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18 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
1) Some FTX facts today:

a) I don't think we had any downtime, which was great! And markets were decently liquid all things considered.

b) Withdrawals are ~1 hour backlogged, sorry -- we have ratelimts on #/sec to process, we'll take those up. (also, you know, gas.)
2) c) FTX has never clawed back anyone from liquidations of others.

We have, once in a while, ADL'ed, though those fills are at market or better.

But we never want to do that.

So we've jacked up BLP capacity to prevent it in the future.
3) And for anyone who got ADL'ed, today, we've just compensated your accounts with USD:

--if the ADL was good marked to now, you kept it
--if the ADL was bad marked to now, you got USD equal to the difference in market prices
4) d) I think this was another all-time record volume day, at $26B.

We had about $250m of liquidations today -- maybe our all-time high, but about 10-20% of other exchanges'.

Interestingly, we had closer to 50/50 long/short liqs than most! bybt.com/LiquidationData
5) e) finally -- latency is down from last week by about 30ms or so!

We'll keep working on this over the next few months.

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19 Apr
1) A Tale of Two Crashes:

Coinbase, FTX, and the future of crypto. Image
2) Just over a year ago, crypto had its worst day ever.

BTC crashed roughly $4500 top to bottom, from $8k to $3500, stabilizing just over $5k. Image
3) And the industry almost ended, maybe.

Why?
Read 25 tweets
16 Apr
1) Some thoughts on BNB's most recent burn:

2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE

lots of approximations here
3) Based on the original specs, BNB was going to burn 20% of profit.

Based on this update (binance.com/en/blog/421499…), it's now unclear what they'll burn, but maybe something like: 80% of profit (up to 100m tokens, and nothing after that)
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8 Apr
2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT TRADING ADVICE.

(Sorry for the deleted thread -- had a key typo at the start...)
3) People constantly want higher ratelimits.

But not all orders are the same.

The core metric here: $ volume per order sent. In other words, how efficient are your orders?
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8 Apr
1) All Of The Lights:

COVID then and now and forever

2) A new colleague joined; we're eating dinner to celebrate. For some, it was the first time eating out in a year. Image
3) It was crowded and hip, the sort of place where wealth and tattoos comingle.

The walls had street art splashed all over, and couples were going on dates, celebrating the loosened COVID restrictions. Image
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6 Apr
2) This implies:

a) ~$4b run-rate EBITDA
b) ~$7.2b run-rate revenue
c) ~53bps average trading fee (!!!!!) if all comes from transactions
3) So I'm guessing a significant chunk of that revenue is not coming from trading fees, which would be a first.

Either that, or mobile app volume is WAAAAY up as a % of exchange volume.

So far they haven't broken it down.
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20 Mar
1) The CFTC fines Coinbase $6.5m.

This might be bullish for Coinbase.

cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…
2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT LEGAL ADVICE.
3) On its surface, this looks, well...

I mean idk how bad it is, but it's not _good_.

"Coinbase recklessly delivered false, misleading, or inaccurate reports concerning transactions in digital assets, including Bitcoin, on the GDAX electronic trading platform it operated."
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