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Re:GDAX will restore the balance of margin called users with... by civilitty on Saturday June 24, 2017 @12:40AM (#14624384)
That's the rub with BTC: technical and security problems have historically plagued BTC companies with huge amounts of money lost. GDAX giving a FDIC-lite guarantee sets them far apart from the rest, even if their customer service and interface is inferior.
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Re:GDAX will restore the balance of margin called users with... by shizzlest on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:54AM (#14624671)
i dont think that will work. wait until real sums are involved and see what happens. its not a business model to pay users for their own mistakes unless the system is rigged in some way anyway. just my opinion.
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Re:GDAX will restore the balance of margin called users with... by obstinate on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:36AM (#14625720)
My immediate thought was whether someone might be able to induce the behavior. That combined with self-dealing (owning both the buying and selling accounts) could extract significant profits from an exchange that is willing to make its customers whole.

I would never do such (I consider it unethical, but more to the point I have neither the capital nor risk tolerance to pull it off), but I wonder if someone might. Or perhaps already has.

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