How much did shorts pay chimin?
I would say $10,000, or maybe nothing - they just let him into their club.
The more terrible claims the shorts make, the better.
Every time a potential long (including institutional-size investors) reads these short attacks, and then quickly and easily sees that they were based on lies and fabrications, the more confident the longs become that the shorts don't have anything.
Off in the distance, I think I can hear the bell beginning to toll, and it tolls for thee, lying short bastards