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To spread FUD so that prices are lowered and they can buy coins cheap? Edit: So looks like attempt at humor lacked the /s tag attracting downvotes. So let me c

• atomical 9y ago
  Keep your FUD accusations off Hacker News. This really is a cultish behavior in the cryptocurrency community.
• hyprCoin 9y ago
  This reads like a conspiracy theory but please pause for a moment and consider why a financial company involved in cryptocurrencies would spread concern to a highly read news outlet. Either they: 1) Are scared that tethers can crash the market and want to flush things sooner than later or 2) It's part of a disinformation strategy to move the market where it's more profitable. There are very few rules and regulations around cryptocurrency so I'm betting on #2.
  • atomical 9y ago
    Because they are experts and by being right about predicting events in this market they can garner power and influence.
  • tinymollusk 9y ago
    or 3) it's a single individual sharing their opinion or 4) they believe it will help their overall reuputation after a crash, so customers who bought and got crushed will think "man if only I had listened to them" or 5) it's someone with a personal grudge against crypto -- they made a private market short with an accepting party or 6) it's space aliens who know crypto is the secret to super-luminal space travel and they want to sabotage humanity's efforts to reach the stars. There is very limited evidence to prove that it wasn't space aliens. That's all I'm sayin'.