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Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows

The New York Times: DealBook
August 7, 2017

"The cautionary words of American regulators have done little to chill a red-hot market for new virtual currencies sold by start-ups. The Securities and Exchange Commission late last month issued its first warning for the many entrepreneurs who have been raising money by creating and selling their own virtual currencies in what are called initial coin offerings. At that point, hundreds of projects had raised more than $1 billion."

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