.
News: Tether pump fails, ETFs rejected, China blocks more exchanges, NotPetya ransomware, how FOMO3D was won, XYO goes Reg A+
The possibility of it being worth someone’s while to just DDOS you is almost never mentioned as a problem with smart contracts.
SEC v. Tomahawk: “Free” ICO tokens constitute a sale of securities
ICO tokens are (almost certainly) securities — and “free” promotional bounties are a sale of securities.
News: BitFi hack, Court of the Blockchain, BitForex fake volume, .luxe for Ethereum domain names, crypto mining still environmentally awful, Bitcoin still useless, Tether
You can definitely trust John McAfee on all crypto-related matters. Maybe.
News: Intelligence Squared podcast, SEC rejects Bitcoin ETF, eMusic are broke, Ethereum ponzis incompetent as well as bad, Brock Pierce on Australian TV
Brock Pierce getting yelled at is quality television.