it is going to get interesting.  looking at the macro picture, this in reality is bad news for US growth.

from a commerce and growth perspective, the current US legal system is really holding back a lot on innovation in how business is done, so that the Federal govt can maintain relevance in a world where it will become less relevant.

luckily I am no longer living in the US. the EU countries for now seem to be much more accommodating to these businesses.

frankly the technology is there, any company can create their own "coin", premine it, and release it to the public in exchange for BTC or any other coin to raise funds.  someone needs to design an apparatus that joins this with something like a bitmessage clone which would then allow for voting on shareholder issues tying the bitmessage address with the coin address and a mechanism for rolling up all the votes to ownership addresses, etc. anyway I digress...