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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Hundreds of ICOs Being Secretly Investigated by SEC, Claims Report
by
icalical
on 12/10/2018, 12:21:19 UTC
Hundreds of startups are reportedly being “secretly” targeted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for their involvement with initial coin offerings. Companies that participated in ICOs are now scrambling to clarify whether their token constituted a security, and, if so, whether it was properly registered with or exempted by the SEC.

Yahoo Finance and Decrypt claims that “Hundreds of startups that did token sales are finding out they’re in violation of securities law— including many that were sure they did it the right way.” 

https://news.bitcoin.com/hundreds-of-icos-being-secretly-investigated-by-sec-claims-report/

 It's been far too easy for scammers to defraud people in this space.  Regulation is a good idea but please don't make it so that Crypto is equated to Venture Capital and have crazy minimum limits on the amount you can invest like there is now.

Yeah totally agree with you man, the crypto community is dying to get some good regulation, that is why this SEC activity is necessary. But after all the main reason why those companies are leaving IPO for ICO and choose cryptocurrency is because the regulation of traditional investment is not investor friendly and at the same time it limits the potential earning of the company. And this make the investors leave IPO and move to ICO, and demand company to do the same.