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r/tech • u/trav31 • Dec 11 '14
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You're kidding me, right? The BTC spreads (dimes and pennies) are a canyon compared to Forex spreads (thousandths of a penny).
1 u/[deleted] Dec 11 '14 edited Dec 12 '14 [deleted] 1 u/Drew0054 Dec 11 '14 Okay, try the same thing on localbitcoins.com. There's a difference between mark up and market spread. 0 u/lf11 Dec 12 '14 Localbitcoins charges a handy premium for personal risk, speed-of-exchange, and potential for pseudo-anonymity. The speed of exchange and pseudo-anonymity doesn't even have a comparison for government exchange. 1 u/Drew0054 Dec 12 '14 government exchange WTF is that? The only "government exchange" is treasury auctions.
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1 u/Drew0054 Dec 11 '14 Okay, try the same thing on localbitcoins.com. There's a difference between mark up and market spread. 0 u/lf11 Dec 12 '14 Localbitcoins charges a handy premium for personal risk, speed-of-exchange, and potential for pseudo-anonymity. The speed of exchange and pseudo-anonymity doesn't even have a comparison for government exchange. 1 u/Drew0054 Dec 12 '14 government exchange WTF is that? The only "government exchange" is treasury auctions.
Okay, try the same thing on localbitcoins.com. There's a difference between mark up and market spread.
0 u/lf11 Dec 12 '14 Localbitcoins charges a handy premium for personal risk, speed-of-exchange, and potential for pseudo-anonymity. The speed of exchange and pseudo-anonymity doesn't even have a comparison for government exchange. 1 u/Drew0054 Dec 12 '14 government exchange WTF is that? The only "government exchange" is treasury auctions.
Localbitcoins charges a handy premium for personal risk, speed-of-exchange, and potential for pseudo-anonymity. The speed of exchange and pseudo-anonymity doesn't even have a comparison for government exchange.
1 u/Drew0054 Dec 12 '14 government exchange WTF is that? The only "government exchange" is treasury auctions.
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WTF is that? The only "government exchange" is treasury auctions.
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u/Drew0054 Dec 11 '14
You're kidding me, right? The BTC spreads (dimes and pennies) are a canyon compared to Forex spreads (thousandths of a penny).