This has been bugging me to no end.
Investors require personal information of the business during IPO.. If the business is in the US, then it is already breaking the SEC laws. Do investors know this?
Yes. Which is why investing in bitcoin stocks is so shitty.
You only have two options:
A. Invest in anonymous company which will run away with the coins.
Or
B. Invest in company with names and wait for the SEC to shut them down.