KasianFranks

It's more about what's possible with "short interest" and falsely reporting "shares short" that can give the perception that there is more supply than there really is the…

Of course it's straight up illegal and has been since 2008. On Wall St it still happens. And nope, not relying on something I've read but experienced runing a public company as founder and C…

A "note" by a partner investment house or broker that will back you, because of your rep with them or because you've got an inside track, saying that you do "own" the required…

Non-paywall source http://archive.is/pwC2S This is when the real fun begins for cryptos with oversized floats. Look to see a lot of naked shorting https://www.investopedia.…

This has been happening with stocks for quite some time e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Sykes which included bots, astroturfing and fake soc net profiles.…

Here's a free tutorial on the way things really work as we're not talking about classes of shares, were talking about aggregate issuance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

A US public company can do the same thing in terms of their authorized stock vs their shares outstanding. You can print money without it being backed. This means increasing your 'authorized'…

I'm personally looking forward to these scams being weeded out. It's going to make the world of crypto even stronger.

This is neat. Vectorspace based AI calculations will benefit from this approach. Great work!

P2P baby.

Efficient Market Theory is dead. There is no zero sum game. In the Markets things do not work based supply and demand but on perceived supply and perceived demand. Based on what I've learned I&#x…

Agreed. Crypto is experiencing manipulation like stocks, bonds, debentures, CDs and derivatives of all kinds. Sharks, snakes, wolves are part of the game now for all kinds of reasons but the developme…

Time to buy. Down from what price since January? Cryptocurrency is a long term play from a software and financial engineering vantage. It also continues to irritate the hell out of banks (bank account…

Time to buy.

For example, 10mil shares decided between market makers sitting on both sides of the bid that goes at a price they agree on which is not in the interest of fairness or the public. Another reason for t…

Yes, I used to run small OTC public company. I've seen the difference in manipulation. Here's weird thing: Goldman and others (with the exception of Bear Stearns and LEH) the big guys get re…

Lets talk about QE-1-4, the printing of money and bankers being bailed out. Your argument does not stand by any measure of reason or logic. Lets also talk about investment bankers and VC's who ar…

Smart and good move. The whole thing about being decentralized is that you don't need one body controlling the flow of a familiy's cash especially when they need water, food and toilets.

People do not realize how manipulated the traditional financial markets are otherwise known as Wall Street. Cryptocurrency is less manipulated as it's run by a different culture of people.

Money has always been viewed as a side-show, dog and pony, a circus if you're purist software engineer. 30 years in the Valley taught me this along with BBS protocols sharing and learning with my…

Crypto has created the first large division I've seen in the software development community. "Open" has been a way to describe how money is not necessary except when you need it but nev…

Insight: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html

3 points. More nice bias.

This has 2 points upvoted so far. Nice bias.

Buffet, someone that says they don't invest in technology because they lazily "don't understand it" then advises clients not to invest in it. Also misses big run ups. Techs are on …

Quite the opposite.

I'm all for it.

Well said.