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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: rpietila Altcoin Observer
by
smooth
on 04/09/2014, 04:24:31 UTC


The "investment contract" interpretation has been used to prosecute all manner of "investment schemes."

The test is:

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1. investment of money due to
2. an expectation of profits arising from
3. a common enterprise
4. which depends solely on the efforts of a promoter or third party

I don't really see how supernet could fail to satisfy that test.



To my untrained eye, there are a few more "coins" on poloniex that satisfy the same test.

You may be right.

Putting a security on a blockchain does not turn it into something other than a security. It might ultimately make the law more difficult to enforce, but it won't be particularly hard to enforce it against Poloniex. I don't know that leads to bankruptcy though, it could easily just mean a tolerable fine plus delisting or maybe just delisting, no further listings of that form, and not even a fine. We are of course guessing here.