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A comment on Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offerings. Parent comment

Re:Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offe... by ttty on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:39PM (#18566459)
> It's an entity with a value specified by the eminent. If it's a fashion startup, one token can be equal to one dress or a yearly license of a software in case of a hi-tech startup. You even can issue tokens of yourself and a token holder will be able to buy an hour of your work with the token. You can “tokenize” everything.

From https://www.google.com.hk/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/ico-101/wh...

So basically if you top up your namecheap account it will count as a token? Looks like yes, from this definition. Please explain to me why I'm wrong.

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Re:Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offe... by davidmr on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:29PM (#18566672)
Like any other thing the SEC would consider a security, it’s complicated and technical. The article refers to https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf as the SEC’s basis for considering how “coins” relate to securities.
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Re:Two Celebrities Charged with Unlawfully Touting Coin Offe... by my_first_acct on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:13AM (#18566881)
You may be right that your Namecheap account balance is a kind of token. But not all tokens are securities. The SEC is only interested in ones that are.
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