ICOs Avoiding US Citizens Not Immune To Lawsuits In US

Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Law, Opinion, Regulation | June 1, 2018 By:

Last summer, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its 21(a) report concluding that, according to the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co., the DAO token qualified as a “security” under the federal securities laws and its offering had to either be registered with the SEC or subject to an exemption from registration.

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Initial Coin Offerings Under Scrutiny By SEC and Securities Plaintiffs’ Bar

Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Law | January 3, 2018 By:

These days it seems that everybody is considering getting into the distributed ledger technology business, causing the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the securities plaintiffs’ bar to take notice. Over the past several years, the SEC has made certain public remarks about this new technology,

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