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1. It sounds like you're effectively making your own stock exchange, but with crypto instead of cash. I imagine the SEC will have many things to say about that.
by bastawhiz 6y ago
1. It sounds like you're effectively making your own stock exchange, but with crypto instead of cash. I imagine the SEC will have many things to say about that. It could be legal, but you're not going to like the laws they'll make you follow.
2. In a real stock exchange, the company value is largely the volatile thing. In one backed with crypto, the price of a company will fluctuate more from the asset you're buying it with than the company's activity itself. If the price of bitcoin goes up, I own the same number of shares but worth fewer bitcoins. That seems like not what folks into crypto care about.
3. If a company puts all of its shares into this, it likely cannot ever ipo. That's going to turn off most investors. I would expect it's an all-in endeavor.
4. Companies accidentally losing their private key for unissued shares sounds like a very bad failure mode.
- minasmarios 6y agoThe idea is just that. Create a Nasdaq for early private tech startups - fixed valuations - funded with crypto. For the Investors I think there is no problem with SEC, but for the fundable startups what could be a workaround?