off-topic? You really want to hear very "pain in the ass" question which connects this whole discussion about unregulated securities traded on unregulated markets ... with NEOBEE? I don't want to be that guy ... so I stay quiet this time
What are you doing on a Bitcoin forum dude? Most things here are "unregulated". Why don't you go regulate yourself back to the nanny socialist state, which is nothing but "regulated" legalized theft by a bunch of kleptocratic parasites.
Why not preach some agorism for a change instead of statist BS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism
I don't think you understand.
Whether or not you or anyone else wants the SEC interference doesn't matter because it is happening. No longer is bitcoin considered play money and it has now become too large to slip under the radar.
Scammers are realizing that the bitcoin securities market is a goldmine for idiots to scam and the SEC knows this and are finally doing something.
Hiding behind bitcoin as your currency of choice doesn't make all existing security laws void.
It's about the attitude not about what's happening. Of course thieves will want a share of the pie and thus look to regulate/steal/monopolize. They don't like theft derived profits going down.
"regulation" never stopped scamming, it just pushed it to a more a exclusive club. Enron anyone? Regulation by very definition is scamming if done by government because it involves hiring people with stolen tax funds based on a "social contract" no one signed.