Interesting. Very valid observation. Yeah. coin market cap love them or hate them need to a least appear to be keeping accurate tally. Wanting to be near the top of the CMC isa ll about wanting to look good to newbies.
It is interesting you mention Bernie Madoff, because I was in the stock market at that time and although he released financial statements; they regulators were also at fault. If I told you a 14,097 clowns in my car you would know I was lying because everyone knows clown cars at the circus only hold about 30. Well Bernie was claiming to trade securities (option contracts specifically) with billions of dollars there were beyond the publically disclosed holdings of the stock market. (A simplied example would be buying 100,000 million shares of XYZ stock on tuesday when the volume of the stock was 5 million). This evidence was all delivered fully explained to the regulators years ahead of time and they did not read, understand or do anything about it.
We do have proof. It is in the Bitcoin block Chain. But it is not worth my effort to dig it out. The interest, readership and upvoting of this topic has been beyond pitiful in that none of the articles really gets any attention. People want to believe what they want to believe.
Yeah, there might be invisible pink unicorns orbiting saturn, just wait they implode.