2019-10-2 22:17 |
Kik app with over 2 million users to close unexpectedly in order to fund ongoing lawsuit for illegal ICO run in 2017
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Popular messaging app Kik is shutting down due to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit regarding ICO activity for the company’s cryptocurrency, kin. Ted Livingston, Founder and CEO of Kik and Kin, denies the allegations and maintains that the SEC’s case is based on mischaracterizations, but that shutdown for Kik is necessary to focus on […] The post Messaging App Kik’s Legal Battle Shines Light on Past ICO Scams appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-9-25 16:20 | |
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The Kik project, exhausted with the lawsuit from the US Sec, has decided to close its flagship app and continue with a small crypto-focused team.
2019-9-24 11:11 | |
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Coinspeaker Kik Shutting Down Its Messaging App, CEO Threatens to QuitKik Interactive CEO Ted Livingston announced today that the company is shutting down Kik Messenger to focus on its cryptocurrency Kin, the target of a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2019-9-24 10:20 | |
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"This is a direct impact from the SEC legal action," CEO Ted Livingston told CoinDesk.
2019-9-24 03:04 | |
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Earlier this month Kik released a 130-page filing that accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of “twist[ing] facts” in its lawsuit against the company’s 2017 Kin token sale.
2019-8-20 21:33 | |
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Robert Cohen says that the SEC carefully examined how their lawsuit against Kik would affect the development of Blockchain
2019-8-20 16:35 | |
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In its 130-page document, Kik claims the US Securities and Exchange Commission "twisted facts" and took quotes out of context when it decided to sue the messaging app for its $100 million Kin token ICO.
2019-8-8 19:07 | |
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Coinspeaker Kik Claims ‘SEC Has Been Twisting Facts’ in Their Ongoing Legal BattleKik kicked back at the SEC lawsuit that claims a $100 million ICO was illegal. The company behind Kik Messenger filed a response in U.
2019-8-7 10:13 | |
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Kik claims the SEC took comments out of context and manipulated facts in its suit alleging the firm’s token sale violated securities laws.
2019-8-7 04:06 | |
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Upon investigating Kik’s claims in response to SEC’s lawsuit filed earlier this month, CoinMetric data reported inconsistencies in the on-chain activity and adoption rate of its native token, Kin.
2019-6-25 16:00 | |
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The asset crashed after the US Securities and Exchange Commission opened a lawsuit against Kik for selling unregistered securities.
2019-6-10 14:52 | |
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Stephen Palley, a well-known lawyer in the crypto-space spoke to CNBC’s CryptoTrader Ran NeuNer and opined his views on the lawsuit against Kik by the SEC. Kik’s issue with the SEC was made public when the company announced that they were planning to fight against the lawsuit brought forth by the SEC.
2019-6-9 16:30 | |
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By CCN: Ethereum’s status as a legitimate transactional currency was confirmed once again this week – by none other than the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC’s recent lawsuit against Kik (KIN) details the particulars of the KIN token sale – the public phase of which was carried out against ETH, as opposed to the U.
2019-6-5 16:57 | |
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Kik counteracts the claims of the Securities and Exchange Commission, even raising $5 million to mount its own lawsuit.
2019-6-5 11:11 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission on June 4 filed a lawsuit against Kik Interactive, the company behind… The post Token KIN Faces Death As SEC Sues KIK For Selling Unregistered Securities appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-6-5 08:50 | |
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In a complaint filed Tuesday, the SEC laid out where Kik allegedly ran afoul of U.S. securities law with its $98 million ICO in 2017. It also revealed a lot more.
2019-6-5 01:30 | |
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By CCN: Canadian mobile-messaging company Kik is preparing to fight the SEC tooth-and-nail when the agency sues the firm over its $100 million ICO. Many companies settle to avoid a protracted and expensive legal war.
2019-5-31 17:36 | |
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Kin, the cryptocurrency project launched by the firm behind the messaging application Kik, has asked the crypto asset space for donations to fund a potential legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
2019-5-29 00:00 | |
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Canadian tokenized social media startup Kik has launched a $5 million initiative to fund a lawsuit against the U.S. SEC
2019-5-28 19:36 | |
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At DefendCrypto.org, individuals can donate in any of 19 cryptocurrencies. Along with using the funds in its own lawsuit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Kik hopes to raise money for other crypto-related businesses facing legal skirmishes with the regulatory agency.
2019-5-28 18:58 | |
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