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Well, Bloomberg probably has some actual cash. The crypto guy has a bunch of tokens he needs to turn into usable money. So he has a interest in keeping the price up while he slowly exits without crashing the price.

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Bloomberg also has a lot of pricing and other financial market data that he needs to turn into usable money. Most (but not all) of Bloomberg’s editorial content furthers that interest in one way or another.

Honest question - does it bother you every day that any cryptocurrency is valued above $0? Does this violate you intellectually?

This doesnt sound like a "honest question" to me.

This seems like a good place to quote the latest HN guideline: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's implied by the other guidelines already, and is certainly the spirit of the site, but some redundancy seems needed for clarity.

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