Taking a position and then publicizing the position and the thesis behind it is standard procedure everywhere in finance. It's a way of accelerating pricing-in of the information.
You can indeed just short an artificially inflated asset, but if the sham is only revealed long after you're insolvent, you lose your money.
BTW, your bull case for Bitcoin wasn't built from trusting random people on the internet?
You can indeed just short an artificially inflated asset, but if the sham is only revealed long after you're insolvent, you lose your money.
BTW, your bull case for Bitcoin wasn't built from trusting random people on the internet?