Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Those vigorous trades that see the shitcoin you're being hustled with skyrocketing in ...
Those vigorous trades that see the shitcoin you're being hustled with skyrocketing in value? They're "wash trades," where insiders buy and sell the same asset to one another, without real money ever changing hands, just to create the appearance of a rapidly appreciating asset that you had best get in on before you are priced out of the market.
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