What Is the Nature of a Digital Coin? Paris Hilton Might Know, but the S.E.C. Doesn’t | The New Yorker

This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission made an odd, veiled threat, in the form of a short notice on its Web site, “Statement on Potentially Unlawful Promotion of Initial Coin Offerings and Other Investments by Celebrities and Others.” The commission didn’t use any names, but those in the know had little doubt: its warning was meant for Paris Hilton.

via What Is the Nature of a Digital Coin? Paris Hilton Might Know, but the S.E.C. Doesn’t | The New Yorker