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Eric Watson has been charged with insider trading. (Photo / NZH)
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Eric Watson has been charged with insider trading in the US after shares were traded in a drinks company before it switched to blockchain technology, sending its share price soaring.
Watson, a former convict and New Zealand rich-lister, drove - despite being an undisclosed control person of the company - the change of Long Island Ice Tea Corp s rebranding to Long Blockchain Corp, according to a United States Securities and Exchange Commission statement reported by Bloomberg News.
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Image: Long Island Ice Tea Corp (Gizmodo)
I’ve got that deja vu feeling. In 2017, the price of bitcoin exploded, prompting a bunch of randomcompanies to announce their business was pivoting to “blockchain” in some form or another before being forgotten when the mania subsided. Three years later, we’re seeing bitcoin’s price fall from another record high and Long Blockchain Corp is back in the news.
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The Long Island Ice Tea Corp’s decision to change its name and suggest it would be diversifying its business with vague plans to invest in the technology underlying cryptocurrency had the immediate benefit of tripling its stock price. But by 2018, it found itself under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The tea-slingers quickly decided that promoting “globally scalable blockchain technology solutions” wasn’t for them, and the company was kicked off the Nasdaq exchange.