When a social media profile wants to appear more popular than it could be, it buys likes and followers. In the world of cryptocurrency and other metaverse tokens and the new economy, when a “clever guy” (a broker partnered or not with an exchange) wants to overvalue his asset, he buys it from himself to manufacture the false impression of high demand. If buying followers on social networks is a questionable practice, anyone trying to manipulate the market is committing the crime of trade laundering, which in free translation is “laundering trade.”
