But if that is what he meant I take this back!
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Yeah, I dunno. All I know is that it was a confusing joke. TBC, still offensive to Serum, but potentially not as bad as you might be thinking (or maybe yes! I honestly have no idea.)
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Heh so Scott and I have some history here, my completely honest guess here is that it was meant as the more strong and offensive version and I feel pretty strongly about that; I'm not sure what Hayden interpreted it as though!
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I’ll just leave this comment
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I must be thick... what’s the more unsavory version of the accusation? This is the only interpretation I can think of
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Just to clarify Scott's tweet, to hopefully mitigate any *additional* unsavoriness, it was implying that the Serum team forgot to turn on the bots after Solana came back up, and it wasn't until they saw Scott's tweet that they were reminded to turn them back on (hence the 6 mins)
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weird ok maybe I'm wrong then!
I was interpreting it as him implying that the volume was self-trading/wash trading/something like that
That is my strong impression from "real customer orders that are definitely not a bot"
But maybe I'm wrong!
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He is implying that it's wash trading. "Forgot to turn on the bots" = forgot to resume wash trading (and also implying that it was resumed 6 minutes later because serum team noticed his post)
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(yeah ok so I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong about what he was implying, but given that many others didn't interpret it that way maybe it would have been best just to let it slide :P)
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oh, thats how i interpreted it to be fair, but i didnt think that was a big deal or anything in particular (like its still real volume / trades)
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Yeah same. Bots for bootstrapping liquidity isn’t really an aggressive accusation. He’s saying there aren’t any users, not that there’s some sort of criminal fraud happening.
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er I'm pretty confused -- bootstrapping liquidity is different from wash trading
Yes, to wrap this up, he was implying the former, not the latter. The joke was (almost surely) harmless and just poking some fun. Nothing for anyone to get worked up about from either side.
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