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Wouldn't Occam's razor suggest that a less coordinated alignment of interests is more probable?

I.e., people who own a lot of heavily minted scam-coins want to diversify as their exit strategy, and the most liquid alternatives are other scam assets (coins, companies, NFTs).

> Bitfinexed has called a number of scams and collapses in cryptology

Ahem. Let's keep cryptology as meaning the academic study of cryptography and cryptanalysis. ;-)