Sam, would you consider listing HEX on the exchange so that people can short it? I used to be a big Richard Heat fan and investor but I recently found out that he is a total scam. Would be nice to see how the market views it by allowing people to go short!
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This is by far the biggest problem in crypto. People are able to launch a coin and pump it up for years before a good exchange allows a true free marketplace to coexist. You could change this by allowing the scams exposure to the truth. List HEX and let’s see!
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Please consider opening up HEX trading and support it on the margin exchange as well. Let’s see what this project is truly made of. One good way to detect a scam is to let the market short a scam if they choose to.
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Margin trading would be tough--you'd have to find someone willing to give a borrow to short it.
Futres are more doable, though again unless you could really get people who believed in it to trade them, the futures might trade waaaay below spot.
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According to Richard Heart there’s tons of holders and liquidity is amazing. If are not willing to put them to the test, how would you recommend a market situation like this gets approached? If people can’t go short on a scam coin, won’t the scam just go on longer?
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Yeah I do think your suggestion is basically right. We've though about listing futures on it--one key thing would be to really communicate to people "we're not endorsing this product at all by listing futures on it, we're giving you a way to short if you want!"
The US government can only do so much. The concept we’re talking about definitely is a proactive policing method, where essentially once a scam coin got big enough, you could really test it and show people what’s really going on.
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