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HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

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Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#31
I really want to meet the team at the SEC who put this together. The level of trolling the ICO community is incredible.

Not sure if anyone else opened the white paper, but it is acutally better than most of the ICO papers I read in general.

There are gems like:

> "Upon a successful ICO, the nondisclosure agreements terminate and we will be able to disclose the largest network of travel partners"

> "we expect a bidding war to increase HoweyCoins valuations by severalfold."

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#33

They're going want to optimize those 8k res images down at the bottom of the page if they want to actually sell some of those coins.

They're just doing their part to waste energy and bandwidth, in the same vein as a real ICO would.

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#34
post #32

Probably named after the Howey Test ( https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe... ) which is pretty clever.

Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

> Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

It's almost certainly derived from the Howey Test.

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#35
post #32

Probably named after the Howey Test ( https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe... ) which is pretty clever.

Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

Then they might have called it Honey Coins. That the SEC named it Howey, after a test that determines if something is a security---thus actually under SEC regulation---seems way more likely.

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#36
post #32

Probably named after the Howey Test ( https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe... ) which is pretty clever.

Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

I wouldn't think so, its "Howey" with a 'w' rather than "honey".

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#37
post #32

Probably named after the Howey Test ( https://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howe... ) which is pretty clever.

Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot

https://www.coinist.io/the-howey-test-the-sec-and-ico/

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#38
The real question is, who are those people? They are really smirking hard. I bet they're SEC employees, the images have real first names on them (that don't match their fictitious names) which would seem to indicate they're not just stock photos.

I can imagine the email to the office now. That would be the coolest thing ever... "we need volunteers, must be reasonably photogenic and capable of producing a foreboding smirk...."

Re: HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

#40
post #38

The real question is, who are those people? They are really smirking hard. I bet they're SEC employees, the images have real first names on them (that don't match their fictitious names) which would seem to indicate they're not just stock photos. I can imagine the email to the office now. That would be the coolest thing ever... "we need volunteers, must be reasonably photogenic and capable of producing a foreboding s…

Stock photos.
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