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SEC Provides Initial Coin Offering Guidance

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By Alon Y. Kapen on August 8, 2017
Posted in bitcoin, blockchain, ICO

On July 25, 2017, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement issued a Report of Investigation (the “Report”) that concluded that the tokens issued in an initial coin offering (“ICO”) by a decentralized autonomous organization called “The DAO” were “securities” and that the ICO itself should either have been registered with the SEC under the Securities Act…

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