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Is there a cryptocurrency token sale that's not designed to defraud the buyers?
by space_rock 5y ago
Is there a cryptocurrency token sale that's not designed to defraud the buyers?
- capableweb 5y agoThere are a couple of "token sales" (they don't call them that) that only allowed accredited investors to invest, and had their "token sales" registered with the SEC before they went live with them. If those were designed to defraud the investors, I'm pretty sure SEC would go after those first.
- space_rock 5y agoYep. It comes down to information asymmetry. Harder to trick and scam accredited investors Most token sales make good money with very low effort scams
- xiphias2 5y agoSadly a lot of token sales were pump and dumps through VCs, so even this is not true. SEC registering looks like a better filter for now.
- space_rock 5y agoBut here the VCs are the criminals and the predators not the victim of the scam. VCs are more sophisticated to avoid being the victim
- xiphias2 5y agoYes, I just wrote this to express that even sophisticated investors take part of worthless projects.
- rosndo 5y ago> Harder to trick and scam accredited investors Not necessarily, accredited investors are dentists and successful pool-installers. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earning-the-right-to-get-swindled https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...
- wmf 5y agoOf course, any SEC-registered token probably won't be allowed to do anything interesting so there's no point in investing.
- space_rock 5y agoBy interesting I assume you mean a scam since I've never seen anything technically interesting from a token sale
- xiphias2 5y agoYes, Blockstream has a token that represents Bitcoin miner shares. The most important thing is to wait until the token is registered by SEC, so far all scam tokens skipped that step.