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by enraged_camel 3699 days ago
>>In most transactions, such a confirmation would have cost money on every transaction since speed matters.

Which is why I said you would enable it based on a threshold and/or only on unusual threads. These systems are capable of extremely complex decision-making at very high frequency. Surely something like "sell 610,000 shares for 1 yen" would have stood out as strange.