Many observers, and maybe a jury, will say Eisenberg is a prison and thief. And the very fact sample – all seen on the blockchain, detailed by Eisenberg’s personal self-congratulatory tweets and described in SDNY’s prison grievance – signifies he did certainly violate the letter of the regulation that prohibits market manipulation. Nevertheless, it’s simple to think about a situation the place with out Eisenberg’s operation, the Mango protocol grows a lot bigger and attracts extra retail customers, and it’s North Korea, not Eisenberg, that exploits the protocol to empty consumer funds to pay for nuclear weapon growth, not only a “extremely worthwhile buying and selling technique.” In reality, on account of Eisenberg’s profitable Mango operation, different decentralized buying and selling platforms applied new threat mitigation measures, and when Eisenberg went after Aave a couple of weeks later, he failed.