Are you meaning to suggest that some of the people involved might have borrowed funds with promises to return them, or offered some parties deep discounts in ex

Are you meaning to suggest that some of the people involved might have borrowed funds with promises to return them, or offered some parties deep discounts in exchange for temporarily putting up full prices on large amounts of share, in order to falsely prop up the 'market' value for these assets and create the social proof needed to dupe larger numbers of inexperienced investors into participating? Inconceivable!