Strokovnjak za prodajo na kratko primerja manipulacijo cen NFT z najstarejšim tovornjakom v knjigi

Ustanovitelj Kynikos Associates, registriranega investicijskega svetovalca v New Yorku, osredotočenega na prodajo na kratko, je James Steven Chanos na konferenci FT Live v četrtek nedavno opazil kritiko trendovske industrije NFT.

According to Chanos, the NFT sphere has been overflown with “nefarious activity” and conflicts of interest. Being a noted art collector himself, Chanos does not approve of the digital era’s evolution of making and selling art. Chanos has compared the tokenized market strategy to “wash trading”. He asserted that traders can conveniently set a false, inflated market price, only to then issue another set of NFTs later, at a seemingly prominent discount, to trigger massive buying.

“What I worry about is that affiliated parties are setting prices for some of these NFTs at auctions, or so-called sales, with themselves in effect…So they can get in on the 10-fold increase that they just manufactured. This is as old as markets. This is wash trading,”, Bloomberg quoted Chanos comments at the FT Live Conference.

Trgovanje s pranjem

Wash Trading hitro postaja slaba riba ribnika NFT in se zlobno širi po vsem svetu. Pranje je oblika tržne manipulacije, pri kateri vlagatelj hkrati prodaja in kupuje iste finančne instrumente, da ustvari zavajajoče, umetno delovanje na trgu. Nekaj, kar zveni kot "Wash Trading", naj bi veljalo za eno od vrzeli v razvpiti kripto klavzuli ameriške infrastrukture Bill.

Traders can use the wash trading trick to sell kripto assets, as one does with stocks, i.e., at a considerably lower price to further decrease the capital gains tax. The US government has reportedly not mentioned anything against the crypto community using the alleged wash trading loophole if people don’t repurchase the same or a substantially similar asset within 30 days.

However, Austin Woodward, the CEO, and co-founder of Taxbit told Fortune publication that, “The IRS has been aware of it it’s just been lower prioritization…Digital assets are just moving so fast in general and the 1099 reporting in the infrastructure bill has just been a higher magnitude issue for the time being.”