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Bear in mind many private exchanges aren't ever really exchanging crypto until you cash out -- the numbers you see can be just trades on an internal stockmarket, not necessarily backed by any external crypto asset until realized.


I honestly don't want to know how the sausage is made. The gold standard has always been a lie.

Cryptocurrencies traded on exchanges are basically paper gold at this point.




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