> As I put it at the time, "Haha what? Just because you mumble the word 'blockchain' doesn't make otherwise illegal things legal."
> But the basic illegality of Sand Hill was covered in thick doughy layers of other, stranger illegality. For instance: The blockchain stuff was fake!
> overdetermined illegality
It's an interesting spin to see their situation described by multiple layers of compound illegal activity.
>> Tech is an industry of moving fast and breaking things. Finance is an industry of moving fast, breaking things, being mired in years of litigation, paying 10-digit fines, and ruefully promising to move slower and break fewer things in the future.
After being told not to talk about this stuff, she thought she'd get someone else to guest-blog it for her (which she then published on her blog): https://archive.is/LBBC2
The arrogance and lack of self-awareness of these "creative entrepreneurs" defies belief.
Can you describe how this was NOT illegal? They were illegally selling derivative contracts and illegally creating fake trade history.