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by SimonPStevens 3288 days ago
Yup. I did this once. I had $20 sitting on MtGox in a $1 buy order. Had a crash happened I would have picked up 20 bitcoins (which would now be worth around $50,000).

Instead MtGox disappeared, taking my money with them.

Over a long enough time period, the risk of any given crypto exchange being hacked approaches 1.