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Technical Support / Re: settlement is the best method to maniuplate the market
« on: November 30, 2015, 07:02:43 pm »The attack doesn't seem that realistic though, as it relies on someone going long on BTS and then attacking the BTS price.If one has a lot of bts at the start, she can get more bts by this attack, although the "total value" of her bts may not increase in the end.
1) a buy a bunch of BTS, then a bunch of bitCNY. In a properly functioning market, I paid a premium for bitCNY because 1 bitCNY is supposed to be > 1 CNY.
2) I request a forced settlement (losing the premium I paid).
3) I wait 23 hours and sell all the BTS I bought (which incurs a loss as I drive down the market)
4) my forced settlement goes through, and I get a lot of BTS because of my attack. But those BTS are now worth less than what I paid for them in order to get the CNY in the first place.
In the end: I paid a premium to buy CNY, which I lost. I sold a lot of BTS for less money than I paid for them. I force settled my CNY for more BTS than the CNY was originally worth (as long as I can overcome the premium I paid). Now I have BTS, which are not worth very much since I drove down the price and I overpaid for CNY in the first place.