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Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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Re: Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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Huh? Just set your limit to 105 or 200 or 10500. There's no reason to ever use a market order unless there's some other severe limitation on limit orders in a particular implementation.

You can't set your 'limit' to 105, when the current price is 101. That's a market order. Even if you could, why would you want to buy at 105, when the current price is 101? Just to don't have to pay 0.25 in fees!? That sounds like "The Firm" from John Grisham where rich people would rather pay $2 to lawyers than $1 in taxes.

This is incorrect.

You do not know what the current price will be when you click the submit button. You may enter a limit of 105, and find that when you get around to submitting, the price is suddenly 205 or 1.05. This is why you use a limit order, so that your "market" order doesn't give you a sudden surprise.

On top of that, the current price is only valid for a certain depth. So if the asks are 10x101 and 20x106, I want to set my limit to 105 to make sure I only take that 10x101 order off, and not start chewing through and execute at a much different price than "current". All these orders are changing extremely rapidly for any popular item, so using limits makes sure you get the execution you want.

The limit does not set the price that your order will execute at, but the limit. It'll match at or better than the limit you set. So you never end up paying more than you're OK with, but you prevent getting burned by sudden movements. This is much more important on these cryptocurrency exchanges than traditional stocks.

Re: Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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Nope. Investment banks are the main OTC for forex and they are shut weekends, as are major ECNs. Something might be open that will change your money but there is no real liquidity on the weekend. edit: do tell us hacker news instead of the downvotes...

You're getting downvoted because the comment you're disagreeing with literally says "except weekends".

It was changed. Also fx is down for less than 30 minutes.

Re: Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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I work at Coinbase. If you want the inside scoop: "game room" is a bit of a misnomer for that room. It's a large room with a big theater screen. All day it's full of meetings and presentations. There are a bunch of games on shelves as well, and some people play them after hours.

Hey, can you provide any insights on working there? I was speaking to a recruiter about working on Gdax and will probably interview in Feb., after I'm out of my current equity hole.

Everyone is really smart and really nice. I love it.

Re: Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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With the frenzy out there, Coinbase makes crypto currencies trading/investing/purchasing as robust and seemingly as safe as possible. This could be a signal, now that we have some reputable market players that crypto currencies are really just starting and there is a very high ceiling. Getting in before coinbase you had to mine your own (that party ended quickly - Butterfly Labs, cex.io for cloud mining etc) or be pa…

As a heavy bitcoin/crypto trader, Coinbase and Gdax are one of the worst exchanges out there. Speaking strictly from a technical point of view. Not only their Front-End interface (Gdax) suffers from lag probably due to poor engineering but they also made terrible mistakes at the beginning. One of them being a lost deposit. The address generated by the site was wrong and thus the deposit never credited. It took a coup…

"magnificently engineered" - except for the fact that someone walked off with 120K btc.

Coinbase service is spotty but at least it has its security going for it, for now.

Re: Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

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Hey, can you provide any insights on working there? I was speaking to a recruiter about working on Gdax and will probably interview in Feb., after I'm out of my current equity hole.

Everyone is really smart and really nice. I love it.

Right on! Also, I watched your Compromise presentation and loved it. Thanks again.
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