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by ohgodplsno 1294 days ago
Having large, centralized institutions is necessary if you want your obscure, no-application-in-the-real-world funny coin to have value. They'll bring in money by suckering in people in believing it has value.
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yes we get it, anybody that doesn't say something overwhelming negative about crypto gets one of your hyperbolic negative auto-replies just in case we missed it the first time

some of your points are clear without the pejoratives

to your actual point, I dont think there is anything inherently necessary for exchanges to make price discovery. people do not need to custody their assets there for more than a few minutes, and properly run exchanges (not overleveraged, solvent) do this just fine

OTC desks never custody and are okay examples of this