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Re:Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s gove... by sgt101 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:06PM (#28100570)
>us little people should support anything that gives the average person a fighting chance against the rich and powerful.

I don't think that I have a chance in heaven or hell to navigate a completely opaque ecosystem where wash trading sets the value minute to minute and the mechanisms of realizing that value are run to make money off the realisation.

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Re:Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s gove... by iratewizard on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:26PM (#28100726)
Even in crypto, wash trading is illegal. It is also significantly more prohibitively expensive to wash trade a security with a market cap of $750T. If you were to try wash trading from a country where it's legal, you might be able to get away with it. But at that point you might as well wash trade in forex.
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