I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the subject, but isn’t the purpose of the SEC to prevent unauthorized entities from selling securities — including company shares — to people?
You are correct. If we're going to violate SEC rules then we might as well do it right. Instead of dancing around the topic, using IP bans and a wink-wink-I'm-not-a-US-citizen box, issuing tokens for services that totally aren't investments, we'll just come right out and offer shares with dividends and voting. This was our plan all along, but the SEC guidance just made it more obviously correct one.
