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Re:FTX Future Fund by dkasper on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:28PM (#30503922)
There’s incredible amounts of capital going into the crypto industry and FTX is one of the biggest players. There may be some froth but they seem like one of the least shady players in the space to me.
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Re:FTX Future Fund by arcticbull on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:34PM (#30506098)
Well that is a low bar. I am curious why their US destination wires arrive from "West Realm Shires Services Inc" instead of, like FTX.
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Re:FTX Future Fund by wmf on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:32PM (#30503998)
The question is how and why FTX became big given that BitMEX already existed.
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Re:FTX Future Fund by solean on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:57PM (#30504329)
Bitmex is very much a niche exchange, it only offers a handful of perps. FTX will let you trade pretty much any thing you can think of (crypto perps/spot, stocks, political elections, etc.)
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Re:FTX Future Fund by dkersten on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:46PM (#30506223)
BitMEX was engulfed in controversy (lawsuits and investigation) around the time FTX launched.
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Re:FTX Future Fund by swader999 on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:46PM (#30504892)
Bitmex and its liquidation engine is why.
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