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Re:High Short Interest Stocks by ars on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:51PM (#25951255)
When you short a stock you sell it. Whoever you sold it to can loan it again. There's no limit to that.
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Re:High Short Interest Stocks by GizmoSwan on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:44PM (#25954027)
Technically there is should be only one person owning the stock and only one person who can short it at a time.

That is why the system needs something like a block chain semaphore.

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