Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering
by Animats on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:14PM
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Collectables usually fail the "common enterprise" prong of the Howey test. Unless the operator is manipulating the market. Then, trouble.
"In a fraudulent business scheme based upon the secret and dramatic manipulation of collectible stamp values, Escala and its former CEO, Manning, violated the antifraud and reporting provisions of the Exchange Act...."[1]
[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/comp20965.pdf