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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by xwdv on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:00PM (#25806733)
Wow this sounds like a great way to make a lot of risk free money very quickly. How do you scale the identification of arbitrage opportunities?
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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by v64 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:14PM (#25806801)
The Flash Boys 2.0 paper I linked to in my original comment provides some detail as to how these opportunities are identified and exploited by competing arbitrageurs.
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