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> step 1; take out MASSIVE short position on coin.

You'll need to find a broker which both have and are willing to borrow that many coins for the coin you're about to attack.



What if you spread it out across different brokers? How much communication is going on there? With traditional stocks, short positions have a certain amount of transparency because of regulation as far as I know, but I imagine such regulation does not exist for cryptocurrencies.


regulation doesn't exist, nor does the desired broker.




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