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Re:Coinbase – Exchange API by tlrobinson on Monday January 26, 2015 @04:30AM (#8946175)
Heh, you could imagine Bitcoin HFT shops spinning up EC2 instances until they happen to get one close to Coinbase's.

(I don't know AWS networking well enough to know if this would make much of a difference, or even if the overhead of the HTTP API wouldn't make the difference negligible)

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Re:Coinbase – Exchange API by kordless on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:54AM (#8947247)
> could imagine

I imagine they are already thinking about it. Affinity and HFT go hand in hand.

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