Hacker News Reader

It is the opposite of impressive, to me: Crypto is deeply troubled and unethical, but betting against it by shorting the market and gleefully taking advantage of someone losing their shirt is worse.

Basically if I can lose your respect by not fucking people over, I don't want your respect. How's that for conviction?

View on HN

Not really. It’s more likely experienced players in the market liquidate your position in times of great volatility.

Yes, there are good traders out there. But it doesn’t appear that the ones that short are anti-crypto.

Arguably its helping them— you know… not lose more money than they otherwise could.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com