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by kbody 3108 days ago
They screwed it up badly. If you checked BTC/BCH, there were open orders buying 1 BCH for 3 BTC, which is totally ridiculous. Obviously there was some effort on pumping it a lot.

Coinbase basically did one of the most basic mistakes for new markets (or any newly-online market), to not allow orderbooks to be filled before trades can take place. And so people took advantage of it. I just hope inexperienced people didn't get caught in the middle of it.

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That's ludicrous. Do people not know what a limit order is? Do I walk into a car dealership and say, "Please sell me a car now. Here are all my personal and banking details. There is no price limit." What do you think is going to happen? How is this idiocy the exchange's fault?