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Re:Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox by pjc50 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @03:21AM (#7296317)
Why would you agree to insure your competitor against their own incompetence?
Re:Joint Statement Regarding the Insolvency of Mt. Gox by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:07AM (#7296459)
Because:

• Receipt of insurance is contingent on meeting requirements for insurance, so it's not blind assistance in the face of incompetence. The 3 years of account thefts reported to have occurred at Mt. Gox would, hopefully, have been detected. Even collaborating on more secure storage and trading systems. There's a precedent for this: it's how the large credit card companies (BankAmericard, I mean, Visa and Interbank/Master Charge, I mean, MasterCard), were formed.

• Rates would correspond to perceived risk, providing a market feedback mechanism.

• Some risks are incidental and random. Weaknesses in protocols, problems in network or technology stacks (independent of individual exchange software).

• The end result is a greater level of trust in the entire marketplace as a whole, so: more transactions, more members, more profits.