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Has it ever been tested in court that the laws that make various forms of trading halts a tool to protect fairness in conventional markets can be reliably applied to an exchange of virtual toy tokens? Overloaded front-end servers that stall the bulk of sell orders while willing buyers get through to be matched with "preferred sellers" using lots of careful handholding seems very likely to me in a bitcoin panic, it could happen without any premeditated ill intent at all.