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Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

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Not necessarily. If people buy after you trade then the value of your wallet goes up.

Could you explain further. I'm not sure I understand how this relates to the parent comment?

If I have information that the price of x coin is going to go up and my friend knows I know, then they just need to follow my trades and they can make money too.

If enough people follow my trades then this can generate demand and actually affect the price.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

#132

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Maybe if you throw some more big words in, you will get your point across. Following this thread it is pretty evident that you don't have any evidence for your "all crypto is scam", and are pretty lost when asked for proof.

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Calling me names is definitely not something that gets your point across. Pretty sure as we stand you have zero proff for your anti-crypto statements and are resorting to name calling. Definitely something frowned upon by HN.

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Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. You really can’t make this up. Embrace this. It’s exactly what crypto is all about.

Umm, I am a crypto fan and I still don't want regulation. You have to be an idiot to buy something on listing. Embrace this.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

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Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. You really can’t make this up. Embrace this. It’s exactly what crypto is all about.

Coinbase is an SEC “compliant” company. What specifically about this company is “deregulated”?

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

#135

Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. You really can’t make this up. Embrace this. It’s exactly what crypto is all about.

Indeed, it's just shifting a regulatory/systems capture situation to the wild west.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

#136

Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. You really can’t make this up. Embrace this. It’s exactly what crypto is all about.

I think crypto fans want transparency and an equal playing field, and are more afraid of things like regulatory corruption and markets that are not open to them. It is not clear that "regulated finance" prevents comically unfair outcomes either. You still have insider trading that is legally protected, discriminatory rules like accredited investor qualifications, and abuse of the legal system by the rich to avoid reg…

Um, being an accredited investor gives you exposure to investments that aren’t transparent. You don’t get the same access to financial statements as with public companies.

If you want more transparent investments then you should be advocating for reforms that will encourage companies to go public sooner. This would be reversing the trend in recent years where companies stay private longer, which allows them to not disclose how they’re doing.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

#137

Is this insider trading according to the law? Nonpublic information isn't being used to trade public stocks; it's being used to trade assets that don't appear to be regulated securities.

It is perfectly legal to trade non-securites based on insider information, for example real estate. Are these securities though? Wait, I think I heard that question before.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

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Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. You really can’t make this up. Embrace this. It’s exactly what crypto is all about.

A lot of the rah-rah boosterism of "decentralization" is coming from VCs that saw how much money there is to be made by ignoring laws and regulations for long enough. Airbnb and Uber are the most brazen examples of this. What's left unsaid of course is that the only interest deep-pocketed investors have in dismantling elements of the financial system (MC/Visa dominance, KYC/AML checks, suspicious transactions disclos…

> they can replace it with a system that they personally have an equity stake in.

Isn't this a fact about capitalism and not at all specific to the financial sector?

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

#139

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This is so on point. To me, and many others active somewhere on the "regulated finance" spectrum, the way crypto kept going on and on how awesome "deregulation" is from a consumer standpoint was tragically ironic. The vast majority of regulation is there to protect market participants.

>The vast majority of regulation is there to protect market participants. Anyone involved with GME knows this isn’t true.

The vast majority of the nasty stuff that happened around GME was not the work of regulators trying to hurt ordinary investors.

Re: Insider Trading at Coinbase

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This is so on point. To me, and many others active somewhere on the "regulated finance" spectrum, the way crypto kept going on and on how awesome "deregulation" is from a consumer standpoint was tragically ironic. The vast majority of regulation is there to protect market participants.

>The vast majority of regulation is there to protect market participants. Anyone involved with GME knows this isn’t true.

The vast majority of regulation is there to protect CERTAIN market participants.
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