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An unregulated leveraged options platform with essentially no assets and what will undoubtedly be super senior debt deals with their prime broker writing naked
by trotsky 13y ago
An unregulated leveraged options platform with essentially no assets and what will undoubtedly be super senior debt deals with their prime broker writing naked contracts on something that moves 30% based on one website lagging out for a hour or two?
what could go wrong
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- gfodor 13y agobitcoins was babby's first forex trading platform. I guess it's time for nerds everywhere to get a crash course in options (emphasis on the word crash.)
- angersock 13y agogod this is going to be good Edit: Is anyone actually recording the market movements? It'd be really neat to see minute-by-minute how this goes down.
- bwood 13y agoBitcoin Charts [1] keeps history for dozens of exchanges (which all float at slightly different values) and has a free API to let you request any period of interest. Beyond just market price, I think you can get records of every individual trade. If nothing else, this whole bitcoin thing is a fascinating experiment! [1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/ http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/
- minimax 13y agoNo legitimate prime broker is going to touch this thing.
- DanielRibeiro 13y agoCoinbase, a YC company, recently raised 600k[1]. It was crowdfuneded though: Having completed the FundersClub (YC S12) crowdfunding round, Coinbase raised $268,700, a little over its goal of $250,000, from 61 FundersClub members [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/09/coinbase-first-crowd-funded-bitcoin-company-raises-over-600k/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/09/coinbase-...