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I, an anonymous actor beholden to no authority nor regulation, can manipulate Bitcoin _directly_ with sufficient capital and a sufficiently intelligent bit of c

I, an anonymous actor beholden to no authority nor regulation, can manipulate Bitcoin _directly_ with sufficient capital and a sufficiently intelligent bit of code. It's fun and intellectually pointed to say this is just a _version_ of the kind of "manipulation" performed by the Fed against the dollar but it's transparently and categorically a different thing. It's an obviously specious argument and it diminishes whomever makes it.

notch656a 5y ago
>I, an anonymous actor beholden to no authority nor regulation, can manipulate Bitcoin Yes yes we already agreed, I think, that bitcoin can be manipulated. I admitted this right off the bat. >It's fun and intellectually pointed to say this is just a _version_ of the kind of "manipulation" performed by the Fed against the dollar but it's transparently and categorically a different thing. It's an obviously specious argument and it diminishes whomever makes it. So it diminishes no one, because I never said the manipulation performed by the fed was the same 'version' or 'kind' of manipulation -- whatever that means. Are you just kind of arguing with yourself at this point?