• SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world
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    7 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?

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      5 days ago

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

    • asret@lemmy.zip
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      7 days ago

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