“Such attainable sources have included (1) ‘wash’ buying and selling, (2) individuals with a dominant place in bitcoin manipulating bitcoin pricing, (3) hacking of the bitcoin community and buying and selling platforms, (4) malicious management of the bitcoin community, (5) buying and selling based mostly on materials, private info, together with the dissemination of false and deceptive info, (6) manipulative exercise involving the purported ‘stablecoin’ Tether (USDT), and (7) fraud and manipulation at bitcoin buying and selling platforms,” the SEC wrote.
