[civilitty]

That's the rub with BTC: technical and security problems have historically plagued BTC companies with huge amounts of money lost. GDAX giving a FDIC-lite guarantee sets them far apart from the rest, even if their customer service and interface is inferior.

[shizzlest]

i dont think that will work. wait until real sums are involved and see what happens. its not a business model to pay users for their own mistakes unless the system is rigged in some way anyway. just my opinion.

[obstinate]

My immediate thought was whether someone might be able to induce the behavior. That combined with self-dealing (owning both the buying and selling accounts) could extract significant profits from an exchange that is willing to make its customers whole.

I would never do such (I consider it unethical, but more to the point I have neither the capital nor risk tolerance to pull it off), but I wonder if someone might. Or perhaps already has.