The article is here. If the story is true it would be additional evidence of the cryptocurrency craze being real, and a significant problem for some investors. While it appears that the company did in purchase some mining equipment after the name change, it certainly wasn't in the cryptocurrency business, if the CNBC article is correct.
Which of course means that its new shareholders bought shares in a company based on nothing. Add to this allegations that a major shareholder sold as the stock price was rising and the issuance of additional shares around the same time, and you have an interesting series of events which could lead to significant shareholder losses.
Public company changes name to Riot Blockchain,
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