im probably (definitely) not the most qualified person to clarify this for you but from what i understand, the halsteads created a new type of currency. the worth of their new currency (coins) can be equated to some number of the original currency (denias). just like other currencies in the real world, you can exchange between the two at different rates that change as the market and economy of each respective place changes. the demon saw that he had a large influence on the value of coins (when he said he was interested in coins, the value rose from 50 to 500), so his plan was to wait until the coins were worth less denias, buy them all at a lower cost, then sell them at a much higher price in order to profit (kinda like stocks i think). ultimately, he spent all his denias buying coins, and his plan *would* have worked, except the halsteads suddenly changed the price of their stew to only 1 denia (not 1 coin) and increased the cost needed to exchange coins back to denia (from 5 to 1000). this kinda makes coins useless and denias much more desirable, so by exchanging all his denias for coins, the demon guy effectively screwed himself over since he how had an abundance of coins but no denias. someone please correct me if any of this is wrong!
Did I just read the summary to The Wolf of Wall Street? Remember when this used to be about the fantasy about a poor orphan girl who finds a mystical husband and they have adventures with demons protecting a castle? What? I hope that demon guy works for them and he becomes part of the family. I just want to see his Antics and the little piggy too. I want the little demon guy to be around the castle and he moping around and he's caused a little bit of mischief and the little piggy guy around the main character and becomes her little cute Butler. Cute as a butler?
Right! But now that he has no denias (money) he is now using assets (his castle) as collateral to the people with sunglasses ( who work for our girl). Essentially he took out a Mortgage and sunglasses people are the bank. Since they know he has no money to repay them; Failure to pay, they now own his collateral which was his castle.
capitalism at its finest