[jes]

Is it possible to make a substantial amount of money on such schemes while evading detection and subsequent prosecution?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/to-catch-a-thief-how-nasda...

[zelly]

There are a couple offshore companies that let you buy/sell stocks with Bitcoin semi-anonymously. The problem is you can't short, so your attack has to result in pumping the stock: "Taking Twitter private at $420 a share".

[thermonot]

You don't do it by selling TWTR one minute before the hack.

You use your brain a little. You prepare your positions months in advance, and hedge out market risks.

You can also use less regulated brokers in far away places and trade TWTR derivatives.

[Phillipharryt]

Ok but brokers aren't less regulated, exchanges are, and Twitter isn't traded on every exchange.