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"At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do. Given enough time, the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place."
"At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do. Given enough time, the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place."
This was a failure of traditional financial institutions and people who are ok with them, not of crypto. Satoshi wouldn't be encouraging people to put their coins on a trusted third party like that. All fundamental crypto values say this.
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Crypto exchanges act like brokers and exchanges. They match orders and they also hold client money.
> match orders and they also hold client money Matching orders is what brokers canonically do. Exchanges came about to consolidate their activity. There is nothing resembling a true exchange in the crypto space.
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An exchange shouldn't count deposited crypto as their asset. It is an asset of their customer. I do not think the actual problem here is crypto exchanges being unprofitable. Even if a crypto exchange goes under, it could (and frankly should ) still be able to go under gracefully, e.g. letting all customers withdraw their assets for a month (and E-Mailing private keys as a last resort). The issue here is crypto exchan…
You can say that, but when MtGox went bankrupt, and also lost 4 fifths of its stored crypto, the court just heaped together all assets into one big pile and all creditors into one big pile and let them fight it out. So now there's a bunch of assholes including but not limited to Peter Vessenes, that are suing the bankrupt entity for billions (completely frivolous of course) and all the depositors have waited for 8 ye…
I believe in Crypto, but have less than zero faith in "Big Crypto" The whole point of the tech is that centralized players are simply not needed. Why did an engineer design a system where they're not needed? Because they commit fraud whenever given a chance. Greed and ignorance is what reinstalled them into the stack.
There are plenty of ways to commit fraud with fully decentralized protocols. For example, build in a well hidden backdoor, and then steal all the users funds with it (via a good VPN of course, so nobody knows it was you, and you can publicly claim you were hacked).
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> Due to the failure of our third-party partner, some users' balance data were found abnormally recorded in our system. Hence, limiting our services to prevent further risks, the technical team has had to manually proofread and restore the system to ensure maximum accuracy of all users’ holdings. "Abnormally recorded" ... "prevent further risks" ... "manually proofread" ... "maximum accuracy". Wow.
It actually makes sense if they were “dropshipping” lol, which an exchange might do to increase liquidity. In other words, when you deposited to their exchange they actually held your money and executed your trades at FTX for certain pairs. Then FTX suddenly zeroed everyone’s balances (! or at least many people’s) so their crappy scraping system overwrote your old balance with zero and they have to manually check bac…
At the very least, if you really want to be in on the crypto thing, keep the funny money yourself in your own wallet, and wait a few years/decades for government regulation to catch up before you trust any crypto exchange.
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And that's largely because of the lack of regulation that so many cryptocurrency fans tout. If it's not legally regulated as a currency, or a security, or anything of the sort, then why would it be considered to belong to you, and not Mt Gox, once you've given it to them? All you have is a digital account that's basically the legal equivalent of an IOU on a napkin. Welcome to your libertarian utopia.
Defi is not this. In defi exchanges you place your coins into a smart contract or have them always on your account. If anything a crypto exchange is a misnomer as it's not even needed. The only reason it exists is because smart contracts didn't exist when they first started.
Calm down. That is not true. Smart contract based exchanges do not let people exchange real money into crypto. There will always need to be offchain exchanges for trading USD for crypto. Additionally, trading off chain is much cheaper than on chain.
Centralized exchanges will always exist because people want on / off ramps, people want low fees, and because people are willing to trust others.
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This was a failure of traditional financial institutions and people who are ok with them, not of crypto. Satoshi wouldn't be encouraging people to put their coins on a trusted third party like that. All fundamental crypto values say this.
Then it proves that crypto is flawed for other reasons.
"At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do. Given enough time, the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place."
This was a failure of traditional financial institutions and people who are ok with them, not of crypto. Satoshi wouldn't be encouraging people to put their coins on a trusted third party like that. All fundamental crypto values say this.
So without exchanges, there is literally no purpose or use of bitcoin. Currently it mainly serves as a way to record a store of fiat value.
There is no conspiracy here. The reason exchanges came into being and were successful was that there was no other purpose to bitcoin. Few users successfully use bitcoin as it was intended.