Blockchain company to pay $24M for unregistered ICO
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-10-02T18:09:00
Block.one has agreed to settle charges with the SEC and pay a $24 million civil penalty for conducting an unregistered initial coin offering of digital tokens that raised the equivalent of several billion dollars.
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