• SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    But if you believe in the coin you made, is there a legal issue buying the coin low and selling high? Wouldn’t you want your thing to be successful, whatever it is?

    I genuinely do not know.

    • Xatolos@reddthat.comOP
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      19 days ago

      The issue isn’t that he bought low and sold high, but that he bought his own property from himself to give the illusion that it had value and demand that didn’t really exist. And if he hid the fact that he was the purchaser of his own coins, this would make it even more shady. He didn’t want it to be successful, just to artificially inflate its value long enough to make a good sum of money and then run.

      Think like buying a junker car and pouring sawdust in the engine to hide the clanking noise so you can sell it for more than it’s worth. You have artificially made it more valuable in the short term to make money and left the fall to the next guy.

      Is it illegal? As this is crypto, not technically due to lack of regulation.

      • SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        So is there no way to buy your own crypto without this issue? Who is to say he did it to artificially inflate vs he wanted a piece of the pie?

        • asret@lemmy.zip
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          19 days ago

          Why would you need to buy your own crypto? The only purpose of these trades is to mislead others.

        • jdeath@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          when you buy from yourself instead of from a different market participant that is considered wash trading and it is fraud