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How can criminals manipulate cryptocurrency markets?

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are based on systems that are supposed to be inherently protected from fraud. Yet the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into manipulation of bitcoin prices. How is that sort of activity even possible?

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