With crypto, one cannot simply short by temporarily minting a new coin. If you borrow a coin from me and sell it on to someone else, there is no way, if you default, for me to claw it back. Someone more-clever may have found a way to mitigate that risk somehow, but I don't immediately see one.
With crypto, one cannot simply short by temporarily minting a new coin. If you borrow a coin from me and sell it on to someone else, there is no way, if you default, for me to claw it back. Someone more-clever may have found a way to mitigate that risk somehow, but I don't immediately see one.