Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting
"What else ticks me off about this, is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with issuing stock in your company as tokens on a block chain instead of through brokers on a standard exchange. Just do it legally, for Pete's sake! Go to the SEC, or whoever the appropriate regulatory authority in your jurisdiction is, and get authorization to issue stock! Hire somebody to implement shareholder voting as block chain transactions. If the law in your area doesn't allow anonymous stockholders, then you need identified participants (and, inevitably, a Trusted system to assign or match IDs). It can work. It has advantages even. But after the meltdown that the scammers are bringing down on this whole form, it's going to be anathema, or even illegal."<p>Ironically, the first "ICO" to do it with full compliance, useful tech and good business model, will be huge. There is demand for it.<p>The other big opportunity is to come up with a framework that everyone can use to be compliant (e.g. An Ethereum with "compliance" mechanisms built into it will be a big "general-purpose" blockchain).<p>It's hard to understand why ignore compliance, when being compliant is quite simply going to be much bigger, sustainable and "good business" than all scammers put together.