HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by setr on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:47PM (#17085823)

Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by true_religion on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:49PM (#17085839)

Then they might have called it Honey Coins. That the SEC named it Howey, after a test that determines if something is a security---thus actually under SEC regulation---seems way more likely.

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by agr1277 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:51PM (#17085853)

https://www.coinist.io/the-howey-test-the-sec-and-ico/

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by pba on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:50PM (#17085847)

I wouldn't think so, its "Howey" with a 'w' rather than "honey".

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by chimeracoder on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:49PM (#17085835)

> Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

It's almost certainly derived from the Howey Test.

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