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Hm, I don't think that amounts to a guarantee that you get your money back? Surely you can also sue a crypto exchange already? But if they don't have your money
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
Hm, I don't think that amounts to a guarantee that you get your money back? Surely you can also sue a crypto exchange already? But if they don't have your money, it won't help - likewise with the banks.
Were customers even affected in this Bitcoin heist? Just because some crypto was stolen from the exchange, doesn't mean they won't pay their customers? 150M loss might not be that much in the greater scheme of things. A bank could also make losses of 150M by investing their customers money?
You can also lose your money on the stock exchange, with regular banks as brokers.
- raesene9 5y agoIf a bank defrauds you in the UK you generally get the money back, there have been multiple cases. As to them having your money, that's what capital adequacy controls (another form of regulation) are for. banks are required to keep a percentage of their assets in low/no risk securities to mitigate the risk of insolvency due to bets going wrong. Many many many customers have been affected by hacks on crypto coin exchanges. To take one recent example I think the customers of Cream finance basically lost it all after cream were hacked for the 3rd time in a year. You can ofc lose money on the stock exchange, and in the UK there are regulations about what products can be offered to retail customers. things like leveraged investing are restricted. None of this is to say that financial regulations are perfect, they're very much not, but that there are reasons why they have evolved in the way they have, generally in response to the kind of things happening to the crypto market right now.