@modprobe Thank you for all the effort you put into this post, especially for cryptocurrency noobs, like me. I am alarmed at what appears to be bad apples in the system who are for advertising and inviting governmental intrusion and even take-over. Monopolies do not like competing monopolies.

A few years ago, a group of folk was arrested after they issued their own currency warrants and sent them into the financial markets and collected on them. Now we see the SEC speaking on ICOs.