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Comment by tradersam

> You are misinformed. The people who provide the dollars to this market are the customers of the exchanges. It seems like you are not familiar with how a currency exchange works.

I fear you're misinformed. Besides localBitcoins, how does one get fiat to an exchange?

That's right — a bank. Exchanges like Bitfinex only survive because of things like Tether, which requires other fiat accepting exchanges.

If all exchanges were like Bitfinex, there would be a liquidity crunch, as the OP is saying.

parent tradersam 9 years ago

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