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Tomorrow's Levine's Newsletter will be sweet :D Btw, is there a single bitcoin exchange who is operated by people that do not behave like teenagers?

refulgentis 3y ago
Try company, ugh. The stuff I've seen at FAANG...
el_nahual 3y ago
Bitso out of Mexico/Brazil is about as serious as any company can be IMHO.
- moralestapia 3y ago
  Sure, that's what everyone said about Zhao when it was SBF's turn to be the bad guy. With re. to Bitso specifically, a couple years ago I reached to them to let them know about a somehow serious vulnerability in their API and their response was pretty much "yeah, whatever". Really.
artursapek 3y ago
Kraken
thebiglebrewski 3y ago
Does Coinbase count?
themagician 3y ago
Bisq. Any centralized crypto exchange will ultimately end up being a scam because there is no reason for centralized exchanges to exist at all. There is no reason for anyone to hold your funds for more than what it necessary to complete a transaction. Because of this, there is really no money to be made.
- z3c0 3y ago
  It's amazing I don't see Bisq discussed more on HN of all places. It's probably the best example of how cryptocurrency should be traded. Custodial services have always been bad news. Decentralized, capable of anonymity, and with transparent prices. The last bit makes the huge spread of cryptocurrency more obvious, which would go a long way towards helping the casual user understand the volatility.
  - csomar 3y ago
    It's interface is dysfunctional and can freeze a $4.000 custom built Desktop machine.
    - StingyJelly 3y ago
      How? I run it on an old i5 16gb ram think-pad among few other things without any issues.
  - StingyJelly 3y ago
    Exactly! And for the "get rich by trading" gamblers, the large spread is great as you can actually make money by providing liquidity and arbitrage to centralized exchanges.
- wmf 3y ago
  "High-frequency" crypto trading has to be off-chain, at least for most coins. Of course we now know that most of that was wash trading bots...

refulgentis 3y ago

Try company, ugh. The stuff I've seen at FAANG...

el_nahual 3y ago

Bitso out of Mexico/Brazil is about as serious as any company can be IMHO.

moralestapia 3y ago
Sure, that's what everyone said about Zhao when it was SBF's turn to be the bad guy. With re. to Bitso specifically, a couple years ago I reached to them to let them know about a somehow serious vulnerability in their API and their response was pretty much "yeah, whatever". Really.

artursapek 3y ago

Kraken

thebiglebrewski 3y ago

Does Coinbase count?

themagician 3y ago

Bisq. Any centralized crypto exchange will ultimately end up being a scam because there is no reason for centralized exchanges to exist at all. There is no reason for anyone to hold your funds for more than what it necessary to complete a transaction. Because of this, there is really no money to be made.

z3c0 3y ago
It's amazing I don't see Bisq discussed more on HN of all places. It's probably the best example of how cryptocurrency should be traded. Custodial services have always been bad news. Decentralized, capable of anonymity, and with transparent prices. The last bit makes the huge spread of cryptocurrency more obvious, which would go a long way towards helping the casual user understand the volatility.
- csomar 3y ago
  It's interface is dysfunctional and can freeze a $4.000 custom built Desktop machine.
  - StingyJelly 3y ago
    How? I run it on an old i5 16gb ram think-pad among few other things without any issues.
- StingyJelly 3y ago
  Exactly! And for the "get rich by trading" gamblers, the large spread is great as you can actually make money by providing liquidity and arbitrage to centralized exchanges.
wmf 3y ago
"High-frequency" crypto trading has to be off-chain, at least for most coins. Of course we now know that most of that was wash trading bots...