the market maker knows whothe seller of the shares is much closer to home than the Chicoms. What they don't realize perhaps is that which is waiting for them on the other side of the river Styx. Of course there are most probably at least two seperate Chicom factions: one on side the other not. Such is life.
Some years ago when Virtutone went to a conventional lender, the lender's lawyers made the call out the back door to the vultures and they shorted the company into oblivion. Or so they thought. If you are a start up and need capital the vultures are always waiting. Being on a garbage exhange, basically unregulated, makes matters a lot worse.