But this is neither about crypto-based currencies nor it it (really) about the block-chain. It is about fraud, the SECs comment is a warning to publicly traded

But this is neither about crypto-based currencies nor it it (really) about the block-chain. It is about fraud, the SECs comment is a warning to publicly traded companies who consider to increase their stock valuation by claiming to work on stuff which (other) people (falsely?) believe to be a game changer while they are not (really) working on it or there is no reason to believe they could actually pull it off.