[Cryptography] Cryptocurrency: CME Approved, Coin Paychecks, FED, OpenBazaar ZEC BCH

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Mon Dec 4 18:41:06 EST 2017


In article <201712042016.vB4KG3K7003152 at new.toad.com>,
John Gilmore  <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
>> The SEC has extensive rules about short selling, most based on painful 
>> experience as far back as the 1920s...
>
>Short selling is a key signal in the market.  It provides a way to
>make money by betting that a stock is priced too high (for any
>reason).  ....

In case it wasn't clear, I have no problem with short positions when
done legally.  But it's more complicated than adding a sign bit to
bitcoin blockchain entries.

R's,
John



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