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Email Ending months of speculation about when regulators would wade into the world of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently brought its first enforcement actions against two Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) which it alleges effectively operated as high-tech Ponzi schemes. The two investment schemes, both run by the same New York businessman, Maksim Zaslavskiy, solicited money from investors in exchange for digital currency (“tokens” or “coins”) which were purportedly tied to investments in real estate and diamonds that would appreciate in value over time. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/wild-west-no-longer-the-sec-brings-enforcement-actions-against-two-initial-coin-offerings