I think where it loses me is that they are basing it on the nominal "market capitalization" of cryptocurrencies, which as is usually brought up on HN, are sketc

I think where it loses me is that they are basing it on the nominal "market capitalization" of cryptocurrencies, which as is usually brought up on HN, are sketchy as hell. I'm not sure what a better way to compute the "volume" of the manipulation would be, however.