{"id":20045,"date":"2019-05-28T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6f600726c3"},"modified":"2019-05-28T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:12:09","slug":"cartoon-driving-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/cartoon-driving-sheep","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Driving Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cartoon-distorting-mirrors.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Industry regulators are finally catching up with blockchain companies that have dubiously defined their tokens as &#8220;utilities&#8221; (therefore avoiding the strict issuing and management requirements of &#8220;securities&#8221;). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has publicly brought a number of enforcement actions against over 20 such companies and individuals, which is encouraging the rest of the blockchain industry to step back into line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry regulators are finally catching up with blockchain companies that have dubiously defined their tokens as &#8220;utilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3441,"featured_media":20046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3252,183,3387],"class_list":{"0":"post-20045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cartoon","9":"tag-sec","10":"tag-utility-token"},"author_data":{"id":3441,"name":"Ian Foley","nicename":"ian-foley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ian-foley-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cartoon-distorting-mirrors.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}