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Short term pumping

 The Internet opened a lot of ways to do a job. It opened opportunities for a lot of people. The business started to grow fast and the pace of everything related accelerated. It is no new thing. Whenever a disruptive technology disrupts the industry, it collapses the whole factors that were meant to be the status quo.

As it touched and changed multiple industries, it also changed the way of making money. The Internet alone creates half of the billionaires living today. In fact, if we look at the top 5 richest people in the world, four out of them were internet accelerated billionaires. They are promising a better future through the development of the internet. Among this revolution, a lot of people found their way of crookedness in making money. One such thing pumping the price of an asset with the support of a strong community. That is clear manipulation. But when it comes to a decentralized asset, it is quite legal and good for short-term gain. By decentralized assets, I clearly meant cryptocurrencies. These currencies are making a lot of people rich. And the process continues. For a brief period, it is very much good. But not necessarily in the long term.  

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