Have to wonder if the interns or aides at the SEC who have to sift through all this shit giggle when they catalog forum user names with real names. Then check for outstanding warrants and wanted lists and no fly lists and whatever else they do with the data? Should remember that for the future make a respectable user name in case the feds come a knocking.
lol, at least mine is pretty consistent with my actual name.
My guess is that they're going to be most interested in folks who were actively trying to pump the coin and get folks to buy into the coin.
It wouldn't make sense to go after joe-schmoe zencloud customer unless they're a really huge fish, and even then it would be the IRS who would be interested, not the SEC. SEC is usually just looking for securities fraud or regulatory breaches. I don't know what kind of message passing the two have.
So I'm thinking that their interest is to see how many singular people were impacted by GAW's lies more than it is to track down everyone. I know there were a ton of folks who had multiple accounts, so that would explain the need for a legitimate name behind each.
For some reason this reminds me of when the SEC went after Vonage for their botched IPO, except vonage wasn't a scam. They just had a CEO who didn't understand securities law.