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Comment by mrb

I've already pointed out you don't seem to understand how Bitcoin exchanges operate: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/935016692270489600

Banks don't provide liquidity to Bitcoin exchanges. Exchanges don't borrow from banks. Exchanges don't trade with their money, or their users' money. Exchange users deposit money to exchanges, and exchanges dumbly execute orders specified by their users. That's it. For example BTC/USD bids on an exchange's order book are 100% backed up by dollars that have already been deposited by users on this exchange's bank account.

parent mrb 9 years ago

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