Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think the stock market crash was due to a few whales trying to game the market as well? Both fell due to the same effect, people who invested their savings in index funds/crypto now wants top cash out, so they sell.
If you get caught manipulating the stock market you go to prison. Crypto world, not so much.
Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
11–20 of 670 posts
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#12NFTs are basically tulip mania and beanie babies all over again. I've been wondering when it would crash, didn't expect it to happen this quickly. NFTs i mean.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#13Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#14Lol, I don't think it's a crash. It's probably most likely 2 or 3 whales that have colluded on a correction and re-purchase strategy. I mean I just don't trust any of it any more. It's more or less completely unregulated (not that the regulated market isn't manipulated too)
Do you think the stock market crash was due to a few whales trying to game the market as well? Both fell due to the same effect, people who invested their savings in index funds/crypto now wants top cash out, so they sell.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#15People dont know why “Magic Internet Money” - a stablecoin - is a meta-meme on re-appropriated skepticism of all crypto while being designed decently well, much better than TerraLuna (overcollateralized, compared to "partially collateralized as a last ditch effort that predictably failed"), MIM is holding its benchmark price through this stress test so far.
Same for DAI, which has a similar but older and more convoluted design than MIM, and less native collateral choices.
All while neither of these are perfect. None of these are a model decentralized stablecoin (for those that dont want a central company being able to freeze some funds, but I understand thats a feature for some market participants).
I like that the shakeouts and implosions will cause great discount prices. “Discounts” because many implosions force selling that pushes a price down beyond the rest of the market’s feelings, and when that selling stops (which can be transparently seen), the prices reach back to the level people were willing to pay. A chance I am sometimes willing to take.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#16Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#17Well, that and perhaps a lot less wasted energy and environmental damage.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
#18I'm glad that a long overdue reality check is coming. But I'm incredibly sad that many, many small fish will lose their entire life's savings in the hours and days and weeks ahead. I've already seen random social media postings of attempted suicides, or talk of it. We will lose actual human beings in this. And, what's worse, is that the real grifters and crooks will walk away clean once again. There isn't enough time…