Hm? SEC actions against ICOs and whatnot have been regularly covered on HN. Even cryptocurrency aside, government enforcement against unlawful forms of non-tra

Hm? SEC actions against ICOs and whatnot have been regularly covered on HN. Even cryptocurrency aside, government enforcement against unlawful forms of non-traditional finance is something many people are interested in. More than a few people here have faced the decision of accepting a more traditional legal fund-raising model or trying some vaguely legal ICO scheme that put them in direct competition in the fundraising market with outright scammers and had to make hard decisions. Enforcement actions make it clear that people who chose to avoid those waters weren't just leaving money on the table for no reason.