Howard Marks
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Are NFTs Securities? OMG!
On March 11th, Beeple became the third highest paid living artist with a $69M sale of one of his works as an NFT, a non-fungible token on the blockchain. This sale is one of many at the front of NFTs, blockchain’s latest hype machine of digital collectibles. Entire marketplaces have emerged to facilitate the sale of NFTs, but what if one of the most popular NFT marketplaces is breaking… → Read More
Are NFTs Securities? OMG!
Are NFTs Securities? Despite the promise of blockchain’s capabilities, it shows signs of one of humanity’s oldest lessons: history repeats itself. → Read More
How Dawn Dickson Overcame the Bias of Venture Funding
When you break down social barriers, everybody wins, or perhaps this is better said as everybody has the same chance to win. The process has earned the name “leveling the playing field” for a reason… → Read More
What to Look for When Investing in Startups –
If you want a safe bet with little risk, investing your money is easy. Just buy Treasury bonds. They carry practically no risk and are guaranteed by the full faith of the United States Government… → Read More
Decentralization Is the Enemy of Fair Markets –
Crypto winter continues with no end in sight, a result of the rampant speculation that drove the capital inflow of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 through ICOs. As time went on, the market realized… → Read More
Crypto Investors Owe the IRS $25 Billion –
The world of finance is a competitive marketplace. It is cut-throat. The ones who have the most information usually win against those who are less informed. Even though people know the market is not… → Read More
Introducing a New Standard for Digital Stock Certificates: ERC-1450
It is clear by now that one of the most important revolutions brought about by blockchain technology will be the digitization of the world: transforming assets into tokens that represent the… → Read More
8 Takeaways from My Conversation with a Former SEC Chairman
At the StartEngine Summit on October 19th in Santa Monica, CA, I had the pleasure of hearing former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox give a keynote address discussing crypto and regulation, and I spoke… → Read More
Should Satoshi Nakamoto Go to Jail? –
Can software be so nefarious that it puts the programmers, designers, or managers of the business, in jail? According to Brian Quintenz, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission… → Read More
Are Crypto Investors Running Afoul of the RICO Act?
The Wall Street Journal published an article on September 28th on how popular crypto exchanges are laundering money from known fraudsters. The report revealed that investigators have traced nearly… → Read More
The SEC Takes Enforcement Worldwide –
On Thursday, September 27th, the SEC found a Marshall Islands-based company that was not following regulations set in place by the SEC and the US Treasury for U.S. investors. The company in question… → Read More
Analysis of the NY Attorney General’s Report on Crypto Exchanges
On April 17, 2018, the New York Attorney General sent a list of questions to thirteen cryptocurrency exchanges, including the most popular exchanges Coinbase, Bittrex, Kraken, Bitfinex, and Binance… → Read More
Another ICO Bites the Dust. Tomahawk Is Just the Beginning.
After much deliberation, the SEC handed over a permanent ban for selling securities to David T. Laurance, who tried to raise money through an ICO for Tomahawk Exploration in the summer of 2017. So… → Read More
Why It Is Time to Regulate Crypto Exchanges –
It is about time. The Wall Street Journal just published their research on cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes. Apparently, and perhaps this isn’t surprising to some, pump and dumps are a rampant… → Read More
How to Deal with Regulators: a Coinbase Primer –
You will find this amazing. On July 16th Coinbase told Bloomberg the SEC had approved Coinbase’s acquisition of three companies: Keystone Capital Corp., Venovate Marketplace Inc. and Digital Wealth… → Read More
The SEC’s Guiding Hand –
Today the SEC spoke at a town hall called Investing In America in Atlanta, Georgia. While the event was not crypto-specific, cryptocurrencies and ICOs loomed in the background. Indeed, blockchain and… → Read More
ICO predictions for 2018: Big changes for utility tokens
2017 was quite a banner year for the ICO marketplace with over $6.4 billion in crypto invested in hundreds of ICOs. Some investors thought the world had gone crazy, others were saying it was just the beginning. Will ICOs announce the end of Venture Capital as we know it? Clearly 2017 was performative, however, the […] → Read More
ICO predictions for 2018: Big changes for utility tokens
2017 was quite a banner year for the ICO marketplace with over $6.4 billion in crypto invested in hundreds of ICOs. Some investors thought the world had gone crazy, others were saying ... → Read More
Coinbase Strikes Back Against Regulators. Irony Not Lost on the SEC.
Mike Lempres, Chief Legal and Risk Officer at Coinbase wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, is complaining to the capital markets congressional subcommittee that regulation is going to stifle… → Read More
CoinDesk’s Airdrop Article Is Misleading –
I stopped this morning to get my cappuccino and croissant at Verve and opened up my laptop to read CoinDesk, one of my favorite blogs on the crypto industry. As I was sipping my cappuccino, I came… → Read More