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Too bad neither the title of this HN submission nor the title of the paper says "Crypto Wash Trading on unregulated exchanges", but I guess that wouldn't write
by capableweb 5y ago
Too bad neither the title of this HN submission nor the title of the paper says "Crypto Wash Trading on unregulated exchanges", but I guess that wouldn't write as many headlines.
- pja 5y agoIt’s right there in the abstract.
- whyenot 5y agoYes, but I think the person you are responding to has a good point: it should be in the headline, as adding one more word ("unregulated") is a pretty significant distinction.
- ziddoap 5y agoWhen the title just says "70% of the volume in the top crypto exchanges", perhaps you can forgive the skim-readers of the world for believing they meant "top crypto exchanges", as stated, rather than "top unregulated changes". Sometimes it's nice for the title to honestly represent what the paper/blog/whatever is about without having to dive into the abstract. I think there might even be some word for having titles which somewhat misrepresent the piece in question, often used when the title elicits more clicks by leaving out a key piece of information.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoIs there somewhere to read a quick summary of the regulation of crypto exchanges, I don't know they'd become specifically regulated?
- capableweb 5y agoAnswered in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279685
- mumblemumble 5y agoI'd argue that the original article's title was fine; they were indeed looking for wash trading across all the crypto exchanges. The second sentence of the abstract was basically, "Trading activity on regulated exchanges looks fine, but the unregulated ones are a hot mess." It's just the altered title for the HN submission that is actively misleading.
- floatingatoll 5y agoEmail the site mods using the footer contact link. Sometimes they reply in minutes. Put “FP #1” and “misleading title” somewhere in the subject.