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This changes nothing to most of the ICOs, most of them have information that they do not offer their tokens to US citizens.



Are they obliged to check this, though? The only checks I've ever seen are making investors tick a box on a webpage to confirm that they aren't a US citizen. Is that good enough, or are these ICOs expected to do more thorough checking?

Some ICOs have advertised their sales in the US, I wonder if the SEC will look on that as offering their tokens to US citizens, whatever the wording they put on their websites?


Most that I've seen also don't allow US IP addresses.


Can their ethereum contracts reject transactions based upon IP address? I don't think that's possible.




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