Here's a funny little anecdote. In the early life of bitfinex, you could lend money to levered traders at ~1000% interest. I did so personally, but only fairly small sums, and I did not sleep easy at night lol. It was pretty obvious it could blow up at any time, but somehow it didn't. Times were different then of course, ecosystem so much smaller - more room to grow.

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