Why A Florida Orange Grove In 1946 Is The Key To Understanding Regulation Of ICOs
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
By now, everyone's heard of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) where companies issue their own currency-like tokens. They boomed massively in 2017, alongside the whole cryptocurrency craze. But very few people really get what they are, and how they fit into the regulatory landscape. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Peter van Valkenburgh, the director of research at Coin Center, who explains why you have to go back to a 1946 case involving a Florida orange grower to understand how regulators see these newfangled financial instruments.
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| 1:17.3 | email earlier this week. Was this that thing you tweeted? Yes, it was.. Well you could say that about practically any |
| 1:24.9 | email that I received but we both just tweet all of everything that's in our |
| 1:29.0 | inbox. That's that's really sad isn't it Okay, but one thing in particular I tweeted about and it was an advertisement for an upcoming ICO, an initial coin offering. |
| 1:42.0 | Right, I think anyone who's been on the internet |
| 1:44.8 | in recent months, particularly if they're into tech or finance, |
| 1:49.4 | has been inundated with ads for initial coin offerings. I get them all the time. I used to get them on |
| 1:56.4 | Facebook. I get them in my Gmail. I got to it's like this new token and get a 10% discount |
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