Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by vesrah on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:26PM (#15911777)

How? If the value goes to 0 you lose 1x, not 20x.

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by diab0lic on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:36PM (#15911822)

It can become worth 1/20 of it's original value.

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by qsucvatz on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:43PM (#15911847)

Going to $0 is -Inf% loss.

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by oscilloscope on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:47PM (#15911869)

Then if I lose 100% of my investment, how much have I lost?

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by kamaal on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:23AM (#15912446)

Everything.

Sometimes its easier to describe this in terms of words, than numbers and symbols.

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by icebraining on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:49AM (#15912519)

Everything is not that bad. Many people lose more than that on the regular stock market (using leverage).

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Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by hervature on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:22AM (#15912634)

Usually there is margin liquadation levels that are in place so you can't lose ore than 100%.

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