Faking volumes is wrong, but it seems like criminal responsibility for this might be too much. Big fines and publicly open information about such exchanges with their manipulations seems enough to me. These people, however, though being important executives of that exchange, made manipulations to earn money from the investors, rather than simply declared the fake volume to attract more users, I guess. Yet I am still not sure they deserve years of prison for that. After all, trading is dangerous, and everyone should be cautious about the funds and actions.
For me, they deserve more since they deceived small investors and because of that they lose money so I think its really liable for a criminal liability. This is what justice and if I we’re the victim I will file a case to get back my money.
It's a fact.
Manipulation do really happens inside the exchanges premises. Just observe one exchange and you will have an idea on how they manipulate the market and that's through their fake orders. Remember the time when Bitmex was on maintainance? I don't think it's just a coincidence that the market pump by that time.
I’m slowly accepting this fact, and we should really trade carefully don’t just look for the volume and if possible try to exit as early as you can. I remember that moment, and yeah the market pumps without any strong news.