how is it a rug pull? if it's an inside job, doesn't that just make it theft?
What's the difference to you between a rug pull and theft?
A few extra steps. Usually, the rug pull doesn't involve directly taking something that belongs to other people, but instead, selling your own thing in a dishonest way.
A rug pull involves convincing someone to buy something first.
Theft doesn’t have to involve any convincing.
This is a pretty basic distinction. Perhaps you were thinking of “fraud”?
A rug pull means you hype and then sell on the open market without.
Rug pull is a trap, which can include theft. (You pull the rug and the victim in the cartoon would fall into the spikes hole).
In a rug pull, the thing you own (usually some kind of digital asset) goes down in value, leaving you with less money than you started with, whereas theft leaves you no longer possessing the asset itself.
That's always a possibility, and I'm sure it has happened a lot. I would suspect with the size of liquid it's more likely it was an exploit, but either way I don't think we'll ever know!
Usually we do find out, and in a majority of cases we find out it is a scam by the operators.
I mean of course it was. Everything in this whole ludicrous space is a scam of one kind or another. It's amazing to me that this is still even a point of discussion. It's obviously a rug pull.