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by affyboi 912 days ago
> I don't care if exchanges trade back and forth all day to simulate fake demand (volume/exchanges between wallets that aren't actually going to transactions for goods/services aka crypto isn't really being used at $26b/day).

It sounds like you do care because you want to see “real” demand (unless I’m misinterpreting). This is the same reason wash trading is illegal in the regular markets