Chaos is coming. The regulators are about to crack down on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The Token Exchange Self-Regulating Body (TXSRB.org) is trying to get ahead of this by helping the industry to clean up its act before the regulators take down half the industry.
ICOs are completely out of hand. People are raising insane sums of money by misleading newly rich crypto investors... then making off with huge chunks of the funds. Often there is nothing behind these ICOs but a kid in her parent's basement.
This could cause panic in the industry if exchanges start delisting everything out of an abundance of caution - or plain fear of being shut down by regulators.
So the TXSRB is aiming to head off this disaster by taking the following steps:
- Working to clarify what is clearly not a security according to the Howey Test, i.e.,
-- Did people make and investment?
-- Is there a common enterprise?
-- Did they expect a growth outcome? - Publishing a Clean Token List of coins that fit that non-security category.
- Providing free guidance to all ICO issuers on how to clean up and pass the test.
- Providing consulting services to clean up Toxic ICOs.
- Eventually publishing their much longer Black List of ICO's that need to clean up and clean up fast.
are on the Clean Token List
This is a huge vaccination against uncertainty and delisting that could impact prices.
John Gotts and Michael Taggart did a watershed interview where they explain all this here:
This will both shake up and ultimately save the industry during the next three months.
Pay attention.
Cheers!
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100% Agree. This is my portfolio!
I wish it was mine and I agree as well
Let's hope regulators will take it seriously
They won't have a choice.
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@shivgre it's a good time i think that's that from price correction it's too much of a bull market but bitcoin is not a stock i am a long time in bitcoin and i heard that ''bubble'' stories when it was 200$.. it will grow massive for a few more years, this is a best crypto for the next 10-20 years.. digital gold.. look what is happening with real gold..but it is under regulations of a deep state so they manipulate price few times so they can accumulate it in FED... but gold will still grow
I am glad I didn't invest last week when the prices were touching $5000 as now bitcoin price has fallen to $4189.32. I will buy some when the prices starts rising. Maybe that will help me get some profit. Upvoted and followed you for the great information @dado13btc.
bitcoin still have a lot of potential and it may touch $10000 in 2 years. As everyone said invest a amount that you can effort to lose.
@bijender hopefully yes. But yea as you said there always is risk of losing investment so I will only invest what I am ready to lose.
If you don't need to withdraw your investment soon. Then it's always time to buy bitcoin ;)
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Yes and I am ready to invest and forget the investment for atleast a year. Upvoted and following you @lucasgabd.
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I think it is always a good time. Bitcoin will be the world reference coin in my opinion.
Hopeyfully yes.
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Can't mine bitcoin due to unavailability of ASIC machines and waiting time of 4 to 5 months on delivery.
Upvoted and following you @jpederson96.
I got one on Prime from Amazon, but I since then returned it.
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OF COURSE, we made that list.
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Honestly, I would add Dash to that list. Dash has had about the same name recognition as Bitshares if not more, it has consistent growth, and the supporters are about as strong if not stronger than EOS.
Agreed
What constitutes?
None of those things determine whether something passes the Howey Test.
What does
The law does? It isn't based on popularity.
Bravo captain obvious, would you like to dive your ship of information into a deeper level of analysis?
You look retarded..
Would you mind elaborating on this for a newbie.
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This is all great news. but we must also remember to diversify and watch the market like a hawk. Big government and centralized societies will always want to regulate.
The regulators is to protect the investors and entrepreneurs like you and me. Of course they have to have a baseline to implement a rules.
We just hope the ICO's are ready to justify their work, otherwise it might be a scam anyway.
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Bitcoin is going down. I just feel it
I feel it too. Steem does a much better job than Bitcoin in many aspects. I just don't see its usefulness at all right now
I 100% agree with you. The problem is, the bigger it gets, the clunkier it becomes and the more power it needs to create bitcoins. Also, it's a confidence game. Your currency is worth money only because of the confidence it can attract. Once that goes, there is nothing to shore up the value. There are too many players in the cryptocurrency market that provide a better alternative to what Bitcoin offers for Bitcoin to continue to increase in value. Its primary function, now, is the ability to buy other cryptocurrency with it, but if Bitcoin's value sinks, other cryptocurrencies will too. It's a standard against which other cryptocurrencies have been measured, too, but they can also be measured against $US. In the recent price plummet, I notice that Ripple (XRP) barely lost value, same with Neo. These coin offerings have real life application. If Bitcoin goes down, they all will. And they'll be replaced by a newer model, that's measured against something else. Bitcoin is a currency. I seriously think the Neo model is the way forward - where the coins are shares in the business.
I agree...Bitcoin is becoming to large that sending bitcoins to another wallet takes ages. :( Kinda sad
Just provides a higher demand for mines, and a demand for miner improvements until that becomes over reaching.
Don't forget that the original founders and the investors after them are still holding onto plenty of coins to provide stronger confidence. If the bubble pops and plummets like it did during the last major update, they will likely inflate it again.
It's hard to argue with this... you can't go wrong investing in a few of the best blockchain projects and leaving it alone.
As the currencies did go down, now you should buy them to make a profit.
Have a nice day,
But what if you don't have any money left? Damn Chinese communists ruined my crypto retirement plans!
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Be a leader instead of a follower. Followers sometimes fall off cliffs when following blindly. Ha!
Very appropriate comparison categories - it works!
Actually, I think Bitshares and MPAs are so effective and less costly by orders of magnitude... I'm still trying to get my head around EOS, but again, I reckon Bitshares will facilitate that as well.
Interesting how three of the four you mention have Larimer crafting. Also, perhaps a fifth category, Pension Fund and HERO - whats not to like at 5% interest pa?
HERO as in the esports investing / betting?
Nope - HERO as in the Bitshares HERO - Market Pegged Asset created based upon the value of $1USD at the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 and appreciating in value at 5%pa, which is about $158ish in 2017 dollars. The purchasing value of one 1913 dollar is actually estimated at around $0.02 today. The HERO is a interesting proposition for ppl that'd love 5%pa - guaranteed and collateralised by a 2:1 BTS ratio - anyway, lots of youtube and Steem advice about the HERO - see @stan. You can also short the HERO into existence. Cheers
dude why would you invest 3/4 of your portfolio in vapour, i mean steem and bitshares are borderline ponzi., and EOS hasnt even been built..
I agree. All cryptos are vapourware when the lousy gov says they are illegal. Look at what the damn chinese communists did with their ICO ban.
ino bro, neo cost me big hahah, fukin commys cant have people make there own choices now can we
The question here is... vapor or vapour?
@OriginalWorks
Please explain how Bitshares is a borderline Ponzi?
If no one used it, it would be worthless? I don't know.
@OriginalWorks
Except Steem isn't Facebook or even Facebookesque. It is more like reddit or blogger or maybe Wordpressesque.
How can we compare EOS to apple? Got curious about it...
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Anything that pays dividends or interest.
Who on earth would buy shares in a company.. and not earn a share of the profit?
Would a banker.. buy 1 billion worth of stock of another bank.. and earn no shares of the profit?
He would simply sit on those shares.. until another person came along and gave him 2 billion?
Thats why all these shit coins failed.
These ICO's have given us the chance to invest into start up businesses online.
That is where the real power is at, imo.
I think all this means now.. is we will have alot less scams.. sounds good to me.
Its true you must be diversified to survive.
What about EOS?
I asked TXSRB to evaluate it. That one should pass easily under the "fat protocol" category, and for other more sophisticated reasons. Waiting is.
Ok cool. Thanks for getting back to me. And thanks for the upvote!
dan will leave that one just like every other project hes ever worked on
Glad to see someone putting something like this together. There really have been a ton of scammy ICO's as of late and it's been a bit disheartening. I'm still amazed there are some well known scam coins that are in the top 50 of MarketCap. Blows my mind how they can maintain.
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Great news, yet not surprised! I really look forward to BitShares, EOS, HERO, Steem and company getting the recognition they really deserve. Thanks for sharing this information with us all, more leverage to advertise and promote the real trustworthy cryptos! ;)
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This is good news. I think it is also good for the industry that there is going to be regulatory pressure in the US and China for future ICOs to clean up their act and it will make fraudulent ones think twice about trying to launch
You forget GOLOS. How could you?
TOday i heard that there are clean and dirty btc, depending on the past transactions
Really?
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this article helps me out and will definitely worth sharing to other that easily jump in into an ICO, followed you from now
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Thanks for sharing. This is unbelievable important, because if we don't do anything - this might get out of hand and people who had nothing to do with crypto and ico's might stay away... because they think it is all just a scam!
I just listened to a great podcast with John Gotts of TXSRB.org. The link to the podcast is:
http://www.futuretechpodcast.com/podcasts/the-secs-coming-crackdown-is-your-ico-initial-coin-offering-a-security-offering/ or
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/richard-jacobs/future-tech-podcast or
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-tech-almost-here-round-corner-future-technology/id1169016854?mt=2
Really gave me a much better understanding of what is going on and how we can work to get ahead of it.
Of course, it's great news that Steem, Bitshares, and Bitcoin are already leading the pack.
I've read in several ICO's that I've been involved with recently that they are asking you for passport documents etc. I think they are all much more likely to be legit.
Finally, I see it! Thanks God!
That's not just good news, but huge important news. I really like that... It means these tokens are going to continue to be popular for the same reasons they are on the clean list.
Thank you for verifying it.
Exactly that! :)
Already own their millionth of supply but want more ;)
Good to know steemit itself
Good read. Will look more into the list and will take note in the future if I'd contribute to a token, I'll check the list to see if they are TXSRB verified.
That podcast was a huge eye opener :)
This really is good news. Making the clean list is a great boost of validation.
In this lobby, will there be T.P.? For my bunghole?
Good to know its.
+5!
Makes sense this will happen eventually and glad there will be reliable lists to guide people.
Glad to see bitcoin and steem on the
We should make EOS on the list.
Hope it passes muster!
I hope this regulators will not control all icos and cryptocurrency and we still will be decentralised and not controlled by governments.
What's up!
@OriginalWorks
They will try
can you imagine what would happen if they shut down, at least one successful ICO?! That would spread chaos across the whole crypto ecosystem.... some investors would start panic.
I'm a little worried, but we hope everything is fine
They wouldnt want the normal slave , to be able to invest in companys now and make money would they, big fucking brother always has to get involved, always for the "peoples best intrests"
exactly... they can't afford people to make money too easily.
awesome
The link you shared for the 'clear token list,' does not show the list, but a notice that they would post toxicoin list on 14th sept. I don't get it.
They want to give everyone enough time to clean up before embarrassing anybody. It's not that hard with so much at stake.
ok, I am waiting for 14th to see which ones are there on the list. Thanks for the info.
great sharing....thanks for the info....resteem and upvote
awesome
@stan,
Controlling ICO is a good thing! This market is totally messed up by those fake pulse ICOs in last few months! So, I like what SEC is doing on them! And I don't think it will affect on BTC, BTS, STEEM, LTC and few other stable crptos. Thank you very much for sharing such useful information with us!
Really appreciate your effort and I wish to take this as an opportunity to say "BitShares - next BitCoin is at $0.14992 right now. So, don't miss this opportunity"!
Cheers~
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I checked out the site and these were the ones that claimed to be safe,
I also like that litecoin and zcash are on that list.
This should put more influence into steem and the other safe coins. thanks for sharing!!
CLEAN LIST (TXSRB OPINION):
CURRENCY
Bankcoin Global
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash
Bytecoin
Dogecoin
Litecoin
Lumens (Stellar)
Monero
Steem
Tether
Saicoin
Zcash
FAT PROTOCOL
BitShares
Ethereum
Ethereum Classic
UTILITY
Factoid (Factom)
dooooooooge got to love the doge !!!
why hasnt doge coin died yet lol.. the creator already ran off with heeps of peoples money..
probably because its got a cult following and its fun not to be taken to seriously
I mean some sort of brakes on this wild runaway ICO train is long over due...hopefully with a little more structure we will see some coins in the future with real use other simply pump before the dump.
@stan i think this will save EOS and BTC from big dumpings by shitcoin ICOs
Successful topic.
Well done ✅
I am very excited to see this after watching Lawsky preach regulation from the pulpit then leave his gov job and start a Bitcoin consulting agency. Crony. We do need to self regulate, however this list is a little misleading. I get why the tokens are deemed "clean" but these coins have already ICO'd. It doesn't really address high risk vs low risk ICO's. Perhaps a weighted system is need as well as previous ICO and exit success. This is also why I basically invest in anything @ccedk ICO's on the openledger.io exchange.
Great!!??
Great post, good to know where to put your cheese in
Great news, thanks for sharing Stan!
And thanks @steemuwe for resteeming so I could see this :)
lets skim more
nice post ...awesome @stan
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Thank you for the article definite up-vote! While I am a firm believer in less Government and Government rules I do believe there is a great deal of fraud that is going on by dishonest people in the crytoverse at the moment and there needs to be regulation. That being said it is a double edged sword anything the Government gets into will eventually regulate/tax into oblivion so fingers crossed there will be some true middle ground on this subject.
Hello, I have read your article, what I notice is, that everyone is talking about bitcoin, which is good, but what about the other coins? like ripple for example? anyway, I am a begginner with crypto, and I am looking for a coin to invest (besides Bitcoin), any advices with what should I start? I want to invest somewhere between 100-200 $ for now ...
I would love it when bitcoin beats all the odds and becomes over $100,000 per btc...
Some times regulation can be good but we have to alway be very careful. You do not want too much redtape and no protection for the general public can also cause problem in the future.
Why is ripple (xrp) not on the list??
No surprise to me. I commented last week that when people begin to make money outside the traditional government regulated systems they will intervene and regulate it if for no other reason than to get a piece of it in taxes or some other means.